Cannot help but feel like mental illness can be closely linked to intelligence. A mind with high processing power can conjure imagined scenarios that the emotional self cannot differentiate from external reality.
The emotional self reacts to what is thought, and what is experienced through sensory input from the outside, nearly identically.
Therefore, a mind that cannot stop thinking may conjure scenarios that cause the emotional self to react fearfully. Then, the mind is beckoned forth in self-defense, for the mind is also an evolutionary tool of survival. The imaginative mind conjures scenario after scenario of what could go wrong, each causing a tick and bump in the emotional self’s anxiety. The anxiety spurs the thinking self to create a solution to protect the whole. That often inevitably leads to imagining evermore potentially frightening scenarios.
The loop continues until this type of human can find a way to simply stop or slow their thinking, stop needing things to make sense or be linear, and until this type can get out of their head and into their body.
This type of person with such an excess of mental energy benefits from extremely strenuous physical exercise. The surplus of energy condenses in the skull when it should be released through the body.
The mind should additionally be thrown the bone of positive input to keep it busy, such as through reading and learning. If the engine is going to keep going regardless, it should be on a course for the heavens, rather than a highway to hell!
Immense amounts of writing should also help depressurize the bouncing thought energy in the skull.
The real danger in this type is when the energy remains trapped in the head and does not find escape elsewhere.
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