If your childhood protective layers were pierced, you didn't just "lose touch" with yourself; your spiritual core was physically and etherically evicted.
In anthroposophical medicine, healing an illness requires re-establishing the proper boundaries between the higher spiritual bodies and the physical organs.
When technological optimizes a superficial version of the human mind, then forces humans to adapt to that imitation, it starves itself of the authentic human variability it requires to evolve.