Airline Pilot Central Forums - PSA Derangement Syndrome

PSA Derangement Syndrome ("P.S.A.D.S.")

The PSA Derangement classification is the most common syndrome that presents clinically in the APC Regional Forum. Its hallmark is its acute, irrational, unnecessary, and usually unsubstantiated sensitivity and reflexive vitriolic response to anything related to or ascribed to PSA Airline pilots, whether real or imagined. When certain regional airline grievances are aired by non-PSA pilots, based in reality or implied innuendo, the symptoms and irrational vitriol become increasingly more intense.

It is not uncommon for patients who suffer from P.S.A.D.S. to experience an unhealthy preoccupation with the mere existence of PSA Airlines and/or their pilots, leading to rapid mental irritation and instability, illusions of grandeur, illusions of increased self-righteousness, misguided indignation, and reduction in their abilities to cope with the mere existence of PSA Airlines (a wholly-owned subsidiary of AAG) and/or their pilots. Treatment for the patient with P.S.A.D.S, as with the postural and dysfunction syndromes, is directly guided by the patient's response to these provocative assessment ideations and may be deemed wholly ineffective or devoid of clinically available corrective or remedial action.
Conclusion

While not all patients are successfully treated by Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy exercise, it could be strongly argued that all patients with PSA Derangement Syndrome may find significant relief of their symptoms by simply letting it go! Alternatively, successful remediation has been observed by redirecting the P.S.A.D.S. patient's anger at A.L.P.A., A.A.G., Doug Parker, Gerard Arpy, Jerry Adkin, Brian Bedford, or others who have played integral and active roles in preserving the "whipsaw". Failure to find a mechanical component to the patient's pain, anger, anxiety, and irrational keyboard commandoing is a significant finding, in that it is as important to know for whom McKenzie exercises or deceased equine physical assault therapies, (a.k.a. "beating a dead horse"), will be successful and those for whom they will not.