That sounds loony tunes to me. While one can and should be sympathetic to someone's mental health problems, one doesn't need to have to put up with that sort of stuff (particularly if it's a new relationship - not family or long term spouse etc...) in their own lives. If this person is messed up to the point where they can barely function, then they probably aren't in the right state to be counseling others.
Tuesday December 30, 2008 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld Related Video children
Fixing My Brain
Fixing My Brain tells the dramatic story of Barbara Arrowsmith, a woman who fixed her own brain, and the journey of three learning-disabled boys who spent a year at her "brain bootcamp" in an effort to change the brain they were born with. The film examines the question: Are we stuck with the brains that we're born with, or is the brain a highly intelligent muscle, able to change itself through specific exercises?
Barbara Arrowsmith was born with a "broken brain". Although her brilliant memory had propelled her through a graduate degree, she still couldn't read a clock, tell right from left, or understand conversations in real time. Exhausted by the stress of hiding her weaknesses, she contemplated suicide. But she was ferociously determined to discover why her brain was "broken".
With extraordinary diligence, Barbara Arrowsmith fused several different strands of brain science and by using herself as a guinea pig - she fixed her own brain. Putting herself through a "brain boot camp" for twelve hours a day over many months, she used her self-created exercises to stimulate the weak areas of her brain and achieved extraordinary results. Finally, she was able to tell time, understand logic and understand conversations in real time. When Barbara tried to share her success with educators they branded her a charlatan - because at that time, (the late 1970s) people believed that the brain was hard-wired and the brain's abilities could not be changed. So Barbara opened her own school, Arrowsmith School, to help students with learning dysfunctions. Fixing My Brain also follows the courageous journey of three learning-disabled boys as they face the challenges of re-wiring their brains.
"Fixing My Brain challenges our preconceptions of who we are, how we learn and how we teach our children. It examines the exhilarating possibility that we truly can change our destiny by learning how to change the pathways of our brain," says award-winning writer and director Christina Pochmursky.
Barbara Arrowsmith's training system is still the only one of its kind in the world and her role as a visionary leader in education is only now being acknowledged.
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I looked Leo Donofrio up and it appears that he used to be an attorney, but let his license lapse.
All “Known” Lawsuits Regarding Obama Citizenship, Birth Certificate: Eligibility To Become U.S.
Why are you posting stuff from October 22?
That sounds loony tunes to me. While one can and should be sympathetic to someone's mental health problems, one doesn't need to have to put up with that sort of stuff (particularly if it's a new relationship - not family or long term spouse etc...) in their own lives. If this person is messed up to the point where they can barely function, then they probably aren't in the right state to be counseling others.
Well speaking of "Physician Heal thyself"....Last week I watched a fascinating show about neuroplasticity http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/2008/brainchangesitself/
....and learned about this woman.
I looked her up to find out more.
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/thelens/2008/fixingmybrain/
Fixing My Brain
Tuesday December 30, 2008 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld
Related Video
children
Fixing My Brain
Fixing My Brain tells the dramatic story of Barbara Arrowsmith, a woman who fixed her own brain, and the journey of three learning-disabled boys who spent a year at her "brain bootcamp" in an effort to change the brain they were born with. The film examines the question: Are we stuck with the brains that we're born with, or is the brain a highly intelligent muscle, able to change itself through specific exercises?
Barbara Arrowsmith was born with a "broken brain". Although her brilliant memory had propelled her through a graduate degree, she still couldn't read a clock, tell right from left, or understand conversations in real time. Exhausted by the stress of hiding her weaknesses, she contemplated suicide. But she was ferociously determined to discover why her brain was "broken".
With extraordinary diligence, Barbara Arrowsmith fused several different strands of brain science and by using herself as a guinea pig - she fixed her own brain. Putting herself through a "brain boot camp" for twelve hours a day over many months, she used her self-created exercises to stimulate the weak areas of her brain and achieved extraordinary results. Finally, she was able to tell time, understand logic and understand conversations in real time. When Barbara tried to share her success with educators they branded her a charlatan - because at that time, (the late 1970s) people believed that the brain was hard-wired and the brain's abilities could not be changed. So Barbara opened her own school, Arrowsmith School, to help students with learning dysfunctions. Fixing My Brain also follows the courageous journey of three learning-disabled boys as they face the challenges of re-wiring their brains.
"Fixing My Brain challenges our preconceptions of who we are, how we learn and how we teach our children. It examines the exhilarating possibility that we truly can change our destiny by learning how to change the pathways of our brain," says award-winning writer and director Christina Pochmursky.
Barbara Arrowsmith's training system is still the only one of its kind in the world and her role as a visionary leader in education is only now being acknowledged.
The end of the constitutional republic?
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"Statements like that are what make the 57 million of us wonder why the Obamamaniacs are so weird.
Are you sure he wasn't disbarred? You know lawyers can be disbarred.
Maybe those groups will use all there money on law suits and we will never hear from them again.
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