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Old Dec 08, 2011, 05:04 PM
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This is a really good article and I'm so glad to see it!

I have always thought that the brain changes/rewires itself. I've seen those with acquired brain injury etc. who have had to relearn some of the basics, be very successful in doing so. Or how many times do we so those who have spinal cord injuries that learn how to walk again or use their arms/hands again when they were told it would never happen? The only way that was possible was to rewire how the brain thinks/perceives the information and how it responds. There was no reason for me to believe that it would be different for those of us with mental illnesses as well. Every single time we learn something, our brain changes and learns how to store that information for retrieval.