Yes, I am 24! Still live at home with my parents and my pets but I pay rent and part of the internet bill to live at home! How short is short in terms of the length of time a feeding tube can be in? I really want one that goes to my stomach because I know you can hide it under your clothes. I will call my doctor on Monday and ask to be sedated during the insert of the feeding tube! Mom or another relative will be with me to drive me home as I am legally blind so I cannot drive.

T. J.

Hi T.J.,
I came back to check the date when you were having this procedure done. I see it's supposed to be done today your time. (I'm a day ahead over here in Australia). I just wanted to say that I hope all has gone well and that you were able to talk to the doctors and nurses prior to having anything done at all.

wishing you well.
Lara

The procedure has been postponed until Tuesday April 10 my time due to my mother having a meeting at work.

T. J.

I may have a small piece of information for you.

The first thing I want to address is your statement about co-morbidity. You should understand that the disorders of the DSM do not actually exist. By that I mean they are names given to observed and sorted behaviors. The authors of the DSM freely admit they do not know what causes any mental disorder. What you should take from that is there is no line where one "disorder" begins and another ends.

Look instead to when the disorder usually appears in the effected population. Does it begin after puberty? Does it have a strong representation among college students? If the answer to those questions is yes, then Subliminal Distraction may be the source of the behavior through operant conditioning.

Why is this true? Subliminal Distraction is driven by subliminal sight and detected threat movement in peripheral vision. At puberty body size increases so that movement in peripheral vision in classrooms is more likely to be detected. College students spend more time in lectures than other lower grade students so that they have higher exposure. They use computers in locations without Cubicle Level Protection, and they often live in incorrectly designed dorm rooms with other students. Those dorm roommates provide movement in peripheral vision if one student attempts to study or use their computer while the other student moves in the room.

VisionAndPsychosis.Net is my Internet scratch pad for research into the problem. No diagnosis or treatment is offered. My site is about prevention of exposure from Subliminal Distraction. I have personal experience that this phenomenon is the cause of panic attacks.

I always caution readers not to stop treatment or stop seeing doctors while you investigate this phenomenon. Evaluating Subliminal Distraction will not interfere with any treatment you now have.

If the information benefits you fine. Search your activities to locate places where you have the "special circumstances" for exposure from SD. Make small changes in behaviors to limit your exposure.

It is not necessary to completely eliminate exposure. We all have exposure from SD every day. Most of it is harmless. The problem arises when your total accumulated exposure exceeds your threshold to cause psychiatric symptoms.

If SD is the cause of your problem but you have had the problem for a long time you will still require counseling to unlearn the behavior. But stopping or lowering the level of exposure might stop some of your problems thus making current treatment more effective.

Visit the site and perform the psychology demonstration of habituation in peripheral vision to understand how exposure begins.

The Anorexia material is on the Culture Bound Syndromes page.