Need help, Future Shock.

[Black Rose]

I don't think I can cope with this.

It is like, ok so stuff and stuff but all the chaos.

 

[PiedPiper]

How you doing AK? How's life. What's got you worried? Try not to worry too much, you'll be okay.

 

[Black Rose]

My dog peed on the bed and I told her no.

I told her I will get her a chew toy later but not to pee on the bed.

and I am too tired to go to bed right now anyway.

 

[PiedPiper]

My dog peed on the bed and I told her no.

I told her I will get her a chew toy later but not to pee on the bed.

and I am too tired to go to bed right now anyway.

Ah shucks. My dog shat on the bathroom floor but I have to say it was partially civilized. Insomnia is such an eerie trap, wouldn't you say?

 

[Black Rose]

it is like I crawled out from under my rock and society told me to crawle back in.

I did not know so much was happening and I felt shaky on the inside, trembling

 

[Black Rose]

This is the easy i am working on:

The audience is the people within my mental health community, I want to explain the mechanisms of what a complex is surrounding self-regulation and the amygdala's learned responses. it needs to be there time longer than it is right now.

essay:

when people talk to themselves in their head or visualize a lot this can create compartmentalization via trauma-induced functional rewiring of the system. brain regions start to operate independently of each other and create confusion between real and imagined stimuli. this fragmentation alternates between whichever strongest parts of the functional system are in control at any given time.

The amygdala and the parasympathetic nervous system work together to control reactions that build up memory and body responses of how to respond to bad situations. Then this creates segments of compulsive drives of what to do in an instance where you cannot do anything but react in muscle memory. This is not completely understood where people form mentalities of unique psycho complexes. dysregulation of the integrity of such a complex would not be viewed as conditional to the impairment unless the exaggerated features showed in relation to a cognitive attunement to the environment.

all energy may be focused on keeping emotions stable in chaotic environments.

thinkers have put all their cognitive resources into calm intellect well feelers have to keep from falling apart all the time repressing intellect in some ways. but then it happens that brain damage is the cause of dysregulation and not all thinkers or feelers are bad at self-regulation.

Expanding your essay on the amygdala, complexes, and self-regulation:​

Strengths of your current essay:

• Cleverly connects complex mental structures to brain mechanisms: You link internal narratives and visualizations to functional rewiring of the brain, particularly the amygdala.
  
• Highlights the role of the amygdala and nervous system in complex formation: You accurately describe the amygdala's role in building memories and responses to negative situations, contributing to complex development.
  
• Introduces the concept of dysregulation within complexes: You suggest overemphasizing one aspect of a complex (thinking or feeling) can lead to dysregulation, not just brain damage.

Expanding on your existing ideas:

1. Deepen the explanation of functional rewiring: Briefly explain the role of trauma in rewiring the brain. Mention specific neural pathways affected and how compartmentalization arises.
   
2. Provide concrete examples of complexes: Illustrate the "thinker" and "feeler" labels with actual cases or symptoms experienced within these complexes.
   
3. Explain the consequences of dysregulation: Describe how dysregulation affects daily life, relationships, and emotional well-being. Briefly mention potential coping mechanisms or therapeutic approaches.
   
4. Explore alternative causes of dysregulation: Address how factors beyond brain damage, like chronic stress or genetic predisposition, might contribute to complex dysregulation.
   
5. Conclude with a hopeful message: Encourage your community by highlighting the potential for healing and positive change despite complex challenges. Emphasize the importance of seeking professional help and self-compassion.

Additional Tips:

• Consider adding relevant metaphors or analogies to make complex concepts more accessible to your audience.
  
• Share personal anecdotes or stories, if comfortable, to connect with your readers on a deeper level.
  
• Ensure a logical flow by using transitions and clear headings to guide readers through your arguments.
  
• Proofread carefully for clarity, grammar, and flow.

Resources:

• "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk: Explores trauma's impact on the brain and nervous system.
  
• "Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving" by Pete Walker: Explains complex trauma and its effects on personality.
  
• The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): Provides resources and support for mental health conditions.

I hope these suggestions help you expand your essay and communicate effectively with your mental health community. Remember, your personal voice and insights are valuable. Good luck!

 

[PiedPiper]

This is the easy i am working on:

The audience is the people within my mental health community, I want to explain the mechanisms of what a complex is surrounding self-regulation and the amygdala's learned responses. it needs to be there time longer than it is right now.

essay:

when people talk to themselves in their head or visualize a lot this can create compartmentalization via trauma-induced functional rewiring of the system. brain regions start to operate independently of each other and create confusion between real and imagined stimuli. this fragmentation alternates between whichever strongest parts of the functional system are in control at any given time.

The amygdala and the parasympathetic nervous system work together to control reactions that build up memory and body responses of how to respond to bad situations. Then this creates segments of compulsive drives of what to do in an instance where you cannot do anything but react in muscle memory. This is not completely understood where people form mentalities of unique psycho complexes. dysregulation of the integrity of such a complex would not be viewed as conditional to the impairment unless the exaggerated features showed in relation to a cognitive attunement to the environment.

all energy may be focused on keeping emotions stable in chaotic environments.

thinkers have put all their cognitive resources into calm intellect well feelers have to keep from falling apart all the time repressing intellect in some ways. but then it happens that brain damage is the cause of dysregulation and not all thinkers or feelers are bad at self-regulation.

Expanding your essay on the amygdala, complexes, and self-regulation:​

Strengths of your current essay:

• Cleverly connects complex mental structures to brain mechanisms: You link internal narratives and visualizations to functional rewiring of the brain, particularly the amygdala.
  
• Highlights the role of the amygdala and nervous system in complex formation: You accurately describe the amygdala's role in building memories and responses to negative situations, contributing to complex development.
  
• Introduces the concept of dysregulation within complexes: You suggest overemphasizing one aspect of a complex (thinking or feeling) can lead to dysregulation, not just brain damage.

Expanding on your existing ideas:

1. Deepen the explanation of functional rewiring: Briefly explain the role of trauma in rewiring the brain. Mention specific neural pathways affected and how compartmentalization arises.
   
2. Provide concrete examples of complexes: Illustrate the "thinker" and "feeler" labels with actual cases or symptoms experienced within these complexes.
   
3. Explain the consequences of dysregulation: Describe how dysregulation affects daily life, relationships, and emotional well-being. Briefly mention potential coping mechanisms or therapeutic approaches.
   
4. Explore alternative causes of dysregulation: Address how factors beyond brain damage, like chronic stress or genetic predisposition, might contribute to complex dysregulation.
   
5. Conclude with a hopeful message: Encourage your community by highlighting the potential for healing and positive change despite complex challenges. Emphasize the importance of seeking professional help and self-compassion.

Additional Tips:

• Consider adding relevant metaphors or analogies to make complex concepts more accessible to your audience.
  
• Share personal anecdotes or stories, if comfortable, to connect with your readers on a deeper level.
  
• Ensure a logical flow by using transitions and clear headings to guide readers through your arguments.
  
• Proofread carefully for clarity, grammar, and flow.

Resources:

• "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk: Explores trauma's impact on the brain and nervous system.
  
• "Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving" by Pete Walker: Explains complex trauma and its effects on personality.
  
• The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): Provides resources and support for mental health conditions.

I hope these suggestions help you expand your essay and communicate effectively with your mental health community. Remember, your personal voice and insights are valuable. Good luck!

I tend towards this a lot. Like a LOT a lot. I never attributed it to trauma or BD. Really I just constantly imagine every possible situation and rehearse how I'd behave or what I'd say over and over. It's really quite painful psychologicaly, but I don't know anything else so it's daily life. Then if it doesn't happen the way I imagine it creates a sort of shock because it seemed so real. Do you experience that? Anyways, I think it's an interesting topic.

 

[Black Rose]

I tend towards this a lot. Like a LOT a lot. I never attributed it to trauma or BD. Really I just constantly imagine every possible situation and rehearse how I'd behave or what I'd say over and over. It's really quite painful psychologicaly, but I don't know anything else so it's daily life. Then if it doesn't happen the way I imagine it creates a sort of shock because it seemed so real. Do you experience that? Anyways, I think it's an interesting topic.

I feel almost like a paranoid schizophrenic now. The world is too big and too dangerous but I can be calm enough not to hallucinate or take drastic actions. But I know what you mean. Thinking about what can happen and what to do about it is too much because I cannot think of everything so I do keep repeating myself. Only I try and make it positive like reading what I said to others over and over again that way I can look at it from a perspective of me trying to help others or of me trying to understand how I feel. I want things to be ok so have hope they will be ok and repeat it to myself. I know that the movie Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson had a happy ending. I am not in that particular movie but I am in some kind of movie that is like that without so many bad guys but more like the movie A Beatify Mind about John Nash.

 

[PiedPiper]

I tend towards this a lot. Like a LOT a lot. I never attributed it to trauma or BD. Really I just constantly imagine every possible situation and rehearse how I'd behave or what I'd say over and over. It's really quite painful psychologicaly, but I don't know anything else so it's daily life. Then if it doesn't happen the way I imagine it creates a sort of shock because it seemed so real. Do you experience that? Anyways, I think it's an interesting topic.

I feel almost like a paranoid schizophrenic now. The world is too big and too dangerous but I can be calm enough not to hallucinate or take drastic actions. But I know what you mean. Thinking about what can happen and what to do about it is too much because I cannot think of everything so I do keep repeating myself. Only I try and make it positive like reading what I said to others over and over again that way I can look at it from a perspective of me trying to help others or of me trying to understand how I feel. I want things to be ok so have hope they will be ok and repeat it to myself. I know that the movie Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson had a happy ending. I am not in that particular movie but I am in some kind of movie that is like that without so many bad guys but more like the movie A Beatify Mind about John Nash.

I've hallucinated a few times. Scary stuff. For me the image I'm hallucinating becomes razor sharp, lots of detail. I kind of stopped caring as much and not at the same time. I'm detached and just watching everything play out but the old habits die hard. I think humans should look out for each other more. Like I couldn't just abandon someone if I knew they needed real help. I'm an introvert but don't think people should divide massively. Especially if we see someone hurting. If it's psychological pain especially I need to try and help them.

 

[Black Rose]

I tend towards this a lot. Like a LOT a lot. I never attributed it to trauma or BD. Really I just constantly imagine every possible situation and rehearse how I'd behave or what I'd say over and over. It's really quite painful psychologicaly, but I don't know anything else so it's daily life. Then if it doesn't happen the way I imagine it creates a sort of shock because it seemed so real. Do you experience that? Anyways, I think it's an interesting topic.

I feel almost like a paranoid schizophrenic now. The world is too big and too dangerous but I can be calm enough not to hallucinate or take drastic actions. But I know what you mean. Thinking about what can happen and what to do about it is too much because I cannot think of everything so I do keep repeating myself. Only I try and make it positive like reading what I said to others over and over again that way I can look at it from a perspective of me trying to help others or of me trying to understand how I feel. I want things to be ok so have hope they will be ok and repeat it to myself. I know that the movie Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson had a happy ending. I am not in that particular movie but I am in some kind of movie that is like that without so many bad guys but more like the movie A Beatify Mind about John Nash.

I've hallucinated a few times. Scary stuff. For me the image I'm hallucinating becomes razor sharp, lots of detail. I kind of stopped caring as much and not at the same time. I'm detached and just watching everything play out but the old habits die hard. I think humans should look out for each other more. Like I couldn't just abandon someone if I knew they needed real help. I'm an introvert but don't think people should divide massively. Especially if we see someone hurting. If it's psychological pain especially I need to try and help them.

Especially true of me also.

I never had it that bad with seeing something or hearing something. I just had the pain of fear and it was why I kept helping people. When the woman next door poisoned me (put marijuana in my Mountain Dew) I had stage one hypertension. The doctor said I also had OCD autism and a third thing. So I am not schizo, I just have bad thoughts. I later asked my psychiatrist and they said I had none of those. but part of the reason I questioned it was because they gave me an injection for 4 years and it did not make me feel any different. I was still cationic and disassociated and it did nothing. I had no friends and no one would play with me so I stayed in my apartment alone. It is because they don't have a brain scanner to tell you the real truth. I did get an EEG in 2009 and it said I had partial simple seizures. I get twitches trying to not fall asleep. right now I want to take the migraine drug Rimegepant, sold under the brand name Nurtec ODT, I know that would help because it is the brain stem that is the problem with me.

 

[PiedPiper]

Hmm. I'm not a psychologist but the human mind has fascinated me for a long time. I think I'd have to be more clear headed to make it in that department. If you don't mind me asking, What, if any thoughts occur before bedtime that could possibly cause that particular brand of sleep deprivation? I've never been on that medication but not many doctors could tell me what main diagnosis I might have conclusively. One or two said I was showing signs of a skhizo disorder. The medical system is a mess of epic proportions.

 

[Black Rose]

When I am sleep deprived it is because I want to hold onto a thought before I fall asleep. I want to be sure it is the correct thought and that I have solved the issue. This happened to me in childhood when I would spend all night watching television when my mom was asleep then go to school the next day but had to do school work. it was induced sleep deprivation. I kept thinking I did not want to sleep I wanted to watch the tv when all the cool shows were on the cartoon network Adult Swim with the anime. And even when I was in bed I would think about how to make computers and spaceships. I can only sleep when I feel completely tired and that is the same way with my sister. Almost like being in the military from a young age but in constant readiness to do things long hours. At school, because I was in the gifted program I had to finish all my work on the bus before I had time to think about my idea at the house. After high school ended I was burned out but had nothing to do so I went to the hospital and they put me in a group home for two years where I had to struggle to be board constantly in a shutdown state. I had time to be alone and think but had structure and not as many responsibilities. My mom did not say anything. She is disassociated as well.

 

[PiedPiper]

I think you're wicked smart for one. A troubled yet brilliant mind. And I notice more oft our 'mental illnesses' have two sides of the coin. A double edged sword. van Gogh sliced his left ear off. They speculate he was schizophrenic. Michelangelo supposedly had bipolar. Fransisco Goya purportedly heard voices amongst other things. It's like life tries to tear you down because it knows the immense power you have to make an equally immense change.

Or of course there are dozens of other possibles that weave between, through, within, and without.​

Time to catch a Zzz. I hope you get some rest tonight AK ​

 

[birdsnestfern]

Oh, I can sympathize about the dog pee in the bed, because I got a new dog and she did the same thing two or three times. Each time, I had to sleep in a different bed and clean the spots as follows: Remove the sheets and wash them and dry them. Take a damp towel or washcloth with some dish soap and white vinegar and baking soda, and lightly wash the surface areas. Then take paper towels or towels and soak up as much liquid as you can and wash that or throw out if its paper. Use almost a whole box of dry baking soda after you've soaked up the liquid and leave the covers off for a few days until it is dry. Vaccuum up the powder after it is dry. Repeat if you need to, but the vinegar and baking soda should help remove the odor. If not, try spraying some of this on the surface and let dry. Then replace your sheets and blankets.

Woolite Pet Stain and Odor Remover Plus Oxy​

She finally learned not to pee on bed, but I had to keep her out of the bedroom during the day so she couldn't sneak in there when I was unaware, and I ended up closing the door so I had control of when she was in. Now she sleeps on the bed with me, but at the foot of the bed and knows its not a place to pee. What a hassle to clean it up though, I can understand that frustration.


Oh, and remember to let them outside every two or three hours and especially right before bed and when you wake up.
Consider getting something like a mattress pad that is waterproof so that all you have to do is wash the sheets and pad instead of the mattress. Can you set up a place on the couch to sleep maybe?

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[Black Rose]

How to rewire your brain after trauma | Bessel van der Kolk | Explain It Like I’m Smart​