Today Psychogenic Disorders have been developing rapidly in the modern society. The root cause of these disorders is the unsolved mental problems and oppressive remembrances. When a person is living under stressful conditions for long time, primary symptoms such as insomnia, poor appetite, extreme anger, restlessness, less productivity etc. can be observed in him. In case of the disease becoming more chronic, incurable headache, shivering of hands and legs, stupor, unusual body pain, burning sensation, forgetfulness can be observed in patients in our clinics.
Many patients to suppress the impact of these disorders by taking pain-killers, sedatives and anti-depressive drugs. Therefore, with passage of time, the dose of medicine is increased which ultimately result in many side effects. At the same time, when taking of medicine is stopped, again this disorder will appear in them. As a result of this, inability to wake up early in the morning, loss of mental happiness, decline of both mental and physical immunity and stamina are the major drawbacks. But the complications are not found in their investigation reports. But, they are suffering from the disease. Eventually majority of patients take refuge of various types of oblations saying that doctors find it very difficult to diagnose their disease.
According to Abhidhamma, (Ultimate Doctrine) phobia is another name used in place of anger or aversion. This same idea is expressed in different ways such as hatred, aversion, unpleasantness, resentment and fear. This mental state exists more or less in every person. This kind of phobia can be ascribed to in terms of one’s security and self-respect. But it cannot be categorized as phobia. Phobia can be defined as a state that goes beyond the boundary of normal state of anger. Anger or aversion is a normal emotional state. According to Buddhism, extreme state or ecstasy of fear is introduced as ill-will or aversion which is one of the five hindrances. These are called hindrances because they prevent a person to see the things correctly as they are. The mental state described by the word ‘ill-will’ is introduced as phobia. This particular unreasonable and illogical kind of phobia cannot be understood by a person or by his mind due to extreme fear that has enveloped his mind. As this mental state of ‘ill-will’ has subjected human mind to great restlessness, the resultant consequence is phobia. The sufferer of this phobia is does not understand the logical reason or rationale for this phobia.
There are many instances of aversion characterised in a human being’s life. Among them, deaths of one’s parents, children, dear and near ones, and losses incurred can be cited as aversion. Similarly, jealousy is as same as aversion which springs in one’s in mind when one sees others’ fortunes such as a bigger house and property, how others are honoured and are held in high esteem in the society etc. When one is robbed, when others disobey and disrespects one, pointing at one’s faults and being criticized and when recalling enmities, ill-will can again be created in one’s mind.
This state of ill-will being developed with the passage of time, it becomes and turns into a state of phobia. According to Buddhist analysis, when this state of ill-will and aversion in its transformation becomes phobia, behavioural changes could be observed. It is a great obstacle for a person to perform his/her daily work. Depending on the intensity and gravity of the condition of the patient, Counselling Behavioural Therapy should be administered.
The main objective of this research is to investigate whether these patients could be cured through BAT Clinical Counselling and Buddhist psychotherapy.
Keywords: BAT Counselling, Psychogenic Disorders, Aversion Therapy, PRT, Mindfulness, Mental Health Research.
