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Social Health Disorders Hypothesis

2024-01-03

(ABSTRACT)

Contemporary social psychology analyzes social constants and variables within either sociological or psychological environments; however, when utilizing an interdisciplinary perspective through formal systems theory, an approach for diagnosing societal disorders as pathogens becomes plausible.

Layered within multiple overlapping systems, each individual and group should be considered as their own system that is able to generate feedback and influence the other system(s). With this interdisciplinary perspective, a pattern becomes recognizable whereby individuals with untreated and maladaptive mental disorders—and given positions of authority or social power—can propagate unstable societal constructs such as fascism, racism, sexism, and other negative societal feedback loops into other groups. These social infections expose healthy individuals to systemic stressors and trauma that replicate as a capsid for unstable negative societal feedback loops.

In essence, these constructs should be considered “social health disorders” due to their ability to operate similarly to public health issues in epidemiology, acting as a contagious social vector that replicates mental health disorders into healthy populations and individuals. Attempts to isolate either disorder—mental or social—from only the perspective of a single system will limit the effective treatment of the underlying disorder and the resulting pathology.

Further interdisciplinary research that combines all contemporary branches of science (i.e., formal: systems theory, natural: epidemiology, social: social psychology [sociology and psychology], etc.) will be required to identify how to analyze and diagnose the casual inference between mental disorders and social systems for effective diagnosis and treatment of affected populations.

Keywords: social health disorders, social psychology, mental disorders, public health, pathology, epidemiology, systems theory, fascism, sexism, racism

General Singularity Hypothesis

2024-01-20

(DRAFT)

[REMOVED 2025-09-18]

Need to spend more time reviewing set theory and studying metascience. May need to recontextualize variables and revise hypothesis entirely. Will experiment with this again later.