THE BRAIN, EMOTIONAL TRAUMA, PSYCHOSIS The reason emotional trauma is so problem

THE BRAIN, EMOTIONAL TRAUMA, PSYCHOSIS

The reason emotional trauma is so problematic for the brain, is that we develop procedural (neural pathway) means of circumventing the traumatized memories. If we could block access to them (right now we can only block conversion of them into long term memory) then we could avoid having to create ‘agents’ to circumvent them.

Unfortunately, later traumas that are physical, pharmaceutical, or emotional, can damage the agent, leaving the remaining brain fewer pathways to work with.

We see for example, in people with incremental (slow, cumulative) brain damage, that the brain can pretty amazingly compensate for loss of almost everything except the brain stem.

But physical loss we grow around is not affected by later traumas that we have not lost, only created an immunity response to.

So over time the mind is consistently occupied by the maintenance of these firewalls, and then when the individual resorts to drugs for relief, the brain’s only alternative is psychosis.

Meaning there is no calculative means of discovering a stable (peaceful and low energy) state.

And we cannot maintain such a state any more than we can go without sleep, indefinitely.