Published: 2026-01-08
Last Updated: 2026-01-08
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A person doesn't often walk into a counselor or therapists office and walk out with a clinical diagnosis. While computerized assessment is increasing, a clinical assessment can take 8-12 weeks of weekly interviews with a therapist or counselor.
They need time to prepare for each interview and to make notes to refer to after each session. The data is then placed into a file that is reviewed throughout the 12 week period. These reviews may result in additional questions or comments that can not exceed the diagnosis period.
In a computerized office, the data may be processed by a data technician to generate reports that the counselor or therapist use to obtain meaning from.
Sociologists can also be used to diagnose a population. They are often hesitant to do this because non-participants might find their surveys and observations intrusive. When tabulated on a computer, the results are often programmed against a set of rules to exclude non-participants. There data is then expunged from the system and future assessments are more focused, viewing non participants as environmental objects not under observation.
Perception and reactions to others behaviors are a motivator for human behavior. This is well documented and begins shortly after birth when the newborn is developing perceptions of where food comes from and what types of noises elicit warmth, hugs, cuddles, or independent play. As the child grows, they develop behaviors. They may yell a certain way when they are hungry or make faces they perceive will elicit a response from an adult. These behaviors often aren't limited to their care takers or parents. They will make the same faces at other adults or children and the parent or caretaker will explain what they are trying to communicate.
As adults, humans have behaviors that are learned from perceptions. They also have reactions to others behaviors based on their perceptions of the environment.
Motivators of behaviors include perceptions and reactions, removing the cause of a reaction can change a behavior. Changing a perception can also modify a persons behavior or the reaction to someone's activity or conduct.
A perception of financial stability may be working a 40 hour a week job for a specific population group and there may be many population groups that perceive financial stability to be defined this way. For other groups, the perception of financial stability may be well paying projects and lists of project managers that have different types of work to do.
Neither of them is necessarily wrong and either of their environments may not work out well for the other group. They may each have objections such as "if I only work once in a while, I may not have enough money for all my bills" or "I may not be able to pass the interview process often enough to get enough money for the year".
They may also perceive that "If I spend too much time looking for work, I won't have time for anything else" and "If I'm at work all the time, how will I have time for anything else".
These perceptions influence behaviors on finding jobs, selecting workplaces, and obtaining financial stability.
Reactions are similar and happen in nano-seconds. They are based on perceptions as an underlying cause. If someone does something, and a certain reaction occurs, then that person might do this, which would cause me to have these behaviors.
The person selects their reaction to a situation and then deals with the consequences or observes the effects.
Religious teachings and membership in social clubs can result in a lot of symbolism in speech and behaviors. Calling energy a spectral spirit may be symbolic of electricity or force. Energy is often considered a form of kinetic movement, today we understand movement to be observable on the atomic level and we study invisible forces with magnets since lights and electricity often have a shade or hue.
In many places, family is a symbolism for mom and dad when a person is a dependent minor. If the child needs something, they are to let their family know first. Symbolically, the family member receiving a request from a child will first obtain approval to complete the request from the parent. Even though they are letting their family know they need something, symbolically they are obtaining approval from the parents to complete the request.
Once a child is a dependent adult or independent adult, this may no longer be true. They can ask a family member to review a request and enter into an agreement to complete that request with them directly. They can also ask someone that is completely unrelated to review or complete the request without asking their parents. Many adults will defer to their parents for advice and counseling on any significant request but this is not a requirement.
Symbolism is used throughout many religious texts as placeholders for advanced or complex topics. Most religious texts are to be completed by the age of 15 traditionally. While a person may continue to follow a religion until age 23, 40 or indefinitely, it is more common to say that a person was raised in a certain religion. This shows that they have scientific reasoning and logical thought.
Lashing out at people, societies, government groups, employers, and workplaces because of religious differences shows that a person still heavily gravitates towards symbolic thought.
This is different than filing grievances for harassment on approved behaviors or for penalties on non-legislated areas of life.
People constantly engaged in symbolic thought often look to someone in their community as an authority figure or spiritual guardian. This person does not have to be older than them and can be a person of any age that has been approved by their community.
In many areas, people move around all the time and the neighbors may not be the same after 10 years, 15 years, or 20 years. This is a normal part of being an adult in many areas. For people that don't move around regionally or nationally, they may still see a lot of people they grew up with every now and then even if they don't actually talk to them, but they recognize each other. In areas where movement is very minimal, there may still be some changes but most objects are expected to be permanent. A person living in this environment may perceive that is ok to go looking for their lost object even if its in another town, another state, or acrosss international borders. Their behavior is driven by both the perception of an Earth environment and by their reaction to their separation anxiety. The estimated time for treatment for separation anxiety is 16 to 30 months per person. This means that even if they can be treated as a group, some of them may not be able obtain treatment right away and will need that much time to complete their therapy.
The objects in a persons environment may not always be permanent but there is a permeance to everyone's environment. Societies establish behaviors and cities, counties, or municipalities build codes that define expected conduct. There may also be architecture, theater, events, and eateries that have a permeance so even if the specific person changes, the overall feel of the place is similar.
This may not be the case in all human locations on Earth but most places attempt to not make too many changes all at once and for the additions to be similar, compatible, or transitional to the existing atmosphere.
Some places do change quite often and its important to keep this in mind when searching for a new home or visiting a place someone intends to visit again later.
This often takes the perception of searching for a lost object to the extremes. It can include placing trail cams near the workplace, tracking devices in vehicles, and surveillance cameras near or even inside the home so that the person can check in with them and see what they are up to when they are feeling a little anxiety about being apart. The behavior can also include looking people up in databases without being asked or entering identifiers into a web interface or software after hearing someone with a familiar voice. Normally people that make public appearances make announcements with enough time for people to be able to comfortably attend the event. Private meetings are normally scheduled with the person they are intended for even if people standing nearby can be invited into a meeting, they were often considered but the organizer might have been unsure if they could attend. A lot of times there is a limited amount of space for people to meet together and there are also time constraints in everyones schedule.
It is normally inappropriate to keep people's personal identifiers and all 50 states have recently released retention periods for business on keeping HR records, PII, and other data that was previously set as an indefinite retention period. Most records are statistical for planning purposes and deleted after a short period of time lasting less than 1 year to up to 10 years after the record was last used and approved to be used by a specific organization.