Pathogenic ideas refers to the ideas that are forced out of our mind as a result of self-defense mechanism to prevent us from having mental breakdown. This process often happened after people experience a very traumatic experience such as being raped, murder of the loved ones, war, etc.
Maps , depending on the size of the geographic area being depicted on the map need to be DIFFERENT scales so that we , the reader are able to comprehend how far any given place is geographically.In other words, it depends on how big the area is being depicted is