Thus, there might be an inability to prevent trembling, or there might be an inability to walk or to talk. There also might be an inability to stop walking or to stop talking. Loss of mental self-control may be at the conscious or at the unconscious level of mind. Thus, the patient might be unable to stop thinking about something, or he might be unable to prevent the unconscious mind from invading the conscious, as is the case with hallucinations and delusions. I.B. Mental illness typically is characterized by anger.
Anger is theemotion that is associated with the feeling of being controlled.
Thus, the functionally paralyzed individual is, for all intents and purposes, no less paralyzed than the person with neurological damage. It is as unlikely that a human being will survive a lifetime without mental illness as it is that he will live out his life without physical illness. The mentally ill person suffers primarily from an abnormally strong need for independence, or not to be controlled. This need is experienced as a chronic feeling of dependence, or being controlled. The mental illness itself is a reaction to the feeling of being controlled, namely, the specific manner in which the patient's inability to control himself manifests itself.