i am insane

[latent mountain]

Me neither. Let's just be insane together 💀

You can vent to me whenever btw though just an FYI, I won't always have any advice to give out since I'm going through my own shit rn but I wouldn't mind listening and being able to provide sympathy

Sure

No clue

I do "well" in school but I mainly just look up the answers. I get the material fairly okay but most of it I don't know and I just pretend I do know. For street smarts I know how to fight and I know what to be cautious for but I'm not good in social situations because I'm awkward and anxious and I get stressed too much overthinking a response.

I have no idea 💀😭

I do not know 😕

Not really

[uneven wyvern]

what do you struggle with?

xD

then enact it in a demanding field?

go to academia?

become a scientist?

sure

enact it in a productive way

visit a psychologist before u go?

diagnosis?

xD

r delusional my guy

if you where prodigy in psychology

you would know how to enact r issues in a productive way

and how to fix r life

if u were so smart

if you are genius about psychology

what do you know aboout

jung

lacan

freud

?

tell me m all ears

tell me details bby

otherwise r pretending

and being delusional

xD

kk

yeye

enjoy being delusional

"psychology isnt about studying people"

my guy

r the definition of ignorant

u say u remember everything

and yet u dont know shit

congrats

u say u know jung

define archetype for me

u say you remember everyhing that happened

which includes you reading about jung

so tell me lol

otherwise r pretending

define archetype

there isnt a solution to being a savant lol

u cant read what is written above my guy?

r that delusional?

you too lol

u say r genius at psychology

and dont know anything at the same time xD

congrats

u said u were genius u dont need solutions

u can come up with them rself xd

otherwise r just pretending

Hyperthymesia, also known as hyperthymestic syndrome or highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), is a condition that leads people to be able to remember an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid detail. It is extraordinarily rare, with only 61 people in the world having been diagnosed with the condition as of 2021.[3][4] One who has hyperthymesia is called a hyperthymesiac.[5]

American neurobiologists Elizabeth Parker, Larry Cahill, and James McGaugh (2006) identified two defining characteristics of hyperthymesia: spending an excessive amount of time thinking about one's past, and displaying an extraordinary ability to recall specific events from one's past.[1] The authors wrote that they derived the word from Ancient Greek: hyper- ("excessive") and thymesis ("remembering"), but there is no such word as thymesis; it may allude to the Greek enthymesis, which means "consideration", and is derived from thymos "mind".[6]

there are no cures

no solutioins kid

but meditation would definitely help

Causes
Because of the small number of people diagnosed with hyperthymesia, relatively little is known about the processes governing this superior memory ability. However, more is beginning to be understood about this condition.[8]

Psychological
It has been proposed that the initial encoding of events by such people includes semantic processing, and therefore semantic cues are used in retrieval. Once cued, the memory is retrieved as episodic and follows a pattern similar to that of a spreading activation model. This is particularly evident in Jill Price's case. She describes how one memory triggers another, which in turn triggers another and how she is powerless to stop it: "It's like a split screen; I'll be talking to someone and seeing something else."[1] This theory serves to explain why hyperthymestics have both a sense of 'knowing' (semantic memory) and 'remembering' (episodic memory) during recollection.

One writer claimed hyperthymesia may be a result of reviewing memories constantly to an obsessive-compulsive degree.[17] However, Price has completely dismissed this article as "a load of crap" and others with hyperthymesia claim to never revisit uneventful memories. Other findings have shown that the tendencies to absorb new information and fantasize are personality traits that are higher in hyperthymestics than the rest of the population. These traits, absorption and fantasizing, also correlated with a test which measures superior autobiographical memory within the hyperthymestic sample.[18]

McGaugh rejects the idea that hyperthymestic syndrome can be explained away so easily; he argues that nothing explains how subjects are able to memorize so much: "You'd have to assume that every day they rehearse it... The probability of these explanations dwindles as you look at the evidence."[16]

Biological
An MRI study conducted on Price provides a plausible argument as to the neurological foundation of her superior memory.[19][20] Both the temporal lobe and the caudate nucleus were found to be enlarged.

Parker and colleagues speculated that a defective frontostriatal circuit could be responsible for the observed executive function deficits in hyperthymesia. This circuit plays a crucial role in some neurodevelopmental disorders including obsessive–compulsive disorder and Alzheimer's.[21] Given the parallels in some aspects of behavior, Price's hyperthymestic abilities possibly stem from atypical neurodevelopment. Scientists now need to ascertain if and how these brain areas are connected to establish a coherent neurological model for superior autobiographical memory.

For autobiographical memory, the hippocampus, located in the medial temporal lobe, is involved in the encoding of declarative memory (memory for facts and events), while the temporal cortex is involved in the storage of such memory.[22] The caudate nucleus is primarily associated with procedural memory, in particular habit formation, and is, therefore, intrinsically linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder.

A 2018 clinical trial published that there were higher levels of activation in the medial prefrontal cortex and temporoparietal junction along with heightened connection between the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus in individuals with hyperthymesia, suggesting that these regions may play a role in the enablement of the condition.[23] This contradicts information published earlier in a Wired article, which states that the famous hyperthymesiac Jill Price had been brain scanned and her "hippocampus and prefrontal cortex were reportedly normal", suggesting that these regions of the brain do not need to be different for hyperthymesia to occur.[17]

Significant debate also exists over the limits of memory capacity. Some are of the view that the brain contains so many potential synaptic connections that, in theory at least, no practical limit exists to the number of long-term memories that the brain can store. In 1961, Wilder Penfield reported that specific stimulation of the temporal lobes resulted in vivid recollection of memories. He concluded that our brains were making "continuous, effortless, video-like recordings" of our experiences, but that these records are not consciously accessible to us.[24] However, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggested that those with hyperthymesia may reconstruct memories from traces and incorporate post event information and associations—a finding at odds with Penfield's video-like recording analogy.[25]

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here u have it

read it

your awnser bozo

The discovery and analysis of hyperthymesia may prove to be the solution that clinicians have searched for endlessly. Numerous groups studying the genetics of the condition have discovered that hyperthymesia develops due to an allele known as apolipoprotein E2 (APOE2), an allele of the APOE gene that has a positive correlation with improved working memory capacity and is a counterpart to APOE4 [18]. As researchers now know how APOE2 can fight pruning, many are now considering using the gene for gene therapy, a process that changes the allele of a gene in a patient, to hopefully see positive results for those with Alzheimer’s [15][16]. If this were to work, doctors could potentially help halt or reverse the ravaging effects of the disease. While much research and many clinical trials are underway to test the feasibility of this procedure, scientists are excited and hope that this proof of concept could potentially lead to other case studies being used as a template for genetic fixes for other autosomal diseases.

A New Hope
With the positive outcomes that can arise from medical research, individuals with hyperthymesia have found a satisfaction in knowing that their condition could one day lead to the next monumental cure. They still hope that more emphasis will be placed on alleviating their own condition, but in the meantime, many of these people have taken up creative hobbies to serve as a means of therapy and a constructive outlet.

When Veiseh first gave interviews, he often lamented his inability to function as a normal human being. At the time, he found that only researchers and the media wanted to speak with him, and they were consuming his life. To escape that attention, Veiseh has since turned to professional painting. He says that he can use any “memory or phenomenon, whether it be wind blowing through a rose bush, a star exploding, a sunrise, or any number of other things” as a means to better understand his memory [19]. Veiseh says the condition has its perks and downfalls much as any other would. However, he hopes that his art can help the spur on the current research and help others understand what living with hyperthymesia is like.

r u satisfied with the awnser or want more?

u arent a genius u have a memory disorder

know the difference