Dr. Daniel Amen
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But then so many people there started to hate me.
They said, you shouldn't be scanning people.
It's not part of our tradition.
That's not what we do.
And I'm like...
When I was growing up, I had a father whose two favorite words, first one was bullshit.
The second one was no.
And I heard that over and over again.
And so when they told me I shouldn't be doing what I loved, I'm like, bullshit, no, I'm going to do it.
But I became very anxious because I didn't like powerful people telling me I shouldn't do something.
And it was really painful emotionally.
And then in 1995, I got a call late one night from my sister-in-law who told me my nine-year-old nephew, Andrew, who's my godson, who I loved, attacked a little girl on the baseball field that day for no reason.
And I'm on the other end of the phone.
I'm like, that's awful.
What else is going on?
She said, Danny, he's different.
He's mean.
He doesn't smile anymore.
I went into his room today and I found two pictures he had drawn.
One of them, he's hanging from a tree in a suicide attempt.