This is such an interesting pathology. I wish we were talking about all the interesting stuff.
One day maybe we can.
Did you know the pathology has defenses? It wants to be the pathology. No other pathology has defenses. ADHD doesn’t WANT to be ADHD, autism isn’t trying to be autism. This pathology wants to be this pathology and it will defend its existence from efforts to try to eliminate it.
It wants to survive. A pathology wants to survive… and replicate itself in other minds.
That’s weird.
This pathology has a motivation, a will to maintain its existence – it wants to survive and it will defend itself trying to survive. No other pathology has motivation, and no other pathology has a will to survive.
We have this thing within us that’s not us, yet that makes us do stuff. It’s a set of damaged information structures in the attachment networks of our brain, a coherent set of damaged structures that create a characteristic pattern of pathology.
That’s why I call it a pathogen. It’s a coherent set of damaged information structures in our attachment networks, damaged by trauma, that produces a characteristic pattern of symptoms – it’s pathogenic, it creates pathology.
This is absolutely a public health issue. There is a pathogen in our brain networks, in our attachment networks, the love-and-bonding system of the brain, that’s creating severe pathology in us… to meet its own needs, not ours.
It seeks to replicate itself. It wants to replicate the trauma that gave it birth, it wants to replicate itself in other brains – child brains, child attachment networks.
Frankly, I find that a bit terrifying. A lot terrifying actually. It has a motivation to survive and will fight against efforts to heal it, and it wants to replicate the damage in other minds, especially in the mind of the child’s attachment networks.
Yikes.
Did you know it groups? It becomes a larger organism-thing spread between multiple brains. It has two ways of bonding into other brains. Did you know that? Yeah, pretty weird for a pathogen to spread among brains.
The first way it unites with other brains that contain the pathogen is by simple resonance. This type of bonding is weak but pervasive. I think of this type of bonding like the hydrogen bonds that occur in water molecules. They make water liquidy and sort of hold together, but they’re easily broken between molecules allowing us to enter water, not like the bonds in a rock.
Brains that contain the pathogen resonate and they join together in their resonance. It’s simple and pervasive.
At a low level of intensity, this resonance mind-bond is like the mind-bond that occurs at a baseball game. Everyone cheers and boos at roughly the same time. But if there’s an earthquake during the game, the group-mind is broken and individual minds easily reemerge.
At a higher level of intensity, the resonance mind-bond becomes the Nazi rally at Nuremberg with all the flags and pageantry. It’s not a deep personal bonding among the participants, it’s a superficial but intense bond of resonance among the pathogen damage in the attachment networks, the love-and-bonding system, of all the brains present.
The first type of collective mind-bond is simple resonance with variable intensity.
The second type of mind-bond that the pathogen makes is deeper and stronger. It’s more like the covalent bond in chemistry where two atoms share the same electrons, they complete each other’s electron needs.
This covalent bond of the pathogen creates an ally, a specific person who bonds closely to the pathogenic source.
The primary pathogenic source creates the trauma reenactment narrative, and the covalent ally bonds to the narrative in the coveted role of the “virtuous protector” to also work out their pathogen in replication.
The ally bond is deeper and stronger. It’s to an individual and process. One ‘tell’ on the covalent mind-bond of the ally is the presentation of the “virtuous-protector” role.
Lots of people are virtuous. I’m kind of a virtuous guy, mostly, kind of, usually I hope. Lots of people are protectors in a given situation. I’m a protector person a lot, usually, I try.
But it’s different with the ally, you’ll notice the difference. They – present – and the presentation is important, they want to be socially seen in the role of the virtuous-protector.
It’s the presentation of the role that’s important to them, the virtuous-protector role in their own co-narrative of trauma resolution.
He’s an example, the ally says “I just want what’s best for the child.” Of course you do. We all do. No normal-range person says that because for every normal-range person that’s a given.
But for the ally, they want to “present” as being especially virtuous in their protector role. The ally thinks it’s special to value the child – and that other people don’t. It’s the presentation that’s the tell.
When you see it, that’s a covalent mind-bond of an ally pathogenic structure working itself out in collaboration with the primary source.
Now that’s weird.
I never had this with ADHD or autism or any other pathology. ADHD people don’t join other ADHD people to co-create their ADHD. It’s because it’s an attachment pathology, damage to the love-and-bonding motivational system of the brain. It’s a motivational pathology of love-and-bonding, a social bonding thing damaged by trauma.
The damaged set of information structures have access to the motivational networks. It wants to replicate itself in reenactment trying to heal, but it doesn’t understand the purpose – just the motivation – replicate the trauma.
And it wants to survive. It defends itself, it wants to exist. Even if that harms the host organism of us. Now that is really weird to understand. There’s a coherent set of damaged information structures in our attachment system that seeks to survive… even it harms us… sometimes even if it kills us.
Yikes. I wish we were talking more about this pathogen. It is extremely interesting. It has motivation. It has defenses. It seeks to survive even if that harms the host organism. It replicates itself, especially in the minds of children. It bonds among minds in various ways and intensities.
This is such an interesting pathology if it weren’t also so devastating in its danger and damage. This is the most dangerous pathogen on the planet… and it’s in the family courts unrecognized and untreated. Yikes.
Book et al. describe the Dark Triad and Dark Tetrad as the core of evil. Research has identified evil in us – and it’s in the family courts. Yikes cowabunga, that’s bad.
There’s this thing within us that’s not us, a pathogen created by trauma, a coherent set of damaged information structures in our attachment networks that create a characteristic pattern of pathology in us.
It’s not us, but it’s in us, and it makes us do things, bad things… but it shapes our thinking to think that the bad things are good things – it tells us that we need to “protect” ourselves from the danger.
What danger?
What dangers are available? It will choose from among the available options.
Jews and Blacks are typically available. Germans if you’re French and the French if your a German in the 20th century, ‘not so much anymore. Catholics if youre Protestant. Protestants if you’re Catholic. Holy cow, religion is always a convenient source of “others” for a holy war jihad. Liberals seem popular recently by alleging a “woke” agenda no one defines, whatever I disagree with is “woke” which is obviously bad.
Everything I disagree with is bad, and everyone who believes what I disagree with is the enemy to be afraid of, killed and destroyed. Finding the enemy, finding the target for fear and projection, is easy once the motivation to do so is there.
Such an interesting and dangerous pathogen that is not us but in us, and it makes us do things, bad things. It’s damage in our love-and-bonding system, our attachment system.
We can’t see it in us because it is us that’s looking to see it. We can’t see what is us. I wish we were talking more about how intriguing this pathogen is.
Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857
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