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For some reason tonight is not turning out to be a good night for sleeping.  I’m awake and thinking about the pressures that unsafe and insecure attachment conditions create upon a growing infant-child.  When a human being’s earliest development cannot follow the best possible pathway due to early traumas, stress and distress in its relationships with its earliest caregivers, related changes can easily contribute to continued distress for that person for the rest of their lifetime.

So-called mental illness, including Borderline Personality Disorder, and the whole rest of the gamut of brain and nervous system difficulties are being found to often happen because of severe distress and stress during these earliest and most critical ‘windows of development’.  For some reason at this moment this makes me think about early pressure and an egg.

So I looked up the instructions for how to ‘distribute stress just right’ – thinking that this might be an image-experiment that might be like how the stress of life can be handled so much better by a body-brain that was built right from the start in an adequate parenting, safe and secure attachment environment versus how it’s handled by a body-brain that was deprived of these opportunities

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I found the following in an article on the wikiHow website:

How to Squeeze an Egg Without Breaking It

originated by:Sondra C, Krystle, Jack Herrick, Ben Rubenstein

SteveSpanglerScience.com – More instructions on this experiment and the source of this article

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Is it possible to squeeze an egg as hard as you can without breaking it? The answer is – yes! We’ve all learned the hard (and messy) way that eggs can be fragile, but despite their reputation, eggs are amazingly strong. Amaze your friends and yourself by doing this easy experiment.

STEPS WITH ONE HAND:

(1)  Place an egg on your fingers.

(2)  Close your hand so that your fingers are completely wrapped around the egg.

(3)  Squeeze the egg by applying even pressure all around the shell.

(4)  Look at everyone’s amazement (mostly your own) as the egg remains whole and your hand remains dry!

STEPS WITH TWO HANDS:

(1)  Lace your fingers together.

(2)  Place the egg lengthwise between your palms.

(3)  Squeeze your palms together as hard as you can on the points of the egg.

TIPS:

(1)  If you’re a little nervous about the outcome, try sealing the raw egg in a zipper-lock (plastic) bag before putting the squeeze on it, or hold the egg over the sink if you’re in the super brave category. Or go outside and try it.

(2)  Eggs are similar in shape to a 3-dimensional arch, one of the strongest architectural forms. The curved form of the shell distributes pressure evenly all over the shell rather than concentrating it at any one point.

(3)  By completely surrounding the egg with your hand, the pressure you apply by squeezing is distributed evenly all over the egg. However, eggs do not stand up well to uneven forces which is why they crack easily on the side of a bowl.

WARNINGS:

• Be careful not to wear a ring while squeezing. The uneven pressure of the ring against the shell will result in an amusing display of flying egg yolk.
• Do not attempt this experiment near carpet, curtains, or any other hard-to-clean item. If this experiment fails, egg yolk will fly in all directions.
• This only works if you perfectly apply even pressure. Read the discussion page for examples of successful and failed attempts on this trick.
• One reason why this trick often fails to work, is that even an almost-invisible, hairline crack will cause the egg to break easily, no matter how evenly you apply pressure. The 3D arch structure is indeed very strong, but it only takes one minor flaw to weaken it dramatically. Read up on the Paris Airport Terminal collapse for a larger-scale example of this phenomenon. So inspect the egg very carefully before you try it. If there’s even a hint of a crack, use another egg.
• Don’t try this in the store before you buy the egg. The storekeeper will not be amused.

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ONLY the affects of infant-child trauma, severe stress and maltreatment during early critical windows of body-brain development are not fun or funny:

Traumatic Childhood Can Reduce Life Expectancy

A difficult childhood reduces life expectancy by up to 20 years according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The study found that participants who were exposed to more then five different types of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) were over 50 percent more likely to die during the 10-year period of the study. On the other hand, people who reported fewer than six ACEs did not have a statistically increased risk of death compared with the control group.

Listen to a podcast Adversce Childhood Experiences and the Risk of Premature Mortality.

• CDC ACE study – for women
• CDC ACE study – for men
• CDC ACE study – health questions women
• CDC ACE study – health questions men
• LINKS for CDC Study

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