More on Seizures: The Body's Desperate Mode of Expression
By Aurore Adamkiewicz, ND
beyondnaturalmedicine.com
Natural scientist and colleague of Freud, Dr. Wilhelm Reich lists seizures disorders under the term epilepsy. In his diagram depicting the social causation of disease through the disturbance of the tension-charge function he brings epilepsy under the column of somatic/physical disturbance and not under psychic. The four processes of health and human expression as Reich has proved with research are thus:
Tension>Charge>Discharge>Relaxation. This is the most basic and important process of life. He also describes two human states that plague mankind, pleasure which is expansion and anxiety, which is contractive. During pleasure energy moves from the core to the periphery, during anxiety or chronic fight or flight, the opposite occurs. The periphery closes off and tension is in the core, the heart, abdominal and chest area where anxiety is first felt. He describes this as the primary antithesis of vegetative life. His biological research shows basic components of all life mimicking these traits such as but not limited to the simple amoeba-which contracts spherically and then expands, the relationship of potassium (parasympathically) to calcium (sympathetically) and animals response to fear is to become spherical and contract physically. This is a very reduced and over simplified back drop for Reich's research on epilepsy and seizures, but hopefully, you have an idea and a picture in your head.
In neurosis, the state of the contracted and anxiety filled organism, is like a bladder, or membrane with an extremely tight surface tension and an extremely high inner pressure. Imagine a balloon, reaching its limits. While some people can live like this for some time and slowly build up different places to hold this balloon as in a tumor, muscular rheumatism, or chronic sore thoats others will create ways to release this charge (feelings, emotions tightly lodged within the structure). These different ways to release of most of the time "unconscious" or relatively unconscious meaning the person maybe aware to some degree but the core has no meaning or plainly put the reason why they do what they do is not in their immediate conscious. Speaking specifically on seizures, Reichs research with epileptics and electrodes showed the aura immediately preceding a seizure was registered as pleasure anxiety. This and other anxiety disorders can be traced to one common denominator: blocked excitation. It is the excitation stasis, Reich says, which causes the physiological problem. So going back to the four important life processes we have the tension> the charge and in the example of seizure, it is the seizure itself that acts as the organism discharge. Resulting in the finally relaxation or at least that is what the body is unconsciously striving for.
The "tic" and the seizure are both described under the same modes of expression. The seizure represents the convulsions of the vegetative apparatus in which dammed- up biopsychic energy is discharged solely through the musculature, with the exclusion of the genitals. Please visit the sources below for further reading.
Resources
Reich, Wilhelm Dr.. Volume 1 of the Discovery of the Orgone.
Noonday press: New York.
Reich, Wilhelm Dr.. The Bioelectrical Investigations of Sexuality and Anxiety.
Farra, Straus, and Giroux: New York.
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