These are fear, rage, guilt and shame. All four alarm systems answer to surviving and conservation of the species instincts.

Fear activates in the presence of an external and imminent danger; it advises us about the peril and lets us react before it, either by means of escape or defense; although it can also generate paralysis.

The trouble with fear is that it can be also activated before imaginary and inexistent perils, as is the case of phobia and anxiety.

Rage activates before an imminent attack from the external environment, it can or cannot be previous fear, but at the moment that rage activates itself, the attack is already in progress; here to, those attacks can be real or imaginary.

Guilt, instead, warns us of damages that we are about to do or we have already done to something or someone external to us, and its function is to prevent the harmful action or minimize its effects; if the damage has already been done.

Shame activates itself in front of auto sabotage; when we harm ourselves or before we do that; its function also is to call our attention about the consequences of our destructive actions against us, in order to minimize damages.

The problem with these alarm systems is the obsessive compulsion, which appears when these alarms do not shut down once we took consciousness of our bad actions, taking us throw altered states totally negative; so that fear drives us to paranoia, rage to psychosis, guilt and shame to depression and all together can lead into the alienation that follows schizophrenia…

To be clearer, the misuse or the perpetual activation of these alarm systems has an effect like the one that means to drive a car all along a thousand kilometers with the robbery alarm on all the time.

It has to be a horrifying way to live, this one, so it is very important that our inner alarm systems will shut down once there function would be accomplished.