Why would therapist have this done to my brain?

Question

So my therapist said that she wanted a better picture of my brain. So she sent me to this place and basically, they put a bunch of electrodes on my head to measure electrical impulses while I looked a pictures--when I was there, the technician, whatever, I was confused, said that my brain seems to have been restructured--I don't process things in the typical area of the brain that most people do. Is this the type of thing my therapist would be looking for? I really don't get it. The procedure was explained to me, but how it ties into anything, I don't know. Do you guys have any ideas? I am worrying that I could be getting prepped for electoshock--could this be the case?

Answer 1

no- this has nothing to do with electroshock therapy- that is used for depression and only on your consent. EST is also done under general anaethestic becase of how painful it is.

this was probably done to see how your body processes information in different situations. to see hwo you repsond to different situations and perhaps if you fear certain things etc.

its hard to givev an exact reason why, when you ahvent told us why you are seeing a therapist in the first place

Answer 2

The electrodes measured what area of your brain was working to process the different pictures you were looking at. Different pictures can cause different parts of the brain to work while your brain not only figures out what the picture is, but what it means.
The purpose of this is probably to find out where and how your brain works - it seems its wired a little differently than other people. Not that its necessarily a bad thing, but your therapist can then figure out what will work best to help you with whatever you're going to him for.
What works for one person may not work the same for you, because the 2 brains are a little different.

They don't use electro-shock therapy anymore (not for a few decades) - it was proven a long time ago it doesn't help anything.

So if you want to find out more about it, you should talk to your therapist to find out how he is going to use the information they got.

Answer 3

The therapist didn't do a thing to your brain. She only observed what was going on inside. Aside from that, as the old song goes:

I could while away the hours
Conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain
And my head, I'd be scratchin'
While my thoughts were busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain.

I'd unravel ev'ry riddle
For any individ'le
In trouble or in pain

With the thoughts you'd be thinkin'
You could be another Lincoln,
If you only had a brain.

Oh, I could tell you why
The ocean's near the shore,
I could think of things I never thunk before
And then I'd sit and think some more.

I would not be just a nuffin'
My head all full of stuffin'
My heart all full of pain.
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry
If I only had a brain.

Answer 4

What are you being treated for? What was the name of the test?
Just because you don't process things in the 'typical area',doesn't tell a lot. You would have to have a lot more info about your 'case'.
They don't prep you for electroshock like that, and they must have a consent first [shock therapy is for depression].

Answer 5

sounds like an EEG--maybe checkin for seizure activity in ur brain--
elecktroshock is a in hospital medical procedure--u would have been completely knocked out and wouldnt remember it