Man With Severe Anger Issues Cries After Seeing What Brain Scan Reveals
For years, Brenden had been yelling at his wife Natasha, pushing her face during arguments, picking fights, and making threats. But it turns out, there was something deeper going on – something inside his brain.
After eight years of marriage, Natasha finally reached a point where she couldn’t take it anymore. She reached out to Dr Phil for help, hoping to understand what was really causing Brenden’s anger issues.
Even though she had been through so much, Natasha hadn’t left Brenden. He, on the other hand, admitted that his anger tends to spiral when he feels anxious or overwhelmed.
“I’m hoping for some type of outcome for me and my family,”
Dr Bradley Jabour, a top neuroradiologist known worldwide, stepped in to conduct brain scans and explained what he was looking for in the results.
“For some reason, this anxiety and fear that just torments you, triggers an anger where you will act out and maybe even hurt other people you love around you. The question for me today is, really, is your brain structurally normal?”
“So we have these powerful techniques which can look at the architecture of your brain, but also get an idea of the functioning of your brain. So we’re looking for any possible stigmata of brain injury which could be caused by other things other than actual injury.”
“Brendan, this next scan will be four minutes tomorrow with Dr Phil. We’ll have all the data together, and we’ll be able to analyze and provide him with some road map as to what possibly could help.”
When the scan results were finally revealed on the show, the findings were a shock to everyone – especially Brenden, who became emotional when he saw the truth laid out.
“I was surprised, you know, in talking to Brenden initially, and he mentioned that he had never had any experience of an impactful head trauma,”
“And we see evidence that looks like at some point somewhere, somebody should sit with Brenden and try and find out, when did he get a hit on the head or knocked unconscious, possibly something that maybe he doesn’t remember, but it probably did happen, because there’s several of these areas of gliosis were scar tissue.”
Natasha had put up with years of abuse from Brenden, including ‘muffing’ – which she described as a push to the faceYouTube/Dr. Phil
Jabour explained further that the scans showed seven different areas where scarring had occurred. He urged Brenden to consider counseling, and at that point, Brenden couldn’t hold back his tears.
“I’m not sure if you can tie in the anger issues with a particular moment in his life, or has he always been angry, even as a 12, 13, 15-year-old?”
When Dr Phil asked whether the scan results were considered out of the ordinary, Jabour confirmed: “Abnormal? Yes.”
