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Oct 17, 2014, 06:04 PM
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I was watching a youtube video about "83,000 brain scans by Daniel Amen" taken from people who have anxiety, ocd, adhd, irratic behavior, aggression, phobias, and their brains were actually physically damaged due to a previous unknown traumatic brain injury, like a fall they might have had when they were younger and forgot about it.
I would really love to get my brain scanned and see if I might have accidentally hit my head in the past, because I never used to be this way with my debilitating anxiety. I'm writing this to let people know that this is a possibility for everyone out there on these forums, you might want to get a physical scan of your brain at the doctor's office. Psychiatry is the only field that does not look at the physical brain. What do you guys think about this?
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Oct 17, 2014, 06:29 PM
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that's kinda scary for me, my stupid bro hit me in a head with a hammer when he was about 1 y/o and I was 5, I didn't have head checked back then because my family was like 'pff he didn't hit you hard he is so little'... and now I'm thinking what if I have such a hell in life now because of it?.... I think brain injuries, especially after so many years can't be healed... so, it's another reason to feel useless and like I would never get over everything...
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Oct 17, 2014, 06:36 PM
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Well he says the brain can regenerate itself and heal after 2 months with certain processes. He took a scan of his brain at 37, it had a bunch of areas that weren't looking good, then he took another scan of his brain in his 50s and it looked better than it did at 37.
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"Re-examine all you have been told, dismiss what insults your soul." - Walt Whitman "Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence." - Christopher Hitchens "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience." - Mark Twain |
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Oct 17, 2014, 07:11 PM
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hmm 2 months ok, but in which way his brain looked better ? I mean just physical, like regenerated broken bone? I think with age brain gets weaker anyway, so this regeneration wouldn't change too much... well maybe would, if it would be possible to live a calm and happy life, not with 24h stress...
anyway this remembers me I had brain scanned when I was in secondary school, after strangely fainted on lesson, and doc said only that I had slight fluctuations.. maybe I should check my stupid head again... maybe it's all because of brain not mind... damn.
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Oct 19, 2014, 09:21 AM
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The brain is an amazing thing. My daughter (17 at the time) got hit by a car going almost 40 mph a few years back, and she is only now getting back to her old self, though she still has issues. She was always upbeat, positive, and intellectually curious before the accident. The girl I brought home from the hospital was a completely different person: She would weep for hours on end, for no reason she could articulate; she was terrified of everything; things that used to excite her (astronomy, physics, her favorite TV shows, books, etc.) didn't hold any interest for her anymore. It was like she was trapped in her head somewhere, and I couldn't find her.
She's now 19, and she's got a lot of her positivity, curiosity, and joie de vivre back. It took a lot of hard work, but the brain can heal, especially if you put in the hard work to retrain it. |
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