Hillary Clinton, Extreme Startle Reaction, Startle Epilepsy, And Her Red Mouth

I was watching Hillary’s speech, and noticed a minor point. At the beginning, her tongue would periodically show, and it appeared unusually deep red on the outside, as did the insides of her lips. As the speech went on, her tongue began to lose its redness, though the insides of her lips continued to appear usually red and raw.

Here is a picture [original here] which shows how her lipstick coated lips are actually substantially lighter in shade than the raw mucosal lining of the inside of her mouth.

As I was thinking of this, my mind drifted to the picture Cernovich tweeted of the red spot on Hillary’s tongue, seen here:

I suspect that hole was a spot created on her tongue by some sort of slow release tablet, slowly releasing a drug of some sort. One of the problems Hillary’s handlers have is that given how high strung she is, she likely needs medication to handle the stresses of public appearances.

But medications are a complicated ball of wax. Give her a small dose right before the event, and it may begin to wear off before she is done, and the refractory phase she enters as the drug wears off may actually present with worse symptoms than when she was unmedicated. Give her a bigger shot, and she may appear mildly intoxicated at the start. Give her a massive shot two hours early, wait as it wears off, and then let her begin the event as the massive shot slowly wears off and she may appear exhausted or hung over.

What I am thinking is they are giving her a slow release tab which she is sucking on, and whatever it is reddens her mouth. When she kept the pill against the tongue in one spot, it created a red spot, as in Cernovich’s picture. Last night she kept it between her lips and her gums, and it reddened the mucosal membranes there, as well as the tongue. It finished dissolving halfway through, at which point her tongue returned to a semi-normal color, though the insides of her lips remained unusually red.

The drug could be a steroid designed to ease throat irritation and inflammation to prevent coughing. That might also thin the epithelium and create rawness over time.

However I have no doubt that her cognitive function is of more concern to her handlers. For that she is probably getting anti-anxiety meds, as well as a beta-blocker during the debate, which might itself open up blood vessels in the mouth and produce redness as well.

Interestingly, antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs are both known to cause dry mouth, as are beta-blockers, and Hillary has had a history of breaking into coughing fits due to dryness of the mouth and throat. She may be in the phase where she is chasing after side-effects for all the various medications she is taking, and producing more side-effects in the process.

When negotiating ground rules for the next debate, Trump should demand that one aspect be a blood test for drugs that affect cognition, done right before entering the stage for the debate, or after the debate. Trump could frame it as “We don’t want somebody who can’t handle the stress of a debate without drugs in their system, running the country.”

Couching it as also having “heard rumors of politicians using Performance-Enhancing Drugs in debates to make them seem less neurotic” would tie it to an established amygdala pathway in the brains of both onlookers and liberals relating to unfair cheating in sports. Liberals especially love to hate successful athletes, by telling themselves their success is unfair due to “drug use.”

If Hillary’s team objects, it is a story because why would she object? And if they don’t object we will see Hillary either exposed for taking beta-blockers, Clonazepam, and maybe other things, or she will have a full on epileptic seizure. Or maybe Trump can use this demand to bargain to get other demands he wants in the debate. Either way he wins.

Which brings us to Exaggerated Startle Reaction, which is what I think we were looking at in Hillary’s “seizure video.” More specifically, it was probably the subset of Exaggerated Startle called Startle Epilepsy:

?Startle Epilepsy: In startle epilepsy the muscles of the affected person contracts briefly and the body responses to sudden movement or noise. The patients fall down frequently being startled and other symptoms of spasm also are expressed.

Exaggerated Startle Reaction tends to be a genetic condition, however it can be produced by other means, and is exhibited in cases such as PTSD:

Most common leading causes for developing exaggerated startle response:

?Exposure to combat
?Negligence in childhood and physical abuse.
?Sexual violence
?Physical assault.

In addition, there are also numbers of traumatic or shocking events that also lead to the problem of exaggerated startle response, for example, natural disaster, terrorist attack, fire accident, plane crash, car accident, robbery, mugging, life-threatening medical diagnosis, kidnapping, torture and numerous severe events.

Interesting, given her husband’s history of rape and violent sexual assault accusations. Though I imagine being a rage-aholic control freak under investigation by a special prosecutor when you know you did wrong, for years, could do the trick. Score one for the vast right wing conspiracy.

The symptoms are really normal features everyone can exhibit if sufficiently agitated, even in extreme versions of the disorder like the “Jumping Frenchmen of Maine” :

A rare condition where the startle reflex is greatly exaggerated. The startle reflex in this disorder is characterized by jumping, raising the arms, yelling, hitting, obeying sudden commands and repeating sentences.

Shock someone enough, and anyone will raise their arms defensively, jump, and exhibit muscle jerks. Yelling and hitting can also happen if you stimulate an amygdala sufficiently. Obeying sudden commands can happen under stress, if you have no other plan in mind and something needs to be done. Repeating sentences is common in arguments, if the subject is flagged as important enough to the amygdala and overwhelms. Imagine an enraged wife yelling what her husband was telling her, back at him – “I only slept with her three times?!!” “I didn’t think you’d care?!!!!” “Why is this a big deal?!!!!!!!!!”

When Hillary’s emails came out, I remember thinking it weird that she claimed many were just about Yoga. I thought it was weird, as Yoga people, even much older ones, have certain physiological qualities to their bodies and movement which I do not see in Hillary, who is profoundly out of shape and highly uncoordinated.

Yoga itself is something people seem to either throw themselves into, or not. You either like the exercises, and do as many as you can as hard as you can, or you don’t, and you abandon any attempt at it. To me, her claim of constantly emailing about yoga was like Michael Moore claiming a lot of his emails were about muscle-building protein-shake recipes. Of course, she lies, so I blew it off as that.

But then I saw her walking after her convention speech on the stage, through the balloons. I was watching carefully, because if you have an amygdala-excitability issue, lots of falling confetti, a screaming crowd, balloons bouncing around, and flashing lights are visual stimuli that plug straight into that amygdala and exacerbate it’s agitation. I figured if she was going to display symptoms, even heavily medicated, that would be the time.

The cameraman cut in on her shoulders and head to block a wider view, but you could clearly see that as she walked forward, toward a child at the front of the stage, she was staring wide-eye’d at the ground with a touch of fear behind her fake smile, and her walk was more of a slow, super-careful shuffle, with feet spread wide, as you or I might walk on greased ice, to prevent ourselves from falling.

When stimulated, people with exaggerated startle reflex begin to shuffle, because their muscles uncontrollably stiffen up, making the loose, easy walk you or I perform impossible. In extreme cases, some websites describe fully conscious people who are startled, falling “like a log” as all of their muscles lock up completely and their body becomes so stiff they can’t even take a step to catch themselves. This might mean Hillary’s condition deteriorated at the end of the speech due to medication wearing off, or that it was exacerbated by all of the visual and auditory stimuli she was presented with as the balloons and confetti dropped.

Interestingly, one way people try to ease the muscle-stiffening symptoms of Exaggerated Startle Reflex, and reclaim their balance, is with yoga. That might explain why Hillary was emailing about exercises which she would seem highly unlikely to pursue. Her doctor recommended them to relax her amygdala and help with her stiffness.

If the discussion of those exercises were attached to any sort of discussion of a neuropsychiatric diagnosis causing her hospitalizations, like a surprising stimuli freezing her up like a bunny in the headlights or giving her an actual seizure, that makes much more sense. You can see why Hillary was so desperate to delete any mention of them before they were released that she would break the law to do so.

Some forms of Exaggerated Startle are associated with falling and an unsteady gait:

There are major and minor forms of hyperekplexia. In the major form, hyperekplexia is characterized by an unusually extreme startle reaction to sudden unexpected noise, movement, or touch. Arching of the head (exaggerated head-retraction reflex or HRR), spastic jerking movements (myoclonic jerks) or falling stiffly to the ground (without losing consciousness) tend to occur when the individual is startled. The frequency and severity of the startle response can be increased by emotional tension, stress, or fatigue…

Other symptoms presented by infants as well as adults may include exaggeration of reflexes (hyperreflexia), interrupted breathing (intermittent apnea) and/or unstable walking (gait), usually with a mild wide-based stance…

In children and adults, intensity of the startle response may be affected by stress or anxiety.

Onset of both major and minor forms of hyperekplexia is usually from birth, but in some patients it does not occur until adolescence or adulthood. Mild intellectual disability may also be observed.

It is worth noting, Hillary has had a history of falls, going back to 2005:

Secretary Clinton is over 65, and she has had multiple falls (in 2005 [ed note – she fainted onstage supposedly due to a flu virus], 2009, and 2011, and 2012 [ed note – fainted supposedly due to a stomach virus]); the 2009 fall resulting in a broken elbow and the last one resulting in a concussion.

And those are only the falls we heard about in the news because she needed a hospital trip. She could have been goosed, frozen up like a log, and keeled over fifty more times. Her staff could say something suddenly and see a seizure per day for all we know. If it didn’t require hospitalization, you can bet we’d never hear about it.

No word how Roger Stone plans to exploit this, though I’ll bet he will find a way to keep Hillary awake and angry the night before the debate (such as with loud music at a raucous party near her bedroom, probably with lots of young buxom lasses for good measure), and he may organize all sorts of amygdala stimulants in the crowd the night of the debate. If you like to play down and dirty, the opportunities this offers are endless.

Something major is up with Hillary. We will hear about it after the election, as campaign workers desperately look to pass the blame for why their campaign for a “clearly superior candidate,” as the liberals will say, lost out to a political newcomer who was constantly making the mistake of speaking honestly and saying what he thought.

I suspect it will be like the John Kerry campaign workers who, after Kerry’s loss, were bitching about Teresa Heinz Kerry’s periodic stress-triggered ailments that caused her to miss campaign events. (She was subsequently felled by a Grand Mal Seizure recently, possibly a portent of what awaits Hillary in the future as this amygdala hyper-reactivity progresses.)

Regardless, when the blame-fest begins after Hillary loses, the truth will be outed.