apologies for my previous post, i had poor wording.
if someone has severe head trauma, be it from a concussion, fracture, etc. could this develop mental illness? if someone’s brain isn’t fully developed yet, is there a higher risk of this causing mental illness in the future?
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Yes! There is a well-known case of that from the 1800s. A man named Phineas Gage had a head injury which completely changed his personality for the worse.
Well, the brain is where everything that makes up who we are is located, and all of our moods, thoughts, and perceptions happen there.
So damage to the head, if severe enough, can have an effects on every aspect of your personality, depending on where and how severe that damage is.
There is a famous case of a guy who got an iron bar blasted right through the middle of his skull from the bottom upwards and miraculously survived, but he had significant mood disorders for the rest of his life because the bar severed some nerves that allowed some different parts of his brain to communicate, so the part that generated the emotions couldn’t communicate with the part that controlled them and kept them in check.
An extreme example, but it demonstrates the concept.
CTE: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Can cause dementia, aggression, suicidal thoughts, and other issues
I believe all the serial killers known to date have some sort of history with the head trauma…
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