Sublime

The psychopath, he observes, is an intelligent person, characterised by a poverty of emotions, the absence of a sense of shame, egocentricity, superficial charm, lack of guilt, lack of anxiety, immunity to punishment, unpredictability, irresponsibility, manipulativeness, and a transient interpersonal lifestyle

Julius Wagner-Jauregg was a 19th-century psychiatrist with two unique skills: He was good at recognizing patterns, and what others saw as “crazy” he found merely “bold.”

Often there is excessive activity in the right temporal lobe, the fear center of the brain, combined with too much frontal slow-wave activity. This means that their hyperaroused emotional brains dominate their mental life. Our research showed that calming the fear center decreases trauma-based problems and improves executive functioning.

Understanding that individuals with low thyroid function often compensate by producing higher levels of stress hormones, such as cortisol and adrenaline, is crucial (Peat, 2008, pp. 4-5; Peat, 2001a, p. 72). These hormones can significantly alter a person's appearance and physiological markers, potentially misleading healthcare professionals (Peat,

Anxiety and depression are not abnormal. They are not pathologies or aberrations. They are just one end of a spectrum of normal experience playing out on the same mechanisms that allow us to survive.

His doctor explains that one part of Alex’s brain is underactive compared to those of most people, a tiny structure called the amygdala. The amygdala is the ‘threat detector’, responsible for generating emotions that help us survive – emotions like fear. People who have a defect in their amygdala don’t feel any fear at all, not with public speaking

heart rate variability (HRV). HRV had recently been discovered to be a good way to measure the integrity of one of the brain’s arousal systems, the one located in the oldest part of the brain: the brain stem.

Fear of being an individual person in the physical world