The mystery solved

The mystery solved

Often what is most profound, is profoundly simple once revealed. I hope this is your experience as you read these next few pages, within which I describe a new origin for Schizophrenia, Depression and other serious disorders.

I predict it will be obvious to you and you will know that you understand.

Everyone understands posttraumatic stress disorder from combat. A car backfires next to a combat veteran and he grabs a gun and hides in the woods for a few days. His reality and behavior change to that during war, and even his body chemistry and physiology match that of the earlier time when his life was in extreme danger.

We "understand” because the earlier events associated with loud noise were so life-threatening that they were indelibly etched upon his mind and brain.

What we fail to recognize is that more terrifying than war trauma to a soldier is separation from the mother to an infant. To all mammalian infants, for the last 150 million years, separation from the mother has meant death. Thus the human infant is highly susceptible to what it considers to be a threat of separation.

This need not be an obvious threat of separation, such as death of a parent or parental divorce. Little unsuspected events can overwhelm the infant and set the stage for the later development of a serious disorder. Such traumas might include the family moving to a new house and the mother busying herself making the new place look like home. The birth of a younger sibling in previous generations was devastating because mothers spent five days in the hospital following delivery. Other traumas include an older child becoming deathly ill and requiring all the mother's attention for a period of time. The traumatic separation, caused to the younger child, might not seem traumatic - as viewed from the adult perspective - but from the infant ’s point of view it can be overwhelming. Any event that results in the mother's temporary absence or distraction, potentially, can frighten the infant very much and leave the indelible mark etched upon its mind and brain.

Then 10-20-30 years later, instead of a loud noise precipitating the flashback, it is a separation from some other most important person” (husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend - or group) which precipitates the initial step back in time. And instead of combat reality and behavior it is infant reality and behavior that we see. A full-grown man, for example, might sit in the middle of the floor and scream Mommy! Mommy!”

The first time I saw this was nearly 60 years ago, when I was a young child. I watched an 18-year-old girl running nude through the lawn sprinkler in the front yard, squealing with delight. As a young child I thought What's wrong with her? Grown-ups don't do that.”

It took a quarter of a century to realize that this was perfectly normal behavior, but transposed in time. Had she been 18 months old instead of 18 years old, no one would have thought anything odd about her behavior. Instead of unreality it is earlier reality the person with Schizophrenia experiences.

With careful examination, virtually every piece of bizarre reality and behavior of the person with Schizophrenia, matches in some way that of the infant - and when you have studied this as carefully, and for as long as I, you will realize that it matches the reality and behavior of the infant at the precise time or age the original trauma occurred.

Simple so far? Just like posttraumatic stress disorder from combat. A loud noise 20 years after the original trauma precipitates a flashback to war experience and behavior because loud noise was associated with terrifying experiences of war. A separation from a most important person” 20 years after original trauma, precipitates a flashback to the infant experience and behavior because the infant feared separation and felt equally overwhelmed.

The difference

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