The over-adapted type thinks that they are responding properly to stressful stimuli.
So, if a scary person is around, they get nervous or frightened.
When they get nervous, they experience that they are so nervous that they cannot speak as well as they would like, or that they cannot do what they had been doing well before.
They may be moved to tears when they see a movie, or even shed tears of joy when people are happy.
The over-adjusted type has no idea that they have learned helplessness, which makes it difficult for them to act spontaneously and accept unpleasant situations with impunity. They think that they have free will, that they have felt things, made decisions, and made efforts, and that they are getting the results.
But in reality, their stress hormones are not elevated by the stress stimulus, so they think, “Huh? Did I feel the tension properly at that time?”
Yes, the stress hormones are not elevated in the over-adapted type, because they are in a learned helplessness in situations where normal people are tense. But they certainly feel tremendous nervousness in tense situations. The nature of that tension is imitating the people around them.
In 1996, Italian neuroscientists discovered mirror neurons, which perform the same actions in our minds when we watch the actions of others. This discovery of mirror neurons explains the phenomenon that “when you are around someone who is nervous, you get nervous too.”
People of the over-adapted type do not act spontaneously, but automatically imitate those around them. They irresistibly receive the emotions of those around them and act as if they themselves feel them. Because they are irresistibly receiving the emotions of those around them with learned helplessness, they don’t feel at all uncomfortable and don’t suspect that they are what they are feeling.
Because they no longer act spontaneously due to their learned helplessness and irresistibly imitate those around them, the phenomenon of “getting better and better grades” occurs if the people around them are excellent. If they are with someone who is a good communicator, they imitate that person irresistibly, so the over-adapted type becomes “that person is a good communicator.”
Even if people like and respect them, or if they are good at their work or study, they do not respond appropriately to stress stimuli. So, that stress stimulus is not properly organized as a memory in the brain and becomes traumatic (all written in narrative).
When working and suddenly being unreasonably angry with a customer, the over-adapted type can imitate someone who is good at handling complaints without any resistance, so they can respond appropriately and calm the customer’s anger.
However, the stress stimulus of being unreasonably angry with the customer is not properly processed as a memory, so it is repeatedly recalled when you go home, or anger that people around you did not help you comes up, because stress hormones go up when you go home, causing inflammation. Inflammation activates the immune cells that attack the hippocampus, which causes the bad memories from the past to be dragged out one after another.
When the stress hormones that strike later cause inflammation, the pripheral immune cells become active and attack the cingulate cortex and amygdala of the brain, causing head and body pain, and the over-adapted type suffers from a variety of physical problems.
When the pripheral immune cells become active and attack the amygdala, thalamus, and midbrain, cognitive function is impaired, making it impossible to do what needs to be done at all and doing things that should not be done. It becomes like a back face, completely different from the person you were acting out. The over-adapted type has a fear that if people know who they are at home, they will be in trouble.
The stress hormones hit them later, and the inflammation just doesn’t stop them from doing things they shouldn’t be doing because of the cognitive impairment, but the over-adapted type doesn’t realize that. The over-adapted type does not notice this because they think they are responding properly to stressful stimuli. And thus, the inflammation causes the autoimmunity to go out of control and the over-adapted type becomes unable to properly respond to stressful stimuli in public.
So, even if you are an over-adapted type, when you feel stress, try to think that your autoimmunity is out of control. You will start to see that this is not what you are feeling, but just imitating what that person is feeling.
When you feel irritated, anxious, or nervous, try to think, “My autoimmunity is out of control,” and you will realize, “This is not mine.” Then gradually, stress hormones will be properly raised in response to stressful stimuli, and you will be able to make more and more free choices.
The over-adjusted type of person has always thought they were free, but when they react properly to stressful stimuli, they begin to understand the true meaning of freedom (it’s all a narrative).