What is the current equivalent of "psychoneurosis hysteria" as used to diagnose veterans immediately after WWI
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Post-traumatic stress syndrome.  Also known as "shell shock."
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http://www.acadine.org/w/Nazi_Paranormal_Division
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When looking into the PAST for treatment of ANY psychiatric illnesses, you won't find much. \n\nHistorically, the treatments for Bi-polar or any other psychiatric disorder included:\n1. Sanitariums. Locking people up for life without treatment of any kind. If you go back far enough you will find the "Ship of Fools". This was essentially a floating sanitarium where different towns and cities would park their "crazy" people and condemn them to a life of drifting from one port to another.\n\n2. Lobotomies. A lobotomy is a surgical procedure that consists of cutting the connections to and from, or simply destroying, the prefrontal cortex. These procedures often result in major personality changes. The use of the lobotomy was still in effect until the early 1970s!!! The use of the lobotomy was horribly abused over the years as a means of controlling specific people or populations. Read "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Glass Menagerie" for some interesting accounts.\n\n3. Thorazine. This drug became widely used in the 70's and is still used today. It is the chemical equivalent of a lobotomy. The phrase the "Thorazine Shuffle" came to describe the movements of patients taking the drug. Thorazine would so heavily sedate all of the brains functions so that a person on large doses could do little more than shuffle their feet and mumble their words.\n\n4. Electro-Convulsive Therapy, Insulin shock therapy and malarial therapy. All of these were used to induce seizures in the hopes of creating a "reset" button for the brain.\n\n5. Lithium came into use as a treatment for bi-polar in the 1960's and was a welcome change to the treatments listed here. Though Lithium is toxic, when administered and monitored properly has been very successful in treating bi-polar disorder.\n\nCurrently, new drugs are being discovered that treat bi-polar without the toxic side effects of Lithium. It's all trial and error since no one knows how or why Lithium or any current drugs work in terms of treating bi-polar. They just know it does.
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The correct title of the book and the movie is "When Rabbit Howls" by The Troops for Truddi Chase.  \n\nMultiple Personality is indeed now called "Dissociative Identity Disorder" by the mainstream mental health profession.  This occurred in the early 1990s in an attempt to convince the mainstream that multiplicity was not more than one personality in one body, but one personality that was dissociated (split) and needed to be made whole.  \n\nThis, of course, is a matter of perspective.  As long as a person is living a healthy, functional life, it is their right to view themselves as many in one body if they choose to do so.  The Troops for Truddi Chase held this belief and chose not to integrate, and many of today's multiples hold the same belief.
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This looks ok:\n\nhttp://www.wadsworth.com/psychology_d/templates/student_resources/workshops/stats_wrk.html\n\nor else just keep google-ing psychology+statistics.\n\nGood luck :-)
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The most current and destructive form of the misapplication of psychological research is within the United States Military. Young men being taken in the formative years of their life and following six weeks at Paris island are equipped with weapons of destruction and sent into an environment where every single step they take may very well be their last.\n\nI was 18 years and 3 months old when with my squad; we came face to face the enemy. After about 40 minutes of a firefight, I had killed two men who surely would have taken my life instead. This reality didn’t hit until the next day. I found myself numb to all external feelings, and it went on for weeks. We continued our almost daily routine of 12-hour treks into the surrounding jungle seeking new engagements. A few weeks later, a young native girl crossed a large downed tree that stretched a ravine. As she cross to our side, an improvised explosive device blew sending shrap metal into my chest. It missed my heart and vitals by only centimeters. But physical recovery was months out.\n\nIn that time span of about 9 weeks, I had killed two human beings and watched a young girl blow herself to bit before my very eyes. To this day, over 35 years later, I still wake with vivid dreams of this. My country saw it fit to have me speak with professionals on this issue, who helped me to understand what I did and saw and felt was all a part of war.\n\nTo this day, the last words of my military therapist ring in my head. “You have done your duty, You are cured”! Talk about misapplication!
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There is a workbook called the PTSD workbook, written by Dr. Mary Beth Williams and Dr Soili Poijula. I got it at Books A Million. The web address for the publisher is www.newharbinger.com. The product number is 2825. $17.95. The book contains a self test, as well as exercises for the treatment of PTSD. Some symptoms are...reexperiencing the traumatic event through bad dreams, flashbacks,distressing and recurring thoughts, images, or perceptions; you experience intense mental distress or physical reactions to anything that reminds you of the event (like smells, sights, sounds, dates); loss of memory, feeling of detachment or estrangement from others, ability to feel emotion is restricted; sense of foreshortened future (you do not expect to have a career, marraige, children, or normal life span); difficulty falling or staying asleep; irritability or outbursts of anger; difficulty concentrating; hypervigilance (being overly watchful); exaggerated startle response (you're jumpy); chronic guilt or self blame; and physical manifestations that include digestive problems, chronic pain, or panic attacks\n  This book and treatment changed my life. Even if you don't have PTSD but feel some of these things, it can help you.
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http://neuro.psyc.memphis.edu/NeuroPsyc/np-l2-pref.htm\nhas some stuff on it
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http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=mental%20hospital&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&x=wrt&fr2=tab-web
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http://www.webmd.com/hw/brain_nervous_system/nord640.asp\n\nWEB MD is a great site.
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http://www.panic-anxiety.com/monophobia.htm
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I would suspect that there is more to the story than this.  The military tends to take a very liberal view regarding things that are 'service-connected.'  (Especially in regards to PTSD.)\n\nGenerally, PTSD will not get you put out, but bi-polar does render you 'medically unqualified' for military service.\n\nMy advice is to go back and talk to the people providing you with medical treatment to make sure what you said is correct.
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you are correct...\nsee a good pschychatrist as soon as possible
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First, to be diagnosed with PTSD, the first criteria is to have experienced an event that involved actual or threatened death, serious injury, or threat to the physical integrity of yourself or others. If this has happened to you, and a person was the cause (rather than a tornado, car wreck, etc.), then you need to report it to your parents or another adult.\n There is a workbook called the PTSD workbook, written by Dr. Mary Beth Williams and Dr Soili Poijula. I got it at Books A Million. The web address for the publisher is www.newharbinger.com. The product number is 2825. $17.95. The book contains a self test, as well as exercises for the treatment of PTSD. Some symptoms are...reexperiencing the traumatic event through bad dreams, flashbacks, distressing and recurring thoughts, images, or perceptions; you experience intense mental distress or physical reactions to anything that reminds you of the event (like smells, sights, sounds, dates); loss of memory, feeling of detachment or estrangement from others, ability to feel emotion is restricted; sense of foreshortened future (you do not expect to have a career, marraige, children, or normal life span); difficulty falling or staying asleep; irritability or outbursts of anger; difficulty concentrating; hypervigilance (being overly watchful); exaggerated startle response (you're jumpy); chronic guilt or self blame; and physical manifestations that include digestive problems, chronic pain, or panic attacks\nThis book and treatment changed my life. Even if you don't have PTSD but feel some of these things, it can help you. However, considering your age, it would be best to seek a professional therapist to guide you through the process. Even adults have to do this sometimes. I've also listed some websites for you.\n\nSource(s):\n\nThe PTSD Workbook by Dr Mary Beth Williams and Dr Soili Poijula.
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A=Atomic or nuclear explosion\nB=Biologic such as Anthrax\nC=Chemical like Mustard Gas used in WWI
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PTSD-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is the after effects of a severe truama in one's life..ie: any veteran of a war,severe domestic or child abuse. Mental "flash-backs" occure when event or similar act is relived or recalled. the second saddness can occur if the peron is aware of the effects and depresses them.
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First off Schizophrenia is a hereditary condition. There is often a trigger for the first episode but your friend could have slipped you stuff every day of your life and if you did not have the genetics for Schitzophenia you would not have developed it. \n\nNor could you choose to develop such a dehabilitating condition. It is in your genetics. Not something you decide to do one day. Somebody blaming you for having episodes is like blaming you for being born with two arms. It just happened, it's not something within your control. \n\nThe military of course had to discharge you. If you were to have an episode while at a machine gun many lives could be lost. Key charactoristics of Schizo behavior is paranoia and hallucinations. Would be quite easy to confuse American troops or Iraqi civillians as insurgents during an episode. \n\nI'm not sure that your community is shunning you for being discharged as much as for you being Schizo. Remember a key defining aspect is paranoia. So many of those who have "shunned" you might have not started out that way but are reacting more to your assumptions about them than anything else. Even in modern society there is a big stigma on Schizophrenics.  While on meds the worst is controlled. Off meds you will be an unpredictable and potentially dangerous disruption. Schizos are notorious for burning down houses, committing random acts of violence and other destructive behavior. Not intentionally but because of paranoid delusions. Schitzos are also well known for getting off their meds because of the severe and frequent side effects of the meds. \n\nI would suggest moving to a more tolerant community and one that's going to help you stay on your meds.  That is the key.  Your life is pretty much over if you wind up getting into the cycle many Schitzos get into with on the meds, then off, then into an institution, then back out strait to the streets. Then eventually back on the meds, then rebuilding something of a life then getting off the meds and destroying that life. Back to an institution to start the whole cycle over again.  \n\nYou qualify for disability and should get on disability. You alway want to build safeguards into your life that enforce you taking your meds. Your meds are your lifeline to society. They are your ability to function and avoid the misery that charactorizes the lives of most Schizos. Most important, your actions when in a state of extreme paranoid delusion may take an innocent life and that will haunt you the rest of your days. So taking your meds is crucial. Staying on them is crucial. You need to build a life that forces you to stay on those meds. That allows for problems which will occasionally come out even while on your meds. Sounds like where you are at right now is a bad place to be. That it will only increase your problems. That is the LAST thing you want.  Low key, low pressure environment is what you want to set up. A certain amount of regimentation. A group empowered to keep you on your meds, get you help when you fall of the meds and watch over your stuff if your locked up for a time. Some folks you can trust even through the paranoia. That will take the effort to make sure your staying on your meds. That you will listen too when they say take your meds. \n\nYou have a hard road ahead of you. I do not envy you. I've watched others go through it. I would not wish it on anyone. Heed my advice and you can save yourself a great deal of sorrow.  The mechanisms of your disease are finally starting to be understood and one day there is hope for a real cure. Until then your meds are your crutch. Your lifeline to the world and a semblence of normalcy and happiness.