If a family is extremely patriarchal, the story often goes like this: the power-mad (often a parent, occasionally the eldest son or daughter in the family) exerts extreme downward pressure to get others to submit to him. Because various resources are in his hands and he is paranoid about pursuing this, even to the point of murder or suicide, family members comply and eventually, the mentally weakest, become the end victims of this power structure. The terminal victim’s spirit is so bitter that he speaks to his family, but none of them support him for fear of trouble or fear. Instead, they all say that they love him and that all the insane behavior of the power-mad comes out of love for him. At this point, he turned to the outside world for help. But everyone in the external world also said that the power-mad loved him. He found that no one understood his suffering, and everyone felt that he should not suffer, but should be happy and grateful to the power-mad. Thus, his tortured soul was banished to a corner. If he had shown these sufferings to the outside world, the corner he could have inhabited would have been “heresy”, “madness”, “insanity”. This external reality will also enter his heart, and he himself will drive his suffering to an extremely compressed corner of his heart, and as a result, he will be in an extreme split, because this suffering is the greatest truth of his life, and it cannot be ignored anywhere. It is conceivable that a child, in a place where filial piety is especially preached, is most likely to become a victim of a power-mad family. He is hurt by his parents, but all the family members say that they love you and you shouldn’t have pain. When you get to the community, people say the same thing. Go to the book, the book says the same thing. Eventually, he had to split. Sometimes it’s a student who is hurt by a teacher, but the school won’t give him support. When you go home, your parents also say that the teacher is educating you by mistreating you. The book says the same thing. Eventually, he had to split too. A woman, in a heavily patriarchal society, is also prone to this outcome. She can’t go anywhere to talk about her pain, and anyone will use a peculiar set of logic with many detours to tell her that no one else is at fault, the fault is yours. In India, for example, no woman who has been raped can go to the police, because they will be taunted or even raped by the police. In the end, she has no choice but to split. In writing these words, I am not in any way saying that all schizophrenia stems from this phenomenon, I just see that some people I know who are internally divided or even schizophrenic live in such an atmosphere. For them, the delusion of systematic persecution is very real. The scariest thing is that everywhere you go, people say that the person who abused you loves you. Remember, by saying such things so easily, you are creating division. So, please “see” the painful person’s painful feelings, acknowledge how real they are, and don’t judge them roughly, let alone in the opposite direction. You think that you are showing the person positive energy. Unbeknownst to you, you are continuing to push him in the direction of division. Psychoanalysis suggests that the source of the psychological component of heavy mental illnesses such as schizophrenia lies in an extremely poor mother-infant relationship. This can also be understood as important feelings in infancy that cannot be seen and validated by the mother, and so these feelings become broken lobes, lobes that the infant’s ego functions cannot wrap around much less integrate.