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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Mental Balance 1

Crime is also a kind of excited behavior which occurs in a man's hyper-excited state of mind. Thieves and robbers understand the damaging effects of their behavior and repent also. They see and hear the progress and honor received by people who have treaded the path of good actions. When others explain this to them, they understand it too. Their morality is roused for some time and they behave like normal, good people. But then somehow, sometimes some waves of disturbed thinking arise and become so uncontrollable that they make them utterly to revert to their earlier criminal ways.
According to psychiatrists this helpless situation in such individuals is similar to that of patients suffering from fever or headache.
From a mental angle, only stability and capacity are the signs of mental health. Brain consists of innumerable components and by a co-ordinate co-operation they carry out their own role in the total working of the brain. If their co-operation is disturbed at some point or co-ordination is deranged then peculiar, big or small mental illnesses can manifest.
There are four components of a balanced mind:
AFFECT - alertness, logical thinking
THOUGHT - flow of thoughts, imagination
BEHAVIOR - transactions, practice
MOOD - estimate, enthusiasm
Various types of mental patients and their symptoms will be seen depending on the extent of imbalance in the co-ordination within any two or more of these four.
In the absence of logical thinking, man is not able to decide about what people will think and say about his actions, what will be the result of his actions. He does not realize the reactions of the people and the results of his actions. He does not stretch his imagination. He is entangled in only the two - the present and his own mind. As a result he performs acts which are laughable, unpleasant and wasteful. He may not suffer monetary loss, but others consider him a person with retarded intelligence or childish because of his complicated thinking and give up and hope for his ability for fulfilling any responsibility. People even entertain themselves and others by fooling them or ridiculing such childish persons.
When thought-processes get disturbed, imagination runs not. Without any sense or knowledge of the availability of means and their situation, such persons think that whatever they imagine will easily be achieved. they are not able to estimate the means and the time required for giving a concrete shape to their imagination. They are not able to imagine that there can be obstructions to their projects and hence a long distance between imagination and success. As a result they are no better mentally than the children living in a fantasy-land of fairy-tales.
The popular Sheikh-chilli of children's stories must have been suffering from such a mental weakness. When such people continuously think illogically, they become incapable of doing their daily work and lose their courage for doing anything without anyone's help.
As a result of disturbance in their behavior and mood mechanisms, it becomes difficult for a man to find out about the 'why' and 'how' of such person's transactions with him. Many a time we see their madness whereby they mistakenly believe their enemies to be their friends. These persons are also paradoxically afraid because of their belief that some person has become their enemies indulging in black-magic against them or plotting to poison them and destroy them. Many are obsessed by an imaginary fear of accident, death, attack, loss, separation, jail etc. Such persons are not even able to decide as to which difficulty can be solved by which solution.
Similarly some people delude into believing that they are leaders, learned persons, kings etc and possess occult powers. Because of spoiled mood, many people take to addictions. 'Sometimes they appear to be full of enthusiasm, happiness, smiling without reason, full of energy, and showing great hopes. At other times they are so much immersed in worries and despair as if the sky has fallen on them. Many persons suffer from the deluded belief that some terrible disease has entered their body or is about to attack them.
Impulses and excitements adversely affect the brain and sometimes a man imagines unwanted projects and when he is not able to achieve success because of lack of means, he becomes extremely upset and in the resulting excitement destroys the sensitivity of the brain. Immoral thoughts are also harmful because by their very nature, they are destructive.
The authors of moral scriptures have also written that anger is sometimes necessary but is totally discarded, how will society combat immorality, injustice, evil and demoniacal activities? Moralists have explained the need for moral anger to combat immorality, injustice, evil and demoniac tendencies. Thoughtless, immoral and rash anger discussed earlier is certainly harmful. Poet Baanbhatta has described anger thus, "A very angry man is blind despite having eyes". It is said in Valmiki Ramayana - Anger takes away life and is the road to total destruction.
With the onset of anger, the muscles of the body start becoming tense and the muscles of hands and legs especially tense up more because these limbs have to play a more risky role during a fight. Tension appears on the face. The result of the tensing of muscles is also seen on the whole body and in addition to hands, legs, and face, other organs also tense up and contract. In addition the respiratory system is also greatly influenced by anger. According to the scientists, all this takes place because in the situation of anger, the energy of the body is quickly depleted. To replenish this spent energy, the lungs become more active and the breathing becomes faster.
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