PRESERVING THE PERSONALITY

Defining the personality shows us mental illness is really a functional adaptation that safeguards one's evaluative integrity. An individual's ability to evaluate his environment effectively and confidently from his individual capacities and faculties is his biological purpose. How we evaluate and understand information reflects outwardly as our personality. Anxiety happens when one's evaluative mechanisms are compromised or threatened. Every individual evaluates differently, so standards of "normal" personality development cannot be utilized to diagnose so-called personality disorders. When we require our children to make sense of information in ways that make sense to our capacities and faculties, we compromise and threaten their evaluative integrity. Biologically purposeful adaptations that look to an observer like mental illness are easy to prevent....

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Biology vs. Insanity

I believe our biology has all the answers for what we now call mental health problems. Contrary to what we now perceive, these answers are amazingly straightforward and clear. This is because the path to optimizing the human mammal's personality is laid out for us by the dictates of our biology. 

Historically we have made up arbitrary notions of what constitutes mental health and we work backwards trying to "help" people comply to these ideals. However, the human mammal comes fully equipped to engage in a direct experience with his environment by analyzing information and make predictions moment to moment in ways that make sense to his unique senses, thoughts, instincts, and behaviors. 
  
We can only analyze how we can analyze according to our 100 percent unique nervous system that includes billions of interactions per thought. We cannot replicate how somebody else processes and analyzes information when there are billions of interactions going on in our nervous system every second.  When we have to conform or comply to achieve behavioral or personality ideals because they make sense to others or to standards, our personalities cannot engage inside of us the way they are suppose to. The reason we see the so called personality disorders in our society is because we are all forced to engage in the world in ways that make sense to other people and/or the standards in vogue.  

Some people manage to adapt to this backwards orientation, some people simply cannot do this, thus seem "disordered." Furthermore, we are wired to protect how we analyze with every cell of our body and brain. The true cause of all kinds of insanity, I am convinced, occurs when people are forced to engage in the world in ways that make zero sense from their vantage point. They are literally forced to operate blind in many ways. They either suffer constant humiliation for how they think and act in the world because it is so different than the people around them, or slip into an alternate reality (insanity) in which they can have control over how they interpret. 

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