Criminal Minds vs. Our Minds

When someone gets into an accident there is always that feeling that something could be seriously wrong, maybe a broken limb, internal bleeding or worst of all damage to a vital organ, more specifically the brain. In an episode in the seventh season of Criminal Minds a man goes through a serious car crash. The car crash was so bad that he suffered severe damage to his brain. It became so bad that when he saw faces of people he was close to, his parents for example, he would think they were imposters. The brain is such a delicate thing; it’s scary to think that something that happens many times throughout the day can alter our lives forever. I want you to put yourself into their shoes for a moment. Imagine looking at your significant other and having your brain send you signals that are not real. Thinking that someone you care about has been taken over. He felt absolutely alone. Now, this man was not in a competent state so even though he committed crimes and broke several laws he could not be thrown into jail; however, he would be put into a mental institution. Think about your little brother or sister or daughter or son. This man and other people with the disease take one look at them and believe that their family has been abducted and people are replacing them. Their brains have the natural instinct to go into overprotective mode. Some cases are more severe than others, for example the man in this episode has an extreme case of this mental disorder. However this disorder is not always permanent. When the accident occurs a pathway in your brain that connects two different parts of the brain is broken, it can sometimes repair itself or find another route to connect the two parts together again. This episode was not only a way of learning about behavior it was also of a way of learning about the brain. Criminal Minds is a show that teaches us about our behavior and lets us see into the minds of criminals.

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