This form of irrational disability is defined as the application of patterns of thought derived from a different time context in childhood, which becomes seriously out-of-date and damaging in adult life. Here we appear to be acting and thinking in an entirely rational manner, in a way which would be entirely appropriate and realistic were we still children, which we are not. Dissociation caused by this form of irrationality has to be addressed for emotional maturity. How is it to be grown in the application of the ten stages, when this happens in these stages the needs and actions of the child are met and the dissociation evaporate entirely.
A trustworthy bond is built up to empower the acquisition of a new rational mind.But first we need to acknowledge the irrational childhood mind in a place of safety, then communicate it, allow it to be acknowledged and so examine its out of date rationality, to value its survival mechanisms and in Stages build in a sense of redundancy. Every single mental condition from anorexia to psychosis, from self-harm to psychopathy shows the same underlying pathology, and response. It’s as if every sufferer from mental symptoms is going through adult life as if they were still a child, and indeed an unwanted child at that. Once given adequate support, via the Stages, and enough gentler persuasion that today is vastly safer than yesterday, then the Stages can offer a gentle positive solution, provided we finish the ten stage course.
The mind has long been an organ of socialising – the most important of all human organs. We need it to keep tabs on our ever expanding social networks, which can become formidably complicated, as befits a species whose sole defence and chances of survival are entirely dependent on its ability to socialise successfully.That is why we exist on facebook and this blog.
Acknowledging fear or in its extreme form, a childhood terror, as the obvious mental problem is essential for better recovery. When terrified there is a tendency to stop thinking straight – panic takes over, and rationality leaves. And greatly to our initial astonishment, many adults still do view the world through perspectives driven deeply into them in their childhood. These have become software problems, not hardware, and are amenable, given adequate time and course work at the Stages, to be emotionally educate, in such a delicate gentle way that no scar need be left from earlier childhood injuries. Remember that what looks like an adult is really a child in disguise
We have been born Lovable, Sociable and Non-Violent,. Our violent behaviour towards ourselves in the form of addictions is most definitely not genetic, nor is it an illness, disease or any other form of escapist nonsense . We can discharge with gentle redundancy our infantile burdens, and become self violence free.
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