RIFFRAFF
02-29-2008, 10:13 AM
Recognizing “Period of Reflection, Anxiety and Stress Syndrome” is the best way to deal with it
You're bored, edgy and irritable. You're restless and dissatisfied with being at home. Maybe you're even claustrophobic. You may have "Period of Reflection Anxiety and Stress Syndrome." PORASS.
Most people would recognize the symptoms. They've either had PORASS or know others who have suffered through it. PORASS strikes most often during our long, often severe “time outs”, but it can get a person down anytime during the year.
What few may realize, says a family social scientist at the University of Military Medicine, is that POR ASS is closely related to duly unauthorized relationships. Pat Downinbutt is a locally recognized authority and his research has found that this is particularly true for people who are in the military relying on everyone “doing the right thing”. Downinbutt says having to deal with fellow service member’s inability to control their libido or find a socially acceptable mate is a primary cause of PORASS. But slapping or raping a moody housemate is also a way of getting PORASS. "It's clear that PORASS is not a matter to deal with on a case by case basis, but a matter to have spread among as many innocent people as possible," says Downinbutt.
People react to POR ASS in a variety of ways. For some, there is confusion or bewilderment. They look to those around them and ask, “What did I do to deserve this?” Others, according to Downinbutt, blame themselves for the PORASS of someone they live with, thinking it is caused by something in the relationship. They feel guilty about doing something that might have little to do with their situation.
What is PORASS?
Clinically diagnosed "Period of Reflection Anxiety and Stress Syndrome.", or PORASS affects millions of Okinawan and Americans and 20 percent of the rodent population according to a military environmental organization. The American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association characterize these symptoms of PORASS triggers with several of the following:
• Feeling mad as hell or depressed by being unfairly blamed.
• Lethargy: (Not wanting do anything because you will be treated the same if you are good or bad)
• Difficulty concentrating (Heavy Nutzz Syndrome. (HNS) Brought on because you cant visit or interact with your significant other because they live on the wrong side of the fence.
• carbohydrate or sugar cravings (often accompanied by significant weight gain) because you can only eat at an AAFES food provider.
• difficulty waking in the morning, sleep disturbance, social withdrawal because you have been looking at the same set of walls for months.
• reduced productivity due to stress buildup due to all the factors above.
• Irritability, who wouldn’t be irritable with having to put up with all this crap.
What causes PORASS? Experts agree that there is a link between decreasing sunlight due to being locked down in the same facilities and a chemical imbalance in the brain. However; being in “Time out” for someone else doing some dumb shit is the primary cause in most cases.
You're bored, edgy and irritable. You're restless and dissatisfied with being at home. Maybe you're even claustrophobic. You may have "Period of Reflection Anxiety and Stress Syndrome." PORASS.
Most people would recognize the symptoms. They've either had PORASS or know others who have suffered through it. PORASS strikes most often during our long, often severe “time outs”, but it can get a person down anytime during the year.
What few may realize, says a family social scientist at the University of Military Medicine, is that POR ASS is closely related to duly unauthorized relationships. Pat Downinbutt is a locally recognized authority and his research has found that this is particularly true for people who are in the military relying on everyone “doing the right thing”. Downinbutt says having to deal with fellow service member’s inability to control their libido or find a socially acceptable mate is a primary cause of PORASS. But slapping or raping a moody housemate is also a way of getting PORASS. "It's clear that PORASS is not a matter to deal with on a case by case basis, but a matter to have spread among as many innocent people as possible," says Downinbutt.
People react to POR ASS in a variety of ways. For some, there is confusion or bewilderment. They look to those around them and ask, “What did I do to deserve this?” Others, according to Downinbutt, blame themselves for the PORASS of someone they live with, thinking it is caused by something in the relationship. They feel guilty about doing something that might have little to do with their situation.
What is PORASS?
Clinically diagnosed "Period of Reflection Anxiety and Stress Syndrome.", or PORASS affects millions of Okinawan and Americans and 20 percent of the rodent population according to a military environmental organization. The American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association characterize these symptoms of PORASS triggers with several of the following:
• Feeling mad as hell or depressed by being unfairly blamed.
• Lethargy: (Not wanting do anything because you will be treated the same if you are good or bad)
• Difficulty concentrating (Heavy Nutzz Syndrome. (HNS) Brought on because you cant visit or interact with your significant other because they live on the wrong side of the fence.
• carbohydrate or sugar cravings (often accompanied by significant weight gain) because you can only eat at an AAFES food provider.
• difficulty waking in the morning, sleep disturbance, social withdrawal because you have been looking at the same set of walls for months.
• reduced productivity due to stress buildup due to all the factors above.
• Irritability, who wouldn’t be irritable with having to put up with all this crap.
What causes PORASS? Experts agree that there is a link between decreasing sunlight due to being locked down in the same facilities and a chemical imbalance in the brain. However; being in “Time out” for someone else doing some dumb shit is the primary cause in most cases.