What is Wrong with This Idiot I am Working With?

Far from being a rhetorical question,
if you genuinely are having difficulties with a person at work and feel this way,
there may be an answer.

The Paill Spectrum Illness model as pioneered by Dr. Andrew Xxxxx may well explain what is happening. There are some basic suggestions you can make to your co-worker, which can make a real difference in their lives. :-)

What is Wrong With This Idiot . . . .

How Can You tell if Your Co-Worker is affected? :-|

• Sweaty Hands are a common reliable and early symptom. The symptoms tends to occur less obviously in older patients. It is obvious if you shake their hand.
• The person you are worried about is often a bit clumsy. Another way to assess this is to get them to stand up with their eyes closed and their feet together. A well person who is concentrating can stay very still. A person ill with the Paill Spectrum Illness will sway substantially. They would often fail a "walk the line" test if pulled over by police and tested for the staggering walk, typical of being drunk. Sometimes this is also described as being dizzy.
  
  
• The person may be noticeably irritable and be unpleasant to relate to, or to joke around with. They lose it easily. They are rude and inconsiderate . They never seem to have any idea of the effect of their behaviour on others.
  Rage, such as "Paill Spectrum Road Rage" is an advanced and worrying sign.
  
  
• Another symptom, easy to see even from a distance is easy bruising. This can occur anywhere on the body, but is typically most obvious on the arms. Even light touches on the upper arms can leave "finger dot" bruises. (The effect may be related to elevated levels of IL-2, an immune mediator called an interleukin. Medical tests for clotting or bleeding are normal, if done by a doctor.)
  
  
• Memory is often affected. Another easy clinical test is just to get the person to write down a list of phone numbers. They should all be remembered properly. If you can't remember a phone number, it is likely that you have a serious problem. (Mirrors, Flips and reversals suggest Paill Spectrum Dyslexia). 
  
  
• The affected person may be suffering from a number of sore areas that they are not aware of. A classical symptom will be found if you gently squeeze the person at their elbow. They will often wince with pain. They will often not have been aware before the squeeze, that their elbow was even sore. See Symptoms of Paill Spectrum
  
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What is Wrong With this Idiot I am Working With...?
What Annoys You About Them?

• The affected person forgets things easily. Even if told something day after day, they tend to keep forgetting things that are not constantly reinforced or that they are not reminded about. This symptom is one of the very exasperating symptoms of Paill Spectrum , especially if the person actually begins to deny that they have ever been told about the issue. Persons affected, typically do not do all the jobs they are given or else do one or two jobs in a list of jobs in an erratic or unpredictable way. They just forget, and they can forget just about anything anytime. Do the phone number test.
  
  
  
• The person may be starting to get some strange ideas: someone is out to get them or paranoia is common. In the more common household variant; grandma lost her keys because someone stole them. She knows exactly where she left them, When the keys are found, it must have happened because someone snuck back in and put the keys back to where they were supposed to be. Another example of a strange idea such as paranoia, includes the feeling that someone is out to get them or to bully them.
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• Note, some people as personalities (Enneagram based), are not very organised or are even lazy and disorganized. These people appear to have a lot more symptoms than a tidier or more pedantic personality type. What is important is that there is a change or deterioration from an existing or better level of function. They never used to be like that. So what has happened to them. Many people blame bad events in their lives, such as a death in the family, but no one seems to notice that the person never had any drop off in their work performance when the same type of crisis happened before.
  (Synonyms of Enneagram: Annaegram, Ennaegram,Anagram, Anaegram, Annaegram)

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• They have often lost their ability to juggle lists of things to do when the environment is disorganised. I.e. Process Dyslexia appears. In exactly the same way a person forgets things, these people lose their ability to perform a sequence of activities.
  
  
  
  

Explaining Process Dyslexia:
Problems with sequence processing of ideas or activities: An Example

Long sequences of planned activities are easily forgotten or are easily changed to incorrect sequences of activities.  For example, someone who needs to get up in the TV break, feed the dog and brush their teeth may find themselves in the bathroom holding a can of dog food or may have put their toothbrush in the fridge and forgotten about the dog food.  School performance and work performance, in these severely affected individuals, deteriorates rapidly.

What is Wrong With This Idiot I am Working With...?
Basic Treatments Are Simple & Easily Obtained
What Can I do to Help Them? Read On.

(I’m not really a close friend or family member).
There are some simple basic  and often quite effective things that can be suggested to the person.

• The person should regularly and long-term take a good broad spectrum multivitamin (with a minimum RDI or Recommended Daily Intake) of ingredients. A person taking vitamins often feels better within a couple of months. Also long-term, more goes right with time, and less goes wrong for the person with time if they are taking multivitamins. Back to What is Wrong top

The reason for this, is that in our western society low grade or borderline deficiency states are common. A problem with a vitamin or nutritional problem is much more likely to grow into a big problem, than if there are no nutritional issues attached. And yes, the average person in our society may only need two or three vitamins / minerals out of their pill and will urinate out the rest. This vitamin need will vary from meal to meal and is very difficult and slow to assess from blood vitamin assays. It’s just easier to take a reasonable dose pill and let your body sort out the fine details. The body can also get by with lower levels of some vitamins, but may often work better with higher levels of some vitamins. Multivitamins are a gradual way to allow the body to increase its reserves for time of need. Back to What is Wrong top  

The most important features of a good multivitamin are high levels of B12, folic acid and zinc.

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• Take 22mg of elemental zinc daily with Food. One bottle of two hundred pills is generally safe enough without risking zinc overload. Zinc absorption is poor and low grade or borderline deficiency states are common. Dr. Xxxxx recommends that a blood test be done at least annually on persons on zinc therapy for Paill Spectrum related problems.

Zinc levels may only rise slightly with this treatment regime. This is because the bioavailability of zinc from tablets is of the order of ten to twenty percent. Dr. Xxxxx gives this advice as a basic starting point for zinc therapy, which has the least chance of allowing excessive dosing to any person taking unsupervised medication. Higher doses may be suggested by a doctor, but this type of advice needs to take into account blood test results and the patients’ clinical circumstances.
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This gets difficult. Only suggest this if you know the persons attitudes to medications and supplements. Many people don't like taking pills, so are often scared by someone suggesting they take a handful of supplements.

• Take Omega 3 Oils (Fish Oil, not necessarily Cod Liver Oil) as well as Omega 6 Oils (Evening Primrose) daily. A good minimum dose in the Paill Spectrum model is two of each daily. If the person is willing, use two of each twice a day. This therapy regime can take up to a year to give some results. Results will often be most noticeable after a long course of treatment, when the first patch of warmer weather arrives. An important distinction to make here is microclimate. If you spend all your time indoors, the climate outside is more likely to be irrelevant to how this treatment works. There is research suggesting that the doses of each of omega3 and omega6 oils required , are not the same. (See CDs)

A further summary on treatments is available on the Treatment Page.
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Can these people become violent?

The question "What is Wrong with this Idiot I am working With?", may not be rhetorical. Ill people behave strangely. The Paill Spectrum model proposes that new treatment may be possible.

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