Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- .This section is about neurosis. Topics include: ( ) Catharsis. ( ) Neurosis. ( ) Repression. --- 1/24/2006
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Catharsis through low entertainment (crying at cheesy movies) is not real catharsis. Catharsis through understanding (high art) is real catharsis. --- 03/15/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Catharsis. (1) Immediate vs. later. (2) Partial vs. complete. (3) Confrontation and acknowledgment. (4) Resolution: in mind and in behavior. (5) Understanding and expression. (6) Total instant catharsis at cause to get justice. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Catharsis. All catharsis increases pleasure. Not all pleasure increases catharsis. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Catharsis. Best way to get catharsis: solving cause of problem. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Catharsis. Deal directly with problem, resolve it totally, instantly. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Catharsis. I need some heavy catharsis, and so does everyone else. --- 03/13/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Catharsis. I would rather be an outcast and get catharsis than be accepted and never get catharsis and have a breakdown. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Catharsis. If I get all my past catharsis straight, and get catharsis for everyday offenses from now on, my cathartic requirements should be kept low. --- 03/19/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Catharsis. It has to be complete catharsis. It has to feel right. You have to feel it. You should get the truth smile. And the justice smile. --- 03/19/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Catharsis. People of different ages and social statuses have different cathartic requirements. This is why they like different art. --- 03/13/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Catharsis. The function of life is catharsis. Sex is the ultimate catharsis. Art and entertainment are about catharsis. Trips to the shrink are for catharsis. Justice is for catharsis. This is all beyond survival. Life is about survival and catharsis through knowledge and understanding of everything. --- 01/26/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Catharsis. Total instant catharsis is best. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neuroses can be ignored, but they only come back latter. They are tougher to cure in latter life, easier to cure when caught early, and lets you avoid years of pain if caught early. --- 03/13/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis and neurotic thinking kicks up under stress, and ruins head. The answer is to be brave to help avoid feeling stress, be smart, and keep your head together. --- 04/24/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis destroys relationships and the ability to have or pursue a relationship. --- 02/02/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis inhibits friendship, love, and sex. --- 02/07/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis is a state of mind (or a thought pattern) that can be slipped into and out of. It is usually triggered by stress. Stress can be internal or external. Internal stress can be conscious or unconscious. Some people, who are worse off, are in the neurotic state all of the time. --- 02/10/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis is almost always both genetic and environmental. Genetics is from parents, who go on to provide poor environment. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis leads to repression of thought, which inhibits mental organization, which inhibits mental growth. The neurotic mind is like the magical child's mind. --- 03/13/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis makes you intellectually stupid and emotionally stupid. By ignoring thoughts and emotions, you stunt their development. Emotionally weak. Weak character. No strength. Weak and stupid, instead of strong, brave and smart. --- 02/10/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis. As a neurotic, I tend not to think about what I should be thinking about; survival and sex. Instead I think about what I should not be thinking about. --- 04/30/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis. Children, teens to some extents, and neurotic adults. They just do not know what is going on in the world and in life. They have a skewed view of the world and of life. (1) Contra. The above ignorances leave these groups open to psycho-pathology. (2) Pro: (A) The above ignorances also leave the above groups idealistic. (B) It leaves them with a "magical, wonderful" view of the world. (C) And it also leaves them creative. That is, it leaves them with altered views of the world, some of which are useful. (3) Ignorance can be bliss. Ignorance can be protective. Ignorance can be dangerous. --- 7/25/1999
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis. In the neurotic, ideas, especially the truth, pop up in the mind and are immediately repressed. Write down important ideas while they are still in your mind. --- 03/19/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis. It is easy to see other people's neurosis, but it is difficult to see our own. But we must look for them and decide how to deal with them. --- 03/15/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis. The neurotic is afraid to think. He ends up being rigid (not flexible) and unchanging (not growing). He can appear either apathetic and inactive, or narrow minded and fanatical. --- 06/30/1997
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis. The neurotic is weak in mind, due to being out of practice of "minding" well, or never having learned to "mind" well in the first place. Neurotic also has a weak character. Can't think for self. Can't stand up for self. Neurotic is sensitive, fragile, unstable, not hardy and robust. Neurotic can't see and therefore can't make crucial conclusions, decisions, and actions for self. --- 07/05/1997
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis. The truth for the neurotic is common place for the healthy person. --- 03/11/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis. Three people. The neurotic, the dim adult, and the child, all need a parent, someone to protect them, someone to tell them what to do. Often that someone they turn to is god. --- 01/28/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis. Three types of neurotics. (1) Religious neurotic. Rely on belief, not reason. They worship big daddy god. (2) Conservative neurotic. Afraid of the new. (3) Military neurotic. Obey orders, not reason. Worship big daddy superiors. --- 10/05/1997
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurosis. To the neurotic, the unknown seems more imposing than it actually is, which causes fear and avoidance. --- 02/07/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurotics end up being stupid. They have the inability to think ("mind") correctly and clearly. (1) They are unwilling to think because it means facing repressed thoughts, emotions, and memories. So they end up believing in magic instead. (2) They have an unwillingness to face up to reality because it means facing repressed thoughts, emotions, and memories. So they end up creating a fantasy world, having delusions of grandeur, or retreating from real world into isolation instead. --- 01/21/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Neurotics traits. (1) Belief in magic, mysticism and religion. (2) Resorts to authoritarianism ("do x action because, y person says we should"), rather than reason for explanations. (3) Childlike: needs a parent figure (leader, god, etc.). (4) Daft, undeveloped, empty headed. (5) Repressed, inhibited: in mind, and in behavior. (6) Attracts other neurotics. (7) Repels healthy people. (8) Cowardly: avoids, won't confront in mind, and in behavior. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repressed people are out of touch with their emotions, thoughts, and memories. They do not know they are repressed. They do not know anything is wrong. They do not know that they do not "mind" or act healthy. --- 12/29/1997
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression can occur at any time, for any time, of any event, to any degree. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression can occur in a specific mental ability like drive, memory, emotion or thought. Repression can occur in a specific subject areas of life like sex, work, etc. The above two types of specific repression are bad. But perhaps worse is when repression becomes generalized and spreads to all mental abilities of an individual, and spreads to all subject areas of life. These types of global repression can lead to total mental breakdown. --- 4/1/2000
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression destroys memory, feeling and thinking ability. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression inhibits thinking and thus learning and growth and new important conclusions, thus neurotics may appear "immature". --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression is depressing, and causes anxiety too. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression screws up (1) The current problem and its future development. (2) The whole problem area and its future problems. (3) Other problem areas (by screwing mind). --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. (1) Denial: any subject area, any mental area. (2) Avoidance. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. (1) Repression causes neurosis. Repression can be caused by cowardice. Cowardice is caused by fear. Anxiety is a form of fear that can cause cowardice. Thus, anxiety causes neurosis. (2) Repression can also be caused by too many "rules". Excessive rule making and rule following can cause neurosis. --- 3/25/2000
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. (1) Suppression: healthy, conscious. (2) Repression: unhealthy, unconscious. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. (1) Takes energy. (2) Creates tension. (3) Increases relaxation needs. (4) Leads to breakdowns. (5) Cuts down on thinking ability. (6) Sub opts mind. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. (1) The chain of events. (2) Repression of any specific mental element, or area or mind in general. (3) Learned compensating disturbed thought patterns. (4) Causes reduced mental abilities. (5) Amount: number of subjects and ideas on them. (6) Frequency, duration, levels, depths. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. (1) What causes it? Inability to deal with pain. Pain avoidance. Don't know how to act. (2) How prevent it? Remember, feel, think. Confront in mind and then in action. (3) What are effects of it? Causes neurosis. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. Adhering to anti-intellectualism is a form of mental self-repression of thought. --- 08/01/1997
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. Always face up to all your repressed thoughts, even your most bizarre repressed thoughts. --- 01/21/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. An attempt at avoidance and escape. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. Avoid repression. I can think of whatever I can think of. I can say whatever I can think of. --- 03/07/1989
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. Don't repress pain and don't repress pleasure, both guide you. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. If you repress parts of the mind (drive, memory, emotion, thought), it is easy for the whole mind to become repressed. If you are paranoid in one area, it is easy for that paranoia to become generalized. If you withdraw in one area it is easy for that withdrawal to become generalized. If you repress one subject area (work, love, etc.) it is easy for that repression to become generalized. --- 3/30/1998
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. Let the thought, feeling, memory, drive, entire "mind", etc. come. Let the action come. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. Levels of repression. (1) Never think about it. (2) Sometimes think about it but shrug it off. (3) Think about it constantly, in every way. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. Mental disorganization and mental distortion. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. Not only pain can make people avoid and repress. Even the apprehension that something may be painful, even if it is a mistaken apprehension, can make people avoid and repress. Thus, fearful and timid people are more inclined to repress and thus go nuts. --- 06/05/1997
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. Society teaches us to repress, "shut up and take it". It is illogical, and unfair, and it screws us up. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. Tendency to be passive, accepting, repressive is greater when energy levels are low, and fatigued. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. Three types of repression. (1) Repression of mental state (drive, memory, emotion, thought). (2) Repression of communication. (3) Repression of action. --- 3/25/2000
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. Two types. (1) Repressing something you know as fact. (2) Repressing the knowing that you should look into something. Explore and discover. --- 01/08/1994
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. You can pay me now or you can pay me later. Repressed thoughts crop up later as mental problems. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, pathological, neurosis. --- Repression. You can repress any experience or any aspect of mind. --- 12/30/1992