The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph From the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge

Author:Norman Doidge [Doidge, Norman]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780143113102
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2007-12-18T10:00:00+00:00

6

Brain Lock Unlocked

Using Plasticity to Stop Worries, Obsessions, Compulsions, and Bad Habits All Of US have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes. But there are people who are "great worriers," whose worrying is in a class of its own. Their suffering, though "all in the head," goes far beyond what most people experience precisely because it is all in the head and is thus inescapable. Such people are so constantly traumatized by their own brains that they often consider suicide. In one case a desperate college student felt so trapped by his obsessive worries and compulsions that he put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. The bullet passed into his frontal lobe, causing a frontal lobotomy, which was at the time a treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder. He was found still alive, his disorder cured, and he returned to college.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.