This is just a short summary that will smoothens the way into Tuesday's episode ...
Hello, Julia Bright here! This is just a refresher for you before this week’s episode on Back to level one: Be a Baby of Your Own!
There is something grounding in the thought that most animals have the same survival needs as we do: we all need air, need water, nutrition, sleep, excretion, movement, and maintain homeostasis. If we miss any one of these we won’t live long as individuals.
Our paleolithic ancestors, every one of them lived in survival mode all their lives. What saved them is the social and communication cushioning that surrounded them all the time. Social ties and communication are so intertwined that they cannot exist without each other. Language enabled our ancestors to cooperate and get to all continents of the earth.
They dealt with stressors together as a group and as soon as they appeared. This is why we were talking about acute, one time stress, acute danger, acute response. The autonomic nervous system works two ways. The sympathetic nervous system helps you in times of danger, when there is no choice either fight, flight or freeze. pupils dilate, there is no more saliva production, bronchi are dilated in the lungs, heart is accelerated, glucose release is stimulated, stomach, pancreas and intestines are inhibited along with urination among other things. The body is ready to give its fullest to the task, thanks to this nice and sympathetic nervous system. When the danger passes, acute, situational stress is gone, the body can relax and the nervous system can go beyond the sympathetic phase, and the so called parasympathetic beyond sympathetic nervous system takes over. Now it constricts pupils, stimulates saliva and tear production, constricts bronchi in the lungs, slows the heart down, stimulates the stomach, pancreas and intestines along with urination and sexual organs come back to normal.
Now we also learnt that the button of the sympathetic nervous system nowadays got stuck and we can’t get it unstuck and we are on high alert all the time and there is no way the parasympathetic system can put things back to normal anymore. So our organs get damaged. We are on alert just as if we had to fight dangerous ferocious animals all the time without a break. And that might just be true if we think about all the people who want to manipulate us, take advantage of us financially, politically, economically and otherwise. Today is not the saber tooth tiger that we need protection from, it is all the bullies, psychopaths, manipulators and such.
No wonder we have trust issues. But we are social beings, we can’t help it! We need each other! The term learned helplessness was introduced. We can’t find any way of coping with all the problems that we face. They are compounded and we have many problems and if they are not taken care of, if they are not faced they are going to be larger and larger so that is when depression rises.
Today’s chronic depression only became a separate illness in the 1970’s and it was the time when its number increased twenty fold and it is still sharply increasing.
Just as with paleolithic human ancestors, homeless people on the street live day in and out barely surviving and not getting any further.
Anyone in depression is the same way. They may live in a safer surrounding but they can barely function and survive. They really need their community and all the support they can get. Their partner, family, and friends are the most important source of support.
So that is the prelude and we are going to continue on Tuesday.
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So with all this prelude we are going to continue on Tuesday!
Until then, explore, think, create, communicate, let your Humanly Genius emerge, grow and become your authentic self. Meantime I’ll do the same and I will embrace my precious community around me! Talk to you Later!