Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder

1. Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder Sekou Mims, M.Ed., MSW Larry Higginbottom, MSW, LCSW Omar Reid, Psy.D Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

2. Post Traumatic Slavery DisorderWhat is PTSD? Sekou Mims, M.Ed., MSW Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

3. What is PTSD and How Does it Relate to PTSlaveryD? • According to the DSM-IV, the essential feature of PTSD is the characteristic symptoms following exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor with direct personal experience of an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or other threat to one’s physical integrity; or witnessing an event that involves death, injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of another person; or learning about unexpected or violent death, serious harm, or threat of death or injury experienced by a family member or other close associate. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

4. What is PTSlaveryDand How Does it Relate to PTSD? • PTSlaveryD is not described in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual. PTSlaveryD is a non-traditional model discovered, defined and used by Pyramid Builders for relative and comparative diagnoses of the hundreds of clients seen across our social work spectrum. Based on our client success rate, Pyramid Builders, Inc. has decided to create a curriculum manual for social workers and other human service professionals to use while addressing specific issues as defined by Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

5. Mode Cognitive Affective Behavioral Physiological Multiple Modes Comparative DisordersPost Traumatic Stress • Re-experiencing • Intrusive Thoughts • Intrusive Images • Anxiety • Anger • Increased Activity • Aggression • Physiological reactivity to trauma reminders • Flashbacks Nightmares • Avoidance • Amnesia for trauma derealization/ depersonalization • Emotional numbing Isolation of affect • Avoidance of trauma-related situations • Sensory numbing • Complex activities in dissociates states Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

6. Comparative DisordersPost Traumatic Slavery Disorder • Dis-Unity • Identity/self-esteem • Cognitive • Spiritual • Relational • behavioral • Symptoms • Re-experiencing • Avoidance • Depression • Aggression • Semi-consciousness • Trying to prove to others your value. • Not wanting to talk about your history, esp. slave history. • Mode • Behavioral • Physiological • Affective Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

7. Effects on the Individual Substance Abuse Violence Low Self-Esteem Fear of Individualism Avoidance Identity Schizoid Character Spiritual Blocks Effects on the Family Minimal Participation Breakup of the family Loss of income/culture Recurring abuse/violence Reaction/Results/Responses Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

8. Slave History vs. Black History • Black history in America is slave history not the beginning of Black history. • Black history as most of you, know began at the beginning of human life on earth. • The slave ship was designed for dis-unity • The accumulation of low self-esteem within young people comes from a lack of exposure to their full history and culture, from the beginning, where they can gain pride. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

9. The African Holocaust • Any trauma victim does not like to be reminded of the trauma that he or she has experienced. Any trauma victim has a tendency to avoid anything that reminds him or her of the trauma. Avoidance is one of the symptoms of PTSD. It has generally been my experience when presenting the history of the 'African Holocaust'to Black People the majority of them will say “I don’t want to here that slave __hit, can't we just move on?” I usually reply by stating “Yes, but not until we get rid of the shackles that are impairing our process to move on successfully; we must face the past in order to rid ourselves of the current traumas.” Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

10. A History at War with EconomicsIntroduction to Willie Lynch part I 1. Terror: “take the meanest and most restless nigger, strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining niggers, the females, and the nigger infants, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a different horse faced in opposite directions, set him afire and beat both horses to pull him apart in front of the remaining niggers.” Willie Lynch, 1712 “Lets Make a Slave” Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

11. A History at War with EconomicsIntroduction to Willie Lynch part II 2. Fear: “The next step is to take a bull whip and beat another nigger male to the point of death in front of the females and the infants. Don’t kill him, but put the fear of god in him for he can be useful for future breeding.” Willie Lynch, 1712 “Lets Make a Slave” Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

12. Physical Terrorism Was Used to Breed Mental Terrorism • It was important to have all witness this brutality to create a constant visual and thereby mental frame of reference about the atrocities that would be released upon any individual who dared to challenge the system of slavery. • One group of people were pitted against another mentally, physically and spiritually for the benefit of plantation owners who wanted to keep all of the money they made for themselves. • It is a variety of the residual effects of this mental terrorism on the descendants of enslaved Africans that we are defining 383 years later as Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

13. A Summary of PTSlaveryD • Those who wanted us to have little self-worth so that they could pay us no wages and then few wages defined and explained us as a people, our history and conditions for their own economic benefit. • What has been most difficult to overcome is that after so many years of such negative and berating advertising and propaganda, everyone, including us the victims of this slander have come to believe those definitions and that is what we are trying to overcome by treating PTSlaveryD. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

14. Post Traumatic Slavery DisorderShattering the Veil of “Mentalcide” Larry Higginbottom, MSW, LCSW Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

15. “Mentalcide:” Losing Culture & Knowledge • The beginnings of "Mentalcide" started when African people could no longer interact with their families and friends using their language(s), customs, values, norms, beliefs, rituals etc. That period lasted from 1619 until approximately 1865, or 246 years. • The second developmental stage of "Mentalcide," occurred from 1865 until about 1965, or 100 years of what I have come to refer as (US Apartheid) the Jim Crow laws and the Black Codes. The environment Blacks were confronted with when the legalization of slavery ended did not end the process of a developing social "Mentalcide," it caused a festering and growth. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

16. 1619-1865 246 Years Slave Conditioning 1865-1965 100 Years Apartheid Jim Crowism 1965-2002 37 Years Inclusion in Democracy Defining “Mentalcide”Destruction of Our Own Self-Development “Mentalcide” will develop when an individual has been estranged from thinking clearly, coherently and independently due to extreme psychological, physical and emotional violence. Prolonged exposure to these conditions will also produce an alienation to knowledge, information or learning Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

17. “Mentalcide:” A Veil of Perception "Mentalcide" has three modalities: • 1) a brainwashing that allows one human being to abuse another either mildly or extremely; • 2) a visualization by one human being seeing different human beings as other than human; • 3) and an effort on behalf of human beings to become something other than who they are to protect themselves. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

18. Mental Homicide: is as though a veil has covered the eyes of the afflicted and they can only see what is on the veil. The afflicted person believes what they see to the extent that they will kill another to justify the veil. The act of killing another because of this veil is what we have deemed mental homicide. Mental Suicide: the afflicted make themselves as small/insignificant as possible: a tall/large, brilliant, Black man will become small, and un-intimidating he will smoke, drink, do drugs, dress down, hunch his shoulders, be unkempt, and uneducated. A striking, Black woman will become insignificant by dressing and acting like a sexual object rather than a competitive intelligent person. “Mentalcide” as Homicide and Suicide Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

19. Definition of Healthy Mental StateOne’s Ability to Construct Their Own Self-Development A persons ability to capitalize on their own knowledge, information and learning comes from a healthy mental state of being. When a person has a healthy mental state of being they are able to think clearly, coherently and independently on behalf of their own personal development as well as that of their family and community. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

20. Mentalcide: a Conceptual ReferenceA Veil Created by Slavery and Transferred from Generation to Generation by Institutions of Mass Media • Institutions to control the image of the black race via stereotypes, many have not changed in 300 years, chattel images are still in place effecting us today. • 22-year-old Amadou Diallo, described by his family as a devout Muslim who had never been in trouble with the law, died in February, 1999 in a hail of 41 bullets fired by 4 white police officers while he stood in his own doorway. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

21. Mentalcide: Mental Homicide The Veil Defining Black Males • Absentee Father • Abandons Children • Stud • Emotionally Unstable • Drug Involved • Alcoholic • Physically Aggressive • Woman Beater • Name a few …. • Murderer • Rapist • Lazy • Gang Member • Car Jacker • Unintelligent • Low IQ • SPED • Sperm Donor • Dysfunctional Family Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

22. Mentalcide: Mental Homicide The Veil Defining Black Females • Seductress • Sexual Beast • Lazy • Welfare Mother • Thief • Unintelligent • Low IQ • SPED • Baby Factory • Dysfunctional Family • Absentee Mother • Abandons Children • Breeder • Emotionally Unstable • Drug Involved • Alcoholic • Physically Aggressive • Male Hound • Name a few …. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

23. Public Demonstrations of BrutalityWorkforce Exploitation, Economic Terrorism Many institutions which employ professionally trained individuals promote company policies which require the individual to submit to a professional ideology and methodology. However, higher ranking officials superimpose their own ideologies and beliefs which are alien to the professional’s culture, values and beliefs. However, because of economic terrorism many professionals are forced to submit to the official’s viewpoint even when they disagree with its effectiveness Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

24. Defining Economic Terrorismwith Today’s Professional Economic terrorism is defined as the perceived/verbalized or written threat of loss of income. It can also come in the form of the perception or anticipation of a ruined or derailed career, and/or the destruction of one’s reputation or credibility. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

25. Demonstrations of BrutalityNew Paradigms and Processes Mental Terrorism is used to breed economic terrorism. Terror threat with loss of income - Fear: It is important to have all witness this brutality to create a constant visual frame of reference about the atrocities that would be released upon any individual who dared to challenge the official. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

26. The Importance of Cultural RelevanceTerms and Definitions According to Webster Dictionary • Culture: a. The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behavior that depends upon mans capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations; b. The customary beliefs, social forms,and material traits of a racial, religious or social group; c. The set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterizes a company, corporation or people. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

27. Escaping Economic Terrorism • Starting your own mental health practice and other human service businesses • Start our own charter schools • Create a 100 year community plan • Create funding “Trusts” among ourselves to implement our long-range plans • Getting Licensed • Liability Insurance • Third party reimbursement: Getting on insurance panels Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

28. DETOXIFICATION FROM PTSlavery D Omar G. Reid, Psy.D Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

29. PTSlaveryD Toxification • PTSlaveryD is a cumulative effect of the slavery experience. It is causes a paralysis of mind, body, and spirit. PTSslaveryD is mis-education, coupled with poor living and eating habits that leads to countless medical problems and diseases. PTSlaveryD is a lack of self history, it is self-hate, 'Mentalcide' (mental suicide and mental homicide). PTSlaveryD as a disease has been produced, enhanced, and maintained by the institutions that utilize capitalism to exploit masses of poor people--and in the history of the United States, Black people, for the economic gain of a few. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

30. The Umbrella of PTSlaveryDA Sampling of Disorders & Dysfunctions Include: • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: disorder related to a trauma • Chronic Traumatic Stress Disorder: persistent disorder • A Veil of Misperception: an inability to determine "humanity" • "Mentalcide:" mental and physical homicide and suicide • Economic Terror: fear of economic persecution from employer • Cumulative Behavioral Disorders due to a lost sense of worth • Toxic Health Disorders due to mis-education and time sickness • Dysfunctional Family Disorder: self-hatred, impaired perception • Society Disorder: racism, urban psychosis, etc. • Racial Identity Disorder: self-esteem, body and hair image issues Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

31. Symptoms of Disorder Includedisorganization with one’s life: • Heart Disease: a cumulative ingestion of high cholesterol foods paired with high levels of stress leading to clogged arteries. • Diabetes: a cumulative ingestion of high sugar and white flour foods which turn quickly to glucose and cause carbohydrate surges in the blood stream making the body over-react or under-react to insulin. • Prostate/Breast Cancer: a cumulative ingestion of high cholesterol meats and white flour foods which create a 'greasy glue' that sticks to the walls of arteries and organs. This 'greasy glue' molds, rots, festers and metastasizes to create cancers that spread. • Colon Cancer: dehydration to the point where the colon does not have enough water to pass waste through normal bodily functions. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

32. Mind Body Spirit Economic Center Health Power Center Children Nutrition Time Sickness Elders Exercise Home Ancestral Environment Family Serenity Rest Community Knowledge as a ToolKnowing the self is a most important beginning to detoxifying from PTSlaveryD, because you have to know what to detoxify. Below is a checklist of the three most important areas to begin. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

33. Meditation Technique 1: Sun/Light therapy, anti-depression. Eating organic, non processed foods and living foods. Taking vitamin and trace-minerals. Meditation Technique 2: Visit your ancestors in the past and in the future. Raising your financial genius: Getting into the game of capitalism. Constantly returning to the archives of our knowledge and world knowledge. How Do We Begin to Control our Mind?Slow Your Body Down to Begin to Gain Control of Your Thoughts and Actions Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

34. Time SicknessIf You Don’t Control Your Time Well Enough to “Make Time” for The Things You Need To Do To Keep Yourself Healthy and Focused You Will Be Out Of Sync With Yourself. • Assess your needs and make a list • Make the time to do listed items • Make the time to shop • Purchase and store fresh foods • Read labels for purity of content • Make time to wash, cut-up & store fresh foods needed for daily diet • Prepare Breakfast, lunch, dinner at least 5 days a week • Make time to wind down at the end of the day • Make time to get 6 to 8 hours sleep • Make time to meditate, exercise, and learn. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

35. Diet Problem Mental/Physical Reaction Alternatives/Solution(s) Nicotine Addiction, Depression Meditation, Exercise Alcohol/Drugs Addiction, Depression, Nightmares, Memory Loss Walking, Exercise, Personal Development Caffeine Memory Loss, Depression, Irregular heart beat & Sleep Water, Herbal Teas, Real 100% Juices, Sugar Diabetes, Calcium Deficiency Fruits and Honey Refined Flour Diabetes, Obesity, Fatigue Whole Grains Salt High blood pressure/Gout Powered Seasonings The Impact of Diet If we are biologically stunted, nothing that we do to our minds will work. We have to prepare the body and the mind to take in knowledge. Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

36. Nutrition • Do a personal physical exam what are you taking into your system that will give you blood deficiencies? Are caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine a part of your daily diet? • Dietary Assessment: what percentage of dead foods to you take into your system verses amount of living foods? Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

37. Inner Peace, lowers blood pressure, sooths nerves Calms the mind and allows Rem sleep Connects to a power greater than immediate self Gives protection from PTSlaveryD relapse Take long walks through green spaces and waterways Watch the sunset go down Watch the dawn come up Cloud watch, bird watch Listen to soft music no lyrics Read spiritual works Take Tai-Chi Spirituality is Good For You Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

38. Culture and Family HistoryPlays a Role in Reinforcing Self-Esteem • What is your genealogy • What ancestors have come before us • Whose shoulders do you stand on? • How did your ancestors play a role in your being in this room today? • Who will you open doors for tomorrow? Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

39. In the shape of a tree starting with yourself go backwards in time tracing your family roots beginning with your parents, to grandparents on both sides and their parents, and as far as you can. Men are represented by the square symbol and women represented by the circle symbol Using the Genogram for Treatment Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group

40. Understand vitamin and mineral deficiency relationships to diseases. Vitamin B deficiencies lead to irritability, depression, lack of energy, muscle loss, and hair, nail and bone loss. Additives, preservatives, fungicides and pesticides lead to allergies, asthma reactions, Parkinson's disease, cancers, and other problems Too much “Soul food:” leads to obesity, diabetes, gout, high blood pressure, stroke, heart attacks, and other health problems. I. Skills to Combat PTSlaveryD II. From Pyramid Builders to Memory Loss III. Effects of PTSlaveryD Today IV. Basic Steps to Detoxification V. Awareness of Vitamins and Minerals VI. Relationships of Deviance & Capitalism VII. Awareness of Time Sickness VIII. The Basics of Financial Intelligence IX. GOP Economics X. Prevent PTSlaveryD Relapse XI. Ways to Protect the Family System XII. Dissolve PTSlaveryD in the Community Intervention and Prevention Pyramid Builders Associates\Osiris Group