Can the mind attack itself ?

[Karius]

the same way would the body attack itself ( auto immune disease)....;could the human mind attack itself ?

Do you have something on that one ?

[Diebert van Rhijn]

One way to look at the mind is to see it as a process of ongoing evaluation. And this "weighing" of competing elements is just a more universal form of what is called "conflict". The normal affair is not to be [too much] aware of all the unending conflicts giving rise to ones particular position.

"We must know that conflict is common to all and strife is justice, and that all things come into being through strife necessarily" - Heraclitus

[Beingof1]

the same way would the body attack itself ( auto immune disease)....;could the human mind attack itself ?

Do you have something on that one ?

It happens all the time.

Competing identities of control.

There is only one mind - is the cure

[Elizabeth Isabelle]

That actually happens quite often, especially in cases of depression and PTSD. A feedback loop gets established from feeling down too long or being severely traumatized, and the mind keeps going back into the depressive cycle, increasing the chemicals released during depression and reinforcing those pathways in the brain, or getting stuck in a traumatic memory or traumatic memories like a record that keeps skipping. These feedback loops can cause the mind to go down thought trails that are further debilitating... thus the mind attacking itself.