I'm wondering about the functioning of the brain, can anyone help out?

Question

Will there ever be a way to display a person has reasonably normal mental functioning? and then use this display to compare to people with mental problems to see where the problem lies and then know how to treat it? (like a genetic blueprint or anything at all)
How does a person know they are mentally healthy? is there an actual feeling of security that a person feels is always with them that arises from mental balance? and when that feeling goes away its like an alarm going off that something is wrong in your head or imbalanced? I feel that my ocd drives me up the wall and my friends, although they do get stressed sometimes as normal people do, never appear to be bogged down by things, they can enjoy life and be happy. There has to be something to that. There has to be a way to say "hey look your brain is functioning normally on all levels, so you're good to go." they say a brain is like a computer, so wheres the programming code at? and how do we find the glitches? thank you.

Answer 1

it is being studied and alot of interesting data is coming in. today on NPR (national public radio...u can google it) had a segment on your subject. you might be able to hear or read the transcript from that show on Science Friday on NPR. oh, today meaning friday, not saturday of course :) best to you

Answer 2

Today there are scans that do show things like how a person reacts to things, and some things can be seen. I don't know to what extent every possible problem can be seen in a scan today; but it is certainly likely that in the future (if not now) it will probably be possible to pretty much see functioning.

A person who is very, very, mentally healthy and solid just kind of knows it. That doesn't mean a mentally healthy person doesn't have times when he/she experiences horrible things like grief or loss or doesn't experience anxiety when anxiety would be normal for the situation, but a mentally healthy person just kind of knows how to process things like grief and anxiety. He/she may only be able to get to a certain level of feeling ok "mood-wise" if he/she is going through grief, but it is never an uncertainty about knowing he/she is really - underneath - ok and will get past the grief in time.

For the mentally healthy person it doesn't feel like there are any gliches at all.

Probably where the programming code originally was was during the first three years of a person's life when the synapses were being formed by the child's experiences. (www.zerotothree.org)
That is when a child's brain is essentially being programmed with regard to how the brain will react to situations for the rest of his/her life. This is why it can be difficult for the person who has "gliches" to figure out why he/she responds to some things as he/she does and to figure out how to fix the problem.

Sometimes, though, a person's brain chemicals can develop an imbalance, and that can cause some things like OCD.

People who are mentally healthy feel like they're ok. They feel sure, capable, solid, and clear-headed. No matter what awful things go on they never question that they are functioning well. It feels like one's mind if efficient and smooth-running.

I think if you have OCD you are experiencing the "gliche" when you need to do whatever it is you need to do in order to feel better. If it is bad enough to be affecting your ability to live happily and comfortably then there is your gliche. Gliches in mental health are, I think, usually right out there, interfering with that solid sense of ok-ness, for the person to see and feel.

What it may take to fix such a gliche is therapy and/or medication. Therapy can probably help a person figure out where the gliche may have been created, but I don't think it always can.

One thing, though: If a person feels pretty much mentally healthy but has some relatively minor quirk there's a point where that person's otherwise good mental functioning should help him/her realize that the "quirk" isn't a big deal and he/she should just accept it and be at peace with his/her otherwise well functioning brain.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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