Proposing a “fight response” treatment as a cure for what we have called mental illness
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The connect is… those who go through the experience in a benign environment — that is to say, without stigmatizing labels, drugs, or forced care that seeks to stifle the emerging content — in those individuals, the emerging content itself begins to coalesce into a pattern that looks remarkably like The Hero’s Journey.
“The fight response gets rid of the internal component which decreases self-regulation of memes — belief in the system — and the brain is left to deal with the external component — legal coercion — and has improved its mental health. (3) “
“The fact that the old psychiatry seemed to miss is that obedience is the disease, and the diagnoses of the DSM just symptoms. The new psychiatry should not be about stabilizing obedience but instead about curing it. The focus on a new psychiatry should be to purge the mind of infectious and coercive mediation, and to treat the fear anxiety that gets in the way of self-determination. “
“The new psychiatry is a code of ethic for treating the fight and flight symptoms that we call mental illness. The model defines mental illness as obedience to coercion, and follows up with that the only possible treatment for obedience is self-determination. “
“Selfishness activates executive frontal lobe functions and self-regulation, and engages the parts of the brain that are diminished during episodes of obedience. Fighting coercion can have two outcomes: Either the subject wins and conquers the system, or they internalize why they must force themselves to accept the coercion. Both outcomes increase longevity compared to passive obedience. “
