Interesting--thanks Ida.
>At 22:30 4-8-99 -0400, Camilla Flintermann wrote:
>>Dear listfriends---
>>
>>On CARE recently we have been discussiog a symptom or characteristic of PD
>>which I've labeled "perseveration". By that, I mean to include the
>>physical and mental inability or difficulty in letting go of a thought or a
>>thing, which seems to be common woth PWPS, and can be very frustrating to
>>their CGs.
>
>Camilla,
>
>THe behavior that you describe is in psychiatry described as a symptom of
>a compulsive, obsessive personality disturbance, but too as a symptom of
>generalized brain damage. In the time that their insults could not be
>prevented by meds, epileptics suffered frequently from such brain damage.
>Because brain cells are the most vulnerable from a shortage of oxygen and
>havng an insult an epileptic stops breathing.Their behavior was described
>as sticky, not beng able to stop something they were doing and not being
>able to learn in a trial and error way, because they sticked to a solution
>that was first tried, irrespective of the succes or lack of succes.
>
>Ida.
>
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>Vriendelijke Groeten / Kind regards,
>
>Ida Kamphuis mailto: [log in to unmask]
Camilla Flintermann, CG for Peter 81/70/55
Oxford, Ohio
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