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Sounds like withdrawal to me the zapping is always worse at night.Even when you have been off these drugs for years syou can get zaps.

Ros

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I haven't heard of "kundalini psychosis" <----very strange, but I have heard of "awakening the kundalini". People can experience all sorts of strange symptoms from this. IMHO, this is just energy being directed to different parts of the body. I could be dead wrong, though. Aren't you still tapering from a drug(s)? If so, these are more likely symptoms of withdrawal. Even if you already discontinued, symptoms can persist. Re kundalini, I strongly believe that it's NOT dangerous at all. I don't think anyone can meditate themselves into disease or illness. Try this site for more explanation: http://users.aol.com/ckress/symptoms.html Be well, Tonyaflyblo wrote: Brain pulsating, high pitch whining and zaping at night and very scary and I'm alone. Feels like its going to explode or I have a tumor or something organically wrong. It comes and goes with alarming frequency lately. So in an act of desperation I ran to Psychiatrist pleading for help. I am treated as a non-compliant nuisance and have been refused some of the holistic therapies that are offered by the Drug and Alcohol team.He suggested that all this has been CAUSED by MEDITATION (which I am learning for a couple of years) and the spiritual healing I am receiving. He called it "Kundalini Psychosis" and said its dangerous for me. I look it up on the Internet and find even more scary especially having a snake in the spine !! Some of it made sense though.All I have is my meditation, my healing and this website which has helped my come off many years of drugs.I don't know what to believe

anymore. Has anyone heard of this Kundalini Psychosis ?

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I have not heard of Kundalini Psychosis - but from

what I know of mediation, what you describe makes

sense to me. You would be clearing out karmic " dark

shadows " . But maybe it is a good thing? If you get rid

of them, they will be gone...

--- flyblo wrote:

> Brain pulsating, high pitch whining and zaping at

> night and very scary and I'm alone. Feels like its

> going to explode or I have a tumor or something

> organically wrong. It comes and goes with alarming

> frequency lately. So in an act of desperation I ran

> to Psychiatrist pleading for help. I am treated as a

> non-compliant nuisance and have been refused some

> of the holistic therapies that are offered by the

> Drug and Alcohol team.

>

> He suggested that all this has been CAUSED by

> MEDITATION (which I am learning for a couple of

> years) and the spiritual healing I am receiving.

> He called it " Kundalini Psychosis " and said its

> dangerous for me. I look it up on the Internet and

> find even more scary especially having a snake in

> the spine !! Some of it made sense though.

>

> All I have is my meditation, my healing and this

> website which has helped my come off many years of

> drugs.

>

> I don't know what to believe anymore. Has anyone

> heard of this Kundalini Psychosis ?

>

>

>

>

>

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> Brain pulsating, high pitch whining and zaping at night and very

scary and I'm alone. Feels like its going to explode or I have a

tumor or something organically wrong. It comes and goes with

alarming frequency lately. So in an act of desperation I ran to

Psychiatrist pleading for help. I am treated as a non-compliant

nuisance and have been refused some of the holistic therapies that

are offered by the Drug and Alcohol team.

>

> He suggested that all this has been CAUSED by MEDITATION (which I

am learning for a couple of years) and the spiritual healing I am

receiving. He called it " Kundalini Psychosis " and said its

dangerous for me. I look it up on the Internet and find even more

scary especially having a snake in the spine !! Some of it made

sense though.

>

> All I have is my meditation, my healing and this website which

has helped my come off many years of drugs.

>

> I don't know what to believe anymore. Has anyone heard of this

Kundalini Psychosis ?>>

** What you're describing here is what everyone who stops an

antidepressant experiences -- brain zaps.

Also, it's important to know that healing is n ot always

comfortable. Your best bet for healing your brain is meditation.

You will heal more than people who do not meditate. Don't allow

these criminals to frighten you. You'll be fine; there's no need to

panic.

Regards,

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tte wrote:

>Hey I am Aspie but my sons are too I have 5 children altogether.

>(Sorry everything is a mathematical equation for me)

>I need advice for my sons IEP....

You'd be better off posting to a group focused on (and composed of)

parents who have been through such things before.

This page http://asperger.icors.org/ has information about joining a

good parents' group.

There's also ANI-L, which you can find out about here:

http://ani.autistics.org/ani-l.html

It's not a parents' group, but there are experienced parents there.

On the first of those two lists there has been a discussion recently

about why a child won't do any writing. Here is what I sent to the

discussion (it may or may not be relevant to your child):

---begin quote:

I was always considered " bright " in school, yet hand-writing was

extremely painful for me. It was physically painful, though I doubt I

ever told anybody that. Not only did I expect people (adults) to know

what I was experiencing, I also had no way of knowing (or even

suspecting) that what I experienced was any different from what

everybody was experiencing. So why would it occur to me to describe

it?

The first and only time I had a chance to " make a point " about

handwriting was when I hurt the index finger of my right (dominant)

hand in a bicycle accident. Although the doctor didn't think it was

broken, I insisted he put a splint on it. That splint was precious to

me because it meant I didn't have to write -- and writing *hurt*. I

would have been about nine years old then.

Over time, I gradually learned that the amount of pain depended on

what writing implement I used: freely-flowing ink was a lot better

for me than a pencil. Over even more time, the musculature of my hand

developed to the point where handwriting was no harder on me than on

most people. Took years, though. And my handwriting was terrible for

many yeas after it stopped being painful.

----end quote.

Parents on the list who responded had good advice about alternatives

to handwriting. They've all been through the IEP process many times

and can share their experience/learning with you.

Jane

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Thank you so much!

To: AutisticSpectrumTreeHouse@...: jmeyerding@...:

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:29:45 -0800Subject: Re: Help

tte wrote:>Hey I am Aspie but my sons are too I have 5 children

altogether.>(Sorry everything is a mathematical equation for me)>I need advice

for my sons IEP....You'd be better off posting to a group focused on (and

composed of) parents who have been through such things before.This page

http://asperger.icors.org/ has information about joining a good parents'

group.There's also ANI-L, which you can find out about here:

http://ani.autistics.org/ani-l.htmlIt's not a parents' group, but there are

experienced parents there.On the first of those two lists there has been a

discussion recently about why a child won't do any writing. Here is what I sent

to the discussion (it may or may not be relevant to your child):---begin quote:I

was always considered " bright " in school, yet hand-writing was extremely painful

for me. It was physically painful, though I doubt I ever told anybody that. Not

only did I expect people (adults) to know what I was experiencing, I also had no

way of knowing (or even suspecting) that what I experienced was any different

from what everybody was experiencing. So why would it occur to me to describe

it?The first and only time I had a chance to " make a point " about handwriting

was when I hurt the index finger of my right (dominant) hand in a bicycle

accident. Although the doctor didn't think it was broken, I insisted he put a

splint on it. That splint was precious to me because it meant I didn't have to

write -- and writing *hurt*. I would have been about nine years old then.Over

time, I gradually learned that the amount of pain depended on what writing

implement I used: freely-flowing ink was a lot better for me than a pencil. Over

even more time, the musculature of my hand developed to the point where

handwriting was no harder on me than on most people. Took years, though. And my

handwriting was terrible for many yeas after it stopped being painful.----end

quote.Parents on the list who responded had good advice about alternatives to

handwriting. They've all been through the IEP process many times and can share

their experience/learning with you.Jane[Non-text portions of this message have

been removed]

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> Hey I am Aspie but my sons are too ...

I'd suggest copying what you wrote to us, after the " (Sorry...

for me) " part, and send it to the school in a letter. It's well

written and succinctly explains your need.

If *writing* the letter becomes a barrier, use email, but I

think a letter will be much better received.

If the school makes a reasonable suggestion as to who else to

write, then follow through. Just make sure that the letter is

separately written, even if almost all of the text is identical.

- stan

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> won't copy homework assignments so his teacher prints it for

> him, but now he'll leave it in his desk, because he hates

> writing.

Count me in... At university, I'm allowed 1.5 more time to do exams but I've

cut some short because the writing got painful after 3 hours and 4 hours at

most is all I can manage to handle; the only time I did more was last winter

where I had 2 exams in the same day (both 4 hours each) and another on the

next day, it was against university rules but i wasn't aware and both exam

where in different faculty. At Bishop's ( www.ubishops.ca ) where I am now,

we can do the exams on computers so it's less of a problem, especially for

my computer science exam (9 hours).

Alain

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Thank you, very much.

To: AutisticSpectrumTreeHouse@...: vze2vfni1@...:

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:41:34 -0500Subject: Re: Help

> Hey I am Aspie but my sons are too ...I'd

suggest copying what you wrote to us, after the " (Sorry... for me) " part, and

send it to the school in a letter. It's well written and succinctly explains

your need.If *writing* the letter becomes a barrier, use email, but I think a

letter will be much better received.If the school makes a reasonable suggestion

as to who else to write, then follow through. Just make sure that the letter is

separately written, even if almost all of the text is identical.- stan

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Wow, my hand used to hurt too when I was writing, but I just thought it was

getting tired. I didn't know that was AS (then again I wasn't diagnosed until

15 years after that).

I just know taking notes was a royal pain. When the teacher wrote on the

blackboard I was always struggling to keep up, and when they dictated it was

even worse. My handwriting would be sloppier then because I had to write

quicker. And my stupid stepfather (he was emotionally abusive) was always such

a jerk about my handwriting. I preferred printing, but he was always getting me

to handwrite to get more practice, in the hopes that it would improve. (That

royally ticked me off, since neither he or my mother handwrote. They always

printed). Because I was so slow at it, I hated writing and when I wanted to

copy something from a books like lyrics, or a poemI liked I'd try and get my

aunt to help, since she wrote faster.

Now I like handwriting and find it very soothing copying from previously written

text and trying to make my handwriting as nice as possible. But before that I

got to start using the computer, which was a lifesaver. My assignments came out

neat and I picked up on fast typing right away, without even realizing how quick

I was.

Keri

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That splint was precious to me because it meant I didn't have to write -- and

writing *hurt*. I would have been about nine years old then.Over time, I

gradually learned that the amount of pain depended on what writing implement I

used: freely-flowing ink was a lot better for me than a pencil. Over even more

time, the musculature of my hand developed to the point where handwriting was no

harder on me than on most people. Took years, though. And my handwriting was

terrible for many yeas after it stopped being painful.----end quote.Parents on

the list who responded had good advice about alternatives to handwriting.

They've all been through the IEP process many times and can share their

experience/learning with you.Jane[Non-text portions of this message have been

removed]

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Does having a cramped hand have something to do with AS? I don't know

that I had pain when I was a child but then my neat handwriting was

also very slow. One teacher told me " You don't write, you DRAW. " It

was always neat, but not fast. The faster the sloppier. I now get pain

from typing (have made up my own typing, not the QWERTY system that

most people learn). I hunt and peck really fast! Like 60wpm after I

edit for errors. Also, now my handwriting is sloppy, IF I di it in a

non-painful way. I also used voice recognition software but if I am

not into talking as is the case a lot lately, I can't use the VRS very

well. So, anyway, are the cramps from trying hard to make handwriting

neat? One way to make it less painful is for me to either write very

large or very small... my 3rd grade teacher measured my writing with a

ruler and told me my highest letter was 1/16 of an inch high and that

she would refuse to read anything I wrote until I made it bigger. She

had had to use a magnifying glass to read it. If I write small, it

takes less energy, ad if I write large, I think I can't get cramped as

much because my arm and hand move more.

Rhonda

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To see handwriting-help devised by an AS person and focusing on

fluency and ease for printing (NOT " cursive " !), consider visiting

http://learn.to/handwrite

And please don't equate handwriting with cursive. If your hand writes

it, call it handwriting.

;-)

Kate Gladstone