I am not an MD or PhD. However, I liked what an MD doing studies on the consequences of trauma in childhood said, Dr. Vince Filitti:
If we chain a rabid wolf to a wall and place you on a chair and force you to grow up in fear of this wolf biting you, and we study your brain and neurochemicals only, we will notice only the biomedical findings. If we think the adrenaline and cortisol are to blame for your symptoms, we will forget that it all started simply by the wolf.
Now, this is not to say that the continuous loop that happens, which we refer to as PTSD, is not to be studied, and these processes better understood. However, I still feel we are missing the point as a human race. We must first remove the wolf. Instead of trying to cure a traumatized world, we must decide to no longer traumatize future generations. Yes, this is a radical statement, but I see no future in trying to fix the damage if we do not first take action and responsibility for the damage our policies cause in the first place.
If we continue to promote violence in our world, from how we allow people to treat their own children to the large scale ranges of violence, then we will have to accept PTSD, OCD, and everything else, including suicide and genocide, as the natural result of the world we have cultivated.
We start by saying "No," to allowing parents to raise their children the way they see fit vs. the way we as an enlightened society and majority decide is the only civilized way, without spanking, hitting, shaming, and yelling of any kind. Now that we know these work in the short term only and that it causes long term problems, we should call for attachment parenting as the norm. As long as violence is allowed toward children, we have no hope of solving any world problem. Eliminating violence in the home will help to alleviate all other problems: for example: Drugs/addictions of all kinds (remove the demand and you will reduce the supply) bullying, sadism, rape, and all violent tendencies will lessen.
No violence cannot be abolished entirely. There must be some power in force. Privacy is only desired by those whose freedom depends upon it. We cannot afford privacy if the cost is that 1 out of every three 18 year old woman has been sexually abused, usually as a child (28%).
If we chain a rabid wolf to a wall and place you on a chair and force you to grow up in fear of this wolf biting you, and we study your brain and neurochemicals only, we will notice only the biomedical findings. If we think the adrenaline and cortisol are to blame for your symptoms, we will forget that it all started simply by the wolf.
Now, this is not to say that the continuous loop that happens, which we refer to as PTSD, is not to be studied, and these processes better understood. However, I still feel we are missing the point as a human race. We must first remove the wolf. Instead of trying to cure a traumatized world, we must decide to no longer traumatize future generations. Yes, this is a radical statement, but I see no future in trying to fix the damage if we do not first take action and responsibility for the damage our policies cause in the first place.
If we continue to promote violence in our world, from how we allow people to treat their own children to the large scale ranges of violence, then we will have to accept PTSD, OCD, and everything else, including suicide and genocide, as the natural result of the world we have cultivated.
We start by saying "No," to allowing parents to raise their children the way they see fit vs. the way we as an enlightened society and majority decide is the only civilized way, without spanking, hitting, shaming, and yelling of any kind. Now that we know these work in the short term only and that it causes long term problems, we should call for attachment parenting as the norm. As long as violence is allowed toward children, we have no hope of solving any world problem. Eliminating violence in the home will help to alleviate all other problems: for example: Drugs/addictions of all kinds (remove the demand and you will reduce the supply) bullying, sadism, rape, and all violent tendencies will lessen.
No violence cannot be abolished entirely. There must be some power in force. Privacy is only desired by those whose freedom depends upon it. We cannot afford privacy if the cost is that 1 out of every three 18 year old woman has been sexually abused, usually as a child (28%).
