On Unresolvable Memories
I suspect the basis of many psychological disorders stems from memories/trauma from past events that leave the individual unable to re-solve "this" (life). The mind needs to be able to explain or make a story of why things happen etc. When trauma happens in such way we are unable to re-solve it with our current core beliefs I this brings about disorder in the mind.
Core beliefs are, because of our evolution, sort of impossible for others (perhaps even the individual) to encroach on. This would be why counseling is so important/effective, as the person gets to talk things out, layout everything in front of them, and perhaps start to find SOME "story" that can resolve the events/disorder.
Propriety plays a role here too...
If someone has been through experiences that society generally doesn't acknowledge, talk about, deal with etc. it could be very difficult to resolve such trauma. Society conditions ALL of us in such a way to ignore certain phenomenon/events and so even the individual who experienced the trauma would be sort of ignorant to their own suffering and how to resolve it.
Group dialogue would also obviously tend to this.
There is also the suggestion then that intellectual insight COULD end such disorder of the mind, provided it is given/found implicitly, in OTHERWISE healthy minds.
Trauma comes to us through our memory complex, and so to be free from the emotions that memory levates, would be to free oneself from psychological ailments as PTSD.
Then I think there is the argument that such a use of the mind is like "detaching" because of abuse. Many would see this as a bad thing-a defense mechanism of the mind etc...
However, in Buddhism (for example) there is also certainly talk of detachment.
Rather, to allow the mind to function free from the pressures (anxiety) of time (past/future), I think will soon be understood as the proper use of the mind...
And so the question arises:
In one of the last episodes of Person of Interest, the machine, an artificial intelligence entity who was programmed to protect humans turned on its creator.
The machine's perception of time had been corrupted, and it had all these memories but no anchor to them.
It didn't know why decisions were made in the way they were made. The machine could only see all the actions the creator had taken but not what came before or after, not in order, and a lot of these actions didn't look very good so this entity saw its creator as a threat.
Only when time was ordered again did the machine understood why decisions that would seem like bad ones have the opportunity to cause good effects if the timing is correct. Only then could the machine look at all the data it gathered from a human and see whether they were learning from their mistakes and applying what they had learned.
This is a great comment and very on point. I will watch this episode soon. You bring up a sort of counter point that shows you understand what I mean to say. I also may write about this concepts relation to the movie "memento" where the premise is that the main character cannot form short term memories.
I think I can resolve this with a definition of psychological time and a specific disorder that can arise: https://steemit.com/psychology/@jokerpravis/an-introduction-to-psychological-time
And so we can suggest that a causal understanding of time IS useful and valuable for some things and daily function etc. but we tend to extend that understanding of time into the psychological realm and use it not to SOLVE problems but to perpetuate them under the guise of "solving them".
Becoming becomes a denial of being and through that denial there is only escape.
I suspect after I watch that video I will be inspired to write something that relates to it.
Pain is to be felt, not for escaping it, not for running from it. Pain is a reference point, created when our expectation of the future was transformed and presented to us in a way we don't want to accept. We suffer the pain because we want to change it and that's impossible, the reference point is there to help in future decisions, your survival may depend on these references. Your survival depends on remembering what fire can do to your body...
The problem is people try to understand pain not to feel it anymore, which brings them more pain because that expectation will not be fulfilled, no matter how hard they try.
Perhaps the reason we have "unsolved" memories is so that we accept the understanding that there are always things that we are unaware of when making decisions because our brain can only take so much, so we could also understand that it is futile to seek control, but we are more open to learn about the things that influence us without the expectation of learning everything.
The video just shows some of the mental processes of the machine and how they are linked to time, I don't remember what that episode I'm telling you about was called but highly recomend the show.
Yes I see what you suggest, the problem I point to is when one starts to spend time trying to resolve psychological problems that are psychologically born. It puts the mind in a perpetual pattern, and the cure is not to finally "solve" the problems but rather to stop any attempts at doing so.
This pattern that arises, like you warn of, is an escape from the crux/truth, rather than actually facing it.
The process itself becomes the escape.
In other words we call it "disorder" when the ordering functions in such a way that the mind is in constant discomfort or produces only anxiety from the ordering. There is no logical sense to it, but we don't seem to have a "belief" system or strategy that can "realize" this and drop such behavior. There might be methods, but methods use causal time, and thus perpetuate the disorder in the already "malfunctioning" mind.