WHO: The World Health Organization
On Environmental Factors
According
to the results of my research and experience related to Tourette Syndrome (TS)
and my observations I have obtained from others' experience, science can make
the following classifications about the TS of a person:
1.
Is it predominant
in movement disorders? How much of it is of genetic origin?
2.
Is it predominant
in mental confusions? Are comorbid disorders such as ADHD, OCD and the like the
cause of mental confusions? How much of them is of genetic origin?
3.
Is it predominant
in environmental factors? If so, environmental factors are valid for everyone
and interactive with everything else (including 1 and 2), aren’t they?
The main problem is to
not consider environment (item 3), the
most important factor, as the center of the solution. Therefore, improvement
methods focusing mainly on use of medication etc are also ineffective.
We create a model that
is increasingly moving away from society when we neglect the environment and sudden environmental changes and focus on other options.
Neuroethics refers to one's “social self”
and how “self” interacts with other “selves". When we separate “self” from
other “selves”, we are destroying our “social self”. Because, just use of
medication, for reasons such as sedative effect, personality change, sudden
attack behavior, pushes one’s “self” away from others. My fundamental problem
has already been to get away from the others. If I don’t have a “social self”,
what am I?
Primarily, we can get the most positive results when the environment approaches my / our needs and when that position is
kept balanced.
That means:
Firstly, I have to be able to have adequate food to eat, fresh air to
inhale, a home to live in and I must live my sexuality. Then, I need
environments where I can have friends, realize my talents, and so on. I don't
have to make any concessions to anyone to get these basic needs;
because they must exist unconditionaly
in order that I can attain the mind and reality that will free my thoughts.
Let’s change this world. Because it is washing brains for its own purposes by
making use of the basic needs and it is making us perceive some non-basic
things as basic needs by way of addictions. Setting drug (narcotic) use free does not mean
personal freedoms. Can you free our
thoughts? Are our choices really ours? Every place is full of brainwashers.
So, in short, my ability to find myself is not simply to be solved with
antidepressants, antipsychotics, etc. (This last sentence was inspired by
Oliver Sacks's book "Awakenings.")
After the application of item 3, medicated treatments, etc. may come into
play according to the 1st and / or 2nd items for people who are still in need. They actually interact with the
environment.
Why is the same person quite good in some life sections, but why does he or
she get worse in some others? What breaks our balance in environmental
transitions?
For example, in the following cases, students with TS who successfully
graduated from universities had been welcomed by their fellow students and
lecturers. So, what have the most important health institutions and some
experts done?
Improvement means that an individual makes efforts to stand on his / her
own feet by improving his / her skills and abilities. This is possible only in
an environment that is appropriate to needs.
Our most important need after the basic needs can be to reach a
consciousness that can keep our moods in balance. The third of the three items
mentioned above includes such an environment and all the value-adding
possibilities that it offers including tolerance.
If scientists, institutions and multi-media push the third item back into
the background, and bring the first and the second into the foreground, they
lead to the non-functionality of the individual instead of improvement. The
non-functionality exhausts self-confidence.
But what is the truth that has come from centuries to the present?
Is it not the strong environmental supports that are behind many people
whose abilities were able to come to the fore despite their differences?
(TS was not known at the time; now Samuel Johnson is thought to be with
TS). The factor that directed Samuel Johnson to research on language, that
directed Mozart to music, and that directed the surgeon with TS in Oliver
Sacks’s book to medicine is nothing but proper environmental conditions that
enabled them to express themselves productively.
For a better environment, we need people who can think healthier. And, for
that, we want science and art centers that do not condition us, mass media that
do not wash our brains, natural
sports areas where we can divert the “irrational energy” within us, walking
paths, trees, clean water that we can drink, clean water that we can swim in,
etc.
We want the probability to be zeroed that hospitals make us seriously ill
and we want new ways to be opened that goes to peace all over the world.
On the one hand,
children who starve or die of bombs in Yemen
etc., on the other hand, in vitro
fertilization (test-tube baby) applications. A popular scientist, Y. Harari
says "Yemeni terrorists" and "There is not much starvation left
in the world." Another scientist, David Eagleman, tries to paste a
so-called genocide into a country (Turkey) without basing it on documents. Such
books can be brainwashing. We don't want
scientist-labeled global celebrities who write books with such hidden content.
Prof. Dr. Ioanna Kuçuradi states
that everything that can be done by science should not be done by saying
“whatever happens!” We want a humanity that is free of greed and stubbornness.
And for a
better environment, our goal is to make curiosity, scientific and ethical value
knowledge that can pave the way for people being able to break their prejudices
about each other be realized.
We are now aware of
gene – environment – culture interactions, aren't we?
Why is WHO not effective in these matters?
A poem:
What is science and
ethics?
As science categorizes us *
it collects data for its projects.
Let it collect it, and then?
Disease labels were glued on our foreheads; *
diseased celebrities were
introduced to us with their talents.
It wasn't the destructive competition we needed.
So, how much were our talents cared about?
A song of “awareness” has been sung these days;
We've become aware
And we've made people to become aware.
Well, …
what happened now?
A.Şükran Demiralp
*:
First of all, a
balanced and ethical understanding of science. Now without much delay; we're in
the 21st century, and we're going to be role models for artificial
intelligence, right?
Professor Dr. Betül Çotuksöken: “Expert knowledge of science is a necessary condition, and ethical values are a sufficient condition.”
A.Şükran Demiralp – Oğuz Demiralp, 24 Aralık 2018
References:
4)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/acta-neuropsychiatrica/article/neurophilosophy-of-epileptic-experiences/19188ED9FB7AB887B0464CEFF70CBDFC
17)
“With that in mind,
investigators are considering the effects of gene–environment interactions. A
child with a mild genetic tendency toward a neurodevelopmental disorder might
develop without clinically measurable abnormalities in the absence of
environmental “hits.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1367862/
