Self-Esteem Psychosis - Random Notes

Feelings of satisfaction can only be recognized by comparing past situations where satisfaction was experienced. Most memories of positive emotions come from early to prepubescent childhood.

 As our bodies change, our hormones and neurotransmitter chemicals change, sometimes in a way that lessens the salience of positive emotions in response to external stimuli. Some chemical changes are more extreme than others.

A psychosis of self-esteem comes from the distortion of values and judgments of the self compared to other people and cultural expectations, often leading to irrational violence.

• Social Comparison Theory
• Very well mind: Social Comparison Theory in Psychology. 
• Taylor & Francis Online: The relationship between self‐esteem and psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia: A longitudinal study 
• NCBI: Emotion and psychosis: links between depression, self-esteem, negative schematic beliefs and delusions and hallucinations. 

Social Dysphoria is not exclusively gender related

• Dysphoria is at one end of a spectrum, opposite to Euphoria. What elements do we use to determine the number of degrees of separation between the two, and how do we describe them?

If our cognitive biases causes one to accept arguments based on logical fallacies, 

Hormonal Driving in Traffic

Just another wacky working hypothesis: Is it possible to invent a Breathalyzer that measures hormone levels such as Oxytocin, Adrenaline, Testosterone and Cortisol? How do these hormones affect behavior in public, and especially while driving in traffic?

After briefly reading articles about hormones, I came up with this.
The sexuality thing is unrelated.

I'm not even sure if these notes are accurate, these are just hashed out for later focus so I don't forget.

By measuring hormones and neurotransmitter chemicals, it may be possible to deliver a psychological driving risk assessment. A very large survey of samples from accidents must be collected anonymously, only coded test results with related accident information is necessary.

Hey, this might already exist, especially for people who drive trucks for a company.
Source: Quantifying hormones in exhaled breath for physiological assessment of large whales at sea