When stress hormones are lowered by stressful stimuli, you will not be able to properly feel stress emotions in the moment. Stress emotions that were not felt in the moment will no longer be organized in the brain’s memory drawer. This is because the memory of the situation during stress will be tagged with the stress emotion and organized in the brain drawer.
When stress hormones are lowered, emotions are not tagged and remain unorganized and scattered as memories forever. So even after the stress is gone, the stress emotion will still hit you fresh and repeatedly.
The easiest thing to imagine with the “regression type” is the state where, when someone gives you attention, you get teary-eyed and say, “I can’t think straight and can’t answer anything.” Then later, “Why did I have to be told that!” and the anger does not stop. The stress hormones drop and you regress (turn back into a child), so you become teary-eyed and in the mental state of a small child, and you become stuck in the feeling of “I’m afraid of you being angry at me!” Then later the stress hormones come up and it becomes very hard to deal with.
What is a little more difficult to understand is when you are walking down the street and someone walks up to you from the other side and you think, “Why don’t you avoid me!” and you go to bump into the person. You would think that because you are angry at the stress stimulus, “the person walking from the other side,” your stress hormones are being secreted normally. But if your stress hormones are being secreted normally, you automatically avoid the dangerous person walking over there. Because your stress hormones drop and you regress (turn into a child), you will not be able to react in an adult way thinking, “Why should I avoid them!” (all written in narrative).
The problem is that the stress hormones that come up later cause inflammation and the immune system attacks normal cells. If the latent inflammation, the mental scar, is a “lowly child”, the immune system will attack the “lowly child”. Then in your mind, you will not stop attacking the “lowly child” who does not give way. The reason you can’t stop attacking the other person is because your immune system is attacking the latent inflammation that is the wound in your mind, causing inflammation. And because of cognitive dysfunction and stress from various malfunctions, the inflammation from the stress causes the immune system to attack the latent inflammation even more, and the anger at the other person pops up again and again.
You can find out the regression type by doing the stress stimulus test, but you can also check for the regression type by imagining a stressful situation.
To check for “regression type,” imagine the following situation in your mind.
I have time to be alone and there is no one around and it is quiet.
At that time, I am reminded of someone I don’t like.
Questions:
Question 1: “How do you deal with the bitter person that just popped into your head?”
Question 2: “What do you feel an hour before you actually meet that bitter person?”
Question 3: “How do you respond when you actually see that person in front of you?”
In response to question 1, for people with normal stress hormones, “I don’t care because the person is not in front of me.” So in a quiet place with no one around, there is no stress stimulus. So even if they float by, you can go through with it because there are no stress hormones.
In the case of the regression type, the level of stress hormones at rest is high, so you fight in your head with the unpleasant person who floats by. You make an effort to get rid of the unpleasant person from your mind, and so on.
For question 2, people with normal stress hormones are still “not bothered because they are not in front of me”. Since stress hormones are secreted appropriately in response to stressful stimuli, the person you have not yet met is less likely to be a stressful stimulus.
For the regression type, you can’t stop thinking like “This time I will do this to the person I don’t like!” Or, you haven’t met the person yet and you think, “I hate it! I’m going to meet that person” and your stomach gets heavy or you feel sick to your stomach because your stress hormones are causing inflammation and your autoimmunity is out of control.
In response to question 3, those with normal stress hormones will either “pass it off as an adult” or “liquidate the relationship with the bitter person. Because your stress hormones work properly, you can respond in an adult manner when you are confronted with the stress stimulus, the other person.
The regression type becomes “frozen in front of the other person, unable to say anything, and unable to talk back when the other person makes fun of you or says something you don’t like. The “can’t say anything” type is a state of mind that makes it impossible to do anything without the guardian’s help. Otherwise, you will get mad at the person and give them all the anger you have been feeling. Stress hormones drop and you end up turning into a child and taking out your anger on them.
If it was normal anger and the stress hormones were properly secreted normally, you would feel refreshed after you had lashed out! Because stress hormones go down over time.
But if the stress hormones have gone down due to stress stimulation, and you get angry because of the childish turnover, you will later feel more and more guilty and angry, and you will not feel refreshed at all, despite the fact that you hit the angry person. Later, the stress hormones come up, and the inflammation causes the autoimmunity to go out of control, and you can’t stop blaming yourself and then attacking the other person (as I write in the narrative).
This “regression type” also occurs from psychological trauma (it can be caused by genetic factors, disease or medication, or even old age).
It is more likely to occur when the parents are codependent types, over-involved and over-protective. If the mother thinks, “This child may become lowly like my husband,” the psychological trauma of “lowly child” will leave chronic latent inflammation. If the mother is codependent and feels sorry if this child is considered a lowly child and gives attention and discipline, the chronic latent inflammation of “lowly child” will remain because the stress hormone is lowered by the stimulus that should raise the stress hormone and later the stress hormone is conditioned to rise.
If the mother is codependent and disciplines the child thinking, “If my mother sees this child, she will think he is lowly,” the child’s stress hormones will be lowered by the stressful stimulus, and a chronic latent inflammation of “lowly child” will be created. Once the psychological trauma of “lowly child” is created, the child thinks that he has been disciplined by the parents not to want what belongs to others, but what is actually happening is the conditioning that the stress hormone drops during the stressful stimulus.
But what actually happens is that during the stressful stimulus of sharing the cake, for example, we are filled with jealousy and say, “She’s the only one who gets a piece of cake!”, is not because your stress hormones are rising, but because they are falling and making you feel like a child again.
And later, stress hormones come up and the immune system attacks the “lowly child” with inflammation, so the “lowly child” blames himself and says, “I am jealous and it’s disgusting!” and the unceasing anger “Why don’t you divide them fairly!” toward the other person becomes a chronic latent inflammation of the “lowly child.
Because of the psychological trauma of the “lowly child,” the tension is usually so high that “I shouldn’t want what belongs to others,” that when you go to the store, the stimulus of an eraser that you think “I might want a little,” causes your stress hormones to drop and you turn into a child, and before you know it you have it in your pocket (I wrote in the Narrative). If the stress hormone is up, the brain can control the impulse, but if the stress hormone is down, the impulse is uncontrollable. And you blame yourself and others because you are attacking the “lowly child” with the inflammation of stress.
Simply noticing that “autoimmunity is out of control” when the various symptoms arise is enough to change things. Just by noticing that the autoimmunity is out of control, the autoimmunity is quelled and the inflammation is healed.
You will then be free to respond appropriately to stressful stimuli (all written in narrative).