When Circumstances Lead You to Become a Reluctant Healer
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Tana Amen's father wasn't there for her much during her childhood. So when he became ill, the last thing she wanted was to have to be the one to take care of him. However, by doing so, she learned as much about herself as she did about him, and the dynamic change in their relationship made it all worth it. In this episode, Tana relates this life-changing experience.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body. |
| 0:19.0 | The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aemon Clinics, where we have been transforming |
| 0:25.5 | lives for 30 years, using tools like brain-spect imaging to personalize treatment to your |
| 0:32.0 | brain. |
| 0:32.7 | For more information, |
| 0:34.1 | visit Aaman Clinics.com. |
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| 0:44.3 | and body. To learn more go to brainMD.com. |
| 0:49.2 | Welcome back. We are talking about reluctant healers in these episodes this week, |
| 0:56.7 | and we're talking about the story of my dad. |
| 0:59.4 | And my husband, who tends to bring people back into my life. |
| 1:06.0 | So we've been talking about how he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and he was or close and not coming out of his room and your sisters were freaked out and they call you and you're like why is this my problem? |
| 1:18.0 | This is a guy that's not been part of my life in a good way. He's actually brought more pain in my life than anything |
| 1:25.0 | And when I scan him he does not have Alzheimer's disease. He has something called |
| 1:31.2 | pseudo dementia So now we're gonna get to the right is something called pseudo-dementia. |
| 1:34.0 | So now we're going to get to the rest of the story, |
| 1:35.8 | as Paul Harvey would say, but first, |
| 1:41.2 | Hannah Raoul writes in, thank you very much for sharing this podcast. |
| 1:47.0 | I appreciate so much both of your expertise in the fields, |
| 1:52.0 | the complementarity of your couple, the willingness to share your |
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