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Why does a Subliminal Distraction mental break happen?

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My guess is at the bottom of this page. But I do not have the background in neurology to say it is correct.

What happens in the brain to cause these mental breaks?        I don't know.         When the problem was explained in my psychology class the instructor said suppressing the vision startle reflex caused a conflict in the mind that would build, with additional suppression, until the mental break happened.

Neurologists and psychiatric treatment centers such as Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinics will not respond to explain why a massive number of subliminal FAILED attempts to execute the  vision startle reflex in a compact time frame causes a psychotic episode.

Again...  It has been known to do that since it was discovered fifty years ago.

Most who hear this for the first time cannot grasp the significance of a problem everyone has that can cause an episode that cannot be distinguished from mental illness, but is unknown in mental health services or research.

Mental health professionals have lifetimes invested in the belief that they can treat metal illness. I found an engineer at a Steelcase dealer in Birmingham to explain Cubicle Level Protection to my wife's doctors at the University of Alabama psychiatric hospital, also in Birmingham, they refused to phone across town and speak with him. Connie continued to get worse with drug treatments due to drug reactions. They said that was so rare it could not be happening. They insisted on evaluating her reaction to drugs as a declining condition and increasing mental illness. When I refused to let them escalate their treatment to ECT they resigned the case.

A guess,    unsupported by investigation,    is that your brain normally does not deal with the triggering signal on the optic nerve that causes the startle and vision reflex.    It happens so fast your brain ignores it.    When you create the exposure so that the triggering signal happens a massive number of times in a compact time frame with the startle blocked, your brain finds  the neural impulses then tries to understand them to integrate the movement, and position information into your consciousness experience.

Of course that cannot be done.   Although the vision startle reflex trigger, the subliminal detection of threat movement in peripheral vison is neural impulses on the optic nerve, it is still information sent over normal channels to your brain.   

 Movement and position information only cannot represent an image to be created in your mind.

As the attempt to use the neural impulses is made extra synapses and paths are created. When there are enough of these "trial" paths your brain can no longer function and you have a short period of coma.

When exposure stops the extra paths eventually dissolve from disuse. You will recover with no treatment or after effects.   You essentially 'forget' the attempted trial solutions after a short time.

But if exposure is chronic and low level, alternate paths are slowly strengthened to change your thought processes.

Again a guess, this process either bypasses, or breaks down barriers that separate dreaming from an awake experience caused by temporary maladaptive brain reconstruction.

That would explain hearing voices and hallucinations as dreaming, or nightmare experiences while awake.

Subliminal Distraction can be used to explain:

Why the blind from birth do not have schizophrenia.

A limited survey I ran did not find any cases of panic attacks or bipolar disorder for the congenitally  blind.

Why voices heard are threatening, and negative.

Why mental illness seems to run in families.

Why mental illness often begins in late adolescence.

Why panic attacks are present in mental disorders.

Why there are cases of drugs stopping working, then beginning to work again.

Why some cases do not respond to drugs, or other treatment.

Subliminal Distraction mental events are not mental illness. They require a location and activity to cause SD exposure which can lead to the expected mental event. That means those with psychiatric symptoms can be interviewed to locate places this exposure 'could have happened.'  

Why   "could have happened?"     Because your brain deals with the startle reflex subliminally, below thought, reason, or consciousness, Subliminal Distraction exposure cannot be consciously experienced.    It is undetectable.    All that can be confirmed is that someone   had the opportunity   for SD exposure before beginning to have bizarre behavior.

If the exposure location is eliminated (all of them) and the symptoms stop, Subliminal Distraction is confirmed as the cause.

Why even do that?      If someone is having a Subliminal Distraction episode there is no treatment possible. It must spontaneously remit when exposure stops.

If drug treatment is attempted the subject will have only the side effects since drugs compounded to treat chemical changes in the brain cannot effect this episode.

You might understand it better if you consider the stimulus, movement in peripheral vision, and your brain's failed attempt to startle, as an unrecognized form of operant conditioning subtly changing your brain's function. __ Temporary maladaptive brain reorganization.____  If SD exposure continues so will the bizarre behavior.

Today, no practitioner interviews for this problem before beginning treatment for what they see and believe to be mental illness.   If exposure stops so that the episode spontaneously remits while someone is under treatment, the doctor, and drug or other treatment takes credit for a cure.

Stopping Subliminal Distraction exposure will allow a spontaneous remission in a time consistent with the length and intensity of previous exposure. But symptoms will continue as long as even light chronic exposure continues. (It is possible to have exposure in a psychiatric hospital.)

There are cases of remission in a few days to a week. But other cases show psychiatric symptoms still evident as much as eight months after exposure would have stopped due to a student disappearance.

Most who have the episode recover quickly with no treatment or after effects.  In cases of very light episodes the subject may be unaware the mental event happened. Their paranoid beliefs would be understood as part of their normal thought processes.

Some swear by them, judges order people to take them, but do they actually do anything?

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