Thanks for your vulnerable sharing.
One size rarely fits all.
It is still true that seat belt laws have saved lots of lives. Those lives were worth saving.
In terms of your illness . . . PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
get a copy of A MORE EXCELLENT WAY by Henry Wright.
He’s become a very respected researcher who’s seen thousands of folks recovered from incurable diseases. In many such diseases, the medical community across the country send him their worst, most hopeless cases. And, if they follow his instructions, they get totally healed.
Wouldn’t hurt to check him out, anyway. Warning, the book is a thick one, paperback.
When large systems of any kind—especially evil, greedy power mongering globalist feds—try to solve human problems, many individuals will get ground up ruthlessly in the system.
Scripture says the letter of the law kills but the spirit brings liberty. Certainly that’s true.
Laws are rarely designed to increase individual liberty and wholeness. They are designed to conform the masses. . . . to restrict the worst behaviors of the most rebellious . . . and thereby, limit increasingly the options of all.
Bureaucracies are inherently limiting, self-perpetuating, self-aggrandizing, greedy, restrictive, smothering, narrow, restrictive, increasingly dumb-ing down to the lowest common denominator etc.
The best one can hope for is individuals of good heartedness in positions of power in the bureaucracies bringing some semblance of sanity back to reality—but that’s a rarity, too.
A 2nd best is throwing the whole system overboard and starting over with a far greater individual freedom focus. That’s historically very rare on the latter point. Most governments have a compulsion toward enslaving the serfs worse even than we have now. Certainly globalism will be worse.
Stimulus-sensitive myoclonus is triggered by a variety of external events, including noise, movement, and light. Surprise may increase the sensitivity of the patient.
Myoclonic seizures are not epileptic but rather in my case severe upper torso spasms. The Xanax reduces the activity. SSRI's antidepressants which they insisted I use for several years because Big Insurance said so made those impulses not only more frequent but more enhanced as well. Gee just what I was needing LOL. It's treatable but non curable and never fatal.
The human brain is capable of many things which is why we don't die sooner I suppose LOL. This is no joke though what I am about to describe. The involuntary portion of the brain is quite capable of taking over many task not normally preformed by it such as driving.
The few of us who realize we have this condition can experience a weird situation at any given moment. I have been on a city street I knew like the back of my hand and had no idea where I was, whereI was going, how long I'd been there, etc. The first experience scared the living daylights out of me as I thought it was a stroke. I was doing 75 MPH on an interstate. It lasted about 20 minutes or so. My wife noticed me acting weird and scream what's wrong. She was helpless to do anything. This has happened maybe 5-7 times since 1994 to me. I've learned how to head it off is why it hasn't happened more.
Doctors who do not know and understand what they are seeing will likely call it Panic Attacks. But there is no Panic except a healthy fear and a realist realization something is going wrong which it actually is. It's not a phobia which is what one type of Panic Attacks are. My only fear is heights and for a very good reason.
Anyway I learned quick to pull over and pop a Xanax under my tongue and wait for it to work. I've learned if I go shopping or driving in heavy traffic etc to take an extra dosage. But I understand how the medication is to be taken. Very small but consistent in the blood stream dosages works. Two stronger pills per day do not.
Now I think you can see why doctors will not sign my seatbelt waiver. In an emergency my reactions and driving skills become pin point accurate. Many firemen and paramedics have a form of this disorder and that is what allows them to react the way they do. They are attracted to the job because the job provides an adrenalin balance.
The original cause was sinus allergies most likely. Sinus allergies can do Vestibular System damage. Very few doctors today recognize Vestibular Disorders as being the primary cause of Anxiety Disorders. Yet when I was growing up almost every GP knew how an Inner Ear infection could wreak havoc on a person.
The disorder makes having anything near my neck a trigger. The whole mess started out as being what felt like a lump in my throat a choking sensation. When seat belts came out they were just that. Now they are one piece units which includes a shoulder harness which is what I object to wearing. Now you can understand why I can not pass a FST. My eye muscle coordination since childhood has been poor. Thus my fear of heights. I stay off roofs and ladders these days. It is so poor I did two years in rehab to learn to live with it. That was in the early 70's at about 13 years old. I am also single eye functional. Yet I passed to military entrance physicals and not even they caught it LOL. I can not use both eyes at once.
I've lived with it for 50 years but it became a disabling problem in 1994 and so I retired. In my line of work I was a danger to myself and others and I knew it. I was a maintenance mechanic and boiler operator at the time but at one time I was a OTR truck driver. I did that yet I had zero depth perception. I learned to compensate in rehab. Power poles and yellow lines are how I judge distances when driving.
I know if my condition worsens I will have to surrender my drivers license and that isn't an issue with me. I'll do it without being asked or forced. As long as the seizures stay above my elbows I'm fine. If my insurance company actually understood what was wrong they would likely cancel me even though I have had no wrecks as a result of it. They just see a General Anxiety Disorder diagnoses and are happy with it. Likely figure I'm too scared to leave the house LOL.
My wife is not physically able to drive {an incomplete quadriplegic} so the driving is left up to me. My doctors have no issues with me driving though. They encourage me to do what I can do to stay active. I'm safer with it because I know there is a problem. Many more persons who have this do not know they have it.