When there is psychological trauma, latent inflammation, there are two types of people: the codependent type, who think about other people’s feelings under stressful stimuli, and the regression type, whose stress hormones, which must go up under stressful stimuli, go down in the opposite direction.
For those without chronic latent inflammation, stress hormones are appropriately raised by stress stimuli, and they can naturally choose “fight or flight” in response to stress stimuli without thinking. Because they can naturally respond to stress stimuli, no unpleasant feelings remain. The stress hormones go straight down over time, so the inflammation subsides and there is no loss of cognitive function.
A drug-dependent man with chronic latent inflammation will show a “regression type” response when he is tested for stress stimuli. The man’s partner will have a “codependent type” response when the stress stimulus test is done on a different day from the man.
When a partner is exasperated and says, “Why are you doing drugs in front of the kids!”, the stress stimulus from that partner causes the man’s stress hormones to drop and regress, then he loses his temper. “Why don’t you understand how I feel!” And later on, the man gets angry and does drugs to control it, and the cycle repeats itself.
When the man was in treatment and off drugs, I did a stress stimulus test and he changed to a “codependent type”. Then a few days later, when I tested his partner, she showed a “regression type” response.
In the initial couple interview, we see a situation where the man was a regression type and was unfaithful during treatment, but after treatment, the positions were reversed and the partner was more unfaithful and the man was reproving the partner. Then, when the partner and the man separated and his parents got involved with the man, the man reverted back to the “regression type” and went back to being socially withdrawn because his parents were codependent types.
When this man finds a regression type partner and gets involved with her, he becomes a “Gentleman who acts with the other person’s feelings in mind”. It was just the influence of the regression type partner that shifted his reaction to the codependent type.
The latent inflammation causes antibodies (“psychological wounds”) to form, which react to the codependent and regression types of allergic sources, resulting in an allergic reaction of up and down stress hormones. The allergic reaction causes inflammation, which activates peripheral immune cells and cognitive function is reduced and his original adaptation is lost.
So, the man has changed into a person who can think and care about other people’s feelings, only the allergic source has changed and the allergic reaction is different.
When such a man realizes that he is allergic to the codependent type and that he is experiencing an allergic reaction called “regression,” his autoimmune outburst will be calmed down.
As his autoimmune outburst subsides, the latent inflammation gradually subsides, the peripheral immune cells calm down, and his cognitive function returns to its original state.
This is the narrative in which the immune system stops attacking the latent inflammation, using the metaphor of allergy.
Using this narrative, you can see, “That person was a codependent type!” or “He was a regression type!” and when you stop looking for the cause within yourself, you will return to your true self (all written in narrative).