Veterans re-experience combat reality and behavior. Schizophrenics re-experience infant reality and behavior. Veterans use brain structures they used when traumatized as adults. Schizophrenics use brain structures they used when traumatized as infants. Veterans duplicate chemistry and physiology of adults during war.
Schizophrenics replicate that of infant s brain during trauma.
All precursors and negative symptoms reflect attempt to suppress original trauma Clinically, after 30 years of correlating symptoms with specific age of separation trauma, I am able to determine with remarkable precision the age in months when the original trauma occurred Data from 9,000 schizophrenics confirms, beyond .000001, the validity of correlating infant separation trauma with schizophrenia Trauma in the first 2 years of life, which correlates with later development of schizophrenia, is identical to trauma in the next year of life which correlates with the later development of non-psychotic major depression The Unification Theory of Mental Illness provides, for each facet of this amazing disorder, a place of equal importance in the overall process. The primary infant separation trauma sets the stage for the later development of the disorder. This is the first part of the two-trauma mechanism, and it can be anything that causes the infant to experience a physical or emotional separation from the mother. It also includes emotional separations, such as mother being alcohol or drug dependent, mother being devastated because of crisis in family, an older child becoming ill and requiring all of mother s attention, mother having major depression, or an infinite number of possible reasons why mother temporarily is terribly upset and distracted. Additionally there are stress factors that cause the infant separation trauma to be more severe.