Blurbin on brain health

https://www.psychaanalyse.com/pdf/Trigant_Burrow.pdf

   

Found some random interestingness (linked above). Prepare for a wall of text.

  

"In the last phase of his work his interest turned back to the process of attention. Through physiological research and self-observation [Trigant Burrow] described the process by which each individual experiences the tensions of being a member of society: that is, by muscular tension in the ocular and forehead regions, which he called "ditention." Through training it is possible to identify and to give up this process and to experience "cotention," an experience that restores the sense of unity with the social."

 

I have to wonder how this correlates with migraines and tension headaches, since they're usually between the eyes, especially with people with PTSD or other forms of trauma - which are generally socially related. Literally millions of people report these problems just in the US. Why am I posting about this? I dunno, this stuff fascinates me and is leading me toward doing something about some of this, also might be worth looking into if you notice something in yourself like what Burrow calls "ditention."

   

Trigant Burrow was one of the giants alongside Freud and Jung and spent his life studying and criticizing how generations of western culture had made it so people prioritize individual and social constructions over biological needs to extreme degrees, creating all sorts of mass neurological issues (like depression, currently the leading cause of illness and economic loss worldwide according to the World Health Organization). 

    

Brain health is one of the principle problems of our times in my opinion and it will have to be addressed with equal measure as climate change and corruption if all these issues are to be resolved soundly. Depression... Bipolar... PTSD... Attention and mood disorders... The list goes on and on. There are very key associations between many of these disorders that have their heart in social health issues (for most, not all), like the development of the frontal lobe and hippocampus or having unstable dopamine or serotonin levels (linked to your sense of reward or your general bodily regulation and satisfaction). Both dopamine and serotonin are produced in large portion by the gut, meaning there are important links to diet as well - something also very unregulated by many people, especially in the US. 
  
Health just gets more complicated from there but this information could change the face of how mass culture operates. Hell, a lot of marketing methods should be flat out illegal for how they precisely exploit core human functions, and knowingly if you go and read the fucking research (starting with Edward Bernays' "The Crowd") that gave birth to terms like "public relations" or "focus group testing".

   

The numbers these days are just staggering for how many people are reporting mental health issues, and you can safely double or triple that number for the amount of people who are actually experiencing issues but don't have the capacity to seek help, or don't experience them severely enough to break down. The issues are so sneaky is why, plus we idolize personalities and individuality so much we don't see that parts of people might be the result of major health issues, making affected people act like hungry children so-to-speak. Our culture fucking normalizes it at its worst just judging by the obsessive, fragmentary personalities and manic sexuality of pop culture, which I don't mean in some puritanical sense but in observation and respect of the biologically-derived powers belying these phenomena. 

The people who get hurt the worst are those most exploited - young women, minorities, the poor, the ignorant. The exploiters only make their pathology more and more recurrent and into more things as they goes unchallenged... I will be picking a lot of fights when I can turn ethical science into policy (and brush off lawsuits).