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Okay, here are two questions for all you intelligent doctors and medical students out there.
1. Can mental illness be a result of age regression or mentally not aging? I was observing some children today, around 5 years of age, and they were doing normal cute kid stuff. Talking to themselves, to imaginary friends, make believing they were in a war, singing random songs, etc. And while i was watching them, it occured to me that adults with mental illness do some of these same things, that is talk to themselves, sing random songs, see things that aren't there. So could these later symptoms of mental illness be the result of a kind of age regression, or a non-developing brain in the sense of reality? Could they infact be the worsening of these childhood personalities through some inhibited or overzeaolous chemical processes?
2. Okay, second question. How much information do you really retain after your medical education? Even though I made A's in my courses I took last semester, I probably couldn't tell you squat about anything I learned. I mean, I do remember few, very significant pieces of info, but in a testing situation, I would do poorly now. So, how much do you really know after you complete an education? And how important is it that you know most of your first 2 years? Is there a limit to how much you retain?
Thanks guys.
Also if Quinn is reading...you're my idol.
1. Can mental illness be a result of age regression or mentally not aging? I was observing some children today, around 5 years of age, and they were doing normal cute kid stuff. Talking to themselves, to imaginary friends, make believing they were in a war, singing random songs, etc. And while i was watching them, it occured to me that adults with mental illness do some of these same things, that is talk to themselves, sing random songs, see things that aren't there. So could these later symptoms of mental illness be the result of a kind of age regression, or a non-developing brain in the sense of reality? Could they infact be the worsening of these childhood personalities through some inhibited or overzeaolous chemical processes?
2. Okay, second question. How much information do you really retain after your medical education? Even though I made A's in my courses I took last semester, I probably couldn't tell you squat about anything I learned. I mean, I do remember few, very significant pieces of info, but in a testing situation, I would do poorly now. So, how much do you really know after you complete an education? And how important is it that you know most of your first 2 years? Is there a limit to how much you retain?
Thanks guys.
Also if Quinn is reading...you're my idol.