Matt, not to be flippant, but I don't see a brain-stem issue as having
anything but an organic source and resolution.  I don't believe you can
spiritualize what's going on in an autonomic reflex dysfunction.

In one sense, every gimp on the face of the earth has PTSD.  On the other
hand, and this is something I have to really watch for in myself, we can get
pretty comfortable with a "victim" mentality. Make sense?

-Kyle

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Conaway [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 5:07 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Sensory Integration Problems


I had Bobath or whatever as a kid. I'm not sure it helped much. I don't
know.  There were many angry, negative people in my life then.

Oh how I hate to have my face touched or my teeth brushed!  I just don't
like that at all.  Kleenex drives me crazy.  Also, I have to be fully
dressed to have a serious conversation with a caregiver.  Etc.

And yes, I'm convinced that I have PTSD both from the spiritual/touch
abuse I suffered in high school as well as from having to fight my way
through public school since I ALWAYS had to prove myself....

Studying "A Course in Miracles" has helped with the anger.  I have also
been working with a practitioner of Chulauqui Quodoshka(Native American
Sacred Sexuality) for the abuse.  I would like to move beyond that to
actually manage the hypersensitivity better, if at all possible.


Matt