Latent chronic inflammation activates the peripheral immune cells, which attack normal cells, such as those in areas of the brain related to memory, resulting in low cognitive function. Traumatic stress is similar to latent chronic inflammation and involves mental pain, which activates the peripheral immune cells, which in turn, without realizing it, blame and destroy themselves, resulting in cognitive decline (I’m writing this in narrative).
Cognitive decline is memory loss, loss of speech, apraxia (doing things you shouldn’t), agnosia (inability to recognize objects, faces, etc.), and executive dysfunction (inability to set goals, plan the process, and act effectively). Interestingly, cognitive function in general is not impaired, but rather there is a limited impairment in the areas for which you blame yourself.
For example, suppose there is a money-related trauma.
When the baby is born, if the mother says, “If only I didn’t have this baby, my life wouldn’t be so difficult,” the baby’s brain receives this and latent chronic inflammation occurs (it’s a narrative).
That baby grows up, then, with the key word “money,” the latent chronic inflammation, traumatic stress, is tingled; and when the peripheral immune cells are activated and cognitive function is reduced, he or she does the lost act of “doing something he/she shouldn’t have done” and “I made another impulsive purchase!” and he/she will regret it. Since the memory of money is lost due to cognitive decline, the memory of one’s wasteful spending is completely lost, and the person becomes extremely attached to money, saying, “I don’t have money, I don’t have money.”
Then, why don’t you save money systematically? However, since the person has an executive dysfunction regarding money that prevents him or her from setting goals and acting systematically and efficiently in the process, he/she says, “I can’t save any money at all.
Because of this agnosia regarding money, the person is unable to recognize that he/she spent the money because it was necessary, and blames himself/herself and others, saying, “I wasted the money again” or “I was made to waste the money again.
That blaming yourself is because your autoimmunity has become active, and you consider even things that are not harmful to you as “enemies” and attack them, so you can’t stop ruining yourself regarding money, and latent chronic inflammation becomes worse and worse because you are blaming and attacking yourself behind your back.
The trouble with traumatic stress is that it causes pain, so you can’t admit that you have traumatic stress.
If you touch the traumatic stress, you will feel pain, so you will say, “I don’t have a traumatic stress!” So you blame yourself, saying, “I’m just spending my money in the wrong way! and so you blame yourself.
Checking for traumatic stress is easy.
When you think “I have to calculate money,” you may think, “It’s a hassle,” or “Ugh, I’m not good at this,” you may have latent chronic inflammation regarding money.
Then, if you think, “Money makes my autoimmunity go out of control and I blame myself and attack myself,” the inflammation will gradually go away, which is the effect of the narrative.
The price of goods has gone up, so money is hard to come by! You may be blaming thouse around you, but behind the blaming, you are blaming yourself and attacking yourself for not being able to manage your money. It’s just latent chronic inflammation and autoimmunity running wild.
When you feel anger, frustration, and anxiety, you think, “Oh! My autoimmunity is out of control! and when you realize that, the inflammation will heal, your cognitive function will no longer fail because of money, and you will be able to act differently than you have in the past.