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PERSEVERANCE CHALLENGE AS A RESULT OF BRAIN TRAUMA....OR, PERHAPS....BEING 'KNOCKED INTO A NEW, MORE CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS'??

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  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...

HAVING JUST SEEN 'THE WHALE' AND, BY CHANCE ENCOUNTER, THE SAME DAY, ..... DR. YOUNAN NOWZARADAN'S ADVICE/TREATEMENT FOR THE ASSANTE BROTHERS IN THE TV SERIES 'MY 600-lb LIFE'

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I WAS EVEN MORE CONFOUNDED BY THE APPARENT IMPOSSIBILITY OF EARTH CREATURES' ....PERHAPS ALL CREA TURES, EVERYWHERE....DUE TO RECALCITRANT UNWILLINGNESS AND FIXATED, ETCHED NEUROLOGICAL PATHWAYS..... TO ABANDON INCREASINGLY RITUALIZED COMPULSIVITY....AS THEY COURSE TOWARD WHAT SEEMS TO BE FATALISTIC INEVITABLITY.... Instead of thinking about emotional problems through the constant filters of shame and guilt, one could see behavior as a result of brain chemistry gone awry, remaining in a closed loop of repetitive, unsatisfying reactions to situational dilemma that is only perpetuated by the unconscious mechanisms which circumvent adaptive modifications that have the potentials for ameliorative changes. Situational anxiety can only be alleviated by situational changes. If one cannot create these changes without falling back into the perpetuation of stasis, largely resistant to modification, it is likely that professional help should be sought; otherwise, the self-destructive and rea...