Defunctions List

A defunction is anything in your life that reduces your capacity to fully function.

The more your attention must attend to immediate threats, the less you can focus elsewhere. The less you afford to focus on other matters, the more likely others presume you lack intellect or reasoning skills.

8 cognition contraction

Cognition contraction is the natural consequence of pressing needs consuming one’s focus or cognitive load, shrinking one’s cognitive bandwidth.

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cognition contraction

The less support you receive while struggling with something you find increasingly unbearable, the less apt you are to accommodate other uncomfortable items. The less your pain processes toward resolving its needs, the more guarded you’re likely to be against anything uncomfortable.

The more life presents you alternatives to enduring life’s natural discomforts, the more likely you avoid discomforts of almost any kind. The less you face life’s natural discomforts (or overloaded by unnatural discomforts), the more agonizing you likely find what otherwise would be tolerable.

The more you avoid discomfort, the more apt you are to project your unwelcomed pain onto others. The slower you process pain to resolve needs, the more likely intense pains leave a deep imprint of trauma on you. The more trauma you carry, the more difficult to process your life’s pain toward resolving needs. The more your cognition capacity severely contracts from such trauma, the more predisposed to settle for relief-believing and relief-generalizing. And the more apt you are to moralize all pain as bad. And the more drawn you are to popgen views.

The more discomfort you avoid, the more discomfort you tend to endure.

1 discomfort avoidance

Discomfort avoidance is the habitual evasion of pain, often from failing to differentiate between positive organic pain and less positive types of pain.

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discomfort avoidance

The fewer others are dropping their guard to expose their full authenticity, the less likely you will risk dropping your guard to expose your authentic self to raw rejection. The more others avoid, the more you avoid. The more we all avoid, and socially punish those who expose their authentic full being, the more normatively we all avoid matters we would otherwise face more courageously.

2 mass avoidance

Mass avoidance is the widespread norm of not personally engaging with others or in something that seems uncomfortable or threatening.

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mass avoidance

The more you avoid natural discomforts of life, the more you miss life’s natural messenger of threats to remove. The more you miss your emotion’s message to remove threats, the more those threats persist to evoke more painful emotions. The more pain you feel overwhelming you, including more trauma, the more apt to generalize all pain as bad.

5 pain moralization

Pain moralization is generalizing all aesthetically unpleasant experience as morally bad. In other words, it is believing all pain is bad. See discomfort avoidance.

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pain moralization

The more you struggle in pain from a threat that persists, the more drawn you are to beliefs that offer you a sense of relief. The more you cling to these beliefs for relief, the less you engage in the actual threats to be removed for full functioning. The more you believe for relief, the more in pain you typically remain, keeping you attached to these comforting beliefs.

6 relief-belief

Relief-belief is latching onto what you think is true or untrue primarily to relieve yourself from the discomfort of any available disconfirming evidence.

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relief-belief

The more you generalize for comforting relief from pain, the fewer specifics you address. The fewer specifics you address, the less likely you will get to the specific threats to be removed. The more you miss specific threats, the more pain you will likely remain in the long haul.

7 relief-generalizing

Relief-generalizing is oversimplifying a reaction to some need to gain broad support for relieving its pain. “Relief-gen” for short.

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relief-generalizing

The fewer of your needs actually resolve, the more your body naturally warns you how you are unable to function fully. The longer it takes to address your increasingly load of unresolved needs, the more of your attention is pulled to ease these needs. The more your attention is pulled to ease these needs, the less focus you can give elsewhere. The less these needs can resolve, the more at risk of sliding into dysfunction and into misfunction.

4 symfunctional strain

Symfunctional strain is the ongoing emotional stress from needs not getting fully resolved, limiting your ability to focus elsewhere and often mistaken as lack of intelligence or as some other personal defect.

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symfunctional strain

The less you can expose your deepest secrets with another who responds positively to your emotional intimacy, the more guarded you will feel when vulnerable towards others. The less you can feel safely vulnerable to anyone, and the more guarded as a consequence, the fewer of your needs can fully resolve. The more pain you endure. The less you can then function.

3 vulnerability avoidance

Vulnerability avoidance is the persistent evasion of dropping your guard with others close to you, typically out of fear or rejection and often a consequence of normative alienation, nomoscentricity, pistiscentricity and other defunctions.

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vulnerability avoidance