• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    So does political leaning.

    With like 15 minutes of training a random person can tell your political leaning with over 80% accuracy off a brain MRI

    Which is just fucking insanely high in a country where 33% don’t vote.

    There’s a feedback loop with conservatives and the amygdala.

    And progressives policy and the prefrontal cortex.

    Which is why Republicans eliminating all the parts of public education that works the prefrontal correct 30 years ago isn’t a problem we can fix overnight.

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    27 days ago

    Absolutely. I’m living proof. You have to work for it, though. Be willing to leave unhealthy thinking patterns and behaviors… And friends who are more invested in remaining the victim than healing.

  • Mr. WorldWide@feddit.org
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    27 days ago

    My Trauma will probably never go away. For a while I wasted my time with therapists, but I don’t bother with that anymore.

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      26 days ago

      Trauma physically affects your brain, it restructures it in ways that are physically measurable. This is a scary thought, as it feels like a permanent scar on your very being. But healing from trauma also physically affects your brain, so you shouldn’t get too down because of it!

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    26 days ago

    what? So does… anything?! Anything that creates memory changes your brain.