I hear so often about mental scars and can't help wondering whether the brain does actually get scars, or whether cells/neurotransmitters are corrupted somehow...?
2006-10-31 13:03:04 · 5 answers · asked by swelwynemma 7 in Health ➔ Mental Health
The brain can physically scar when concussed, scull fractured invaded (eg. scalpel, bullet) but the kind of mental scars that you keep hearing about are psychological scars or more properly traumas to the thought/mental process not physical scars as such.
The way that abuse 'rewires' the neurons could not properly be refered to as scaring because that would be an adaptive process, even if the effects were entirely negative cells weren't killed just developed a different way than they might have.
2006-10-31 13:10:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what you are alluding to by "mental scars".
Medical science has shown a person's brain can be affected through concussion, disease, and/or neurological dysfunction. If you categorize epilepsy and schizophrenia as "mental scars", yes, the brain can be scarred.
If you are referring to ADD, ADHD as "mental scarring", NO!Federal and State legislation has mandated schools to test and identify individuals with ADD and ADHD, only to "line the coffers" of the schools with Federal and State funds.
Myself, and many of my classmates, in the 50's and 60's could easily have been identified as ADD/ADHD if funds had been available then. I didn't have any interest in math. Was I ADD/ADHD? No. I just didn't like math. Did I like American or World History? Yes. Were there students in my class who didn't? You Bet! Today, those classmates would be identified as ADD/ADHD.
Many deficiencies in today's public school population are attributed to ADD/ADHD, when in actuality, should be addressed as "brat" syndrome.
2006-10-31 21:37:47 · answer #2 · answered by Baby Poots 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the brain does get physical scars from accidents, and it also can get a mental scar in the way that if you suffer something really tramatic your braincan somehow choose to block it away and you may never fully remember the episode, if at all...
2006-10-31 21:12:50 · answer #3 · answered by jess l 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not physically, but its just as bad. You figure if the human brain is designed to grown and mature along certain lines and that growth is interrupted by undo stress, sexual abuse or violence, then you've got emotional scars, and arrested development.
2006-10-31 21:15:16 · answer #4 · answered by starmoishe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
their is no physical scar on your brain that you can see from mental or emotional scars
it's a way of thinking
2006-10-31 21:09:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋