WAR PSYCHIATRY AND OCCUPATIOONIS DISORDER

§ 1. Background Data
After Homo sapiens Albinos were compelled to migrate to the Northern Hemisphere leaving their parents, brothers, and sisters in the Southern Hemisphere, they indulged in other behaviours that were not commonly found among their own descendants or their forbears they left behind. For example, the non-warlike nature of the Homo sapiens Africanus that migrated from Africa into the Asian territories of India around 60, 000 years ago and later to Australia continent was not emulated. Nor were they prepared to imitate the Homo sapiens Leucistic that had spread to the thick Monsoon forest in the Far East, right over to the oceans and inhabiting several Islands around. Instead, they imbibed the characteristics of being warlike, which was probably due to the environment and the hectic climatic conditions. Therefore, they had to spend considerable number of years waging war among themselves, sometimes to hinder the movement of segment of barbarian nations that they themselves had produced and later those that inhabited among them. Eventually, they were compelled and motivated by greed to destroy superb civilisations. It was not out of place that they succeeded in developing armaments and other sophisticated war ammunitions to protect and defend themselves. The histories of these numerous wars that were waged had already been documented; therefore, I see no need to repeat them over here again in order to take unnecessary space.

While these aggressive manner was revealed among the Albinos, in the tropics a different style of waging wars between enemies in the pioneer continent were already in existence among their descendants. Though this principle cannot be generalised, still, it was an established principle that was practised among a large segment of the people that lived in the continent. It contributed to the smooth take over of Homo sapiens Africanus' territories by the Albinos when later they eventually interacted with them. Among Homo sapiens Africanus, war among the rival groups took the form of aggressive temperament also but they were never brutal so as to exterminate a whole-conquered nation. A specific example would be taken among the numerous tribes in the West Africa. Once war between two rival groups/nations had ended and one of the “parents” nations had capitulated, there were no action taken to slaughter the remaining conquered groups, instead the hostilities ended with major discussion to determine how many ounces of gold that would be paid to the conqueror nation. As soon as this controversy was over the people conquered nation were left free to continue their lives as normal people without being hindered or fallen into occupation by these conquerors. They left their territories and allowed them to have their freedom to pursue their various chores. So far as this nation paid its pledge of gold, the latter allowed their citizens to maintain this cordial relationship with the former until such a time that the relationship would be normalised and this hostility would come to an end and probably the promised commodity abolished. In short, the unavailability of the continued hostility, slaughtering of the conquered citizens remaining and occupation of the conquered territories by the conqueror prevented constant hostilities, conflicts, and wars in the expanse areas and this brought peace and stability to reign for a long time, though this cannot be generalised as occurring in the whole continent of Africa.

As these have been the experiences of many nations on the continent of Africa, so it was among the indigenous Africans (non-warlike Indians) that migrated into the Asia territories and lived there in those areas. This manner of living, which some scholars had described it as naive due to the reduction of disturbances, allowed these continents to be confiscated smoothly by the Homo sapiens Albinos when they suddenly emerged in these continents with their sophisticated weapons and other ammunitions.

§ 2. Definition
Occupatioonis disorder [from Latin “act of occupation”] concerns the manner a sovereign nation that had through war gained the upper hand as a conqueror of another sovereign nation, and through the advantage of being the conqueror, decides to remain in the latter's territory for good or a long period instead of leaving these citizens alone to deal with their pain and sorrow. The disorder also encompasses the intention to build and possess a concentration camp where the unfortunate prisoners and poor rival citizens caught in the fight are permanently kept with the aim of being used to support their war activities. This manner of enforcing humiliation on a conquered state had been characteristic with the Homo sapiens Albinos that through their numerous wars caused a great deal of devastation on the planet earth. Unlike the non-warlike Homo sapiens Africanus in both the Asia territories and Africa (so many years ago considered as naive), the Albinos practised this unpopular principle which made it that tumultuous and constant brutality characterised their wars among themselves. These disorders were later to be transferred into other continents of the earth, which were made possible through several expeditions they made to other far distant areas of the world to confiscate lands that did not belong to them.

As a war disorder occupatioonis disorder already exposes a people demoralised by war and probably hunger to be subjected to all sort of humiliation and maltreatments which do not help the success of the war by the conquerors, but instead renew a new chapter of future hostilities between two rival groups. While people that had been conquered and immediately left alone by their conquerors would accept defeat and could easily move on with their normal lives and probably accept defeat as fate. The use of continuing occupation would bring the already fought war into a new phase whereby those people conquered shall one day utilise these remembrances of hostilities to stage revenge.

§ 3. Symptoms/Characteristics
What we learn from the non-warlike Homo sapiens Africanus in India concerning war, especially was that if they were to fight each other there were no occupations of the conqueror on the conquered. If this had taken place in history, it had happened because of the outside force that entered and dominated them.

Occupation allows the war to be filled with Chicken Brooding disorders, that is, the use of different types of maltreatments that women, children, elderly and the handicapped are subjected to during war through the occupation or in concentration camps. Since in war times all laws become suspended, many people with psychiatric disorders engage in criminal activities against themselves and also to other weaker vessels in the community. There are different disorders such as raping, torture, mass murder of the conquered inhabitants, exposing them to hunger, compelling them to collaborate with the conquerors, and also forcing them to issue answers to things or conspiracies they know nothing about. These activities which are usually carried out to dampen the spirits of the conquered citizens later have dire consequences on these individuals as they could release traumatic experiences known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD). As the hostilities are usually long, they lead to the intensification of these criminal activities that put the patients to have memories that shall prepare them for future revenge-conflicts and wars. Scars and wounds are therefore left on the minds of these unfortunate individuals.

In the concentration camps, the worse of these atrocities occur as there, the nature of the secluded place provides freedom to apply inhumane methods to deal with human beings. There, the prisoners could also be killed without being given the opportunity to defend themselves through the law court. Innocent captured individuals could be employed as specimen for experiments. Their bodies could be used as “spare parts” for those patients in the main hospitals that have urgent needs of say, hearts, kidneys, bones, and other body parts. They could bury alive as many people as they want if they find out that they do not have enough food for these poor souls. These things explain the reasons why wars are never to be accepted as legitimate means of solving problems because they destroy relationships between nations, and if they persist long, they usually lead to everlasting hostilities among nations and other groups of people. Occupation and the keeping of concentration camps should not be employed as a continuing weapon to suppress people that had already accepted defeat and had requested for forgiveness as well as regretted from engaging in the war.

Superwunsken leaders
The symptoms of leaders that champion such maltreatments on people have been noted to be those that regard themselves as “distinct” such as “Arian nationals,” “super race,” “originating from another planet,” and etc. They possess a “super wish” and “portentous desire” to be “aliens” and they show by the manner they maltreat the people they have conquered that they also regard as “animals” or do not want to have them in their midst. Superwunsken disorders allow the conquerors to use occupation methods and concentration camps to suppress their prisoners, and through these methods eliminate the latter or use them for scientific research/experiments.

Superiority Complex Personality Disorder
Among those that find themselves as suffering from occupatioonis disorders are those that have SCP disorders that usually act independent from the leaders of these people. These individuals usually suffer from auditory hallucination and hallucination as a whole. They also have other personality disorders such as schizophrenia and psychosis. Their delusion is such that they could cause a great deal of harm to many innocent people. Because they have no contact with reality, it is difficult to negotiate with them concerning the lives of these innocent individuals they usually destroy when acting as their captors. It has been stressed that they are callous individuals that care less what the result of their maltreatments will accomplish. SCP disorder patients could be compared to the schizophrenic person with a well-preserved body. They could be honourable professors, Army officers, Politicians, Priests, and distinguished Army Generals. We found them accomplishing their torture trails during the Second World War.

Absolute Zenith Complex
Among all those that suffer from occupatioonis disorders, the AZC is the most dangerous one and also difficult to deal with because he is unpredictable patient. This patient could see himself as “god” or “God” who could decide the fate of his own subjects. He acts in erratic manner and could also become frenzied. In this case, he could be equivalent to the schizophrenic person who has a vagrant appearance. We found them in antiquity. Since the patient receives his messages direct from his purported power source or he could become one himself, his brutality had been unsurpassable and his havoc could spread throughout a whole continent such as Asia and Africa. He could burn his victims or throw them into the lions to be eaten. Together with his army, he could gather a whole nation and send them into captivity and make them slaves. The “super race” folks or “illusory supremacy people” (Albinos' forefathers) could transport millions of people through the savannah and forest in the tropics and then be sent through ships to different continents to maltreat their catch.

§ 4. Case Studies
(a) Wars in Central Europe
Occupation and the use of concentration camps in wars had been part and parcel of the Homo sapiens Albinos since time immemorial. The recent one was experienced during the wars in the breakaway republics in Yugoslavia.

(b) Wars in Antiquity
Mass murder and the extermination of a whole nation were the characteristics of these barbaric and naive men. The Romans because of the sins of one man— Hannibal, destroyed Carthage in the then North Africa. The Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Hebrew Kingdoms and many other nations practised this manner of destroying a whole nation. They had no sympathy for women, children, and the elderly. Unfortunately, these are the people Homo sapiens Albinos had emulated since they learned from their civilisations.

(c) Middle East and the World
Unfortunately, there had not been any broken relationship between the people of antiquity and those living at present in this region.

§ 5. Analysis and Conclusion
Occupatioonis disorders find its adherents with people that regard themselves as “distinct” and usually argue that they possess a “super gene” therefore people should regard them as special human beings though it was through “deformation” that they emerged into the surface of the earth. The utilisation of weapons to threaten those they capture and the use of these ammunitions to enforce obedience distinguish them from all other people on earth. This “genetic characteristic,” which they reveal makes them to imagine themselves as the barbarians of antiquity which regarded war as hobby where they could travel to distant lands and regions to gather booty that are preceded by enormous devastation.

The use of occupation method and concentration camps to suppress people that had already been conquered leads to aggression, as this is not capable of soliciting obedience among the people. As a result, many people fall into bad mood, and the result is frustration, depression, paranoid symptoms, and suicide of these inhabitants.

As mentioned already, the Chicken Brooding Disorders are experienced in these societies and these bring to the people the bad side of war. This is the most despicable part of war where the atrocities are measured in the manner mass murder is carried out. History tells us the sad story of ethnic cleansing as well as the elimination of the weak and the aged among certain group of people. Barbarism in war could only be avoided by the cessation of these manners of suppressing people and keeping them as animals in barns when they had already surrendered to their captors.

It was this disorder which compelled many nations to practice cannibalism, which also forced many nations with superb civilisation to disappear from the face of the earth. The trauma of going through the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that we have mentioned already is painful. People that had experienced this ordeal usually have flash backs and turbulent remembrance of the difficult episodes or incidents that they met during these difficult times. They could become victims of psychiatric disorders forever. These numerous disorders and the agitation of people to fight back usually could infuriate a leader with AZC to order for the burning of the main cities in the occupied nation. During the Second World War, Herr Adolf Hitler had wanted his Generals and other soldiers in France to burn down Paris, the capital of this great country. The vulnerability of the occupied soldiers and the people were indeed tested. If the soldiers had not exercised their own judgement, the psychiatric disorder (AZC) of their erratic leader would have compelled them to destroy one of the most beautiful and industrious cities which many innocent Germans also cherish themselves. Occupatioonis disorders are the roots of the disappearance of superb civilisations from the face of the earth, mass murder, ethnic cleansing and the permanent hostilities between nations that had bordered each other for many centuries.

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