The Importance of Causation in “Psychosis”
I think groups may well be necessary to help helpers hone in on being helpful when it comes to being flexible with the concept of causation of “psychosis.” One of the few rules of a Hearing Voices Network Group is that all causation explanations are allowed. I’d argue that this sets the stage for what I have come to term functional flexible theory styles. This is a spiritual coping skill that I feel is central the healing from periods of crisis.
I think that hearing other ideas about causation in groups challenges message receivers who want to belong and collaborate with a peer group. Belonging to a peer group that permits them to discuss their experiences without punishment is a novel and emancipating idea. A positive consequence is that they become more flexible with how they view causation. For eight years I have watched this process help heal people. It is true I have developed some jargon to describe this increase in causation flexibility that I describe. For starters, in my upcoming book on Special Messages, I identify five causation styles:
5 Styles of Theory
psychologies
Messages are your inner thoughts or unconscious beliefs. They are just in your head. We broadcast our unconscious beliefs in ways that cause others to interact with us in ways that make our unconscious beliefs realities.
Messages are a way of processing things that we aren’t willing to deal with.
Messages are a return to a regressed period of attachment in which the baby has destructive relationships with the boobs.
oppression of the state
Messages come from people following you around and tormenting you in order to control or seek revenge on you who could be a gang, government, corporations, masons, aliens, or other secret societies.
Messages are real evidence that the government has to socially control snitches and put them in ditches.
trauma
Messages are nothing but figments of past perpetrators or abusers.
Messages come from the social thoughts or judgments of others, the social mainstream, or the collective unconscious of others (Stigmas) that are being used to decrease your social standing
spiritual
Messages come from god, fairies, aliens, ghosts or what we in the west call supernatural experiences.
Messages are processes that may help or hurt you in evolving or adapting to the dilemmas of a modern environment.
Messages are there to test your ability to be good and evil and are there to lead you to lead others.
scientific processes
Message are caused by genetic differences or scientific processes that develop because of nuero-diversity that isn’t socially selected to survive.
Message happen when neuro-transmitters get changed through things like environmental stress patterns that fall into genetically derived conditions
Messages happen when spiritual genes get persecuted in our society
When I jargon-talk functional flexible theory styles with people, I explain that every special message (voice, intuition, interpersonal perception, symbolic interpretation, punny linguistic coincidence, cue from the media or natural occurrences, etcetera) that causes distress can simply be dealt with by, swapping out the theory style and make alternative meaning of the experience.
When the message receiver can learn to become open to accepting alternative theories, it can catapult them in terms of their social functioning. Then, they simply need to choose to believe an explanation that they can accept that decreases distress. An alternative theory doesn’t even have to claim to be real or true, but if the message receiver can use it to decrease distress, they need to choose to do so. Then, they need to wait and let god reveal the answer to them. Hence I like to call this a spiritual skill.
What does this look like?
Below I have identified five different kinds of message experiences and and created different causation explanations based on the above theory styles. To be helpful to a message receiver in distress from a special message, I propose using the graph below to create alternative meanings of the special message experience. These can be proposed to a message receiver not as a reality check but as a means to evade extreme distress.
Punny verbal coincidence:
Speakers unconscious projecting
Intentional coded disrespect
Spiritual linguistic coincidence
Currently insignificant but reminds victim of a past of abuse
Neuro-chemicals enhancing reality
Object in the road:
Visual illusion created by the unconscious
Intentional mafia expression of control
God or the devil put it there
Still impacted by the last piece of random litter and in trauma
Gene code that forces the brain to make insignificant meaning
Voice:
Unconscious thoughts
Governmental/mafia communication via vibrations in your fillings
Alien Satellite communication through a computer chip in your head
Telepathic directives from evil societies such as the Church of Satan
Dead relative
Past perpetrator
Result of a specific inherited gene that gets activated
Special broadcast on TV movie
Unconscious illusions based on: what’s really on the message receiver mind
Hollywood illuminate coding its secret reality
A special broadcast from the CIA
Propaganda overseen by the US Government
Spiritual coincidence that relates to your life
Witnessing a coincidence that is tipping of a traumatic recall
Flood of dopamine between the neurotransmitters
Uncanny intuition from an interpersonal interaction:
Message receivers personal issues being projected onto the situation
Maybe message receiver is witnessing a real FBI sting, or undercover agent
An ability to pick up on real spiritual energy
Able to sense a real perpetrator/victim interaction
Coincidental flood of serotonin
I believe that having a cultural feel for what is going on during a psychotic episode or message crisis enables a helper to propose alternative meaning that may help the message receiver decrease the distress. Different explanation will work in different contexts. It is up to the helper to know the message receiver well enough to propose a successful alternative meaning that is acceptable to them. This can help further the relationship and increase trust for something other than the information and power that the messages wield.
But don’t expect to run off and propose alternative meanings immediately. Using this functional flexible theory style strategy takes some time and relationship to make work in my opinion.
Two Inflexible Dudes!
