Imbalances

In the psych world there’s a hell of a lot of disorders. 

To me ‘disorder’ implies a departure from order. To that, I say, society has order but us humans, in our heads, we would have a serious disorder if we were to believe that a lack of disorders leads to mental order.

To highlight this point, a computer has no disorders and hence no personality. Which, as an aside, might suggest that the AI guys would be well placed to start programming in personality dimensions through behavioural traits, and then also mental disorders.

A name is just a name I guess. But I am starting to suspect that a mental disorder refers to an individual’s impact on others, society if you will, rather than on the individual itself.

The giveaway is that there’s precious few improvement classes promoting mental order. Happiness and wealth, yes, but order, no.

The spectra of the many, many dimensions of mental disorders supposedly swings from 1-11 for each of them. A score of 11 in just one of them and it’s likely that you’re barking mad.

In truth, a score of 11 means that you have a strong personality trait that makes it hard for you to function in society, whether you accept that or not.

There’s no zeros in the pack and the sane folk all have a score in each and every column.

That doesn’t sound like order to me. More of a balance, or better still, a lack of an imbalance.

In summary, your imbalances are our disorders.

So why make this point?

Well, if things aren’t going so smoothly for you, there are two courses of action: (1) modify your imbalances through the usual process of therapy and drugs, and/or (2) delete their disorders by removing yourself from their society; then you need to find a more amenable bunch of people to hang out with.