How our brains make the decisions have always interested me, when one’s hand quickly retracts after making contact with a stove, the nerves carry the message to the brain and back and processes the pain quickly enough for to not hurt ourselves further. Furthermore, as I was involved with more of mental health issues that carry messages to feel a certain way or to execute a certain action. It was always mysterious why talking to oneself was stereotypically associated with craziness or losing one’s head but, I found myself doing it quite often and I know I wasn’t crazy because I know why I was talking to myself. Yet, the stereotype had to have come from somewhere, especially if someone had a personality disorder that drove them to result that isn’t necessarily what they wanted to do but, still had some purpose the brain was messaging.  In this podcast, I will be investigating why these odd behaviors such as talking to oneself being the result of the brain reacting and making decisions inside to situations while under the influence of schizotypal personality disorder.

Sunhong.kim@ttu.edu