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EPISODE · Apr 18, 2021 · 36 MIN

If reality didn't suck people wouldn't do drugs to escape reality says mania

from Bipolar Inquiry · host Andrea

I feel like the allostatic load of trauma dips us into the trauma field of reality it allows us to feel that and resonate with it and they talked about how an open dialogue every perception in the room matters and and he was talking about breathing and the mantra and how it's helpful for people and I agree and at the same time it's important to have another way of living for somebody so they don't just keep co-creating the same reality which is the traumatic world that we all live in so it's amazing to decrease one's allostatic load so one can again function but if it's a function that still Co creates the trauma of society then the purpose of the trauma the lesson of it the value of it the gift in it is not received and you talked about how trauma impacts the autonomic nervous system people that are traumatized they have a faster heart rate and it messes up the endocrine system as well and I was talking about in other videos how a faster heartbeat is like fear and so if the heart is beating in fear one is going to be more aware things that are fearful will be more salient and fear will be projected on things that are normally salient as something other than fear so that's the important of getting the allostatic load down of not having stress of not having cortisol cortisol attacks the hippocampus and then we can't sort out the information coming in and then we lose the sense of ecphoric sensation and we feel scared all the time so that's where fish oil comes in as well I read in this document about the stages of psychosis and how people in the early stages of psychosis their first episode should just be given fish oil and other interventions but it's not until like stage 2 or 3 that medication is even considered and it at every stage it says the same above interventions plus meaning fish oil still fish oil fish oil and this is like a document for psychiatrists yet I was never told to take fish oil and so I'm going to give that to my doctor and say why aren't they even fish oil as a first line of defense against this before antipsychotics why isn't fish oil giving up given out in the psych ward I've made a few items on a list for things that would actually be very easy to implement that might help a lot and one thing they touched on as well is that an adolescent that goes into a distressed state is often resonating with this state of distress of the entire family unit and and so this is kind of obvious and this is also one of the reasons why they often use open dialogue in in Finland for first break psychosis because it's seen as something that's in the social fabric of a person but it's not the person it's not personal and so I was thinking about even me or whoever it's not even just the family unit but that even extends into society so person that manifests say psychosis is manifesting collective distress of the family unit and society because for example if there's stress in the family unit like the father is really angry and stressed all the time and say they have a job out in society that makes them angry and stressed well that extends to society so now the way society is structured has affected the dad which is added to the collective stress of the family unit which is the allostatic load which then man and adolescent and that's just that's not the only stress there's other stressors to the stressor of the adolescent being in society in say the education system so I don't think it's just a family unit the fact that a person has a family makes it seem like oh this is the person that's manifesting it within the family unit and it's partly the family because if a person's stressed and distressed and they're not able to talk with their family or they don't have a good relationship but I don't think it's the family unit that causes it it's just one person manifesting the collective distress which means the person's distressed because everyone else is distressed and they're also personally distressed because of their distre

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