Destabilization
Early Family Life
A well-functioning family provides the context for a child to grow and discover their own natural . The roles of genes and early environment in those choices are not known.
Being brought up in a dysfunctional family is liable to interfere with the effective use of inner circle . The growing child is simply exposed to too much disruption and destabilization. Much research has confirmed that absence of a loving protective adult in early life disrupts capacities for attachment and empathy.
Any child in an uncaring environment may be expected to move to the dissociation zone. Here, is too demanding for most, so the result is : which correlates in adulthood with a pattern of indiscriminate sexuality, smoking, alcohol use, substance abuse and brawling. In adolescence, social support comes from membership of local gangs where a is needed for survival.
Troubles Never Come Alone
The were labeled as because pervasive use of the generates a recognizable form of .You absolutely must organise your life to accord with your preferred .
Unlike Methods in other Typologies that need not be taken seriously unless they centre on your occupation or particular situational choices, are absolutely essential for everyone at all times to support endeavours, large and small.
Many sorts of disturbances—losses, frustrations, humiliations, isolation—can at least temporarily destabilize anyone regardless of their . But recovery with sensible gentle self-care is usually rapid.
If your preferred are blocked or disrupted for lengthy periods, then an experience of stress builds up rapidly. The healthy spontaneous restorative being unavailable, your reaction to such fundamental stress is necessarily liable to be dysfunctional, even if it escapes social notice. So troubles start to multiply.
If destabilization becomes chronic, endeavours cannot be effectively pursued. On the surface, this may seem either due to illness (physical or mental) or to personality deterioration. A diagnosis of depression is often assigned: but the situation has little in common with a depressive illness, and it is unlikely that medication should be viewed as other than a temporary solution.
While death is not a primary and immediate danger during destabilization, life depends on endeavour and so death is a consequential threat. Serious mental or physical deterioration often leads to job loss, self-neglect, secondary infections, or a serious accident. Dysfunctional temporary solutions like alcohol or drugs are themselves intrinsically hazardous for health and safety.
Excesses
Given that we all have a drive for continuing existence and survival, it is not surprising that can be abused or over-used. The result seems to be like an addiction. , alone, appears to resist temptations for misuse or excess.
- can foster wasting time with friends rather than working productively; or lead to spending excessive amounts of time on social media websites.
- can move beyond regular sport to all-consuming exercise with all spare time spent in the gym. Activities may be taken to extremes e.g. running back-to-back marathons, extreme (i.e. hazardous) sports.
- can be over-indulged and engagement with others may turn into enmeshment or hysterical emotionality.
- can lead to workaholic behaviour as achievement becomes driven and family life is neglected.
- can lead a person to become a creature of their group, taking on voluntary duties and working late to aid the group without much personal reward.
- If takes over, it distracts from living a life and becomes an escape from it. Meditation junkies find that they spend more and more time at retreats. Cults attract such individuals and the commune leader may cut off contacts and communications with outsiders.More
The exact conditions under which such things happen require much more research. Other vulnerability factors are likely at play.
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Originally posted: 15-Oct-2014. Last updated 22-Jan-2015.