Re: Re: Neurotic? It could lead to asthma

[Guest guest]

Utterly amazing that they are STILL doing to children today what they did

to you 57 years ago. Now they call it child protective services when a

parent utters the words that they think mold is harming their child.

Where have we gone wrong? I went to college with kids who became doctors.

Every single one of them wanted to be people who made a positive

difference in the lives of others.

In a message dated 10/24/2009 8:48:45 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,

josephsalowitz@... writes:

Wow Sharon,

The more things change, the more they remain the same. I am 66 years old,

and I developed asthma at the age of 9, from a genetic predisposition

inherited from my pa

[Guest guest]

Powerful story, Joe. It reminds me of the early to mid 50's when the

cause of cancer was considered psychological. It seems if a solid answer

isn't readily available, it can't be real, it's psychological. Isn't psychology

real? Do they think it magical or occult, out of the realm of science?

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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Wow Sharon,

The more things change, the more they remain the same. I am 66 years old, and I

developed asthma at the age of 9, from a genetic predisposition inherited from

my paternal great-grandmother. As a younger child, I remember hearing her

wheeze, and watching her use the then-current standard medical therapy, which

was(I'm not lying), breathing in a coil of marijuana, as it slowly burned in

front of her. By the time I developed asthma, at the age of 9 (in 1952}, the

standard medical therapy, was breathing nebulized (by squeezing a rubber bulb)

adrenaline (epinephrine), on the physiological premis that anything which can

speed up your heart beat, will also speed up the functioning of your lungs, and

the speeding up process would get the air into your lungs (if it didn't kill

you).

By the time I was eleven years old , you were not considered " civilized " if you

were not in therapy with a psychologist or psychiatrist (if you could afford

one). So, naturally, as the stress of living with asthma, was rapidly driving

me, and my parents, insane, the doctors said [in their typical ass-backwards

thought process]that the emotional stress between myself and my parents was the

CAUSE of the asthma, and not the EFFECT of living with asthma.

The " treatment " prescribed for me, was " separation " from my parents for a period

of 6 months. Luckily, as we were poor, there was a charity that had received a

suburban mansion, donated by a millionaire, and had turned that mansion into a

free boarding home, for children like me, to give them the " separation cure " . My

parents were allowed to visit only on one day every 2 weeks, which worked out

good for them, as, in those days you had to be pretty well off to own a car, so

they had to take a cus to the subway, and the subway to Grand Central Station,

and a train to Elmsford N.Y., and a bus to Eastview N.Y., to visit me. The

symbolism of my " convalescent home " estate being across a country road from the

honor farm of Sing Sing state prison, did not escape me.

Sorry for rambling on, like the " old man " that I am, but my point is that I am

still an asthmatic, though the " separation cure " sure taught me to appreciate my

parents more. As the years went on, and I learned to avoid my asthma " triggers "

better, my degree of physical suffering become more of an " inconvenience " ,

rather than a " life-and-death " struggle, and, my " neurotic " behavior was no

longer necessary, as the neurotic behavior was only an adaptation to living in a

moment-to-moment life-and-death situation, and not he other way around, as is

claimed TODAY by the medical study you quoted, and by the medical profession, 57

years ago, when I served my time, upstate. Actually, aside from missing my

parents, it was a pretty nice experience. [but please don't send your own kids

away]

P.S.- 14 years ago, I went through the exact same experience of upregulating my

neurotic behavior, as a response to my first toxic mold exposure reaction. Over

the last 14 years, as I have learned to identify and remove, the mold and

chemical triggers from my life, I have been able to lower my level of neurotic

behavior again, to an " almost-normal " level.

Joe

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> Can you believe they are still trying to market this garbage?

> " 63 or about 2 percent, developed asthma during a median follow-up of more

> than 8 years, they report in the latest issue of the journal Allergy.

> According to the investigators, individuals who were highly neurotic were

> three times more likely to develop asthma than those who were less neurotic,

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