Does anyone in class know what Anosmia is and Did you ever think what it would be like if you lost your sense of smell. Ok we’ve seen people who have lost a limb, the blind, the deaf, and the crippled but did we ever think of a LIFE WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO SMELL. I always imagined it to be the easiest disability to live with how much of this sense do we really use anyway.
This is one of the first sense babies uses to help identify its mother. The baby can smell out sweet dearest mum who gave birth to him or her in a crowded room. Do we use this sense just to smell and what would be life without this sense? It’s something I’ve always taken for granted. Yes I love the smell of rain after a hot day, walking into the kitchen with that warm scent …show more content…
There are people who have actually lost their sense of smell in head injuries and it’s turned their life into utter mayhem. They have described it as worse than losing an eyesight or hearing, saying that life is no longer worth living. How can this be true we can’t imagine it without looking at our brain and Our sense of smell is a complex system that’s connected to intertwined with limbic system, the area of the brain that processes smell and emotion and memory. The olfactory centre is in the amygdala its, The where we process all emotions, without our nose a lot of our happy and sad memories are lost forever. The amygdala controls our emotional side. We use it to connect emotionaly with people to express our feelings to show happiness, life without this would be pointless.
What happens when we lose the sense of smell, firstly we become an emotional mess. We lose the ability to laugh smile the part of life we take for granted, it’s the very reason why depressed patients have shown very poor sense of smell and we casually say to them unware wake up and smell the roses. People with Anosmia are depressed, sad weeping unable to connect emotionally with friends and family and push people away. Most of the patients with this condition usually commit suicide with a year of life with
This is one of the first sense babies uses to help identify its mother. The baby can smell out sweet dearest mum who gave birth to him or her in a crowded room. Do we use this sense just to smell and what would be life without this sense? It’s something I’ve always taken for granted. Yes I love the smell of rain after a hot day, walking into the kitchen with that warm scent …show more content…
There are people who have actually lost their sense of smell in head injuries and it’s turned their life into utter mayhem. They have described it as worse than losing an eyesight or hearing, saying that life is no longer worth living. How can this be true we can’t imagine it without looking at our brain and Our sense of smell is a complex system that’s connected to intertwined with limbic system, the area of the brain that processes smell and emotion and memory. The olfactory centre is in the amygdala its, The where we process all emotions, without our nose a lot of our happy and sad memories are lost forever. The amygdala controls our emotional side. We use it to connect emotionaly with people to express our feelings to show happiness, life without this would be pointless.
What happens when we lose the sense of smell, firstly we become an emotional mess. We lose the ability to laugh smile the part of life we take for granted, it’s the very reason why depressed patients have shown very poor sense of smell and we casually say to them unware wake up and smell the roses. People with Anosmia are depressed, sad weeping unable to connect emotionally with friends and family and push people away. Most of the patients with this condition usually commit suicide with a year of life with