Sunday, November 17, 2013

“TS”, The Disease That Nobody Is Talking About, Blog by L.E. Vega


“TS”, The Disease That Nobody Is Talking About

Essay/Blog by L.E. Vega




Observe the employee working in your area, in an office setting, in a fulfillment center, in any business setting, who seems and probably is a nice person, yet has uncontrollable impulses to interfere with your work.  He or she may move around your tape dispenser, the scissors, or tools that you need to get your work done, in order to slow you down.  He or she is sick.  His or her supervisors in the workplace may or may not know what to do.  Besides, some corporations in the United States and around the globe are messing up by violating labor laws, by eliminating employee breaks required within a five hour period, for instance.  Therefore, the employer may not take the risk of pointing a finger at the sick employee who is messing up for fear that the employee may point the finger back. 


The reality of such a “territorial epidemic” makes one wonder who came first, if the chicken or the egg, if the sick employee or the sick supervisor, or employer. Possibly, the supervisor, or employer were formerly sick employees who remained sick.  Regardless, the above mentioned employee suffers from “the territorial syndrome” or “TS”, a social disease that is eating away at our schools, universities, business environments, and the community in general around the globe, though I will concentrate on the epidemic in relation of its consequences in the U.S.  


The patient is frustrated, likely without realizing it.  TS symptoms may creep up for reasons that at this time may appear unknown, since the disease is not yet acknowledged by medical professionals, although many common conditions are often linked to use of cellphones, or other technology, as well as the bombardment of brainwashing subliminal messages. From an early age, many “territorial patients” or “TP’s”are combating diseases normally associated with old age, such as diabetes, heart disease, hormone imbalances, or auto immune diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis.
 

The frustration may be quadrupled if they are not physically stable, which in turn affects the mind.  For example, a “territorial patient” is addicted to one of the many caffeine drinks in the market, consuming 10-20 cans of the caffeine drink a day, which may affect her heart or her health.  In severe cold winter weather, the “territorial patient”, whom I here refer to as “Wendy”, is always hot, of course, although she is not overweight and is in her middle twenties.  Her behavior is aggressive.  She carries a collection of cutting blades, which she keeps at her office desk, and advertises it all over the workplace to threaten in a violent manner.  Her co-workers, a group of nurses, go along with her violent behavior, as if it were a joke, instead of putting two and two together, and helping “Wendy”, who may drop death of a heart attack, not realizing that her bigger enemy is not any of her targets in the workplace whom she threatens with sharp objects, but herself.  She may dig her own grave by not monitoring her health. Wendy may be anyone of any social class or any race, for the disease is non-discriminating.


The “territorial patient” suffers from a mental disconnect.  Like balls in a pinball machine, the brain cells in a “territorial patient” appear to burst away from the link to properly functioning brain signals, and instead of striking different targets, the brain cells flip out draining into a one sided aggressive track to gain territory, which makes them, not sustained from drainage by flippers, but so drained, that they end up flipping out.  


Typically, the basic needs and priorities for the “territorial patient” consist of a smart cell phone, sex, and poor nutrition and social habits, which may include the use of illegal drugs. Because of their mental disconnect, voluntary, or involuntary, they reject any responsible choice that may shift their flippers to upset their prioritized comfort levels, or which may threaten them to yield their addiction to “dominate”.


The only defense mechanism that the “territorial patient” seems to have is to take, or to steal, at any cost.  Apparently, schools are failing to teach defense mechanisms, so that students resort to aggressive defense mechanisms that are impulsive if they are not taught in schools to pause and think things out.  About twenty or thirty years ago, schools seemed to guide students to identify as a defense mechanism.  You were taught that if you observed something, a quality or a material possession that another owned, you would identify with similar ways that another used to obtain the desired results.  So, you learned from another by identifying, which in turn helped you.  Presently, the pattern laid out by the “territorial epidemic” seems to be to violently shove aside the responsible person who seems to have something that you want.


The “TS behavior” may manifest itself in the form of distraction, such as trying to make sick the responsible person that the “territorial patient” is too sick to accept.  The “territorial patient” may try to interrupt the sleep of their “sane target”, or try to rub on Purell if they know their “healthy target” is allergic.  While on the subject of Purell, I must say that Purell is one of the most toxic products on the market.  I label Purell as a “territorial product”, probably invented by “a territorial manufacturer” who aims to “dominate somehow”. The “territorial patient” or “TP” may adopt patterns such as slandering, character assassination, or the “that person “does not exist” isolating treatment”.


Many businesses invest in incorporating the subject of handling relationships as part of their new employee training.  However, once the training is completed, many employees fall back into their customary “territorial” defense mechanisms, since the resources provided in their initial training are no longer reinforced or monitored.  It is as if many supervisors are in denial, and treat “territorial symptoms” as a “taboo” matter.  Supervisors need training, too, and just like the business needs to guide their employees to improve their relationship patterns, they also need to improve supervisors to cope or improve their own patterns, so that they can in turn, steer their work force.  


It appears even more difficult for employers to guide minorities, such as Hispanics and African Americans, for fear of being accused of discrimination against their employees, which really hurts minorities who could benefit from proper guidance.  If an employer is not guiding, they are not treating their employees with dignity and are not doing anyone a favor, for the result weakens the U.S. and the rest of the globe, directly or indirectly.


The “territorial patient” seeks attention by annoying other employees by spraying strong perfumes in the workplace, by altering the order of certain documents, and by seeking all kinds of ways to disturb the peace of co-workers because they are crying for help. Of course, these patients should not be rewarded with a promotion and do not deserve excuses.  They should be guided to seek healthy social alternatives though, so that they will be good to themselves, and learn to treat others the way that they wish to be treated. 


Let’s face it, with the mounting corruption in our world, the “territorial patient” becomes vulnerable to corrupted individuals who may use especially the African American or Hispanic patient, influencing them to seek attention destructively as a means of distration with the purpose to facilitate a terrain easily lending itself to conduct criminal activities, that is, assuming that most “territorial patients” do not fall into the corrupted category.


To barely scratch the surface on the subject of the “territorial syndrome” or “territorial patient” at this time, treating the “territorial syndrome” should strengthen all aspects of society at the social, financial, educational, and medical structures, and it should not be costly.  If we leave “TS” untreated, it is costing more to fix all the problems that break as a result of the disease.  If our governments around the globe, including the U.S. Government, fail to treat such a threatening disease, the scenario is likely to resemble a poorly run “pre-school”, where patients will run around without the proper tools to develop the necessary emotions to take charge of their own lives, failing to learn that life is not about taking over their surrounding environment or territory, but about taking over their own lives for the sake of our world.


The U.S., by the way, spends too much money launching campaigns designed to encourage and teach people to wash their hands, which is so ridiculous, not to say insulting.  I feel belittled that the U.S. Government treats me, a U.S. citizen, like I do not know how to wash my hands, as if I were asinine. If we cannot wash our hands, it must mean that Kindergarten or First Grade did not do the trick of teaching us something so basic. We are also blessed with running water in the U.S., so it should be easy to follow our innate ability as humans to take care of our hygiene, cleasing ourselves. It would make more sense, I reckon, to spend the money instead launching a campaign to help “de-brainwash” the misleading nonsense thown at us, and to really learn to “cleanse” and to “detoxify” our bodies and minds ourselves.


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