So there is but fire In you, in me?

It was a Wednesday. Wednesday 15th of February 1978. Left me with a memory So unreal. What I saw was... Day 2 of Halesowen's anti-rabies exercise... I saw them Dressed in clean suits. Searching for Pets... Cats Were boxed up Latter let go. In 1978 People cannot be expected to recognise their own cat or notice if it is missing. But really - Cats didn't bring in any license fee. In two hours, fifty minutes 25 dogs were collected That is one dog every seven minutes. And those dogs Would be destroyed If they remained Unclaimed. The estimated cost of the Halesowen Valentine rabies day was £3,500... Questions were asked in parliament. Hansard    is how I know my hallucinatory weird memory of people in clean-suits is real. The aim was of raking in money for dog licenses!?  ...wide publicity was given through the media prior to the exercise, and leaflets were distributed to libraries and other public buildings in the area, warning pet owners t

Trauma is the consequence of sustained stress. The stages of stress unfold inexorably from Jumpy - to - panic - into terror. At terror, hopelessness competes with panic for control. And after terror there is numb. Thereafter there will be flash-backs and hyper-vigilance. For years. But numb can last forever With shocking, meaningless intrusions from the lost moments The missing time. The official term, or acronym for the above stress to trauma response is GAS: The General Adaptation Syndrome model by Hans Selye, which presents a clear biological explanation of how the body responds and adapts to stress. At stage 0. Everything is fine, a bright sunny day, nothing is happening. At stage 1. Alarm stage. Something happens and it is a shock! The brain recognizes threat and instructs the adrenal glands to release hormones such as adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol. At stage 2.  Resistance Stage. RUN!!!! After the body has responded to the threat and the threat ha