Mental illness starts with trauma. The Entropic Brain theory of mental illness was hypothesized by Robin Carhart-Harris from the Imperial College of London and it goes a long way in unifying various mental illnesses under the same underlying pathology: an overactive, hypervigilance of an ego slayed by trauma. The ego, or “default-mode network” becomes overactive in response to acute stress or trauma. Basically, in my understanding, traumatic experiences leave some people in a perpetual hyper-vig