Something that I learned this week is that the book that I had gotten for my group is REALLY interesting, it’s called The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life The author of this book is Joseph E. LeDoux, he is also a part of a band known as The Amygdaloids. In the Book Joseph LeDoux tells you about how the brain has a certain way of being able to process a certain emotion and the response that the body might give out in order to carry out that specific function/emotion. An example of this in the book is when you see a bear you’d normally think that you get scared then run away, but the author states that it’s the action of you doing the running away that causes you to feel the fear. This week I’ve come up with slogans for my class, some better than others but I still think that there are things that people could do in order to be able to change the stigma around the teen brain and mental illnesses. An example that I can think of that people use as a common misnomer is that people with mental illnesses are crazy, psychotic, lazy, different, unusual, etc. These words can often lead to making people with mental illnesses feel worse about themselves and that is something that my class is trying to change.
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