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Originally Posted by elliemay
Oh lord, I have absolutely no idea why I am so vocal about this on this Sunday morning. Perhaps I'm feeling "part-ish" myself, and it's just an exaggerated defense, don't know. BUT
This gym thing, I think, kind of illustrates what I'm essentially talking about. Let's say I need to go to the gym. I know that, but don't go.
Who is responsible for me not going? *I* can either take responsbility for not going OR I can shift that to a *part* of me that doesn't want to go.
I mean after all, it won't be a part of me on that treadmill, but all of me sweating and really hating it.
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Firstly I am so glad that you are contributing here, it is all helping me enormously.
The gym thing is interesting - for me it would be part of me wanting to go, but part of me not wanting to - I would be in the middle not knowing which part to listen to or which part was "me".
The same when I get there - part of me would be enjoying the buzz, but the other part wanting me to stop and sit down - like 2 different voices in my head "Keep going" "No stop".
What I know from psychology is that the frontal lobes do act as a "CEO" and ensure our behaviour is appropriate to the situation. For example those with damaged frontal lobes can act in disinhibited ways, there was a man who had damaged frontal lobe through an accident,.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage - is an interesting article but maybe just muddies the water even more.