Can you go away, brain...

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I hate my blasted Amygdala! It helps to get in the way whenever I try to start something. Its like every blasted thing I do requires a d*#n fight or flight response!

I don't know how much of the Aspie/Auti community has issues with it, but sheesh. Most Annoying Part Of My Brain

Yes, this is a rant.

The question is: I know I have issues with not so much the Amygdala as with the connections between the it and the other parts of the brain. What does this indicate, besides a sensory malfunction (hot was 10 seconds ago). How best can I deal with it?
(Sometimes, I wish I could bottle that cluster of neurons and toss it out the window)

...I need to meditate...

(And here I lose all credibility as a sane mind. That is as lovely to me as a lizard devouring my innards.)

-Momentarily insecure Aspie

I used to have the issue you are talking about I think if i understood you correctly is that you freeze and get nerved up every time you are faced with a important or sudden decision.

After I started becoming a Stoic it was far better for me. You could try it for you self If you would like to try hears a link. Stoicism

It's an idea. Is there a more physical form? It's a sensory/mental issue that causes emotional trouble. (having it sparking off while writing the original post did not help it's comprehensibility)
It's Limbic-system related.

thanks

Basic tenets

“ Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life. ”
—Epictetus[5]
The Stoics provided a unified account of the world, consisting of formal logic, non-dualistic physics and naturalistic ethics. Of these, they emphasized ethics as the main focus of human knowledge, though their logical theories were of more interest for later philosophers.
Stoicism teaches the development of self-control and fortitude as a means of overcoming destructive emotions; the philosophy holds that becoming a clear and unbiased thinker allows one to understand the universal reason (logos). A primary aspect of Stoicism involves improving the individual's ethical and moral well-being: "Virtue consists in a will that is in agreement with Nature."[6] This principle also applies to the realm of interpersonal relationships; "to be free from anger, envy, and jealousy,"[7] and to accept even slaves as "equals of other men, because all men alike are products of nature."[8]
The Stoic ethic espouses a deterministic perspective; in regard to those who lack Stoic virtue, Cleanthes once opined that the wicked man is "like a dog tied to a cart, and compelled to go wherever it goes."[6] A Stoic of virtue, by contrast, would amend his will to suit the world and remain, in the words of Epictetus, "sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy,"[7] thus positing a "completely autonomous" individual will, and at the same time a universe that is "a rigidly deterministic single whole." This viewpoint was later described as "Classical Pantheism" (and was adopted by Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza).[9]
Stoicism became the foremost popular philosophy among the educated elite in the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire,[10] to the point where, in the words of Gilbert Murray "nearly all the successors of Alexander [...] professed themselves Stoics."[11]


Slave, if you are interested in this stuff, why do you profess an interest in this stuff and yet still adopt and proclaim a wholly nilhilistic outlook?
I am hoping for a positive and meandering wait and see approach from the perspective of a long life with a lot of life perspective as the years fly bye and you gradually gain acceptance of the helpliness of our position

...That is
I am lost, alone , negative, without hope
therefore the only joy in my life is helping negative souls find something
as well