salon.com
Sociologists who measure anxiety levels of entire
nations have concluded that the US is, by far, the most anxious nation on
Earth. About one in three Americans can be expected to suffer anxiety at some
point in their lifetime, compared with one in four Colombians, who occupy the
second world-anxiety slot. Curiously, nations where people face more basic
struggles in life, like securing clean water to drink, are markedly less
anxious than Americans. 'According to the 2002 World Mental Health Survey,
people in developing-world countries such as Nigeria are up to five times less
likely to show clinically significant anxiety levels than Americans.'
What's the Big Idea?
There are two main contributing factors to America's
rise in anxiety over the last four decades. One is the increased number of
choices we burden ourselves with, both as our identities have become conflated
with material goods (so that buying a bad pair of jeans reflects poorly on
ourselves) and as we buy new technology that allows us to micromanage our
lives. The second contributing factor is the failure of America's mythical
meritocracy. Sociological surveys show that despite the ravenous effort we put
into climbing the social ladder, and the stress and anxiety that accompany that
pursuit, wealth and power tend to remain concentrated in the hands of those
born into wealthy and powerful families.
( http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/america-the-land-of-the-anxious-and-the-home-of-the-stressed )
AMERICAN ANXIETY: WHY WE’RE SUCH A
NERVOUS NATION
Linda
Carroll NBC News contributor
We’ve become a very tense and
anxious nation.
Millions of us are kept awake at night by racing
thoughts and are so edgy during the day that our blood pressure skyrockets and
our hearts pound -- even though there’s no real threat in sight.
Over the past three decades anxiety disorders have jumped more
than 1,200 percent, with as many as 117 million adults in the U.S. reporting
high levels of anxiety, studies indicate.
“Some experts point to our high-paced, stressful
lifestyle as feeding fear, issuing in this new age of anxiety,” NBC news chief
medical editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman said. “I think we’re looking at almost the
perfect storm. We’ve underdiagnosed it in the past and we’re probably
overdiagnosing it now. We ramp it up in each other.”
Some manage on their own to cope with the tension,
obsessive thoughts and sleepless nights. But many are disabled by their
anxiety, unable to work or even go out in public.
“It can really lead an individual not to leave their
home,” Dr. Moira Rynn, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the New
York State Psychiatric Institute/ at Columbia University told TODAY.
“It can
lead individuals to lose their jobs. Anxiety becomes a problem when it’s
keeping you from doing your everyday activities or functions.”
And therein lies the crux.
We were designed to feel some anxiety. Back when
humans lived on the savannah as hunter-gatherers, they needed to be constantly
on guard for threats. The world was a very dangerous place and if you were
complacent you might be eaten by a wandering saber-toothed tiger.
So we evolved to have a very sensitive fight-or-flight
response to get us out of the way when there was even a hint of a threat. Even
in today’s world, that fight-or-flight response protects us, telling us to
avoid the growling dog or jump out of the way of the car speeding our way.
Now that response can be sparked by stress from work
and other problems of daily life. That doesn’t necessarily mean stress is bad.
“Stress is a natural motivator for people in the work
force,” Snyderman said. “Stress is what helps us avoid trouble. But anxiety is
what happens when it interferes with your normal workday. You’re afraid to
leave the house. You have such rampant thoughts that you can’t get a project
done. You’re lying in bed and you’re already worried about what’s going to
happen the next day.”
Normal stress crosses into anxiety disorder when it
causes a response “above and beyond what’s expected,” Rynn said. “Someone
who really feels that their mind is constantly on a sort of red alert.”
Anxiety can occur even when there’s no specific cause
or trigger and anyone, even children, can develop the disorder. As Rynn noted,
the main symptom is constant worry or tension over various issues, such as
work or family problems, money or health.
According to the National Institutes of Health,
anxiety symptoms include:
- Difficulty concentrating
- Fatigue
- Irritability
- Problems falling or staying asleep; restless sleep
- Restlessness; becoming easily startled
The jump in anxiety diagnoses has been linked to the
modern American, fast-paced lifestyle and the drive to get ahead. One big
driving force for anxiety, says psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz, is the gap between
our high expectations and our ability to fulfill them.
People ask themselves, “How am I financially going to
make it?” Saltz said on TODAY Monday. “How am I going to be as successful as I
feel I should be?”
The good news is that there are therapies that can
help get an anxious person’s life back on track. For some, that may mean one of
the many effective medications. But for others, it can simply be lifestyle
changes and talk therapy.
“Anxiety and stress while interwoven can be easily
treated,” Synderman said. “People sometimes reach for the medicine before they
reach for the change in lifestyle. A lot of times it really takes stepping back
for a day and saying what’s a real stressor? Do I have a place to sleep
tonight? Do I have food on the table? Do I have a job? If you can answer those
three things then many of the stressors frankly are not as big of a deal.”
It’s not just about getting perspective, Snyderman
said. It’s also about lifestyle changes that minimize the daily stressors.
“Not only are we too plugged in, but also we don’t
unplug enough,” she explained. “I would say to anybody: one hour before you go
to bed at night, the TV goes off, the blackberry gets put away, you’re off the
computer an that’s when you start reading. That’s when you tuck yourself in.
Stressors and anxiety many times can be undone and taken out of one’s life.”
( http://www.today.com/health/american-anxiety-why-were-such-nervous-nation-953854 )
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BREAST CANCER
The research from Dr. R.G. Hamer shows us that there are two kinds of breast
cancer. We have breast gland cancer and we also have milk duct (intra-ductal)
cancer. Each of these cancers has its origins in different areas of the brain
and they each consist of different embryonic germ layers (histological formations).
CONFLICT CONTENT
Breast gland cancer has its relay in the cerebellum and will form compact
adenoid tumors that consist of the old mesodermal germ layer. Milk duct cancer
has its relay in the cerebral cortex, (the sensory cortex to be more exact)
will develop squamous epithelium carcinomas and is derived from the ectodermal
germ layer.
These manifestations are in accordance with the rules of laterality. To be
more precise, a right handed woman will respond with the left breast if she
has a mother-child conflict or a daughter-mother conflict and will respond
with the right breast if she has a partner conflict. Her partners include
her life’s partner as in husband, a friend, her brother, sister, her
father, or even her business partner. The opposite breast will be affected
in a left handed woman.
We do not develop either intra-ductal or breast gland cancer without reason.
The specific nature or feeling behind the conflict will determine precisely
what brain location will receive the impact of the conflict-shock (DHS) and
whether it will be the duct or the gland affected.
Breast gland cancer has to do with the woman’s nest in the sense that
she has a "worry", "quarrel or argument" going on in her
nest. The worry could be over a health concern of a loved one, or even being
thrown out of the nest by her mother! The overall issue concerned however
is really a separation from a loved one.
Milk duct cancer has quite specifically to do with the conflict of, "my
child, mother, or partner has been torn from my breast!" Again it is
a separation conflict and the rules of laterality also apply here.
BRAIN LOCATION
As previously mentioned, each of these cancers have a different histological
formation and have their relays in different brain locations.
Since breast gland cancer has it’s origin in the cerebellum, or old
brain, the tissue starts to augment from the time of the onset of the actual
conflict, and will stop growing as soon as the conflict has been resolved.
In contrast, intra-ductal cancer has it’s origin in the sensory cortex
(cerebrum) or new brain and develops ulcers or cell degeneration in the squamous
epithelial tissue of the milk duct during the conflict active phase. As soon
as the conflict has been resolved, this tissue goes through the repair phase
and begins to augment the squamous epithelial cells that will swell and eventually
obstruct the milk duct and form a so called tumor. If the manifestation goes
unnoticed, the so called tumor will either degrade or calcify and no longer
be a concern.
In some cases the entire sensory cortex may be affected in the patient and
she may display some very specific skin problems on the inside of her arm,
hand, belly and inside leg, if there is a mother-child separation conflict.
If she has a partner separation conflict, she could develop skin problems
on the outside of her arm, or leg. The side of her body affected will depend
on her laterality (left or right handedness).
The biological sense behind these manifestations has to do with where she
may sit a child (on her lap), cradle the child (in her arms) according to
her laterality, or where a partner is concerned, which side she may use to
defend, slap, or push him or her away.
METASTASIS
If a woman develops a self -devaluation conflict as a result of the original
DHS that gave her the breast cancer, or as a result of perhaps a DHS she received
with her diagnosis, her lymph glands will most probably also be affected.
The lymph glands originate yet again from another embryonic germ layer (new
mesoderm) and therefore also have a completely different brain location for
their relay. These tissues behave the same way as the tissue found in the
milk ducts and will degenerate during the conflict activity and will regenerate
or augment forming a tumor in the resolution phase of the self-devaluation
conflict.
Naturally science has observed this and given it the label of "metastasis"
for lack of explanation. However Dr. Hamer explains that if a different brain
location and a different embryonic germ layer is responsible for the tumor,
how can this possibly be observed as metastasis? He maintains that these primary
germ layers cannot transform themselves into another germ layer once they
are formed in the body.
So what causes metastasis? Dr. Hamer discovered that cancer is initiated
by a DHS, (a conflict shock) therefore the progression of cancer or metastasis
is dependent on further DHSs.
For example, the shock of having your breast amputated (a disfigurement conflict)
can give you a skin cancer on the surgical scars, or a deep self-devaluation
conflict (I am less than I was before) can cause bone cancer, the shock of
the bone cancer diagnosis can give you a "death fright conflict"
resulting in lung cancer because we believe that the cancer is spreading "like
wildfire" throughout our body.
Metastasis in the conventional sense cannot exist in view of the discovery
of the German New Medicine and the Five Biological Laws.
( www.newmedicine.ca )
