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Originally Posted by c-bot
Actually my art teacher had us use the "Betty Edwards" method, by using your right brain and not your left. I'm a really creative person when drawing, and very good at it. Not creative at all when writing or talking because the *other* part wants to hide things before I can write them down or talk about them. The testing they did at school said I was not as good at the verbal problems or the ones that required some opinion, and better at the ones that were non-verbal and spatial.
I'm also super good at math and science and solving puzzles.
And there is this thing you can do to see if your right and left side can interact, where you hold your thumb out in your left hand and your index finger on your right, and then you switch them so you have finger-left, thumb-right. I'm very good at it and it takes no practice but other people have a hard time doing it unless they practice.
For me the left side seems to be the one generating the other part that wants to hide emotions. I wouldn't say it's really a voice but more like a side in the argument my brain is having about whether or not to do something.
Oh and I haven't been to a neurologist but I think the first 2 psychiatrists were neuropsychologists.
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So apologies but this is kind of cool to meet someone with a similar thing...none of the other psychotic people get this same thing so I don't think it has anything to do with psychosis. Sounds like what you have compartmentalized is different than mine so you might need a different set of puzzles to correct it. But I would focus on right brain left brain puzzles or brain games in general. There is a woman Barbara arrowsmith who works with neuroplasticity. She has a number of brain exercises in her book...not specific but she mentions in general what you can do. The problem is usually you have to do what you are really bad at and repeat it a lot. It sounds boring but it changes your brain. I think she was Canadian but there are special arrowsmith schools in the US now. I don't know much about them becuase they are for students and I'm a lot older.
Anyway I wish you the best keep me updated.