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I had thought of writing about marital compatibilities in astrology.

The reason is that I have a feeling in my mind that they may have some connection, even if to a small extent, with the mental state in marital life.

However, I have now decided that I should not go into that topic. The reason is that if I enter into it, the writing may run off in many directions like a calf let loose.

I am thinking of keeping the writing on the path of the subject of psychology, or Psychology.

A subject standing right next to Psychology is Psychiatry. If said very lightly, this is seen as a treatment method that removes mental illnesses through medicine and therapy (or through disease treatment).

Since I do not know the formal depth of this subject, I am saying some things while saying that I do not have the information to examine it.

Many academic subjects are in the hands of those who have obtained degrees and postgraduate degrees in them.

The depth and breadth of all of them are less likely to be known to others.

Outsiders cannot waste time to understand the depth, breadth, subtlety and accuracy of each academic subject.

Mood disorders: Depression, bipolar disorder.

Anxiety disorders: Generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder.

Psychotic disorders: Schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder.

Personality disorders: Borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder.

Trauma-related disorders: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Neurodevelopmental disorders: ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder).

Substance use disorders.

And so on—these are the things that the medical treatment system called Psychiatry tries to treat. The weapon of this treatment system is the science of medicine.

Having such a treatment plan is good indeed. Because if individuals get a mental illness state, it is good indeed for them to approach someone for treatment.

However, the problem is that the things taught in this academic subject are caught in the shackles of the word Science.

Moreover, the fact that the doctor's life income path and social depth and others can be maintained only by showing loyalty to the studied subject is indeed a problem.

If the true state of the studied things is questioned, life may become unsteady.

The technical word usages written above seem to be things that stick in the mind and burn into it.

Like what was said about Political Science and others, if one investigates what these are, they are indeed things that any ordinary person can understand.

However, it is the technical word usages themselves that elevate any academic subject.

Audio and visual hallucinations (false perceptions in hearing and sight).

Hearing sound messages from some source that cannot be seen physically. That is, not seeing any human, but hearing someone or something speaking in a human voice and language.

Seeing persons or visuals that cannot be seen physically by others.

Truth be told, digital technology today has turned these things into a physical reality.

Speaking to people far away with earphones in the ears, hearing directions from Google Maps, speaking to Alexa, Siri and such—these and all will seem like a separate world to those without knowledge about such technology; that is the reality.

However, such phenomena being seen today as mental illnesses occur when such abilities are obtained by someone without the presence of any digital technical device.

A few chapters back in this writing, in the eastern Peermade hill ranges, I had seen a medium person hearing such sound messages in the ears.

This is not a great ability, but Psychiatry can write a verdict that it is a symptom of schizophrenia and drug use.

Readers will remember Salman Rushdie opining that the Prophet Muhammad being able to see the angel Gabriel and receiving sound messages from a supernatural source and others were symptoms of him having schizophrenia.

With this statement, Rushdie became world-famous.

In reality, audio and visual hallucinations are an ability in a person's mind that surpasses today's digital technology.

If such sound messages and visuals are obtained by a person, there must be software systems in that person's brain software to detect those message signals, process them and convert those signals into sound form and visuals.

Trying to wipe out these abilities from the mind without any information about such a reality may be due to an understanding that there is an ability in the person that humans today cannot comprehend, and that it may be dangerous to other humans.

However, in normal circumstances, the fact is that such abilities in a person are not dangerous to other persons.

However, if someone without acquaintance with that person maintains contact, it can indeed be a state of distress for the people in that person's house.

If one wishes to say, it is a state like one's own wife speaking intermittently on the mobile phone to some person without acquaintance.

The problem here is that Psychiatry has no knowledge of what the technology working behind this phenomenon is.

Having defined such abilities as schizophrenia, if they cannot be wiped out through medical science, electric shock therapy (electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)) cannot be withheld.

What needs to be clearly understood here is that what is attempted through medicine usage and electroconvulsive therapy is indeed a version of the things once attempted through lobotomy, one that others can tolerate hearing about.

Remember that in lobotomy, cautery is performed in the lobes of the brain. That is, extracting the mind.

Today, through chemical substances, current and others, they are causing serious malfunction in the brain's machinery.

It is not possible to take all the technical words used in Psychiatry for discussion here. However, let us look at one thing: bipolar disorder.

Bipolar disorder:

Periods of elevated mood, increased energy, impulsivity.

Depressive episodes: Periods of low mood, loss of interest, fatigue.

In short, states of great excitement in the person, excessive energy, states of jumping about and behaving, occasions of depressive state, aversion to work, lack of interest, mental and physical fatigue and such.

I feel that it cannot be certainly said whether all these are things originating only from the person.

A person stands in a particular position in a large net full of many family members in an invisible supernatural virtual arena created voluntarily in one's own family.

This position is defined by the words and bond links and others in feudal languages like Malayalam.

If this same person goes to a workplace, sometimes they may fall into a net with a position very opposite to this positioning. Or it may be standing in great high levels.

Or else, unexpected changes coming in life can position this person in an opposite way, or in a greatly beneficial way.

In the net, the person can move pulled this way or that. They can rise or fall. They can frolic about.

All this will cause serious movements and value differences in the supernatural software that controls the mind.

When Psychiatry tries to treat this state through medicine usage, it is necessary to know the characteristic qualities of the language spoken by the person and the people around speaking.

In feudal languages, words can indeed exert great force. The words this person has experienced and the newly experienced words need to be found.

Moreover, the person standing as a patient needs to know in which, what word links among other persons they are hanging in, and standing raised up.

Moreover, if a great opposite state comes in life, many persons may bring changes in behaviour to face them. This can be a kind of self-protection defence plan.

In addition to all this, whether the person brought for treatment sought treatment by their own mind is indeed a problem.

We also need to understand that portraying those we do not like as mentally ill is a weapon generally used.

This is indeed a matter that benefits the psychiatrist.

Above all this, there is another matter.

If a person goes for consultation to a psychologist or psychiatrist, the defining word seen on the sheet given by the hospital or clinic is Patient. That is, the ill one. That is, the mentally ill one.

This is indeed a great tiger's tail.

The person becomes a mentally ill one in the medical record. The family itself will enter a state of distress.

That is the mentally ill one's house. If one pries into supervision, it is indeed a problem.

Connected with this, an incident comes to mind.

An IAS officer of the 1984 batch whom I met in Delhi.

He is the person with the most profound knowledge and depth in English literature among the people I have directly met in life.

This may indeed have been a great problem among his superior IAS officers.

The reason is that a mental state encompassing vast social justice was seen in him.

Senior officials tried not to give him any posting. He filed a writ in the Supreme Court and argued directly.

The judge may not have been able to tolerate his depth and breadth.

He argued continuously in court.

Then the government side put forward an argument in court. This person has a mental illness of arguing in court. He needs to be examined by a mental illness expert.

The judge did not let go of the stick that came into hand.

The court gave directions to examine him in a well-known mental illness hospital in Delhi.

Then the hospital gave notice. Present the patient (the mentally ill one) in the hospital on this date.

What a quagmire!

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It was in 1985 that I first used a computer. It was a computer produced in England called the Grundy NewBrain.

It was not something that could be operated using a mouse like today. Rather, it was one that had to be operated by typing and using BASIC programming language codes.

When using it then, that is in 1985, I immediately felt that there was some similarity between the computer and the human mind.

However, those who heard this opinion ridiculed it.

The reason is that the calculator that many had in their hands then was a device that did and completed in a jiffy certain things that bank employees and grocery shop employees did daily.

No one would compare the calculator to human intelligence.

Now see this scene.

Two people sweeping the large courtyard of the neighbouring house from two places and taking the various objects in front and placing them in their appropriate positions.

Both are wearing similar uniforms. Seeing them, both seem almost the same.

One of them is indeed a human with life and intelligence. The other is a robot (artificial human) controlled by AI with great abilities.

The things both do are according to the instructions clearly given to them.

I am not trying to extract any additional information from this given example.

In short, both these individuals have hardware in their mind. What controls them is software.

If there is any malfunction or shortcoming in their functioning, it may be due to a malfunction in the hardware. Or else, the problem may be in the software that operates them.

Sometimes, no malfunction or error will be seen in either of these two. Rather, the problem may be due to a mistake in the instructions given to these individuals.

Or else, the culprit may be an error in what these two individuals have experienced and known during their life and functioning, or in the information they have grasped.

If none of these, it may be deliberately given wrong information to them that is the culprit.

Sometimes, seeing wrong ways in which people like them behave and adopting those may also be the cause of the error.

There are other possibilities too. Correct information and instructions may have been given to them. But the full true state may not have been informed to them. Rather, many things may have been hidden from them.

It seems that the example laid out above can be connected with the human mind and mental problems and ways of dealing with them.

The hardware of the human mind consists of various components in the brain. If the brain is opened and looked at, most of them are indeed things that can be seen.

All these function due to the action and reaction of various chemical substances in the blood, according to the information from modern science and medical science.

Based on this information, the academic subject that studies and treats the human mind is Neurology, it seems.

The brain, the spinal cord, nerves are what Neurology studies, along with their functioning.

Neurologists treat many diseases like epilepsy (convulsive disease), stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease (trembling disease), Alzheimer's disease and such, along with the errors coming in the hardware of the brain and spinal cord and nerves, through medicine.

Brain tumour inside the brain, weakness in the wall of the blood vessel (aneurysms), spinal disorders and such are treated through surgery by the neurosurgeon. I am not going into that subject.

It seems that psychiatrists treat mental illnesses like depressive disease, schizophrenia, anxiety (worry), abnormality in behaviour and such using medicine.

At the same time, I understand that the psychologist does therapy and intervenes in behaviours and teaches new things, removes wrong ones (behavioural interventions) and treats and cures mental problems and behavioural defects.

In all three treatment methods mentioned above, various results can be obtained.

However, a shortcoming in all three is that none of them shows any reference or indication about the software matter mentioned in the case of the robot above.

Let us look at the matter of mistake, error, incompleteness, lack of maturity in the instructions given to a person.

If a person receives an instruction that behaving in a particular way will give strength to words and personality, that person may behave in that way.

In feudal languages, the instruction received by the person is that excessive condescension must be shown to get the matter done, and if nothing is to be got done, climbing up making a fuss is appropriate.

Pushing aside the person standing in front and getting ahead is also what these languages teach. When boarding a bus, one must push aside the person in front to board the bus.

None of this is seen by anyone in Kerala today as a mental illness state. Rather, it is seen as mental energy and capability.

However, in English nations, this behaviour was indeed seen as a mental disability. I do not know about today.

The positioning on the inhi to ingal ladder in feudal language is indeed a problem.

For example, in Malayalam language schools, students are the individuals standing at the very bottom of the inhi to ingal ladder in that atmosphere.

In them will be seen an energy that cannot be seen in English.

The demeanour and behaviour and energy and voice of calling out loudly from a great pit upwards, jumping up towards the top can be seen.

Or else, the opposite demeanour may be there.

Generally speaking, in schools and colleges and workplaces and others with English language atmosphere, such a behaviour or demeanour or voice is unlikely to be seen in individuals. The reason is that there is no need for it. That kind of positioning is also not there.

If looked from Malayalam, it is a great effeminate nature. However, it may also be a fact that this effeminate demeanour is not seen in many women in Malayalam.

In this, which demeanour is a mental disability will depend on in which atmosphere the person is.

Depending on in which atmosphere the psychologist is, it will be decided whether the person has a mental disability or mental superiority, and treated accordingly.

In English language, the matter of manners is coded. That is, do not behave in a way that causes distress to the other person.

That does not mean that all English people will behave in the same way.

At the same time, the coding in feudal languages like Malayalam is an encouragement to measure others and show condescension to some and trouble others in various ways.

That does not mean that all who speak Malayalam will behave like this.