Understand one's own disease

 

THE MENTAL DISORDERS


If medical specialisation wants to justify itself by the too large quantity of knowledge and by the indispensable knowledge necessary to manipulate the important quantity of machinery, technological development should not be at the prejudice of the overall consideration of a person’s disease. At the sole level of the organs, specialisation already obliges the patient to appeal to voluntarily limited investigations. But with the specialisation for the mentally diseased, i.e. psychiatry, one distances and "parks" an aspect of the individual being constantly at stake in all affections and even at their origin. The only bond between psychism and disease official science has conceded is the concept of psychosomatic affections. But this concept roots even more the separation between life experience and disease because the underlying message may not escape our understanding. If certain affections are psychosomatic, it means that all the others are not, that they have nothing to do with psychism, that they are only physical and are only depending on an organic and technical medicine being consequently reinforced.

We have seen that all the diseases concern the triad psychism-brain-organs, and developing pathologies of psychism comes to dig into what is happening at the level of the triad, without forgetting its relation with the other two. But the frequency and the variety of the psychic "symptoms" deserve a chapter of their own. Undoubtedly comprising some repetitions, it will be a little less concise than the others.

Let us start by reminding that moral suffering does not mean mental trouble: it corresponds to the natural state of our psychism when we live a vexation or a frustration being, though, a part of the existence of each one of us. This suffering may be very important as it is the case of mourning but it will not entail any mental nor organic trouble if there were not a biological conflict as defined in the iron law. And if the term conflict is often used in the common language to express those vexations, it would be more adequate to use the term psychological conflict: inevitable tensions between individuals but not a source of disease. But the biological conflict following a DHS will modify the triad and within the psychic facet of this modification, we can make a first distinction according to the original conflictual configuration.

The most simple scenario is a unique and active conflict. Psychism is, then already, different from its "cruise rhythm". Searching for a solution of his conflict, the individual will think – and dream – of it in an obsessive way, experiencing a painful, but necessary dwelling, such as the other characteristics of stress, in order to find this solution. And he will present the cerebral functional disorder and the organic pathology corresponding to the subjective content of his conflict.

Depression and its opposite, called mania, rest on a more complex conflictual configuration. They go with a territory conflict but having one of these three eventualities: an inverted hormonal status, a left-handed polarity or another active territory conflict but situated in the other cerebral hemisphere (cf. 3rd scenario in the next §). Depression is linked to the right hemisphere and mania to the left hemisphere. Hence, depression will, for example, not touch left-handed women, effeminate men or individuals having more than one active territory conflict and, in the latter case, there will not only be depression. The classical menopausal endogenous depression is part of the clichés little inclined to reassure the menopaused women: depression only watches its opportunity in case of a biological territory conflict!

The pathologies, classically considered as being severe because of a loss of communication and of the sense of reality, obey a type of conflictual configuration Dr. Hamer called constellation: the presence of at least two active conflicts respectively situated within each halve of the brain. Considering the number of cerebral relays and, consequently, of possible combinations, this field should be largely explored but the essential part of the mental conflicts-disorders relation is already well defined in its different parameters. At first, the successive set up of each conflict will be solved by DHS, considering the hormonal status, polarity and chronology. Next, the cerebral level (cerebral truncus, cerebellum, brain medulla, cortex,…) of the constellation will determine the kind of mental disorder: consternation, disorientation, emotional death, delirium, … Finally, the diversity of cerebral localisation will precise the important themes discovered in these disorders: autism, persecution delirium, splendour delirium, violent restlessness, "floating" superiority, etc… Let us take some examples of constellations related to what is called psychosis. It would be the moment to re-consider the fifth biological law concerning the mental disorders. These examples also concern both sexes; the only difference generally residing in the order of appearance of the conflicts.

An individual already experienced an active depossession conflict. At the organic level, the proliferation of the collecting tubes of one sole kidney is not sufficient to show clinically. If his placement in a home entails a new depossession conflict (of his goods, of his "roots"), he enters a constellation the two relays of which are situated in the anterior part of the cerebral truncus and which will only show up through spatial disorientation. At the psychic level, it will not "situate" people anymore though he knows them, including himself. And, at the organic level, urinary retention will become evident because of the affection of both kidneys.

A man experiences a devalorisation conflict with his partner. If another devalorisation conflict arises, for example with his son (and not a re-stimulation of the same conflict), the constellation will not express itself psychically by a surplus of devalorisation. On the contrary, a state of over-evaluation, of megalomania will protect him from a psychic breakdown.

A persecution paranoia follows two consecutive and non-solved particular conflicts of fear: the one we feel when threatened by an invisible danger in the back. Paranoia, with its characteristic attitude, protects us against every potential new danger that could reactivate one of those conflicts.

The subjective colouring of both conflicts may be different of course, for example devalorisation conflict and loss conflict, fear conflict and separation conflict, etc… And in these cases, the psychic theme of the constellation will have two corresponding facets. The psychic sense puts the individual in a position of shelter, protection, setback, sufficient to avoid relapses and other conflicts. In autism, at least one of the conflicts is a separation conflict, which explains the few therapeutic successes obtained through the persevering and implying relation of the therapist, relation which might end up in a sufficient reduction of the separation conflict and by the reappearance of the communication signs. The "zootherapy" (continuous animal contact the autist is going to tie a privileged contact with) goes in the same direction.

Next to the psychic sense of the constellation ("the reason for madness"), the biological sense is vital in the constellations situated within the hemispheres: by stopping the evolution of organic lesions, even in the long run, it allows to come to better days where the individual will be able to solve one and even both conflicts. But, what nature has enabled, is not always realisable in case of confinement. One may thus not be astonished by the chronic, and even incurable connotation of the major mental disorders. Whereas one is mad only during one’s constellation time and that one can get out of it as soon as one of both conflicts is solved.

A last remark is of a capital importance and will take up the universal reality for each one of the diseases, the one concerning the "mass variation" of the conflict, i.e. within its intensity and its duration. As in all other medical specialisation, psychiatry distinguishes minor affections (neuroses) and major ones (psychoses) and it does not explain any of both through the patient’s history. In the field of mental disorders, the real concrete severity criterion is inherent to the extent of the one or several conflicts lying at the basis of it; such as for any affection diagnosed as solely organic. So, one may be in constellation for only a few hours or days … or confined for the rest of one’s life. Who did never feel, once or for some time, "strange", "not as usual"? Who did not think one day: "I do not understand why I did or said that"; "That is not me"; "I must not have been in my normal state"? The constellation or the depression/mania are phenomena as natural as cellular proliferation, ulceration or functional breakdown. It is not the label in itself, which is of importance, but the extent of the modifications, be they cellular or psychic. And the disorders are always proportional, in their degree and their duration, to the underlying conflicts.

So, in a devalorisation conflict, there is a large margin between a compensation consisting in wanting to be the best in a field or in wanting to resemble a star and the fact of really showing off as the new messiah or as the reincarnation of a prominent figure. The same goes for a separation constellation, to confine oneself in a solitary attitude is different from evolving in the entirely exceptional world of schizophrenia. Or else, in a constellation combining two territory conflicts concerning one’s place within it and the rivalries, what is the common measure between the particular infatuation for violent sports or dangerous occupations and the dramatic "switching over to the act" of the severely unbalanced persons? Here too, however, - such as for the organic modifications and diagnosis – THE DIFFERENCE IS QUANTITATIVE AND NOT QUALITATIVE, including the entire scale of stages between the extreme situations, wavering from banality to urgency.

The application of the biological laws would unsettle numerous dogmas and affirmations on concepts too simply defined within psychology, including concepts as fundamental as the character, masculinity, femininity and the "norm". The common good sense evokes the uncertain boundary between brilliancy and madness. Numerous huge discoveries and big realisations in human history have benefited from the absence of custom officers at this frontier. But medicine is filling up the gap of this magic cave…