[13 x Foreman]
- He didn’t call me attractive. He cast me in his mental porno.
- That’s what attractive means. “I’m attracted to you, sexually.”
- Attracted can also mean “I’m attracted to the whole package. To who you are.”
- It could. It never does. It’s what women choose to hear, not what men say.
- Actually, it’s exactly what men say if they have any brains.

* * *
[Patient]
- I think people who publicize important things are people who can’t do important things themselves.

* * *
[House x Wilson]
- So you made your one effort to live a normal, selfish life and the universe immediately smacked you down. And because we’re wired to find meaning in semi-random events, you decided never to be that careless again.
- You don’t think that’s a little facile?
- Actually, I don’t. I think you did it consciously. You developed your… people-pleasing talents the way an olympic athlete develops his muscles. Talk about an overreaction to a single event.
- It was a pretty big event.
- Hanging up the phone? That’s what you’re blaming all this on. That’s the behavior you’ve been trying to correct. As though nothing else went wrong in your brother’s life.Of course, he overreacted too, but…

* * *

[House x Wilson]
- Does it bother you that we have no social contract?
- My whole life is one big compromise. I tiptoe around everyone like they’re made of china. I spend all my time analyzing: what
will the effect be if I say this? Then there’s you. You’re a reality junkie. If I offered you a comforting lie, you’d smack me over the head with it.Let’s not change that.
- Ok
- No, see, this… If you were implementing the social contract, you’d say that, but only because… It makes me feel better…
- It is kind of fun watching you torture yourself.
- Do you think things will work out with my brother?
- No. But when it does go wrong, it won’t be your fault.
- Thanks, House.
- You do actually like monster trucks.
- Absolutely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racquetball

On a ‘House’ front, I had never watched a single episode until about 5 weeks ago. Then decided to buy seasons 1-4 in a box-set, and have gotten through them all. Now catching up on season 5. And improving my differential diagnosis skills as well(!)

http://brightbytes.com/phineasgage/index.html

also the characterization of disinhibition syndrome is a little overblown–i see patients like this everyday and they are very verbose and say outrageous things but probably not to the level that is portrayed here–also they have very blunted emotions so they prob wouldn’t give a crap if their wife/kid was mad at them–also surgery near brainstem?–ummm…nope…not even close.

I was just wondering how to link the symptom (blurting out whatever comes to ones mind) to the fibroma?

I was secretly hoping to find the answer in the comments, but I think I haven’t.

Could you shed some light?

Thanks,

Peter

There is a whole list of psychoactive medication that they could have tried first. In ADHD there are parts of the frontal lobe that are abnormally small. Folks with ADHD do all kinds of things that they shouldn’t.