Getting ready is the definition of Preparedness. For some people, it is an exciting practice for the better. For neurodivergents, it is a source of confusion.
Preparedness is a very individualist subject.
We all get ready for an important event, usually pleasurable, like a trip.
Getting ready for the worse has a completely different chemistry which I ll explore in a separate thread.
Preparedness is that situation where multiple emotions are at work, typically Expectation, Changes, Organization, Excitement, Anxiety.
These feelings are exacerbated when an Event is permanent.
Traveling is a multifaceted event for autistics.
We usually associate Travel with Holiday, a temporary Change, henceforth not appealing to autistics.
Business-travel on behalf of Corporations, either to show a project or to sign a contract, is Work.
Relocation is my idea of traveling and likely the most conflicting.
Being a middle-aged expat, traveling takes priority over anything else.
Traveling means Home to expats.
Home is permanent Holiday for every expatriate.
Unless one returns home in retirement, it is indeed starting a second life.
This accounts for conflicting emotions, mainly excitement and re-adaptation.
What happens when emotions clash?
Preparedness is always stressful, though powered by excitement.
Timing is paramount, you don’t get ready to relocate one week before, it’s a yearly process, to say the least.
There is no official medical diagnosis for Clashing/Conflicting emotions.
Research is more supportive of Predominant emotions.
The concepts may look equal at first glance, if Predominance weren’t synonymous with Leadership.
In the Emotional sphere, Leadership is characterized by ‘taking over’, far from Conflicting.
A popular example is Multitasking: the brain is not programmed for multitasking.
The exact mechanism of Multitasking, is the ability of ‘taking over’ multiple options by Selecting the most appropriate.
I deduce Emotions are not in conflict, they are confused.
The associated official diagnosis is ‘Acute/Chronic Confusion’, two distinct disorders as a matter of fact.
As usual, that took some time to research my old Med-school notes, again realising that Libraries retain the most reliable sources.
Youngsters will smirk on me, though I won’t tire of advising lay people from staying off the ‘Medical Internet’ and let Doctors do their job.
These days, people give in self-diagnosing, trusting the Internet more than physical doctors, the foothold of globalization.
‘Emotional Conflict’ is Internet slang, I just found out myself through how subconsciously enslaving and mind-bending Media are.
Support your local libraries! I value them now more than back in the day when served the main Dormitory facility for students.
I’m yet to understand why we appreciate things only when we don’t have them…
That could make it for a future post.
Anyway, why Acute and Chronic Confusion are grouped in a single pathology?
Because distinguishing between Illness and Symptoms is the weakness of Traditional Western Medicine.
I’ll stand correctly.
We know that current medication cures symptoms, not illness. This affects the rationale behind diagnoses.
Confusion is not a illness, it’s a symptom of Delirium and Dementia, primarily.
Impaired Executive Function binds Acute and Chronic Confusion, despite their totally different chemistry: Acute Confusion is a combination of Brain Poisoning from drugs, Injuries, High Fever, triggering Hallucinations and Aggression. Acute Confusion is a psychiatric emergency, Sedation is the only available intervention. The episodes are almost voluntary and related to substance abuse. First Responders don’t stand the chance by immediately restraining and administering intramuscular Narcan as first aid.
Chronic Confusion is a progressive condition.
Mood-Stabilization is the priority treatment. Subjects are not aggressive.
Dementia is an alternative term for Chronic Confusion in popular culture.
The two are regarded independently in Medical, since Chronic Confusion is aggravated by long-term consumption of alcohol and antianxiety medications.
The Emotional sphere is overwhelming.
I conclude this segment by reminding that a Medical textbook will always be more trustworthy than the Internet.
