THERE ARE TWO EXTREMES, WHICH ARE SEIZURE AND COLLAPSE, SOMEHOW THEY HAVE A VERY SIMILAR TRIGGERING MECHANISM. THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL VARIABLE WHICH IS "WHEN". DOES THE TRIGGERING COMES INTO EFFECT, RIGHT AWAY OR LATER?
I was perplexed at how after a back or neck or head injury was sustained, the symptoms of Virtual Paralysis developed later and could become much worse as time passed. You gradually or immediately lose the ability to hold yourself erect.
There is likely a linkage between collapsing or freezing when attacked and being beaten as a child by the overwhelming irresistible size and power of an adult. There is nothing else to do but to try to drop out from under the attack you are sustaining. Freezing or Collapsing are conditioned into the toddler's mind and will happen automatically later in life to the adult.
Additionally Paralyzing and Seizing is the lack of any cooperation or support for the necessity to not repeat this injury and a default position by all and sundry that "This must be something else other than what Lindon describes and that is all there is to it". Insurance Companies coerced my employer's junior staff and Police seemed to join the rebuttal of my honest description of inability and actually attack me. When neighbors and Family join in as well the result is to be swept right off your feet and lie in a heap unable to rise.
It can become more and more difficult to lift the feet high enough and A CAREFUL AND FORCEFUL EFFORT would be required to not drag or catch the not properly lifted feet. The back itself slumps and folds in and wobbles causing loss of balance and dropping of objects and constant grabbing onto mouldings railings and ledges or furniture is required to not fall down in a heap.
Notably, any startling or apprehension or even a spray of cold water can start the process of seizure happening, with a tightening of the brow or a gasp of the lungs or a loss of balance, which might pass without going into a seizure.
POST TRAUMATIC SEIZURE HAS A DIFFERENT MECHANISM THAT DISABLES THE VICTIM, LUNGS SEIZE UP AND YOU CAN'T BREATHE OR LEGS SEIZE AND WALKING CANNOT BE DONE FOR LONG AT ALL.
I think I have felt the quick seizure, then wavering of the spine and then I have gone right down straight to the ground, compressing everything down one side or the other to fold a knee flat on the ground, when both legs, sides and spine let loose the result is a form of interior collapse, inside the body and not all the way to the ground, perhaps only a short drop or a seizure only.
Another bodily symptom is tightness which must be overcome with great effort in order to move.
I have noticed that after a collapse or other injury also I have very little relaxed functional experience and a lot of Seizure and Collapse with little functional time in between them. The Seizures and Collapses are exhausting to fight to be able to be mobile.
VIRTUAL PARALYSIS CAN BE CREATED BY COLLAPSE BUT THE CONVULSION OF SEIZURE CAN REQUIRE A LONG AND COMPLETELY IMMOBILE RECLINING IN ORDER TO ALLEVIATE "FROZEN" CHEST SPASM WITH INABILITY TO BREATHE OR "LOCKED" LEGS OR BACK. BOTH CONDITIONS RESULT IN A LOT OF RECLINING, SOMETIMES LEGS MUST BE ELEVATED.
