Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2019 23:39:59 GMT
Mental Health
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One schizophrenic high school student whose mother just left home, partially returned to age 18 months when she left him at that time. His means of getting her to pick him up during infancy was to have a smelly diaper. His later symptoms were the same. He did not become overtly delusional, but his affect was flat and the stench from unclean underwear was so strong that no one could sit next to him.
Each symptom such as this needs correct interpretation until the patient has good understanding and comprehension of his illness. With schizophrenia of very early origin, interpretation can be more difficult since rigidity, concrete thinking and inflexibility are greater at earlier ages. More of the interpretations have to be made when the person is not in the acute state. To achieve positive results with the more disturbed, the total separation from family is absolutely essential otherwise there will not be sufficient return to the adult brain to allow for insight and recovery.
... every time an initial psychosis occurs, it’s when the most important person in someone’s life separates from him or her. It can be separation or rejection. And the reason the original separation during infancy is so traumatic is because for as long as mammals have populated the earth, separation from mother has meant death. It’s more overwhelming for a baby to experience that than war trauma to a soldier. Then it just takes a subsequent separation from another very important person in their life to reactivate the process.
_My finding is that the mind focuses on the point in time where there is the most extreme threat to survival. If that moment is a life-threat in the present, the patient automatically might shift from infant reality (psychosis) to adult mind / brain / reality, and thereby come out of an acute psychosis.
_In France during the war the asylum doors were opened and patients told: “The Germans are coming and they are going to kill you.” Many of the regressed schizophrenic patients reportedly shifted immediately to the adult mind / brain / reality and responded appropriately.
_When Gary Heidnik, who chained six women in the basement of a small row house because he wanted babies, was captured and taken to prison, he immediately returned from his bizarre infant reality to adult mind / brain / reality because other inmates tried to kill him.
_One recovered patient with schizophrenia described his means of preventing movement back into “dreamland” reality: He would mount a fast horse and race through the woods, hanging on for dear life. That brought him out of the infant mind / brain / reality and right into that of the adult.
... The Gripe is the obvious problem that keeps happening. You’re aware of it, you complain about it and you may have tried really hard to get rid of it. It’s your “conscious first suffering”.
_Bob’s Gripe: “In my baseball social league on the weekends, when I’m at bat, looking at the pitcher winding up, I get really anxious and completely lock up.”
Although we don’t know it at first, The Gripe has the protective purpose of keeping you safely far away from:
_The Superthreat is the thing that doesn’t happen. It’s much worse than The Gripe and you’ll do anything to avoid it because it’s so bad. Initially, you won’t be aware of it. It’s what is really controlling us. We think The Gripe is controlling us, but, in fact, we control The Gripe so The Superthreat doesn’t. It’s your “unconscious second suffering”.
_Bob’s Superthreat: “When I was a boy learning to play baseball, my Dad was always there. When I was a teenager, my Dad had a heart attack in the shower and I had to break the bathroom door down. He died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. If I had got to him fast enough, he would still be alive.”
_When you find The Superthreat, you can write down:
_The Bingo is a statement that sticks these two together. It’s an emotional truth that always makes sense, even if it’s not rational and even if you don’t like it. It acknowledges the choice you are faced with.
_Freezing up at baseball kept Bob safe from failing to save his Dad’s life:
_When you see the emotional logic of the worse choice you avoid, you gain more control over everything.
The Gripe is easy to find because it’s what you experience:
... The Superthreat might not be easy to access at first and can be difficult to find by yourself. Superthreats are supergood at hiding because they’re unconscious.
... The Bingo is a written statement which describes how you are faced with a choice between The Gripe and The Superthreat. It’s:
_Hot (powerful, ever-present, instantly recognisable when you think about it), and
_True (feels deeply, viscerally accurate, even though you may not like it), and
_Irrational (unreasonable, childlike understanding, black and white reasoning, life and death, always and never, everyone and no one, good and evil, must and must not, accusatory, judgemental, even ridiculously absurd).
_What to do:
_Write down various statements.
_Find the most hot, most true, most irrational one.
_Make it as short as possible while remaining completely emotionally true.
_You’ll know when you’ve found it when you read it and go “Bingo! That makes sense and feels completely true.”
_Being angry kept Harry safe from being lonely and abandoned:
_Harry’s Bingo: “I can react to my best buddy as he is or I can react to being reminded of what I can never have.”
My #1 Gripe:
over-reacting when GF makes disagreeable statements about me.
My Superthreat:
supposing that I'm worthless or unlovable if I don't defend myself.
My Bingo:
choosing between over-reacting and feeling worthless/unlovable.
My #2 Gripe:
being in unpleasant discussions.
#2 Superthreat:
feeling like I'm irresponsible.
#2 Bingo:
choosing between unpleasant discussions and feeling irresponsible/worthless.
If you find your bingo and write it down and inhabit it for a while and nothing changes, you’ll need to operate on The Superthreat directly and/or experience a targeted limbic update.
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One schizophrenic high school student whose mother just left home, partially returned to age 18 months when she left him at that time. His means of getting her to pick him up during infancy was to have a smelly diaper. His later symptoms were the same. He did not become overtly delusional, but his affect was flat and the stench from unclean underwear was so strong that no one could sit next to him.
Each symptom such as this needs correct interpretation until the patient has good understanding and comprehension of his illness. With schizophrenia of very early origin, interpretation can be more difficult since rigidity, concrete thinking and inflexibility are greater at earlier ages. More of the interpretations have to be made when the person is not in the acute state. To achieve positive results with the more disturbed, the total separation from family is absolutely essential otherwise there will not be sufficient return to the adult brain to allow for insight and recovery.
... every time an initial psychosis occurs, it’s when the most important person in someone’s life separates from him or her. It can be separation or rejection. And the reason the original separation during infancy is so traumatic is because for as long as mammals have populated the earth, separation from mother has meant death. It’s more overwhelming for a baby to experience that than war trauma to a soldier. Then it just takes a subsequent separation from another very important person in their life to reactivate the process.
_My finding is that the mind focuses on the point in time where there is the most extreme threat to survival. If that moment is a life-threat in the present, the patient automatically might shift from infant reality (psychosis) to adult mind / brain / reality, and thereby come out of an acute psychosis.
_In France during the war the asylum doors were opened and patients told: “The Germans are coming and they are going to kill you.” Many of the regressed schizophrenic patients reportedly shifted immediately to the adult mind / brain / reality and responded appropriately.
_When Gary Heidnik, who chained six women in the basement of a small row house because he wanted babies, was captured and taken to prison, he immediately returned from his bizarre infant reality to adult mind / brain / reality because other inmates tried to kill him.
_One recovered patient with schizophrenia described his means of preventing movement back into “dreamland” reality: He would mount a fast horse and race through the woods, hanging on for dear life. That brought him out of the infant mind / brain / reality and right into that of the adult.
... The Gripe is the obvious problem that keeps happening. You’re aware of it, you complain about it and you may have tried really hard to get rid of it. It’s your “conscious first suffering”.
_Bob’s Gripe: “In my baseball social league on the weekends, when I’m at bat, looking at the pitcher winding up, I get really anxious and completely lock up.”
Although we don’t know it at first, The Gripe has the protective purpose of keeping you safely far away from:
_The Superthreat is the thing that doesn’t happen. It’s much worse than The Gripe and you’ll do anything to avoid it because it’s so bad. Initially, you won’t be aware of it. It’s what is really controlling us. We think The Gripe is controlling us, but, in fact, we control The Gripe so The Superthreat doesn’t. It’s your “unconscious second suffering”.
_Bob’s Superthreat: “When I was a boy learning to play baseball, my Dad was always there. When I was a teenager, my Dad had a heart attack in the shower and I had to break the bathroom door down. He died in the ambulance on the way to hospital. If I had got to him fast enough, he would still be alive.”
_When you find The Superthreat, you can write down:
_The Bingo is a statement that sticks these two together. It’s an emotional truth that always makes sense, even if it’s not rational and even if you don’t like it. It acknowledges the choice you are faced with.
_Freezing up at baseball kept Bob safe from failing to save his Dad’s life:
_When you see the emotional logic of the worse choice you avoid, you gain more control over everything.
The Gripe is easy to find because it’s what you experience:
... The Superthreat might not be easy to access at first and can be difficult to find by yourself. Superthreats are supergood at hiding because they’re unconscious.
... The Bingo is a written statement which describes how you are faced with a choice between The Gripe and The Superthreat. It’s:
_Hot (powerful, ever-present, instantly recognisable when you think about it), and
_True (feels deeply, viscerally accurate, even though you may not like it), and
_Irrational (unreasonable, childlike understanding, black and white reasoning, life and death, always and never, everyone and no one, good and evil, must and must not, accusatory, judgemental, even ridiculously absurd).
_What to do:
_Write down various statements.
_Find the most hot, most true, most irrational one.
_Make it as short as possible while remaining completely emotionally true.
_You’ll know when you’ve found it when you read it and go “Bingo! That makes sense and feels completely true.”
_Being angry kept Harry safe from being lonely and abandoned:
_Harry’s Bingo: “I can react to my best buddy as he is or I can react to being reminded of what I can never have.”
My #1 Gripe:
over-reacting when GF makes disagreeable statements about me.
My Superthreat:
supposing that I'm worthless or unlovable if I don't defend myself.
My Bingo:
choosing between over-reacting and feeling worthless/unlovable.
My #2 Gripe:
being in unpleasant discussions.
#2 Superthreat:
feeling like I'm irresponsible.
#2 Bingo:
choosing between unpleasant discussions and feeling irresponsible/worthless.
If you find your bingo and write it down and inhabit it for a while and nothing changes, you’ll need to operate on The Superthreat directly and/or experience a targeted limbic update.