(112) If accountability is a neural aspect of mental health, then you will never have to worry about being accountable to anyone else due to your being true to yourself

Character a life of meaning experiencing this makes the difference of being an effective vs. ineffective leader or having a personality with disorders or not.

Lacking genuine authentic self and deeper meaning is a mental health issue that comes about by lacking moral development from physiological change from not adapting well to one’s environment over their lifetime (i.e., insufficiently socialized, maladaptive stress response). Experiencing a disconnect from self contributes to a distorted perception and interpretation of reality due to lacking the concept of self that is the cohort that brings critical brain regions and neural circuitry to life so that the person will not experience lack of development and mental health turmoil that will otherwise take place when the human being does not function as a whole. For example, when localized brain regions (amygdala) become damaged (hyperactive) causing emotional dysregulation and limbic friction, and emotions like fear, anger, hatred, and anxiety are heightened due to a heightened sympathetic nervous system response. The contrast is when the executive center of the brain Orbital frontal cortex (OFC) is on-line as a result of a person taking a cognitive approach through the perspective of context and dialogue in the effort to seek deeper meaning. Seeking objective truth from a structuralist approach invigorates more neuronal activity in the executive center of the brain OFC, which trains the brain to halt negative emotions like fear, anxiety, hate and anger, due to the OFC's ability to be trained to automatically silence the amygdala. Instead of the amygdala making an automatic response the person will be in the parasympathetic nervous system (feelings of sadness or joy) due to this developed ability (top-down processing) to experience cortical dominance at the neural level.

Keeping reason and order in life by having cortical dominance is a positive outcome of mental health that arises from having compassion and being emotionally regulated through well-developed moral reasoning skills so that one will engage in healthy behaviors because they take the effort to make meaning of things (that may otherwise challenge them) in a healthy rational and positive way. Wow who would have ever thought that you do not have to act funny, be irrational, nor be a bully, or be aggravated and antagonistic all the time. Instead, there is this being that is intuitive, spiritually awakened, which comes from feeling positive, being genuine, authentic to self and are byproducts that make way for the human organism to function at its higher optimal state of conscious awareness. It is challenging to integrate the right and left hemispheres (that are divided at birth), but it is this higher degree of human development that is necessary for a person to reach to experience functioning as a whole which Carl Jung calls the process of individuation. The experience of living must involve creating a framework of self through an internalization process of making meaning, moral development, and higher self- consciousness of reinforcement (values and expectancies) from living a value and principle centered life.

This context dependent inner dialogue is self-awareness, and it is this deeper meaning that innervates neuronal activity in the appropriate brain regions while developing and strengthening critical neural circuitry in the process. This social emotional learning is indemnified through healthy coping skills when a person adapts well in their immediate environment through being creative in their coping through controlled thinking. The experience of social interaction is an opportunity for personal growth, which can be enlightening, rewarding and confidence building when you take the responsibility to respond in a way that is attuned and aligned to a genuine authentic self. Rational outcomes in social emotional learning is mental health development, which is a fundamental aspect of neural development for functioning as an intellectual and emotionally mature adult.

The context and dialogue of experience of what each person has been through in their life varies tremendously, and the difficulty to find positive outcomes that allow for maturing out of adolescence and young adulthood into developing an adult brain is not always a given nor is it always the same for each person. Yet it is the interplay of negative versus positive social emotional learning, and the cumulative effect of stress of learning that contribute to an underlying innate affective state of empathy, or apathy, and the difference of how early life experience has contributed to a conditioned state of empathy or apathy can be the difference of being able to look within and be strong or not. The affect/feeling state and grappling with the fundamentals of inadequacy and internalized shame are similar hurdles of the development process that all people are challenged with it is just the context that contribute to positive negative experience that varies.

These individual differences are unique to each person, but the goal to develop an adult brain, to experience intellectual and emotional maturity should be our number one priority. This article is an effort to bring awareness of the higher possibilities through a behavioral neuroscience perspective in the effort to prevent social contagion and the suppression that is a product of lackluster functional state or development that contributes to despair, unhappiness and discontent. Bringing awareness of what is possible living a life of gratitude so that people can find gratitude, being self-governing when you experience physicochemical balance and functioning as a whole is a happy and content human being. Staying connected to your own suffering through the suffering of others is the tool of learning by seeking objective reality that is not a response it is a way of life, of deeper understanding (empathy) in attunement to ones values, principles, and morals and this is the truth of accountability. This counters the neurological disconnect, the deluded state of pathology, that is running amok and not aligned with self or reality. Staying aligned and attuned to reality through a genuine framework of self is one fundamental aspect of mental health development that just cannot be overlooked or surpassed.

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reward prediction error- positive versus negative

process of individuation- reason and order

deindividuation- impulse and chaos

maladaptive stress response

post-traumatic stress disorder- amygdala hijack

cortical dominance

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character ethic versus personality ethic

democracy is an experiment of self-governance:

the biological system of the human organism is as such and in its natural order is self-governing when developed thoroughly in its higher optimal functioning state. This article briefly explains the necessity of and reinforces that of which the framers of the constitution strove for is correlated to the importance of human and mental health development

we must prevent from relenting to the downward spiral of

burnout, addicted to emotion of disgust, repressive apathy, evil

and prevent those that have relented their neurological well-being to this lower functional state from destructing those that have not

this is reflective at the micro and macro level and concerning in the prevention of despotism and the failure of democracy and to protect mankind as we know it