There is a recent analysis on Yahoo, Former Child Star Tylor Chase’s Dad Shares Real Reason He Is Homeless With Severe Mental Disorders, stating that, “For over a decade, the family has sought treatment options for Tylor, including support for substance use as well as mental health care,” he said. “In addition to addiction, Tylor has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, which require consistent medical treatment.”
“Approximately four years ago, he received treatment in Georgia, and while there was progress for a time, he later chose to discontinue medication and resumed substance use.”
“More recently, Tylor returned to California to be with his mother in hopes of stabilizing his situation; however, despite continued support, he has refused ongoing treatment and assistance.”
“His family has been trying for many years to get him the support he needs, but ultimately, he must be willing to accept help. Tylor is deeply loved by his family and friends, who remain hopeful and are praying that he will accept the help being offered. Their focus continues to be on his safety, health, and well-being.”
Addiction Psychiatry
If an individual [that is] living with substance use disorder is helpless in encounters with the addiction, such that dependency becomes almost existential, how do loved ones, caregivers, or society know [better] that this [helplessness] is the case for the individual?
There are possibilities that an addict might lie, refuse help, go off meds, risk serious danger, appear unaccountable, irresponsible, and more in the grip of the addiction. However, in what bracket is the individual actually helpless in the face of it?
The problem is that there is no description in brain science or addiction psychiatry of what the mind is, within the cranium, and then what happens before, during, and after substance use, which makes it difficult to understand or place how to approach the addiction crisis, with its tentacles.
What does the family see [in a display or understand] about what addiction is, in the mind, that makes it easier to know where the person is, and how to provide care?
Whatever the mind or mental is, have components and mechanisms that can show order and disorder to explore the extent of the problem, for any individual.
This means that what helplessness really is, such that the substance cannot be refused, or, not using can seem like an aberration, how can it be explored by components and mechanisms, almost directly like a swinging pendulum or a map?
Assuming that the components of the mind are electrical and chemical signals, what are their features and interactions that can be used — conceptually derived from empirical neuroscience — to show the difference between stages?
Simply, say there is a principal measure of sets of electrical and chemical signals, or there are splits of electrical signals, or there are dimensions of electrical signals; all of them often have differences in what is considered order and what is considered disorder.
The problem for 2026, in brain science, is not even that how the brain works is clear, but what can be used. For example, when electrical and chemical signals organize information, as functions — including memory, feelings, emotions, and regulations of internal senses, how can there be a rough display of what to use, to ensure a balance between the lived experience in an addiction and what others accept as true, mostly?
It is possible to explore a project of this magnitude from January 1, 2026, shaping progress and ensuring that aspects of addictive complications are mitigated. Large language models [LLMs] can also be used to make determinations in this direction.
This article was written for WHN by David Stephen, who currently does research in conceptual brain science with a focus on the electrical and chemical signals for how they mechanize the human mind, with implications for mental health, disorders, neurotechnology, consciousness, learning, artificial intelligence, and nurture. He was a visiting scholar in medical entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. He did computer vision research at Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona.
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