Psychology, the Substitute of Religion

There is a tv show "The Young Pope" where a cardinal starts a discussion with the pope in regards to the decline of the Catholic Church. At some point, the cardinal mentions how the Catholic Church failed to secure the technique of what is known today as "psychoanalysis". According to him, this resulted to the decline of religion itself. Religion used to offer answers to matters of the soul. Psychology came to hijack the idea by rebranding the same old technique. The only difference was that the focus was shifted from the area of the divine to the area of the earthly.

If one examines the effect of psychoanalysis they will soon find out that is essentially friends on hire. People go to an institution to learn different techniques that have been used for eons from politicians, crystal ball readers, motivational speakers and other crooks. Given enough sessions, the given behavior of the customer can be molded into a more conformist spectrum. On a larger scale, it is social engineering. People put a great effort in trying to look and act "normal" even though the standard is non-existent both statistically and practically. There is no average housewife, no average worker, no average anything yet again psychology has sold the idea very effectively. It introduced a non-existent "original sin" which is conformism. Everybody has "issues" and they are there to "fix them".

I would admit that here are indeed extreme cases that do need rigorous medical care. Those though do not even deal with psychology but rather with the more concrete scientific approach of neurobiology. The crashing majority of disorders today are the result of bogus nonsense that are hold together under a false construct of make-believe. Disorders are nothing more than the popularization of the idea that some things shouldn't happen. Those most commonly include panic attacks, long periods of depression, trauma from various situations and the recent fashionable one — bipolar disorder — which is nothing more than people getting confused in the process of wearing too many masks in their social quests.





At some point, we have been told that these things are simply signs of something going seriously wrong in our health but they are as natural as the occasional flu or headache. For most people, these instances can even go for long periods of time and unfortunately their extensive duration is due to the phenomenon called "the fear of fear" which is reinforced by the industry of conformism. You get anxious about getting anxious and the vicious cycle never ends. Keep this up long enough and anyone can lose their mind.

What we call psychological disorders are all part of the human experience. They are the foundation of what is to be "human". Yet again, we deny or try to fight their occurrences because we have been told they are bad and scary. We cannot be productive in our modern society when we suffer from such experiences. We cannot take part in the rat race of what has come to be perceived as "acceptable".

There are hundreds of brilliant individuals from history that excelled because they had emotional trauma, panic disorders, depression, generalized anxiety and a bunch of other derivatives that seem to get more and more year after year. Imagine if Woody Allen, Isaac Asimov, Julian Assange, Bon Jovi, Agatha Cristie, Winston Churchil, Eric Clapton, Johny Depp, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Edgar Alan Poe and so many others were "normal". Would they have accomplished all they did without their "gift" of those "disorders"? "Psychological Disorders" are simply different tools for some people to excel. They inspire and help focus on different parts of life even if it means that sometimes one has to cut off all bonds and disconnect. If these exceptional people were treated with all the sedatives we pump into people today or discouraged from psychologists to "fit in" they wouldn't be who they are and they wouldn't have accomplished so much.





Imagine if a boxer went to the hospital every time they had a punch landed on them. Imagine if a football player had only easy games with no tackles. Simply, one can never go on if there is so challenge, no trauma. Muscle itself grows when it suffers trauma. The brain physiology is no different. The "trauma of the soul" is what it takes for a massive amount of intellectual inquiry to be generated. Most athletes have what "experts" call today ADHD and they simply use it up for training and getting involved with sports. Most scientists have OCD because simply all it matters to be succesful in the field is to be persistent to the point of compulsion. Nothing wrong there either.

Unfortunately, we are numbing ourselves down either with therapy or pills because we are in denial of our own self. This is similar to what priests used to do in the past when one's behavior deviated from the norm. "X bad thing happened, ask for forgiveness" or in other words "repent and correct it back to what society accepts". A "sin" is nothing more than deviated behavior from the norm. It is "wrong" because the masses that made up religion decided was wrong. Surprisingly enough, the complete nutjobs that had hallucinations, brain tumors or were down psychotics were considered "gifted" and were thought to carry the word of God. Again, notice how the "extreme" was considered divine but yet again the followers of a given religion owed to conform to the norm.

Humanity advanced on sins, exceptions to the rule, deviations of character and behavior from the norm. We are still very primitive and we haven't escaped from the simplest human inquiries.