Break The Chains Of

[Alan Beane]

I am a father of two wonderful, strong daughters and a brave, courageous son. As a father of daughters, I am literally horrified by the whole idea that up to 30% of all the women in the United States will have suffered a traumatic emotional injury (TEI) severe enough to result in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and likely a functional traumatic brain injury (TBI) by the time they are sixty years old.

Traumatic emotional injuries (TEI's), like PTSD, occur as the direct result of physical or sexual abuse, as well as from sustained emotional abuse, witnessing or participating in traumatic events, and even plain old neglect over time. Although the events that can trigger a serious TEI know no age limit, a truly terrible aspect of these injuries is that they often occur when a girl is young and helpless. Unfortunately, we all know the damage that can do to a child’s sense of safety, self-worth and trust. These injuries can also damage the brain in specific areas related to memory and learning, thus potentially compromising academic and vocational success. These injuries exert real and lasting effects which, over time, can saddle women abused in childhood with an escalating cascade of chronic diseases.

Many women are left alone to suffer and fight traumatic emotional injuries and PTSD in silence. Even women with unlimited financial resources accept their fate because they are told that nothing can be done for them – they should just simply accept being sick, tired and in pain all the time as a “normal” way of life because nothing can be done that will really resolve the problem. All are paralyzed by fear, fueled by shame, from seeking help.

Because of my vocation, I see this often; but I still can’t get my arms around it. It makes me wonder if we are indeed a civilized nation after all.

On the other hand, these women have a lot of company. The people who suffer from stroke, traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (especially combat veterans who sustain blast injuries from IEDs) have been institutionally cowed into believing that there is limited hope for them. In my estimation, this is a crime of unbelievable proportions because it is not true!

New understandings in biophysics have fostered the development of energetic and other innovative technologies which can and do help people with these traumatic injuries heal to a greater degree than ever before imagined possible. It is time for these women to break the chains of fear that have bound the courage of so many and kept them from asking for help.

 

[AngelKeeperJ]

Very good post! You sound like a good father! So many fathers' never really get to know, or want to know their daughters. I believe that the absence of fathers in the family home is contributing to the trauma and abuse. Girls don't know how they are supposed to be treated, unless the father or father-figure has been strong, understanding and involved. It is part of the development of our self-esteem.

My parents do not have a happy marriage. My Dad chose to keep his vows, and treats my mother very well. He has paid a physical, mental, and emotional price for 'giving in' and letting her take his power away. The fact that they stayed unhappily married, did not play out well for my brothers' and I. We each have our own leftover baggage.

I have been blessed to have a therapist who specializes in all my issues, and he does a LOT of continuing education. We have used the traditional methods, as well as EMDR and self-hypnosis.

Without hope we all have nothing to look foward to. I hope you will continue to lend your ear and heart to those who need someone to care.

 

[Kintsugi]

Hi, Alan, welcome to the forum. Are you a supporter of someone suffering from PTSD?

 

[jeeps for now]

I like your post !!! Firstly, I'd like to say that many of these issues happen with men also. It is possible that women become more 'verbal' then men do, regarding their symptoms.

The long term emotional abuse element of all this has me perplexed, as I have endured it myself all my life. It seems to lead to all sorts of neurological conditions et. al. As yourself, I also ask of society "why?" .

Of all the people I ever mentioned having PTSD to, only one never questioned me. It was an intake worker in a DHS office. I never felt so relieved, not having to 'feel' the need to endlessly explain myself only to be disbelieved.

BF Skinner once stated : "The behavior of the speaker is inextricably linked to that of the listening audience".

I hope someday our society learns better modes of 'listening'

 

[Alan Beane]

I apologize in advance for being long winded. I am told that the people who come to these blogs trying to find out what is happening to them and why; and to share their experiences and frustrations with others; are only willing to read something that is simplistic and sounds like popular media. Maybe that is because over the last 50 years the country has dumbed down our entire educational structure so that many of us live in a “supermarket tabloid” world. I think most of you know that in the world of severe emotional injuries something is very wrong – from a deteriorating civilized society that has looked the other way at physical, sexual and emotional abuse; to an interventional medical and counseling system that simply isn’t making folks foundationally better with an ability to pursue drug free, normal lives where joy and gladness at the little things in life is an everyday occurrence.

Your sense that emotional abuse over a long time can lead to neurological conditions is true. A "traumatic emotional injury," including PTSD, is essentially the memory of an experience (or a series of experiences) that our consciousness considers so traumatic to our wellbeing (because it is potentially so physiologically destructive) that we file it away and "wall it off" from our current consciousness; and there it remains, nevertheless – unresolved. "Unresolved" simply means that it festers and is well capable of influencing the reality of Chronic Disease Syndrome over time; real physical damage in the brain, i.e. traumatic brain injury (TBI); and even heart disease.

You instinctively know that an emotion is not physical but some form of energy; and that traumatic emotions are very strong "bad" or negative energies. And it is hard to understand how energy can affect physical things, like your body over time. Quantum biophysics has taught us that we are energy too, just like that emotion. The "real", reality is that we are really a big symphony of constrained, electromagnetic (EM) fields swimming in a sea of energy. All of the structures in our brain are determined by these fields; and so, each structure in our brain is really a symphony of energy; and the music that results is brain structure.

You can think of a traumatic emotion as a volume of time and space inside your head - a collection of negative energy fields playing loud, scratchy static instead of ordered music. If that field of static, cacophony happens to overlay a symphony of energy that is determining a particular brain structure, say a portion of your frontal lobe, then you may still hear the symphony, but it will be distorted by the static -- and so will the brain structure being determined by that now distorted symphony. The result can be real brain injury with damage in every sense of the word as real as if you were in combat and incurred a concussive wave traumatic brain injury caused by the explosion of an improvised explosive device. This is why your sense of neurological damage related to traumatic emotions is right on point.

When we think of the brain as a collection (a very big and very complex collection) of EM fields – and that is the reality of our latest and best understanding of how the universe and all of us work – we can think about cancelling out the bad or negative energy fields, leaving just the good symphony; and expect that when we do that, the underlying brain structure will be as it was. And this is just not a cool thought; as I said in my original post, new understandings in biophysics have fostered the development of energetic and other innovative technologies, some of which are not medical in nature, that can and do help people with traumatic emotional and related injuries heal to a greater degree than ever before imagined possible.

The science that enabled these new understandings and capabilities – quantum bio-physics - isn’t really new at all; it was first introduced between 1901 and 1905 by three pioneering scientists – Max Planck, Edmund Whittaker, and Albert Einstein. These men discovered a much more advanced, fundamental science and understanding how we and the universe works; a “higher level” of science that essentially made obsolete all of what world was focusing on at the time -- atomic theory and all of chemistry first defined by John Dalton a century prior in 1803.

Unfortunately, during the intervening 100 years between 1803 and 1905, the world became “fully invested” in what we now know to be obsolete science and in a big way, we have been “stuck on stupid” ever since to this very day because institutional medicine and governments “follow the money.” Planck, Whittaker and Einstein died knowing we were on the wrong path; and amazing scientific developments pioneered by folks like Nikola Tesla were “thrown under the bus” and careers and lives ruined in the process. As you read this, government regulatory authorities (including the military) are fully aware of the “new” science, but will only allow its “approved” use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and similar diagnostic technologies (GE is the largest company in the world selling MRI’s).

Google “army imaging ptsd” and “army imaging ptsd fMRI”; you will find studies and actual imaging showing the characteristic brain damage caused by a traumatic emotional injury. This is new news to the Army but, fortunately for you, not to many of us; and based upon your response, it should come as no surprise to you.

So what’s the bottom line? New understandings in bio-physics have fostered the development of energetic and other innovative technologies which can and do help people with traumatic emotional injuries heal to a greater degree than ever before imagined possible. These technologies are safe and they do not involve synthetic drugs.

The people and companies pioneering these technologies are trying to get to you, because you are the reason they exist.

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