Dysfunctional brain

[archerships]

Isn’t it weird how you can be fully aware of your dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors, yet still find it incredibly difficult to change them? You would think that once you had identified them, you could simply substitute new thoughts and behaviors.

As I wrote to a friend, “…my brain isn’t a unitary organ. Rather, it’s a bunch of modules jury-rigged together over millions of years of evolution. Different parts of my brain have different priorities and motivations. For example, my lizard brain just wants to fuck and eat candy all day.”

If only we had a drug that made it easier for your neocortex to wrestle the lizard brain to the ground.

Also, I think they should name this baby elephant “Benjamin Button”:

Doesn’t he look like an old man?

Original: craschworks - comments

Comments

[jaine-parr.livejournal.com]

You are the first person I have ever known who also uses lizard brain to describe primitive drives and desires. Eat, warm, sleep, sex, that's lizard brain. I'm not at all sure that pre-frontal lobes and lizard brain have any method at all of communicating, even though they both speak the same language.

[amoken.livejournal.com]

Speaking of parts of the brain over which we have little/no control... BABY ELEPHANT!! *squee!*

[ilwitchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Man, at least half of the whiny post I just posted could have been much more eloquently summed up with your post instead, lol. It's infuriating! (The inability to change things we identify, not your post, that is.)

[pasquin.livejournal.com]

If only we had a drug that made it easier for your neocortex to wrestle the lizard brain to the ground.

Wouldn't it just be easier to take a drug that wrestles the frontal lobes down to the ground and unleash the lizard brain? I'd like to fuck all day and eat candy.

[selfishgene.livejournal.com]

They already have that - beer.

[jaine-parr.livejournal.com]

Beer and candy do NOT go well together.

[xleste.livejournal.com]

The baby elephant looks like Gonzo! :)
And my female brain is wired to say, "AWWW!" :)
I also respond to shinies far more than I want to!