The Dangers and Hazards of Today’s Psychological and Pharmaceutical Therapies: A YouTube Presentation 2023-06-20
Current academic psychology and sports psychology is an erroneous adaptation of Homer’s 3000-year-old linguistics of emotional driven behavior where cognitive behavior modification therapies (and pharmaceuticals) are used to control aberrant, dangerous, and dysfunctional emotional behavior because emotions are (incorrectly) deemed causal to driving destructive behavior. In other words, academia (inaccurately) understands depression as a mood disorder.
Cognition, not emotion precipitates the neurological, biochemical, and physiological changes and states of being that drive behavior. Emotions are the perception of these changes and states of physiology.
Within symbiotic psychology emotions cannot be aberrant and destructive because cognition, not emotion, precipitates the changes and states of biochemical and neurological physiology that drives behavior. Emotions are the perception of these changes and states of physiology. Emotions have evolved, not to be controlled by mind as professed by our Ancient Greek Philosophers, but to guide negative and bad feeling dysfunctional cognitive behavior towards positive and good-feeling and functional cognitive behavior that signify health, well-being, and successful decision-making prowess. In other words, depression is a cognitive disorder.
Positive, good feeling emotions, moods, attitudes, and feelings have an evolved correlation with health, well-being, and successful decision-making prowess (and their actualization). Negative, bad feeling emotions, moods, attitudes, and feelings have an evolved correlation with their negation. If this were not so, humanity would not have survived the evolutionary grindstone to pass on their genes to the next generation.
Dwelling upon that which you do not want, desire, and intend generates negative, bad-feeling emotions, moods, attitudes, and feelings that have an evolved correlation with an unhealthy and depressed physiology. Dwelling upon that which you do want, desire, and intend generates positive and empowered good-feeling emotions, moods, attitudes, and feelings that are indicative of the health, well-being, and successful decision-making prowess needed to thrive within the evolutionary mill.
When pharmaceutical therapies are deemed necessary, they must be accompanied with some sort of cognitive behavior modification therapy to re-process, re-structure, and re-construct those activities of the mind (such as thoughts, memories, imaginings, perceptions, and reasoning) that are precipitating the biochemical and neurological physiology of depression.
Preschool, primary, and secondary educators are indoctrinating our children with the erroneous linguistics of emotionally driven behavior first inscribed within Homer’s “Iliad” nearly 3000 years-ago and which current academia adopted and continues to profess in its flawed cognitive behavior modification therapies designed to control, regulate, and manage, emotional behavior.