Giannis Pappas
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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But when you have trauma or a chemical problem or whatever it is, it doesn't work well.
And in traumatic experiences, your neocortex shuts off and your limbic turns on.
And there's a survival reason for that, right?
So if you're in a moment of...
fight or flight, you don't wanna start reasoning.
You don't wanna go like, you start philosophizing.
You're dealing with your survival reptile brain.
And so it actually shuts off.
So people who have like panic and anxiety, it's hard to reason your way out of it because that part of your brain is shut down.
Now imagine you have panic and anxiety already, and you're already experiencing depression, and then they prescribe two medication, and one of the side effects of that medication is suicide.
Imagine being that person and forced with that choice.
Like this may help you, or you might just,
It just that's a wild one, man.