Suicide and the limiting difference of ego and survival stressor set point integrity in the brain
A brief mathematical formulation
Keywords:
psychology, cognition, neuroscience, Freudian theory, suicide, suicidality, survival, adaptation, stressors, survival stressors, evolution, set points, egoAbstract
The propensity to suicide is not psychological, but a set product of the threshold violation of the interdependent activities of a finite, heterogeneous series of survival stressors, whose homeostatic and allostatic activations define internal set points and mutual products collectively constitute survival integrity. The proposed survival stressors govern satiation, hydration, sleep-cycle accommodation, reproductive access, social-dynamical relations, social-dynamical threats, access to opportunity, self-knowledge syntony, physical pain, physical discomfort, thermodynamic equilibria, coordinational or vestibular equilibria, hygienicity, and relational needs. Suicide is proposed to emanate from an irreversible violation of the set points of survival stressors specifically in terms of the limiting difference of the Freudian or neuro-ceptive ego, which is considered to be grounded in a continuous stable coherent expression deriving from repeated functional network activations. A brief mathematical system formulation is presented establishing the dynamical merits of this contentious proposal.
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