To: Maurice Winn who wrote (118652 ) 5/1/2016 7:05:48 AM From: THE ANT Respond to It must feel great being at the 99.99 percentile of bravery right until the end, but you may have few children and those you do have may be too brave. How about this one? Would you like to be 99.99 percentile of depression where 100 is the inability to get depressed? I don't think so. In my model depression is not an illness but a pain receptor just like physical pain, nausea ,thirst, hunger, etc.. We were built with a carrot and stick motivational system with opiates being the carrot and depression being the stick, Those at the 99.99 percentile have half their motivational system missing and don't go far in life. All percentiles on the depression scale are survivors but at some low percentile, that the medical community decides on (by writing DSM 5 criteria), a person is depressed enough that it is called an illness.(by the way the 97-99 percentile do have an illness but, as I am the only one with this model, they are just called lazy and do little in life). It might even feel good to be unable to get depressed just like not being able to feel pain but both conditions harm you. That is why we were built to not be able to turn them off ourselves. If we did we would likely never turn them on again(anybody thinking addiction).If you think hard on what I just said you might understand more about addiction and depression than half of the psychiatrists I know. They were brought up on DSM criteria, no models, no thinking. Look at the literature and see if anyone is saying what I am. They all think depression is an illness and a chemical imbalance to boot. A few in illness genetics are saying depression might have positive aspects as the prevalence of depression in the young population would argue that. They are met with howls of anger. Even they have not figured out depression is a pain receptor we all have. They don't even have the 1 to 100 percentile model so it is hard to head to the next step. The title to my PTSD chapter is The Right Kind of Learning for the Moment the Wrong Kind of Learning for Your Life. Maurice you are smart enough to take the title and run with it -figure out more about PTSD than many in the medical community. Yes the title is itself a model built from 2000 lectures, 2000 patient experiences,2000 articles. I just stepped out of the details. Here is one of the few models I was ever taught :The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Seems simple but a lot of observation went into it
