Braid chopping in Kashmir: It is not the Army for God Sake, read the truth here
I could vaguely elicit some history of childhood trauma...
Recommended Video
There is a great deal of panic among the people of Jammu and Kashmir following incidents of braid cutting. Earlier this week, a 70 year old man died after he was beaten with a brick on the suspicion that he was a braid chopper.
There are youth out on the streets of Jammu and Kashmir keeping a vigil to foil any attempt of braid cutting. What is the truth behind braid cutting? Dr Jawad Nasir Ahmad of the Resident Government Medical College, Srinagar explains this syndrome. HIs findings were endorsed by Dr Bilal Ahmad Bhat, Registrar, Department of Psychiatry Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Science Kashmir Government Medical College, Srinagar.
"I was very curious about the cause of braid cutting and therefore , to know better, today I examined few braid cut victims near my vicinity in Shopian. I also retrospectively studied many cases at other places outside the state. What I noticed is astonishing. I only was left mesmerised by complexity of human psychology. First thing that made me suspect of a psychogenic origin was that earlier a woman outside complained of braid chopping three times on different ocassions (why wd a braidchopper choose same woman three times if there are 3.5 billion women to choose,hence something else let us see)."
Second, people in different regions were assigning different causal factors to it according to their own prevelant local beliefs. In Rajisthan, it was a Chudail who did it(an old woman was even lynched to death !!) .People even showed injury marks of Chudail's Trishul. In UP it was some Tantric gang .In Delhi outskirts women complained of crows turning into dreadful braid choppers.. When it reached Kashmir it was already declining in other northern parts. However prevelant beleif here was less of a supersitious nature more a political overtone--from a distrust of system.
They
blammed
unknown
agencies
(including
me
earlier)-
famous
for
doing
infamous
deeds.
Earlier
when
only
Biharis
and
other
dark
skinned
were
blamed
only
they
were
caught
red
handed.
When
Army
theory
became
popular
people
started
to
see
uniformed
men
chopping
the
hair...
Ok
after
examing
I
saw
following
patterns.
Victims
at
the
time
of
scene
were
alone
.They
were
already
fearful
,
very
tense
and
in
a
frightened
state
of
mind
about
something
might
happen..
Hair
cuts
are
a
kind
of
dextrous
in
nature
on
reachable
parts,
indicating
of
self
chopping.
Hair
chopping
is
not
of
mutilating
degree
in
none
of
these
;
that
i
mean
all
over
head
like
an
assailant
may
like
to
cut;but
mostly
over
reachable
terminal
parts
are
cut.
Marks
of
struggle
or
other
injuries
are
absent
!
History
of
unconciousness
is
inconsistent
with
any
chemical
use.
In
some
cases
scissors
etc
have
been
recovered
near
by
.
Description
of
attacker
is
rather
vague
in
each
case.changing
with
cross
examination
and
likely
borrowed
from
deep
internal
beleifs.
They
are
giving
some
indications
of
underlying
phobic
or
hysterical
symptoms
in
past.
I
could
vaguely
elicit
some
history
of
childhood
trauma...
Now with all though I can say beyond doubt that it is all mass hysterical on collective level but On individual level it is very complex.. I can underline following sequential pattern on Individual level...
First stage: Victim is falls in an extremily fearful state of mind in Isolation
Second stage: Victim's vision seems to get blurred
Third stage: History wise Victim goes into Dissociative State. she assumes a false identity ,probably takes identity of her concieved attacker.and in this dissociative state cut off her hair with the help her over own tools latter also cover things up.Also she hears herself of her own struggling.
Fourth stage: After this victims seem to goes into sort of catharsis and finnaly lands in conversion and falls unconscious.
Fifth
stage:
Comes
out
of
conversion
state
and
bursts
out
crying
seeing
her
own
hair
chopped
off...
With
all
this
I
dont
rule
out
everything
else,
but
invite
reasearch
from
experts
in
the
field
to
look
further
in
this..
What government needs to do is to immediately censor all news related to it. A media hype only serves to ingnite it.Media persons are requested not to post this kind stuff. I am sure this all will stop after there is no progation of rumours and unscientific news. Telling people truth and giving cognition to masses is utmost important.
OneIndia News