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I told the family something happened when he was 12 months old. They said nothing happened. I insisted it did, they insisted it didn't - so finally I said "Something happened, to cause his mother, to be extremely upset when he was just 12 months old!" Oh, then they remembered, his brother died. The mother obviously was devastated for a period of time - and that is all it took to set the stage for the later development of the disorder. Nearly everyone understands Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from war. A car backfires next to a combat veteran and he grabs a gun and hides in the woods for a few days. This we understand because we can appreciate the terrors of war. What we don't appreciate is that more overwhelming than war trauma to a soldier is separation from mother to a baby.
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Bipolar Disorder - Learn To Take Days One At A Time A family brought in a twenty year old man who was convinced he never would be able to walk again because his feet hurt. That reality was more real to him than then reality that he had just walked into my office. At what age would a young child look around the room and observe, most intensely, that everyone else could walk but he could not - and decide that the reason was because his feet hurt? Obviously, this is just about the time the baby takes its first steps, which also is about the time the baby becomes aware that it hurts to put all his weight on one foot. I told the family something happened when he was 12 months old. They said nothing happened. I insisted it did, they insisted it didn't - so finally I said "Something happened, to cause his mother, to be extremely upset when he was just 12 months old!" Oh, then they remembered, his brother died. The mother obviously was devastated for a period of time - and that is all it took to set the stage for the later development of the disorder. Nearly everyone understands Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from war. A car backfires next to a combat veteran and he grabs a gun and hides in the woods for a few days. This we understand because we can appreciate the terrors of war. What we don't appreciate is that more overwhelming than war trauma to a soldier is separation from mother to a baby. This is because for as long as mammals have populated the earth, separation from mother has meant death. These can be simple minor separations that practically no one would regard as harmful. A family moves to a new house and the mother busies herself making the new place look like home - or a new baby is born and the mother is in the hospital for a few days. We have forgotten our infancies and are not aware of how overwhelming it can be if mother if mother is upset, distracted or away. Then years or decades 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 might sit in the middle of the floor screaming "Mommy! Mommy!" for example. It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to realize he is caught in an earlier part of his mind. With schizophrenia, this is somewhere in the first 18 months of life. For schizoaffective disorder it is mostly between 19 and 21 months of life. Bipolar hypomania peaks at 22 months age of origin, and the remainder of the psychotic depressions up to 24 months. Non-psychotic depression has its age range-of-origin from 24 to 34 months. https://untappedreviews.com/rejuvalex-review/ https://myshopy.org/optimind-review/ https://asrightasrain.co/the-faith-diet-review/
