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I'm not a doctor but for purposes of living in the day to day world I find it necessary
to learn as much as I can about the people around me to find the best way that I can communicate with them in my everyday life.
In everyday life people are people and aren't disorders but make choices according to the experiences they have in life.Though many people process information differently for various reasons like memories,drug abuse,environment and ect.
Though I don't believe in the labeling system of traditional medicine I adhere to the pleasure and pain view point and believe that all humans respond according to
pleasure or pain and the anticipation and/or the the remembrance thereof,lack thereof or combination thereof or flooding thereof.
Fear is the anticipation of pain where as hope and optimism is the anticipation pleasure.Remorse is the remembrance of pain where as nostalgia is the remembrance of pleasure.
ect.
These are the dynamics of depression,bipolar manic depression,anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder translated into the pleasure and pain view point.Though they are expressed differently they all have the same root cause
Fear leads to anxiety and anxiety leads to depression.Depression leads to aggression and/or
despair and aggression and/or despair leads to violence against others or against self
and can also lead to destructive behavior.
In our daily lives we are faced hundreds of choices and for some even thousands of choices
but these choices are effected in a more holistic manner.
For example let's consider epinephrine response mechanics given in a scenario.
A man goes to his best friends wedding and he's upset.He has no idea why he's upset
but then quickly realizes that the last time he had this level of excitement was
when he was in a terrible auto accident and was covered with the blood and insides
of one of his friends.This event had been seared into his mind maybe forever or at
least until he can replace it with good memories.After he realized that he was being
effected by the neuro synaptic connections flooded with adrenalin and epinephrine
he is able to explain his feelings to other people more adequately and thus is able to do things to take his mind off these memories like calculating three times the square root of
phi or doing ninja flips.Why not?Though not everyone has the ability to explain why they
feel how they feel or for that matter to do ninja flips and calculate three times the
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