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Mental health in the twenty-first century is unfolding within conditions that human cognition was never designed to manage. Rising anxiety, burnout, emotional volatility, and attention fragmentation are no longer limited to clinical populations; they have become ordinary features of daily life. Despite unprecedented access to psychological knowledge, self-help tools, and therapeutic interventions, distress continues to escalate. This book begins from a difficult but necessary observation: many contemporary mental health approaches are struggling not because they are conceptually wrong, but because they are operating at the wrong level of the problem. The informational environment has changed faster than the human mind. Digital systems, algorithmic feeds, and artificial intelligence now deliver information with constant speed, emotional optimization, and predictive targeting. These systems do not simply inform us; they shape what we attend to, how we feel, and what we expect before we are aware of thinking at all. What is often described as ""brain rot"" is not a loss of intelligence or motivation, but an adaptive narrowing of cognitive bandwidth under chronic overload. The mind is not failing; it is conserving resources in an environment that demands continuous engagement. Traditional mental health models largely focus on thoughts, emotions, and behaviors as primary points of intervention. While these approaches remain valuable, they increasingly encounter limits in contexts of informational saturation. Insight does not hold when attention is fragmented. Willpower collapses under constant stimulation. Coping strategies become exhausting when there is no true recovery. Self-control narratives often intensify shame by implying personal failure in conditions that overwhelm even well-regulated minds. This book argues that these struggles signal the need for a deeper shift, not greater effort. At the core of this shift is Information Primacy of Thought Theory (IPTT). IPTT proposes that information-not thought-is the true starting point of mental life. There is no thought without information, and thought is best understood as a late-stage output of earlier informational, emotional, and predictive processes. Sensory inputs, emotional signals, symbolic cues, and algorithmic patterns shape mental experience long before conscious reasoning begins. When these upstream processes are overloaded or distorted, arguing with thoughts or forcing emotional change is often ineffective. Information-Regulation and Input Therapy (IRIT) emerges from this understanding as a practical response to the informational crisis of modern mental health. IRIT intervenes before thought formation by regulating the volume, velocity, emotional charge, and timing of information entering the system. Rather than correcting what the mind has already built, it changes what the mind is built from. Regulation precedes insight, recovery is treated as a therapeutic process, and closure is recognized as essential for ending activation. This book is written for clinicians, educators, professionals, and individuals seeking clarity in an increasingly demanding informational world. It does not reject existing therapies, nor does it blame technology or human weakness. Instead, it offers a framework for restoring cognitive bandwidth, emotional stability, and mental autonomy by aligning psychological intervention with the realities of how the mind actually functions today.

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