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This sort of thing is taught to school children in China, but completely foreign to Western audiences. We might test if these associations vary across cultures.

This sort of thing is taught to school children in China, but completely foreign to Western audiences. We might test if these associations vary across cultures. Might Chinese people smoke more yet have a lower incidence of psychosis?

loceng 11y ago
You also have to look at the person's beginning state of health - all aspects of their health, not just physical and some general overview of emotional/mental state. Perhaps knowing the differences of how they approach health-concerns is important as well - even looking at their diet. I don't know of any tests that would adequately determine the holistic health of someone. You have to define what health means as well. Psychological flexibility is a term that may come into the mainstream more in the future - the ability for the mind to be more fluid between states; all-or-nothing thinking vs. "I'm happy and sad [at the same time]." Perhaps psychoactives lead to expanding the capabilities of ones' mind, expanding ones' ability to think, creating new connections - which includes opening up their creativity. If there is some block, whether it is a coping mechanism or other, then what happens when a coping mechanism in a brain that's been developing further for a decade or longer with that mechanism in place - and then you change the environment suddenly? Whatever that coping mechanism was helping you cope with is all of the sudden potentially broken or removed -- what will happen to the rest of the systems and pathways? Many systems will potentially all of a sudden experience something they never have experienced before - perhaps with schizophrenia being on the extreme side of fluidity of mental energy being more rigid - so certain systems shutdown and become rigid and which would be on a spectrum of rigidness of course. Neural pathways will have a normal rate of connecting throughout the brain, all of the sudden changing that will cause unexpected connections. Some of those connections could have been missing because of the coping mechanisms that were in place. Most coping mechanisms protect from perceived emotional pain or physical pain and are learned because "I did X and felt Y - so I will no longer do X [or keep it in my awareness, e.g. conditioning]" - which where the understanding could be wrong. This would put a person more in all-or-nothing thinking instead of a fluid state that having more than 1 possibility in your mind would allow for. Perhaps it is certain thinking structures are learned as rigid then this will evolve into problems, and depending on which and how many structures are more rigid will determine what issues they will have and how severe they impact behaviour. It could be genetic for what thinking structures are possible or it could a coping mechanism from whatever situation occurred. Autism for example can be seen as a developmental delay or block, and depending where one is at on the spectrum, different therapies can have a substantial impact on unlocking the developmental block and allowing the child/person to continue their natural development evolution.

loceng 11y ago

You also have to look at the person's beginning state of health - all aspects of their health, not just physical and some general overview of emotional/mental state. Perhaps knowing the differences of how they approach health-concerns is important as well - even looking at their diet. I don't know of any tests that would adequately determine the holistic health of someone. You have to define what health means as well. Psychological flexibility is a term that may come into the mainstream more in the future - the ability for the mind to be more fluid between states; all-or-nothing thinking vs. "I'm happy and sad [at the same time]." Perhaps psychoactives lead to expanding the capabilities of ones' mind, expanding ones' ability to think, creating new connections - which includes opening up their creativity. If there is some block, whether it is a coping mechanism or other, then what happens when a coping mechanism in a brain that's been developing further for a decade or longer with that mechanism in place - and then you change the environment suddenly? Whatever that coping mechanism was helping you cope with is all of the sudden potentially broken or removed -- what will happen to the rest of the systems and pathways? Many systems will potentially all of a sudden experience something they never have experienced before - perhaps with schizophrenia being on the extreme side of fluidity of mental energy being more rigid - so certain systems shutdown and become rigid and which would be on a spectrum of rigidness of course. Neural pathways will have a normal rate of connecting throughout the brain, all of the sudden changing that will cause unexpected connections. Some of those connections could have been missing because of the coping mechanisms that were in place. Most coping mechanisms protect from perceived emotional pain or physical pain and are learned because "I did X and felt Y - so I will no longer do X [or keep it in my awareness, e.g. conditioning]" - which where the understanding could be wrong. This would put a person more in all-or-nothing thinking instead of a fluid state that having more than 1 possibility in your mind would allow for. Perhaps it is certain thinking structures are learned as rigid then this will evolve into problems, and depending on which and how many structures are more rigid will determine what issues they will have and how severe they impact behaviour. It could be genetic for what thinking structures are possible or it could a coping mechanism from whatever situation occurred. Autism for example can be seen as a developmental delay or block, and depending where one is at on the spectrum, different therapies can have a substantial impact on unlocking the developmental block and allowing the child/person to continue their natural development evolution.