I almost agree with you.

Any mind-alteration which is produced by unconscious or conscious intent, or even by hypnosis, can be mental-illness.

This includes social-programming.

One of Doidge's books identifies that masochism is when one's mind .. I think in abstract-shapes, so remapping the concept into English, the way I remember it, is going to seem strange..

when one's mind folds such that the portion of one's mind which had been among the pleasure-brain now is among the pleasure-brain AND the pain-brain, so it's getting lit-up by both..

he said the treatment is to get people to notice pleasure that isn't having any pain in it, to try to get their mind to differentiate again..

"folds" ( sorta like crossing one's legs, compromising one's balance, while standing ), is how the abstract-shape feels, in my mind, but he cannot possibly have said it that way..

Also, differentiating between the cause ( the brain-damage of child-onset schizophrenia, e.g. which reduces the person's brain volume by 10% ) vs the effect of that brain-loss, combined with all the social-pressure to behave as though everything were fine ( I experienced this: if kids were helped, instead of bullied & gaslit, then maybe the suicide-rate would be lower than 10% for such lives )

would be better integrity than what we do.

Further, since the placebo-effect and hypnosis both work, provably, then I'd want to use mentally-induced-healing on physical/biological things which yield to it, wherever possible..

( not ignoring it, or blocking awareness of it, but actually dismantling it, like allergies for some people should be dismantlable by hypnotherapy..

a psychiatrist, who happened to be my dad, told me that it was reliable that some people with allergies would have allergic-reactions to entering his office, when he had a picture of a rose visible.

They woudn't consciously notice it, but he did. )

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