Understand one's own disease

Once the conflict has started and with it the disease, it will be the history of the conflict that will arbitrate the evolution of the disease. This leads us to the second law : THE LAW OF THE TWO PHASES OF THE DISEASe. In this case there is no particular jargon to clarify. This second law teaches us that in each disease, from the mildest to the most severe, two phases have to be considered. The first one starts with the onset of the conflict, and we have seen the modifications at the three levels of the triad psychism-brain-organs in the first law. The second one starts only when the conflict has been solved, but that happens sooner or later in most of the conflicts, hence the importance of both phases. We will consider the nature of the symptoms at the organ level in each one of the phases in the third law. Let us examine now the second part of what we may already call a “complete disease”.

When the conflict is being solved, one is not rid of it as such. One lived a conflict during which an organ was damaged : small damages if the conflict was slight or short, important damage if the conflict was important or lasted long. Well, we are going to repair now! All this is foreseen by nature and this second phase being the reparation is as implacable, as natural, as spontaneous, and as mathematically predictable as the first. And it still acts on the three levels of the triad.

I) At the psychic level, the person feels relieved but also exhausted, a fatigue in proportion with the intensity of the conflict. If one experienced a conflict during six months, one may feel so exhausted that in the end, it may sometimes be labelled as a depression. It is not a real depression. It means more exactly “ leave me alone, leave me in peace, I have had my part of worries these last six months, if I could momentarily go to a deserted island..” That is what an animal often does. He hides in his hole, in his cavern to repair all the damage having accumulated during the first phase. The human being, however, is forced to stay operational or become operational as fast as possible.

II) The nervous system is now going to connect especially to the rhythm complementary to the one of the awakening system that is called the state of vagotonia, hence the need to compensate rest. He will need to sleep more, he will regain appetite at the same rate as the appetite he lost before, and the levels of cortisone and adrenaline are going to lower, etc.

The area of the brain that was specifically disturbed in its functioning during the first conflictual phase will also restore itself. Here already problems may arise because the repair of the cerebral centre involves an oedema, a congestion which means a faster blood flow and, hence, a swelling of the site that was affected, a swelling entailing a compression at the origin of various symptoms. There is also the intervention of the glial tissue, and at this stage some explanations on the brain composition are necessary.

The brain does not only contain nervous cells as such, called neurones. The major part is what is called glie, a tissue subdividing into different cell types whose role is to nourish the brain, repair it, being in fact the entire logistic system. Within the restoring process, one observes a proliferation of the glial cells at the site where the conflict affected the brain. If the conflict was very important and very long, this reparation may take a spectacular extent. One may detect enormous stains ; visible by scanner, with a clear mass encircled by dark rings, or simply one large dark mass. That is where the drama may start, because medicine is going to consider this as a brain tumour where it only is a repairing process one should be happy with since it testifies of the solution of a conflict. And if the pathology during the conflict phase is a cancer, this “brain tumour” will be considered as a metastasis! The person in his recovery phase will find himself in an even worse state than before. If you were told that you have a cancer with metastases within the brain, it means that your cancer is thus not cured but, on the contrary, in a severely advanced stage. Result : you enter into a much more dramatic state of mind than when you initially consulted for your first cancer. I here introduce the notion of iatrogenous impact i.e. provoked by medicine that I will develop later on.

(The story that follows may be past, but I would just like to leave the theoretical aspect of the conference for a while in order to illustrate a first live example that will already give you an outline of the practical approach the biological laws arrive at.)

Among all the patients I have seen affected with a brain tumour, I receive a person who had consulted a first neurologist and who clearly found a brain tumour evidenced by scanner, at least what is called tumour in classical medicine. The neurologist said : “It is not really within my competence, but the best thing to do is to radiate the tumour.” The patient being naturally worried, goes for another advice with a second neurologist : “The better treatment in this case is not the radiation of the brain, it will cause side effects. We will simply remover this brain tumour.” Even less reassured, he consults a third neurologist : “No problem, Sir, your tumour is well limited. The treatment I propose is the following : first we will perform some preliminary radiation, next we will excise the tumour and then perform a second radiation.” The patient gets even more panicky and decides – genuinely! – to consult a fourth doctor. Some days before going to this fourth consultation, he comes to see me. I have only seen him twice and I do not know what happened to him afterwards. I ask him to tell me his story and the precise period when this brain tumour was discovered. He explains that some six months ago, he was subject to epilepsy crises. At that moment, he had his brain scanned and he shows me the scanning results, and they told him he had a brain tumour. I considered the case and I said to myself : six months ago he was affected by epilepsy. Now, the epilepsy crisis is generally situated atop of the oedema. I put aside the details, but such an oedema must have taken one year and a half to take form and reach that stage. By all means minimum between six months and one year. Thus, if it took six months to one year to arrive at the summit of the oedema, this means that his conflict lasted between one and two years. I am working out the calculation and simply ask the patient : “I would just like to put a question to you. What terrible drama did you live two to three years? ». The patient looks at me with his eyes wide open : “Not one of the neurologists I consulted has ever asked this to me.” I say : “No, nobody will ask you this, but I would like to know which drama you lived two and a half, three years ago.” That is where he changed aspects. He was somewhat startled. A moment of silence followed and he told me : “Doctor, you do not know what it means to enter your son’s room and to see him hanged!”. I answer that I can understand it by looking at his scanning results and ask him when he re-started a normal life after this horrible drama. I ask him when he started going out again, invite friends, go to the movies, smile, etc. in order to have the tangible parameters because a person’s psychism is not measurable and in order to know its state, numerous questions have to be asked on his attitude, his reactions, his thoughts, etc. He confirmed that during one and a half-year it had been a real nightmare for him. That he could not stop thinking of it and that, progressively, in a few months, he took up a normal life again. Hence the solution of the conflict : the oedema starting and reaching the critical stage with epilepsy. I explained all this to him saying there was no danger, that this was the recuperation process. Fortunately, the tumour – between brackets – was really visible, not too badly situated, and the patient showed only tremor in one leg or one hand, I do not remember. So I told him : “There is nothing more to do than wait. Within six months or one year, the oedema will have sufficiently reduced and you will have no disorders any more». I have never seen him again. He must have consulted other more convincing neurologists, I presume. I just wanted to give you an example of a brain tumour.

III) Let us proceed with the third level of the triad. The organ depending on the brain centre is not going to remain with the damage accumulated during the conflictual phase and will also repair. We will see in the third law the nature of the symptoms occurring during both phases. What has to be done her is to precise that the organic reparation occurs spontaneously, biologically as foreseen by nature and that the recovery is consequently not due to medicine. You will tell me : “What is the use of medicine then?” It helps to relieve, and most often in the second phase, because this phase is generally more uncomfortable at the organ level than the first. We will see it later on in the third law. The therapeutical part of medicine is useful to help the patient go through this second phase, by soothing the pain and the different symptoms it might present, but it will not cure them. The cure is not the object of medicine because the origin of the disease is a life experience, and it is not a drug, nor a technical intervention, that is going to cure a life experience. Considering this approach, the doctor considerably looses his power. He is not a healer anymore but someone who can comfort and help to cure by assisting the patient in solving his conflict if this is not done already. When proceeding like this - we will come to it later as far as the therapeutical level is concerned - in front of a patient, the first thing to know is whether he is in the first or in the second phase. If he is in the second phase, he needs explanation, reassuring and, in the process of soothing, each therapeutic is a priori possible. One may use the usually employed means. The allopath will use allopathy, the homeopath will use homeopathy, the acupunctor will use acupuncture, etc. but this will only serve to help the patient go through this reparation phase which is, in about eighty percent of the cases, much more painful to go through than the first phase. (Note : both phases are approximately equal as far as duration is concerned, except, of course, if re-stimulation occurred during the second phase.)

What I would also like to tell you is that when solving a conflict, a lot of scenarios are possible. You may live a conflict very well limited in time, having lasted, for example, a few days, a week, two months non stop, and which is then clearly solved in a couple of days or in one week. In this case, you will have two clear-cut phases. The first one involving the stress symptoms and the damage installing in the organ, the second, very precise one : the relieved patient is weary, tired, from all the reparation symptoms. That is the scenario of the acute diseases : angina, bronchitis, cystitis ; most of the time a conflict and the accompanying pathology that do not last too long. But things are not as simple as re-stimulation may occur during the reparation phase. Here we make three steps forward, on step backward and we start all over again. One may also be confronted with several conflicts one of which being still active while the other one is solved, what makes it more difficult to evaluate. Some new conflicts may appear while solving one. Everything is then more complex as far as the symptoms are concerned. The conflict may also be what is called in balance i.e. that with the wear and tear of time, or because an individual has more or less, however not completely, adapted to his conflict, one faces a conflict not frankly active, not frankly solved. The image of the balance is a very good expression of this equilibrium that may be more or less weak and precarious. There is a variability of symptoms : I feel my shoulder but only from time to time and not really hard. While a severe crisis of periarthritis where the shoulder is completely “frozen” and very painful during two or three days. But after a fortnight, on may drive again, meaning a conflict that started at a very precise moment, completely and rapidly solved, giving a brutal, short pathology but with a fixed term. Finally, the balance may be so little evident, at the limit of the equilibrium that one speaks of a conflict in latency : nor neither active, nor solved but as put in the refrigerator, in the archives. The person evacuated the emotional content of the problem he had in the past. For example, he had a conflict while soliciting a professional promotion, and felt de-valorised, hindered. Later on, he says to himself : “To hell with it, it is not important any more!”. The conflict becomes latent because he does not think of it any longer, but it could blaze again if another possibility for promotion comes up and he decides to climb into the ring again.

Let us compare two extremely opposite scenarios. A conflict may be solved in an express way : if you are afraid to be short of money because you are extremely indebted, the conflict will be solved at the precise moment you won the sweep stake or you receive a registered mail informing you that you have inherited. No need for personal work such as decision taking or opinion change, the events are taking care of it. If, however, a conjugopathy is concerned – I mean a problem within the couple – this kind of conflict may sometimes take weeks or even months to be solved, with highs and lows, re-stimulation. A couple may solve a problem it had during one year and take weeks to solve it progressively to finally come to the durable solution. At the rate of solving problems, corresponding symptoms appear and when the conflict is completely solved, there will be a speeding up of the second phase symptoms that will stop as soon as the reparation has come to an end.