PERSEVERANCE CHALLENGE AS A RESULT OF BRAIN TRAUMA....OR, PERHAPS....BEING 'KNOCKED INTO A NEW, MORE CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS'??
At age ten, i was in a terrible bicycle accident on what had been nick-named 'Suicide Hill'..... which caused shearing of the anterior frontal lobe of my developing brain......after this, it was determined that i may have had a lesion in the orbitofrontal cortex.....after I demonstrated, by my behavior, that impulse control was inhibited......the Gregory House Syndrome....Years later, after yet another brain damaging episode, in my middle twenties, i was unable to fare well on the Wisconsin Cart Sort, perseverating on socially established rules of behavior and exhibiting frustration and confusion when sorting out external stimuli that would affect modifications in responses or behavior.....and, since damage had occurred within the left brain, my mind was quicker to process negative emotion; consequently, i was compelled to channel more energy into the right lobe to balance the temporal lobe processes, even though i was taking the then experimental drug, encephabol, to counter...