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Recall what I called the tragic tension between authenticity and attachment. When experiencing and expressing what we feel threatens our closest relationships, we suppress. More accurately, we don't: our mind does that automatically and unconsciously on our behalf.
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If we label this depression of feeling a disease, we risk not recognizing its original adaptive function: to distance oneself from emotions that are unbearable at a time in life when to experience them is to court greater calamity. Recall what I called the tragic tension between authenticity and attachment. When experiencing and expressing what we feel threatens our closest relationships, we suppress. More accurately, we don't: our mind does that automatically and unconsciously on our behalf.
Professor Jehannine Austin, an academic and researcher, leads a genetic counseling clinic for mental health in Vancouver. "Everybody has some genes that predispose to mental illness," she told me, but these are "a very, very long way away from causing anything... Literally what separates those of us who do suffer from those of us that don't is what happens to us during our lives."
Why, then, do I persist in my critique of the diagnostic model? Because diagnoses reveal nothing about the underlying events andbdynamics that animate the perceptions and experiences in question. They keep our gaze trained on effects and not their myriad causes.
What about the feelings of love that people find in addictions, particularly with opiates -the warmth Jamie Lee Curtis and others spoke of? That is, in large part, a function of the brain's internal opiate apparatus in which endorphins, our own natural, endogenous opiates, are the neurotransmitters. Dr. Jaak Panksepp suggested twenty years ago that opiate addiction is rooted in the evolutionary brain mechanisms that promote social bonding: nurturing, emotional closeness, and social affiliation.