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PART XITHE DYNAMIC

INTER-CHANGEABILITY OF RAGE AND DEPRESSION

SUPPRESSED RAGE TURNED AGAINST SELF OR ROUTED INTO PARANOID AND

REVENGE FANTASIES

by ED YOUNG, Ph.D.

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RAGE AND DEPRESSION ARE HELD IN A VOLATILE, IMPOTENT, PRESSURE-FILLED BALANCE ABOUT TO EXPLODE,

A FEELING OF BEING ABOUT TO EITHER BURST OR DIE.AS VALENCES IN THE ENVIRONMENT CHANGE, ONE OR THE OTHER - RAGE OR DEPRESSION - GETS THE UPPER HAND.

Feeling that the source can not be attacked because the source is someone whose approval, love, regard, and support is desperately needed, the rage is suppressed. The suppressed rage does not go away, but rather leaves the person with the hurt and in addition with frustration and humiliation over being powerless to express the rage.

As a result, the person turns against their own self and begins to feel the hurt was justified. At its lowest point, feeling, hurt, unloved, powerless, humiliated and disgusted with the self, depression becomes a wish that one were not alive. Depression is covering rage which is covering hurt. At the point of deepest depression is an immobilized, smoldering rage oscillating between first being turned against the other and then the self.

DEPRESSION AND RAGE MASK A DEEP, PAINFUL HURT. The rage wants to get back at the source of the hurt.

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LEVEL OF PERCEIVED THREAT

CONDITIONS THAT PROVOKE RAGE IN A DEPRESSED PERSON

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When the environment is very safe, the pressure of rage breaks through.

When the Threat Is Visible and Intense,

the Balance Is Disrupted and Rage

Erupts.

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FEAR OF REJECTION AND ATTACK SUPPRESSES RAGE.

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WHERE DOES SUPPRESSED RAGE GO? IT GOES INTO FANTASIES OF BEING NON VIOLENTLY ATTACKED, TALKED ABOUT BEHIND ONE’S BACK, BEING POISONED, ONE’S PLANS BEING SABOTAGED, ETC. FOLLOWED BY FANTASIES OF RETALIATION. RAGE TOWARD SELF AND PARANOID FANTASIES ARE INTERCHANGEABLE BY WAY OF THE INTROJECTED NEGATIVE IMPLICIT OTHER.

WHEN DEPRESSION GETS THE UPPER HAND

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RAGE SUPPRESSED AND DIRECTED TOWARD SELF

AS DEPRESSION IS LIFTED, THE PERSON BECOMES AWARE OF THEIR BODY AND ITS ACHES AND PAINS. PSYCHOSOMATIC SYMPTOMS DEVELOP.

SYMPTOMS OCCURRING DURING THE TRANSITION OUT OF DEPRESSION

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RAGE DIRECTED TOWARD OTHER

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TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION AND RAGE• First step in treatment of depression, rage, paranoia, and

psychosomatic symptoms is:– a] to connect one’s feeling toward one’s self and– b] projection of that same feeling onto the world

to the origin or source of these feelings and projections in significant others in one’s life history.

• Second step is identification and objectively accepting these origins and sources as the negative implicit others and understanding their invisible, pervasive influence on one’s psyche.

• Third step is to re orient one’s own negative feelings toward self, others, and world toward their origin and source.

• Fourth step is to symbolically express these negative feelings, in their full intensity, toward the origin and source. This is called catharsis or abreaction.

• Fifth step is to communicate to the origin and source, in a rational, matter of fact, manner, one’s understanding of the negative effect that the origin and source had had upon the development of one’s personality and the connection to one’s current feelings and behavior.

• Sixth step is identify situations, occasions, and inner processes that invoke those negative feelings and to consciously discriminate their effects and consciously decide that that is not the way one wants to see the situation and feel and act in the situation.

• The final step is to replace the old perceptions, feelings, behaviors, and beliefs with a new set that is more in tune with the way one truly wants to be.

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RESULT of CATHARSIS and EXILING NEGATIVE IMPLICIT OTHERS

I feel cleansed and free and my mind feels clear, serene and creative. It was worth all I had to go through to get here.

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Environmental Structure and Systems in Interaction with Person Structures and Systems

Encompassing Environments

Institution or Organization

Setting within Institution

Situation

Dyadic

Interaction

Role/Relationship

Physical/Verbal Behavior

Cognition

Emotion/Feelings

PerceptionBackground: Prior Schemata and Schemes

Environment A Environment B

Right Front Right Back

Left Front Left Back

Right Front Right Back

Left Front Left Back

Brain of Person A in Environment A Brain of Person A in Environment B

The structure of environment A encourages people to use their own judgment, make their own decisions,

plan and execute future plans, cooperate with others, bond with others, be responsible for themselves,

share a desire for mutual facilitation, share tasks and promote the good of the community.

The structure of environment B takes care of people, assesses their needs for them, makes decisions for them, plans and executes activities for them, makes cooperative efforts with others unnecessary , assumes responsibility for the welfare of the community, assumes responsibility

for all aspects of their lives, health, and well being. Unwittingly, makes it impossible to form bonds with others.

Symptoms: Concern with others and tasks, time flying, unconcerned with body and health, active, healthy,

happy.

Symptoms: Focused on self, dependent, depressed, time drags, aches and pains, fears, anger, health degenerates.

Environmental Structures and Systems in Interaction with Person Structures and SystemsEncompassing Environments

Institution or Organization

Setting within Institution

Situation

Dyadic

Interaction

Role/Relationship

Physical/Verbal Behavior

Cognition

Emotion/Feelings

PerceptionBackground: Prior Schemata and Schemes

Environment A Environment B

Right Front Right Back

Left Front Left BackFocus

Brain of Person A in Environment A Brain of Person A in Environment B

The structure of environment A encourages people to use their own judgment, make their own decisions, plan and execute future plans, cooperate with others, bond with others, be responsible for themselves, share a desire for mutual facilitation, share tasks and promote the good of the community.

The structure of environment B takes care of people, assesses their needs for them, makes decisions for them, plans and executes activities for them, makes cooperative efforts with others unnecessary , assumes responsibility for the welfare of the community, assumes responsibility for all aspects of their lives, health, and well being. Unwittingly, makes it impossible to form bonds with others.

Symptoms: Focused on self, dependent, depressed, time drags, aches and pains, fears,

anger, health degenerates.

Symptoms: Concern with others and tasks, time flying, unconcerned with body and health, active,

healthy, happy.

Right Front Right Back

Focus Left Front Left Back

Community Dimensions Within Neighborhoods and Institutions Facilitate or Hinder Dimensions of Self Actualization

In an environment with these dimensions people learn to use their own judgment, make their own decisions, plan and execute future plans, cooperate and bond with others, be responsible for themselves, share a desire for mutual facilitation, share and coordinate tasks, and promote the good of the community.

Personal: there are ways for people to give and receive a sense of belonging and a feeling that they are understood and cared for as individuals.

Rewarding: there are ways

that people can give and receive

acknowledgment, credit,

compensation, or awards for their

productivity and achievements that

are perceived as earned, reasonable

and fair with equality and equity.

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abilities

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Organized: there are ways for

people to have their interests and

actions communicated and

regulated for coordination and

cooperation among individuals and

groups to keep the community’s

endeavors efficient and effective.

Open: there are ways to promote honesty

and authenticity, to guarantee acceptance of

differences and exceptions, to express and

resolve disagreements and conflicts, to

constructively acknowledge and correct

mistakes, and to prevent deception,

manipulation, and a split between the

individual’s public and private personality.

Dimensions of Self Actualization

The personalities of the members of the community can unfold and be revealed in their raw honesty and then begin to change so as to adapt to the structure of the dimensions of the community with corresponding dimensions of self actualization which are then seen as changed personalities.