Re: What Medications Can Really Do For Mental Disorders In Reality

The fundamental ideas about how psychological wellness and mental illness are initiated are generally erroneous. Let me explain.

Let's start with heredity, and a set of identical twins, who have the same set of genes. Superimposed on that are each of their experiences in the environment. Now every tiny intellectual and emotional experience inside them is subject to a corresponding chemical reaction from hormones, amino acids, enzymes and other chemical and food-initiated changes inside their bodies. So, those identical twins, even if they were raised together in what seems to us to be the very exact same environment, turn out surprisingly different in personality and behavior. In fact then, they can now be defined as separate and completely distinct chemical human beings, emotionally, socially, behaviorally, intellectually, and in every other way, based on the chemical development over time which took place inside their physical bodies.

Now let's say the result of the twins' upbringing is that one of them turns out "normal" and the other turns out "mentally ill", which is actually what happens quite often. The "mentally ill" one can turn out to be anorexic, phobic, obsessive-compulsive, depressive, even schizophrenic, or any other category of mental illness. How can we explain this? The most likely answer is that the imbalanced personality, which can be attributed to imbalanced chemistry or a "chemical imbalance", is the result of experiences that created a chemical environment internally that is negative or noxious, and has had a disturbing effect on the individual. The result is a personality structure and behavior that are out of line with the rest of us, and in particular, that compare very negatively to the identical twin sibling.

Chemically and emotionally speaking then, what were these negative experiences that led to the internal "imbalance"? Naturally, they are different for everyone in terms of the real events. However, they are the same in that they all give rise to Anxiety. Picture electrical impulses going through your body and head like a lightening rod every time an anxiety-provoking situation arises, such as someone hitting you or accosting you verbally, people around you fighting, or as a child, not getting the love or attention that you want from your parents, which makes you sad and angry. There are also a multitude of internal Anxiety-provoking emotional reactions that are conjured up normally inside all of us, like jealousy, hatred, disappointment, dejection, sadness, self-hatred, and many more. When the Anxiety from all these sources keeps bombarding us physically and mentally, not only does it raise our hormones, but it leads to changes in the way that our body and mind respond, changing our emotional and mental appearance. If the Anxiety goes as far as to overwhelm us, we begin to lose control of our thoughts and behaviors. We just "can't help it" any longer, and fall prey to the effects of the Anxiety that begins to dominate our life.

From here, we develop "symptoms", which are really the combination of (1)personality features and (2) behaviors that identify each of us as individuals. We become depressed, have angry outbursts, develop phobias and fears or other aberrations, and become subject to labeling or "diagnosis" through psychiatry. Sure, meds have an effect. But they don't change the underlying chemical structures, which are already deeply entrenched in the mind and body due to the experiences of the past. They only mask, cover up and dull the thoughts and memories that have led to the present personality and behavioral make-up.

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