Learn How to TAME Your ANGRY Dragon! - Daniel Amen Live Motivation

Daniel G. Amen, M.D. Psychiatrist, Founder @amen_clinics, leader in brain health & neuroimaging, 12x NY Times bestselling author, The End of Mental Illness out now! 🧠 www.amenclinics.com Follow him at   / doc_amen   First 5 Minutes Of Automated Transcript: 00:03 well 00:04 greetings everyone i hope 00:07 your day was spectacular 00:11 um and i hope the angry dragons 00:15 are not breathing fire on you because 00:19 they're breathing fire all around 00:22 the world as we're going 00:26 into um our 11th month 00:30 in this pandemic they have just been 00:34 damaging so many people 00:39 that i'm going to give you ways tonight 00:42 to 00:42 tame your angry dragon so 00:45 here's the angry dragon it's causing 00:49 so much trouble around the world 00:52 and at ayman clinics a lot of people 00:55 come to us 00:56 because of their temper that 01:00 it just gets the best of them and 01:05 it gets them into trouble at work it 01:08 gets them into trouble in their 01:09 relationships 01:10 it gets them into trouble with their 01:14 friends 01:14 in their community settings 01:17 i've had the blessing or the curse 01:21 depending on how you look at it 01:23 of scanning over a hundred murderers 01:26 about a thousand 01:28 convicted felons i've scanned pretty 01:31 much 01:31 anybody that's done anything bad from 01:34 bombers and robbers and arsonists and 01:38 rapes and um 01:41 domestic violence child abuse 01:45 and the stories 01:48 are just horrifying and nobody 01:52 ever thinks about the brain 01:55 that could that head injury where you 01:58 damaged your left frontal lobe or your 02:00 left temporal lobe 02:02 be involved of course it could 02:05 um so how do you 02:08 know if you have the angry 02:13 dragon so you can take our quiz 02:16 knowyourdragons.com 02:18 um and if you have more than one it's 02:20 normal 02:22 um but the angry dragon is actually one 02:25 of the more 02:25 common ones of the people that 02:29 come to see us so the origin of the 02:31 angry dragon now sometimes it's just 02:33 your brain 02:35 my hero story uh that got 02:38 40 million views on um facebook 02:42 was i tell the story of my nine-year-old 02:44 nephew andrew who attacked a little girl 02:46 on the baseball field 02:48 for no particular reason at all out of 02:51 the blue 02:52 he had dark thoughts horrible thoughts 02:55 it turned out 02:56 he had a cyst the size of a golf ball 02:58 occupying the space 03:00 of his left temporal lobe when the 03:02 neurosurgeon drained the cyst 03:05 his behavior completely went back to 03:08 normal 03:09 so sometimes anger's a brain issue 03:13 so if you've been to counseling and 03:15 you've tried to get your anger under 03:17 control 03:18 and you just get these dark evil awful 03:21 thoughts coming to one of the aemon 03:23 clinic can actually be really 03:25 helpful sometimes the origin of the 03:28 angry dragon is you 03:30 have hurts from the past when i was a 03:33 small child my older brother beat me up 03:35 virtually every day i have home movies 03:38 and there's no home movies where i'm not 03:40 getting beaten up 03:41 and that can cause people to be angry 03:45 if you've been shamed if you've been 03:47 disappointed 03:48 if others modeled 03:52 angry behavior they taught you 03:55 this is how men or this is how 03:59 women solve problems that 04:03 can be problematic um 04:06 what triggers the angry dragon 04:09 when you're reminded of hurts shame 04:12 or past disappointments when you don't 04:15 get your way 04:17 based on our brain imaging work actually 04:20 people follow my work knowing some type 04:22 things 04:22 whether it's atd anxiety depression 04:25 overeating