As in David Shapiro, Neurotic Styles,
the standard neurotic behaviors are hysteria (my description -- over reacting, i.e., volume level too high), paranoia (i.e., threat detector too sensitive; false alarm rate too high), obsessive behavior (can't stop thinking about something), compulsive behavior (can't stop doing something), psychopathic passive behavior (volume level set too low?). The parenthetic descriptions are mine, and I'm no expert.
Obsessive and compulsive often go together and called OCD -- obsessive/compulsive disorder.
Well such neurotic behavior is commonly a case of anxiety.
Some experts claim that it is known that talk therapy doesn't work for OCD.
As in David V. Sheehan, M.D., The Anxiety Disease, even quite broadly across cultures, anxiety disease is four times more common in human females than human males. Then the author conjectures that a disease so pervasive, even one so harmful, must have some reproductive advantage.
To have a hint on just why so "pervasive", it is accepted that dogs can have OCD. So, the common ancestor with OCD went way, WAY back!
Of course, if we want to believe Sheehan on "reproductive advantage" and if we are willing to be politically incorrect and not gender neutral, then the obvious guess is that a woman with anxiety disease is more highly motivated to seek a man and a marriage with him, stay in the home of the marriage and not leave, be emotionally dependent on and physically close to her husband, become a mother, and be devoted to her children.
Then, once we start to believe this scenario, pattern, whatever, e.g., "A woman's place is in the home, barefoot, pregnant, dependent, chained to the stove.", etc., along comes more: Some experts believe that women with anxiety disease do not make good mothers, that is, there would be no "reproductive advantage". So, right, we have a contradiction. So, again right, we don't yet really understand. Right, we are stumbling around in the dark.
I'm not an expert, but I (A) have to question how much even the experts know about this subject and (B) have considered much more about this subject than I ever wanted to because my (late) wife had one heck of a case of anxiety disease, OCD, and clinical depression. To understand better how to help her, I got tutorials from several experts; it appeared that I learned a lot; it was certain I didn't learn enough.
It was also certain that the last medical experts who treated her didn't know enough either. Most definitely, in her case, anxiety disease did not have anything like reproductive advantage.
Obsessive and compulsive often go together and called OCD -- obsessive/compulsive disorder.
Well such neurotic behavior is commonly a case of anxiety.
Some experts claim that it is known that talk therapy doesn't work for OCD.
As in David V. Sheehan, M.D., The Anxiety Disease, even quite broadly across cultures, anxiety disease is four times more common in human females than human males. Then the author conjectures that a disease so pervasive, even one so harmful, must have some reproductive advantage.
To have a hint on just why so "pervasive", it is accepted that dogs can have OCD. So, the common ancestor with OCD went way, WAY back!
Of course, if we want to believe Sheehan on "reproductive advantage" and if we are willing to be politically incorrect and not gender neutral, then the obvious guess is that a woman with anxiety disease is more highly motivated to seek a man and a marriage with him, stay in the home of the marriage and not leave, be emotionally dependent on and physically close to her husband, become a mother, and be devoted to her children.
Then, once we start to believe this scenario, pattern, whatever, e.g., "A woman's place is in the home, barefoot, pregnant, dependent, chained to the stove.", etc., along comes more: Some experts believe that women with anxiety disease do not make good mothers, that is, there would be no "reproductive advantage". So, right, we have a contradiction. So, again right, we don't yet really understand. Right, we are stumbling around in the dark.
I'm not an expert, but I (A) have to question how much even the experts know about this subject and (B) have considered much more about this subject than I ever wanted to because my (late) wife had one heck of a case of anxiety disease, OCD, and clinical depression. To understand better how to help her, I got tutorials from several experts; it appeared that I learned a lot; it was certain I didn't learn enough.
It was also certain that the last medical experts who treated her didn't know enough either. Most definitely, in her case, anxiety disease did not have anything like reproductive advantage.