Inferiority, cowardice, suspicion, rebellion, exclusion, dramatization, greed, indifference, and so on. How do these unhealthy mental states come about? In the article "Demand Struggle, Reward and Mental Illness", the time-effect wave scientifically discusses the reasons why normal psychology turns to abnormal psychology from the perspectives of biology, psychology and philosophy. Excerpts are as follows:
Psychology is the function of the human brain and the product of the long-term contradiction between life and the environment. The contradictory struggle in the process of human evolution and development has formed a unique law of human psychological and behavioral activities: "demand-struggle-return". As an individual, all the struggle activities and corresponding emotions to meet needs are generated under the command, control and feeling of the brain, and all follow the reward law of demand struggle.
1. The reward rule of demand struggle
The law of return in demand struggle is the struggle between motivation and interest, progress and return in order to meet the dominant demand.
"Demand-struggle-reward" is the premise and foundation of human normal survival, development and evolution. Without demand, struggle and reward, human beings will not evolve and develop. By the same token, human beings who have evolved to today are unwilling to struggle if they lose the direction of struggle, the motivation of demand and the enthusiasm of struggle; Or violate the law, choose the wrong object of struggle, struggle without progress, can not get a happy return, is bound to produce negative emotions, and even develop into mental illness.
2. Demand struggle reward and human mental illness
(1) has dominant needs, struggling with motivation and interest, progress and reward (normal person);
(2) There is no explicit demand, no motivation and interest to struggle (depression).
There is no explicit demand, not no demand, but after the basic needs are met, patients have no higher-level explicit demand goals that can improve their interest and enthusiasm in struggle, and lose the direction of struggle; Although patients may have psychological and environmental pressure to fight, they just don't realize the practical significance of solving problems to society or individuals, and they can't generate the motivation, interest and enthusiasm for fighting. They are always depressed and lack the initiative and enthusiasm to fight. Without the dominant demand, they are engaged in a long-term struggle without motivation and interest. Even if there is progress or achievement sometimes, patients do not have the need psychology of longing for progress or achievement, can not experience the pleasant return they deserve, and can not form a virtuous circle of "demand-struggle-return". This passive and insensitive way of struggle also violates the reward law of demand struggle. Therefore, this kind of struggle without leading demand and power interests is not a real struggle.
3. Fight without progress and reward (neuroticism: including general neuroticism, obsessive-compulsive neuroticism and anxious neuroticism) with the elimination of bad cognitive feelings of body and mind as the leading demand.
The main demand of neurosis patients is to eliminate subjectively magnified negative cognitive feelings of body and mind, which deviates from the direction of normal people's demand struggle, chooses the wrong object of struggle and carries out a struggle without progress and reward. In some cases, anyone may have neurotic symptoms. If you speak in front of people for the first time, you will feel nervous; If you work hard, your academic performance is still not ideal, and you will feel inferior; After hearing about other people's gas poisoning, I always feel that my gas valve is not closed well, and I am not at ease without repeated inspection. For most people, this feeling of tension and anxiety is a normal and necessary psychological and physiological phenomenon in life, and it will disappear afterwards. However, for some people with special personality, they will subjectively regard those normal reactions and feelings as negative purposes, thus threatening the growth and development of individuals. So they always try their best to destroy them, otherwise they will be psychologically uneasy and have a sense of crisis; And this kind of helpless struggle without progress can only further produce anxiety and inferiority, make people pay more attention to uncomfortable feelings and become more allergic, thus forming spiritual interaction and falling into a vicious circle (evil intelligence), so that this anxiety is pathologically fixed, thus affecting their normal life and forming nervousness. Therefore, the result of all the efforts made by neurotic people is to constantly create neurotic symptoms and make them last.
Although there is a dominant demand, there is no way to reward (hysteria) if you escape the struggle.
In the face of the so-called crisis or pressure, hysteria patients also have an obvious need to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, but they unconsciously adopt the way of avoiding struggle, falling headlong to the ground and resigned to their fate. Imagine that in ancient times, if such people met wild animals such as tigers and wolves, they would naturally die and have no chance to escape.
5. Unable to fight normally (mental illness)
Consciousness is the function and attribute of human brain and the physiological basis of consciousness. There is something wrong with the mental patient's brain, so he can't know, feel and think normally like a normal person, so there is no rule to follow, so he can't fight normally.