ADD, Depression & Chronic Pain, Etc, Etc Pt6 3/3 User Manual 4 Humans

forty percent of those admitted to a hospital or nursing home will never

return to independent living and twenty five percent of them will die within a

year so the 18,000 those are the ones that died as an immediate result of the

fall but there's another couple of hundred thousand the died within a year

has result of that fall this is pretty big stuff this is pretty devastating and

when is the best time to to develop your skills to avoid falling right now or

when you're 65 right it's an ongoing process that strength of the brain is

something that we develop and maintain and build over a lifetime and this is

where we get to the real topic of today and this is equally huge inhibition of

secondary stimuli this is the ability to focus because in order for you to listen

to me rather than the thunder outside you have to actively spend brain energy

brain calories to block those signals those signals are hitting your nervous

system but you choose hopefully to turn those off and listen to me and that is

the ability to focus the brain has to turn off secondary stimuli in order for

you to do that because otherwise you could never choose what to focus on

everything would get you equally and that's what happens to people with

really bad a DD they try to listen and then something happens and their

attention is over here and then it's here and then it's over here and then

it's with their thoughts and it's out the window and what am I going to do

next and oh I'm supposed to be here the brain does not have that strength to

maintain an inhibition of secondary stimuli and this holds true for

everything else that we weave in a cover will will do this pretty quick here

depression is nothing more than a tendency to think depressing thoughts

that sounds real simple I mean it's not easy once you're in that mode because

it's a self-serving loop but that is really all it is it is about it's a

tendency to thank depressing thoughts and your cortex does not have the

ability to go in and interrupt that pattern so depression and literally

means depressed brain function that's what it is and therefore you get

depressed emotions and you feel really bad and you want to kill yourself and so

forth same thing with anxiety anxiety attacks it's a tendency to pick up an

inability to block anxious thoughts and things that you don't want to pay

attention to focus on at one level it's it's purely the ability of the brain

function the ability of the brain and the second level it's a practice just

like everything else that we have to practice do you practice depressing

thoughts or do you practice happy thoughts because most people don't

realize they have a choice and you do most people think that they are

obligated to focus on what's in front of them and read the news and listen to

people playing but that's that short term you

have a choice and that's what determines the balance same thing with chronic pain

and if you remember the summation diagram pain is not an absolute thing

paint we think that oh well the pain it hurts in my foot and my brain is

perceiving the pain we think intuitively that's an absolute thing because the

pain is so real to us but if we have enough inhibitory signals inhibitory

synapses on the brain cell perceiving the pain the brain can choose to feel

the pain or not and therefore pain is not a real thing and that's why

depressed people get have more pain to have more chronic pain and people who

fibromyalgia same thing anger similar principle it's an inability to inhibit

impulses of anger social norms this is good one if you think about how we

behave in in the social environments we we have we think that oh well it's it's

obvious we we all know what appropriate behavior is but babies they cry in

public they scream they have tantrums they make a scene why because they do

not have that they don't have developed the brain capacity to inhibit those

impulses as we get older we develop the ability to inhibit it and now we know

what's inappropriate or not but at the brain level that is exactly what what's

happening the brain is what inhibits that and sometimes people with strokes

they strike out that portion that inhibits that and they completely lose

their social manners they are intelligent they can function

in many ways and all of a sudden they start cursing and yelling in public or

at their loved ones often this happens with with Alzheimer's as well and it's

not an absolute thing it's the brain's ability to inhibit that behavior we all

have those impulses but the brain keeps them in check when things are working

why do teens act so stupid why are they so reckless why do they kill themselves

on the road because the brain is not fully developed the frontal lobe which

inhibits this stuff is not fully developed until age 25 so the 16 year

old it gets the driver's license they do not have a mature brain so when someone

says oh drive through that red light he thinks that's a good idea occasionally

some some of the more more stupid ones but it's it's an inability to inhibit

that type of behavior and it's an it's an undeveloped sometimes you will have I

mentioned that with with Alzheimer's or strokes that older people all of a

sudden start losing their social manners they start cursing they start yelling

they start having outburst and it's the brain is too weak to them on those

impulses starting to get the picture and a lot of what we call aging is nothing

more than a gradually degenerating brain that doesn't have the ability to to

manage and monitor this anymore so let's just round this off and again I

appreciate you coming in here as you see we haven't talked about back pain we

haven't talked about bone out of place putting pressure on a nerve most people

who go to a chiropractor they look up chiropractor in the phone book or on the

internet they look for those things but that's not what chiropractic is about

once you start seeing the bigger picture the last slide I label it back pain

Shmack pain it's like in the bigger context yes of course if you suffer back

pain that's important but that's such a tiny little piece of what this is about

it's about function is about life quality and it's about joy at all ages

so when someone comes in with pain yes we want to help them feel better but the

pain is always an indicator of something else that isn't working and what is it

that's not working if we understand the body properly we know that brain

regulates everything in the body so if there's a problem in the body if there's

an imbalance in the body there's always an imbalance in the brain first unless

it's a an acute trauma that we can identify everything else starts in the

brain first so when we fix the pain we make something work better in the brain

but that brain also regulates everything else

talked about so if we make the pain go away and we make that work better that

means that we increase their likelihood of not falling we increase the

likelihood of not getting high blood pressure we reduce their tendency for

MDD and anti-social behavior we increase their ability for for a joyous life but

it doesn't happen in a couple of visits and I know I'm preaching to the choir

here but that that's the bigger picture so again I thank you very much for

coming and we'll hope to see you back next time and please bring someone that

you care about that needs to know this stuff thank you