[quote author=S. Earl Martin link=topic=3172.msg23033#msg23033 date=1359047667]
At least some mental conditions can be traced to improper diet and lack of certain chemicals in the system. I have seen studies were people who had mental conditions saw improvement by just taking a multi vitamin everyday. A friend of mine's daughter was in an instituion and was unresponsive to medications.
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I completely agree but I'm talking about how one responds to a mental condition or automatic impulses that can't be controlled.
Example:
Pour nutrition could cause depression.
Person A responds to the depression by realizing they need to get healthier. They do and the depression is cured.
The depression was accepted. The feelings weren't unwanted, fought or repressed.
Person B doesn't want the depression, fights it, goes to therapy to "figure" it out, gets antidepressants etc.
Here is maybe a more clear version of the theory I'm trying to find holes in but can't:
There is one core element to all psychological pain and
if that element doesn't exist, there would be no pain and no reason for therapy.
That element is internal experience we can't (directly) control AND that
is UNWANTED--we try to repress or ignore.
I can't think of any example of psychological pain that doesn't include some rejection of one's own experience.
We can take a suicidal run at bullets and canons, and feel perfectly fine about it if we believe in some just cause.
Any fear is fully accepted and not resisted. At least until we start the run.