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Change Your Brain Every Day

Paul Wesley: Vampire Diaries, Mental Health, Mood & Happiness

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Braintrauma, Healthtips, Sleep, Obesity, Anxiety, Braininjury, Depression, Ptsd, Mentalhealth, Mood, Brainhealth, Health & Fitness, Energy, Disease, Addiction, Mental Health, Healthadvice, Adhd, Memory, Focus

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode of Change Your Brain Every Day, Dr. Amen sits down to evaluate actor Paul Wesley. Paul discusses his childhood, start in acting, goals for his mental health and happiness

00:00 Intro

01:47 Sponsor

02:57 Paul

05:24 Growing Up In New Jersey

08:18 Acting in New York City

15:03 Intention/The 18/40/60 Rule

20:30 The Four Circles

22:19 Head Trauma

27:05 Paul’s SPECT Brain Scans

31:02 Dr. Amen’s Recommendations

34:13 Turn Bad Days into Good Data

35:19 Sponsor

36:44 Wrap Up

Transcript

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0:00.0

It was in a car accident. I honestly probably shouldn't have been alive.

0:04.0

I was asleep. It was a senior year in high school. Somebody else was driving.

0:10.0

And I woke up out of nowhere and my seat was lay down all the way.

0:15.0

It was the middle of the night and I remember I had this very strange feeling.

0:18.0

I woken up out of a dead sleep and I never wore my seatbelt back in the day,

0:21.7

which is the most idiotic thing in the world.

0:24.0

And I woke up, and I said, this strange feeling,

0:26.4

put the seatbelt on, and then close my eyes.

0:29.5

And then literally eight to 10 seconds later,

0:32.6

the person who was driving the car fell asleep,

0:35.5

went off the highway, flipped over.

0:38.3

I think it was nine or ten times the police told us later.

0:41.3

It landed upside down in a ravine, pitch black, blood everywhere, all the windows shattered.

0:47.3

I mean, the car was like a pancake.

0:49.3

I remember my head, when I went to the hospital, my head was severely concussed, but nothing, you know, no life-threatening injuries, but I remember my head, you know, went to the hospital and my head was severely concussed, but nothing,

0:55.0

you know, no life-threatening injuries, but I remember that and thinking to myself, God, my brain

1:00.0

got so rattled during that accident.

1:05.1

Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse.

1:10.2

Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better

1:14.1

every day. In this episode of the podcast, I'm going to interview Paul Wesley and we're going to look

1:23.0

at his brain. Paul is an actor, best known for the viral sensation vampire diaries. We're going to talk about

1:30.8

brain fog, issues with focus, head injuries from ice hockey fights and a brutal car accident.

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