Why I Quit Being a Therapist [video]
Something interesting is making a mental &quot;disorder&quot; a sickness. A mental trait becomes a disorder when this trait no more compatible with social norms ( it breaks the order of things, hence disorder ). Hence the pain. And we assume a pain is a sickness that can be cured, medicated.<p>Medication do not solve the root of the pain. Our brain is more than a chemical balance. It&#x27;s a neural network, trained on the training set of our childhood. There is this fundamental age around 6-7 years old where the child creates its identity picture, its definition of self, which becomes the blueprint of its personality trait and evolution. This blueprint causes what psychoanalysts call &quot;neurosis&quot;.
When digging into it, there are so many things that makes sense in the field of psychoanalysis, and the parallels with neurosciences and even AI are staggering.<p>Little nuggets I found enlightening in my day to day perception of life :<p>- We learn language and the meaning of things from others ( our parents usually ). As a consequence, we naturally expect truth and meaning to come from outside. That&#x27;s why we look for confirmation from others. That&#x27;s why we expect the people we fall in love with to give our life meaning.<p>- We create our identities based on our environment. We define ourselves against the others as to define is to draw a boundary, a difference. That&#x27;s why you&#x27;ll often see the cliché in family where if the elder&#x27;s dominant trait&#x2F;definition is to be good at school, then the second child will take the opposite route.<p>- Our neurosis is mostly our limiting factor to approach life. This is what we fight against everyday, this is the wall between what we can be and what we are.<p>I understand this can be seen as a controversial view for many.<p>I&#x27;m no psychiatrist or psychoanalyst, but was raised in a psychiatrist &#x2F; psychoanalyst family. A weird but enriching experience.