Hachem-- Here is Part II of the model I'm developing that I believe draws upon an overlap between your work and mine.

Yesterday, in summary, I described what I've long felt is a key component to understanding one's limitations in the interest of maintaining psychological, physical, spiritual, etc. health, that is, that we as individuals all have a fixed amount of energy [in cognitive science, processing resources] to allocate to adaptation to our environment.  When we either automatically (I like to use the term autonomic, as with brainstem-level survival processes), or instrumentally (more operant, with some level of conscious action or override) inordinately dedicate resources to one or more activities, we can become deficient in certain other areas, and even symptomatic of problems that exist in the dynamic system of our collective "qualia," all of which impact each other.  We'll call this construct, for now, "limited resources."

The second construct, or dimension of this model that I'd like to introduce in this post has to do with the inhibitory/excitatory continuum, which is intimately related to one's history, the current environmental conditions, and one's consequent anticipation as to what the future may hold.  This construct is associated with environmental stability over time, one's personal history (experience of significant discrete trauma(s), as well as low, moderate to severe predictable or unpredictable chronic stressors over the course of one's history).  

Third, related to the above is the extent to which one's psychological health is intimately related to existential presence, the degree to which one is encoding moments of his or her day through their various sensory processes vs. dissociating-- projecting to concerns about the past, or fears about the future.  Failure to be present existentially, sensorily, I have found in my work, is highly correlated with depression and other "so-called" psychopathology.  I'm running out of room, more next time.  Best, Maria