Psychiatry and Psychology

The neuro chemical imbalance thing is a myth. https://chriskresser.com/the-chemical-imbalance-myth/ There's simply no evidences to support this theory. "A theory that is wrong is considered preferable to admitting our ignorance.” – Elliot Vallenstein, Ph.D.

Hello everyone I was wondering if anyone had the same problem as I regularly have when I have to study lists and enumerations: When I try to remember the items, I can remember all of them, but 1. Mostly the most difficult/complex/longest one. When I then look at the list, I recall the item. Then, when I try to reproduce the list, again, the item fails to come up in my mind. Then again I look at the list. But then, when I try to reproduce the list again, I succeed in naming the item I always forgot. The problem? I now forgot another item. Not seldomly the one I remembered the best before. Anyone else experiencing this? In best case, anyone with an expla…

Surrounding a 7 year old boy who claims to be able to alter time with his brain and events as well. Claims to have imaginary friends as is acceptable with this age group however he has a pronounced inability to concentrate or focus and converses with hs imaginary friends in a complex manner. Poor upbringing for this boy as he is somewhat isolated and left to his own amusement more frequently than is acceptable. So is the delusional beliefs an issue or will he simply grow out of it? He has not blamed his imaginary friends for his behaviour as would be a childlike interpretation of schizophrenia so I don't know but some of his actions are bizarre to say the least.

I'm posting because I'm pretty certain that I was/am a 2e when growing up. Back then they hadn't even discovered dyslexia yet. I was born in 1964. Thankfully I wasnt mis-diagnosed, however, I went through a scare when I over heard that reading comprehension disorder had come up. Since my gift is the opposite of a comprehension issue it could have been a pretty horrendous experience. Ive kept it a secret for my entire life until recently because of that incident, which has had it's own negative consequences. I noticed that my particular pairing, isnt listed any where on the internet that I can see. Since I dont want some poor kid potentially being misdiagnosed as had a…

Is there any scientific evidence that video games actually cause violence? Or is it just a nocebo, where people who believe bad video games will make them aggressive become violent when they play bad video games?

The disorder I'm thinking of causes its patient to believe something to be true because he says it. I believe this disorder to be similar to, but distinguishable from, the God Complex. It may even be compatible with the God Complex. With GC, a person refuses to accept that he was in error, or had failed something, despite overwhelming, irrefutable evidence. However, how he ever came to that belief in the first place is irrelevant to GC; what matters, as far as GC is concerned, is your dogged refusal to abandon the claim once you've reached it. The disorder I'm thinking of, however, focuses more on how you come to accept a factoid as truth, rather than how yo…

Can psychotropic drugs (ie: THC) alter perceptual saliency of informations? Is it possible to experimentally induce mental thoughts amplification through altered states of consciousness?

Is psychology even a science compared to say neuroscience, neurology, biochemistry and biophysics for example?

Recently I've reviewed a comprehensive reanalysis of the IHDP (Infant Health and Development Program) which concluded that failure to raise the g (general intelligence factor) does not account for the fade-out effect so commonly seen with the majority of these intervention programs. This conclusion was reached based on the finding that during the intervention, g was in fact raised. The degree to which g is malleable (if only in childhood) I cannot be sure. What didn't add up for me was the idea that g would be malleable for children only, and then would decrease by mechanism of "settling" into true genetic potential; especially since g represents essentially the same con…

How well do you understand the distinction between these descriptive psychological terms. In the way we might use affect and effect distinctively, subconscious and unconscious describe distinctively different psychological qualities. I know it's an old topic but one that has, I think, a lot of potential in the measure of what I'm studying privately and what many of us might believe about the nature of brain function and the mind it produces. I welcome your thoughts.

They gave me antipsychotics Seroquel and Zyprexa and after bieng on these meds for while i have lost the ability to be creative and also lost the ability to be imaginative. My questions is Which receptors are involved in creativity and imagination?

I'm wondering whether there's any disorder that psychology recognizes in which people lack certain normal intuitions. I suppose various type of autism to one degree or another lack intuitions associated with social interaction and understanding others, but I'm wondering is there anything where people lack intuition in other areas.

if science has the power to predict and psychiatry seems to be not at all able to do it,why is it that it is among the medicine specialties.

so, the brain is one of the least studied parts of science . Even with all the knowledge of the brain we have about the brain today, we are only able to compile a vague outline. That is why psychology is a Liberal Art, not just a science. As the scientists from the 'Human Brain Project' (commisioned in 2013) puts it: " We find that the major obstacle that hinders our under standing of the brain is the fragmentation of brain research and the data it produces. Our most urgent need is thus a con- certed international effort that can integrate this data in a uni- fied picture of the brain as a single multi-level system. To reach this goal, we propose to build on and tran…

Well... I am looking for a relationship with a highly specific kind of woman and I will have to detect personality type of women within days, maybe even hours, of meeting them. Can things such as clothing style, body language, style of speech etc. tell much information about personality?

Is there some sort of known psychological phenomenon (condition? disorder?) where people will say or write things that they assume will make sense to others because they understand it themselves. But they fail to reveal or explain any of the background knowledge or information that allows them to make sense of it. This seems to happen fairly frequently on science forums (particularly in Speculations or equivalent). People will post a cryptic paragraph or equation or image and expect others to make sense of it. In some cases, it is possible to slowly drag enough information out of the other party to make some sort of sense of what they are trying to say. Occasionally, …

Hello With this thread, I'm looking to find a specific psychological term for a certain type of behaviour or personality. I'm not convinced that it's a genuine pathological condition, but it sure differs from what is generally considered as functional, 'normal' (much as I hate that word) behaviour. I've got the chance to work with a quite brilliant person. This person has done some amazing fundamental research in human anatomy. However, he's not the type of guy you'd like to work with. At least, not the type of guy I liked working with, nor a lot of people liked working with, apparently. Daily, he'd tell some anecdotes about himself and his life. Basically, a…

Why i have unexplainable sadness sometimes ? is it because of my hormone (i have my period now)? i feel so down, so depressed and upset but i don't know why ? feeling very sad without a reason.... will something bad happen ? Then i called a friend whom i didn't contact for half a year, and was told that she just divorced days ago and feel her life like shit. I said it is good for you, a big burden is gone. who says banana makes people feel happy ? i eat it very often... i still feel bad. it is really strange reading books is my habit, now i find i can't focus on ANY books.... what i focus on is my iphone. i could NOT stop refreshing & checking the w…

Fill in the blank Students with a high __________ are likely to strive harder to achieve good grades when the class is especially difficult.

I have to admit it is a speculation, but from what i have observed we probably inherited temper from our father. A bad-tempered person most probably has a bad-tempered dad, while the chance of a good-tempered person with a good-tempered dad is very high. Although I don't have the scientific reference to back it up, i believe it is the gene from our dad. what do you think ?

The study below summaries the findings regarding the prevention of schiophrenia or psychosis in prodromal subjects. I provide quotes of what I found most relevant. It looks as though omega-3 fatty acid treatment was more effective at delaying transition to psychosis in prodromal individuals, but IMO it's likely partially or wholly due to better patient adherence to a side-effect free regime. Furthermore, it treats a wider range of disorders and with fewer side effects, which might make it preferable when the diagnosis is uncertain. Early signs, diagnosis, and therapeutics of the prodromal phase of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders (Larson, Walker, Comp…

There aren't many good forums for discussing psychological science, and I thought this thread might appeal to the secular community here. Although I'm not a psych student and I couldn't make the case as well as I had hoped, I will contend that erotic impairments due to abuse or trauma could at times be mistaken for superficial ideology, namely sexually repressive, religious ideology, with terrible consequences. In fact, I have only seen conservatism related to the openness factor in the Big Five, which is mostly irrelevant to psychiatric diagnoses. The disorder I will focus on is OCD. Patients exhibit any of an array of obsessions, including sexual and religious ob…

Hello everyone I recently posted a status update to which I commented 4 times. I then found it to be interesting enough - if I dare say so myself - to start a thread about it. Feel free to give your opinions on the matter; there is no true or false here, I'd love to read different points of view. --- I find it very close-minded, to say the least, when people say that suicide is an act of egoism. Agreed, it isn't very altruistic, but suggesting that it is the most selfish act ever turns me instantly raging. Because, I think, but I might be wrong, you then remain in an impossible state of foreseeing the consequences it may have for others, only able to p…

Is there a method for hallucinating? Instead of using pyschedelic drugs like shrooms, acid, etc. Is there a way where u dont need drugs to make u hallucinate? Why i ask this? Because i want to experience hallucination, i want to know whats it like, visual and auditory, and other hallucinations. Is there anyway to induce it?

Hello Seems like I'm on a psychology thread streak Allow me to ask for the existance of a certain phenomenon ... I perhaps have the misconception of having to name anything that differs or deviates from what is generally perceived as 'normal' (as much as I hate that term). In communication sessions, we're taught how to react empathically etc. i.e. naming the perceived emotions of others. And I have the opinion that, when diagnosing someone with something that we consider tragic, dramatic, ..., you may easily go wrong. Especially in patients as the imagined case below. Imagine this: a 50-year old lady comes to your office with general, vague symptoms: head…