Human is basically a set of systems. Some of these systems function with our conscious control, and some of them operate completely autonomously without our awareness. While some are fully developed at birth, a significant number are not fully developed at birth and develop and differentiate over time. In this development process, the external environment and the stimuli we are exposed to are especially decisive. In other words, human beings consist of systems that process potentials existing in hardware with software added over time.
The first and most important task of the human baby, who is born equipped with the respiratory, circulatory, digestive and excretory systems that are essential for its survival, is to survive. To survive, he needs someone else, someone stronger and smarter than him. The person most likely to be with him when he is born is his mother. Thus, the attachment system, which is activated for the first time with the mother and will continue throughout life, comes into play. The person who is the attachment figure becomes a sheltered harbor when needed and a safe base opening to the outside world when necessary.
After the attachment system, which is aimed at survival and meeting basic needs, is activated and security and care are provided, the next step is is coming to the stage. Exploring the outside world to become more autonomous, develop and grow. The child is slowly moving away from the safe arms of the mother, to whom he can return when necessary, and is starting to get to know the world. In these early childhood years; Systems that provide touch, vision and hearing are more prominent and open to development. The regions in the brain that receive, evaluate and recognize these stimuli are more active and more developed. For this reason, especially in the early childhood years, physical contact and communicating love through audio and visual stimuli, that is, feeling and making others feel, constitute the basis for a healthy and safe development.
On the other hand, although exploring the outside world contributes to autonomy and development. It also brings with it the risk of encountering dangers. Of course, the primary duty is to survive and maintain vitality, so it is necessary to be ready for dangers. Although they can return to a sheltered harbor when necessary, it is clear that survival cannot be left to chance. That's why discoveries in the outside world are A threat-alarm system that allows immediate reaction in case of danger comes into play in very early childhood in the body. This alarm system is activated immediately when there is the slightest signal of the possibility of a threat. This system operates without consulting conscious control centres, as there is no time to think and an immediate reaction is required. For this reason, more sudden reactions are given in situations where threat is perceived, and in these reactions, defense and protection reactions come to the fore rather than logic. What is happening and its consequences are only realized after the event is over. Especially in early childhood and in danger situations, this fear-alarm system protects the body from many dangers. However, threat signals stimulate the fear-threat-alarm system in the brain in situations where intense emotional pain is felt, such as being humiliated, humiliated, or feeling worthless, and the person's sudden reactions can sometimes lead to situations that will upset him or her later. This system develops faster in the brain than the logical systems that begin to develop at later ages, and therefore causes problems to occur more frequently, especially during youth when intense emotional turmoil occurs.
The next stage in the process of getting to know the outside world as a safer and more independent individual; the need to relate to other people. In this direction, the individual turns to close relationships, and in this process, he learns to help others as well as meeting his own needs. This orientation also serves the continuation of the species, which is one of the most important tasks, and the reproductive systems in the body mature accordingly.
Being a more autonomous individual and turning to close relationships brings with it choices and taking appropriate actions. The system that comes into play so that the individual can make these choices and actions in the most appropriate way for himself and his environment is the control and decision system, whose center is in the upper frontal part of the brain. This system is a master control system that is very little developed during childhood and continues to develop until the age of 24-25, although more rapidly after adolescence. This system provides control and coordination of all systems other than autonomous systems that provide vital functions under normal conditions. Short-term fear-alarm system in emergency situations Although it comes to the fore, when the danger passes, the main control system still directs our emotions, thoughts and voluntary behaviors. This system functions as a command center that directs the search for meaning in life, enables making appropriate choices, and plans, organizes and prompts appropriate actions in this direction. While performing these functions, it uses the potential existing in the hardware and the software that is mostly formatted especially in childhood. Thus, a unique personality emerges for the individual.
In front of the public, during a job application, at the exam gate, in hospital corridors, at moments of separation, at moments of reunion, on the eve of changes, the upper decision-command center consciously evaluates the information coming from other systems. While trying to make sense of the situation and decide what to do; Autonomous systems are also trying to adapt to these. Each organ is like a state, and the autonomous ganglia located right within these organs act like state leaders. These state heads carry out the necessary actions at the organ level, but do not keep the main command system informed of everything in order to provide the environment for its main functions. To give an example, if all the actions a person performs while picking roses in the garden were carried out consciously, one day would be spent following these action processes. Namely; The clusters of light coming from the rose to the eye, the sounds coming to the ear at that time, the scent of the rose, the feeling of its contact with our hands, all of these activate separate and mutually aware systems. For example, the scent of a rose first stimulates the extensions of the olfactory nerve at the junction of the root of the nose and the brain, whose ends hang from the brain to the nose like onion roots. With this warning, a communication begins between the cells concentrated in the olfactory pathways. With this communication, the substances entering the cell change the electrical charge of the cell, so the effect that starts as a chemical turns into an electrical effect and stimulates the relevant nerves, and these nerves inform the relevant brain regions in the area they affect. Smell works like a wireless communication system that provides, maintains and controls the most magnificent and necessary flow of information between outer space and our own space. This communication network influences food selection, mate selection, job selection, and even settlement. It can even affect the choice of area to work. As a result, with every object that is seen, heard, tasted, touched, or smelled, a deep communication is either established, a response is not given, or an attitude is taken against it. Among these, the ones that are not responded to are the ones that are either used to it or the ones that are no longer cared for by the higher control-decision center, and most of the time, these inputs and outputs are not consciously noticed.
Sometimes, these systems do not work harmoniously, either within themselves or between systems, as expected, and as a result, diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, which are called physical diseases, or diseases such as depression and schizophrenia, which are called mental diseases, may occur. .
In summary, everything that leaves a trace in the development process is stored in these systems at micro and macro levels and creates the codes of the software. The smells, sounds, images felt when you are with a loved one, or what is there when you are hurt, those that make you feel good, those that make you feel bad, smells, colors, appearances, tastes are all compiled and transformed into information. In this way, experiences are provided as a guide for future experiences. The aim is to find, as far as possible, preliminary signs for good and evil and to prepare a safe and protected ground for the continuation of life and the achievement of subsequent goals. The foundations of this ground are laid with the relationship that begins with the first attachment figure, and takes shape with subsequent relationships and experiences. Of course, each individual's hardware is affected by heredity and the formation processes in the womb. The potential of this equipment varies for each individual. It contains sensitivities and resistances. What makes them stronger or more sensitive is the experiences, the traces left by the experiences in the memory, in short, the software added later. This software is shaped by feeling, especially in the early childhood years, then by learning and by making sense of it in later ages. It affects behaviors, emotions and thoughts. Positive childhood years lived on a more secure attachment basis and positive stimuli to which the child is exposed afterwards enable one to be more harmonious and peaceful; Neglect or painful experiences can form the basis for a more difficult adaptation process on the basis of more insecure attachment. This effect Sometimes it facilitates the emergence of diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and sometimes it facilitates the emergence of diseases such as depression, anxiety and thought disorders. The good news is that these can be repaired for a more harmonious life.
As a result, all these interactions require us to consider not just one system but the network of systems in the process of knowing, understanding and repairing the mechanisms that cause diseases. In this regard, in order to help our patients and their relatives more; We evaluate and try to understand all systems that may affect the formation, emergence and exacerbation of diseases as a whole, with their hardware potentials and software codes, visible and beyond, without separating them into body and soul.
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