According to St. Louis Police Commissioner, Michael Sack, the notebook of the school shooter that left two dead and others injured, expressed, “I don’t have any friends. I don’t have any family. I’ve never had a girlfriend. I’ve never had a social life. I’ve been an isolated loner my entire life.”
The commissioner said, “Mental health is a difficult thing. It’s hard to tell when somebody who’s going to be violent, or act out, or if they’re just struggling, they’re depressed and they might self-harm, It’s just a terrible thing, and it’s hard to try and figure out what might have been in somebody’s mind.”
Mental health is difficult depending on the way it is understood. Thoughts or imaginations can be on anything, it is the properties they acquire that decide what becomes of action and reaction.
There are always thoughts, but some thoughts end up where they lead to compulsion, cravings, anger, hate, regret, delight, sadness and so on. It is what qualifies the thought that becomes experienced.
Though applicable to mental health, the brain, conceptually, has constants bifurcated into quantities and properties. It is possible to eat something and not feel ok, until something else is consumed. This means that the quantity [converted from the sensory input] needed to acquire the satiation property.
Though cells and molecules of the brain stay operational across every process, they build or construct these quantities and properties for experiences, per moment.
Whatever is known, remembered, felt or reacted can be explained with what property the quantity acquired. To remember means the property [or information] was acquired, to forget means it was not. To feel cold while cold means the property was acquired, to understand what it means to be cold when it isn’t is also to acquire that property to a lesser degree. This is similar to sleep, which is a property, but can be displaced by an engaging activity, which is also a property of memory.
This applies to depression, anxiety, mania, emptiness, loneliness, misery, self-loathing, shyness and so on, all as properties in the brain.
Understanding each state of mental health for these could become a useful tool in knowing when risks are greater, for perpetrators and by the loved ones. Quantities are thoughts or their form. Properties are mostly dominated by memory.
In neuroscience, all senses converge at the thalamus, except for smell that does at the olfactory bulb. It is at these hubs they are processed or integrated before relay for interpretation at the cerebral cortex.
It is theorized that sensory processing is into a uniform unit, identity or quantity which is thought or its form, becoming the version of senses. The car, house, chair are all thought versions [or converted quantities] to the brain, useful for thinking, imagination, dreams, subvocalization and so on.
Interpretation in the cerebral cortex is postulated to be knowing, feeling and reaction, or destinations of properties, mostly dominated by memory.
It is thought or its form that relays to acquire properties that should place how to understand the mind, and know where risks lie, to position against conditions that lead to self-harm or against others.
Exposing the mind by constants could be useful for prevention of violence, from some mental health problems.