Glad to Be Back/The Good and the Bad News | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 hidden)
"unused ... human grey matter" What?! (none / 0)
There are NO "dormant or unused" parts of the human brain. It's a myth. Not surprising, then, that "nobody on staff quite had a firm theory" on it. If a therapist literally told you that, then either he/she was just making stuff up (because how would a dumb patient know any different) or he/she actually believes it, which raises a whole other set of questions about competence to give advice. I'd be especially careful about suggestions concerning doing stuff to bits of your brain that they think are just lying around doing nothing.

Maybe next time you could ask them (nicely) if they wouldn’t mind treating you like an intelligent adult.

Just a stab in the dark here, but with the misfires, and the affecting of the sensory input -- if there's any epilepsy involved (temporal lobe epilepsy?) and if they haven’t tried some combination of the medications that can often control that… And you're an author, right? Fantasy novels. Just a thought: no charge. I mean, what do I know? (Well, more than that therapist, apparently.)

Anyway, I'd say the news was good, on balance. Take care of yourself.

by Landbeyond on 03/18/2010 06:30:26 AM EST

Glad to Be Back/The Good and the Bad News | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 hidden)