Psychiatry and Psychology

My poser is simply stated as "Does auditory input (like hearing abusive language) produce the same level of psychological trauma as visual input (seeing your loved one being slapped etc) ?" eg) rise in stress (with associated physiological symptoms), altered perception, impaired decision making etc. Please advise.

Is Stockholm really that irrational? Stockholm Syndrome is something which happens when the captor bonds to their captor. This is considered irrational and not fully understood by psychologists. I don't think its really that irrational if you think about how people interact with other though. People if put in an eviorment will often create bonds with those around them. In situation of capture they are often cut off from anyone other than the captor and anyone the captor allows them to see. So what if this is human nature? What if these captured people are simply adapting? Making a social connection to the captor since that is the only hope of sociol interaction they can p…

Now I see this a lot and I can identify the cause but I don't understand why this happens. You also cant always predict what person is going to become bad after something changes. Now I don't mean stuff like "Oh my grandfather died" since yes I can understand how that can have a DRASTIC change on your personality. Not that it will in every case. What I mean is things like "Got a Girl/Boyfriend for the first time" or "Won the lottery" stuff like that. Than the person becomes intolerable and impossible to deal with after that. It can happen to both men and women and I don't completely understand why this happens or what it means about the person. I know that some people whe…

Hello, first time poster! Was looking for some advice from those a little more experienced than me. I have to run my own study for my degree course (I have a couple of days to design and run the study on about 20 people) and I am thinking of testing the visuo-spatial component of Baddeley's working memory model. So I wanted to use a location learning test to see if participants remember the location of a picture in the grid or if I ask them which grid square they can tell me which picture was there (so backwards and forwards recall). One condition will be the pictures in the grid will be related to each other in some way, the other condition will have unrel…

Hi there, I apologise if this post is in the wrong forum, I thought maybe it should be neuroscience? However, I am doing Biological explanations of OCD in Psychology so I was unsure which forum would be most relevant as psychology has many cross-over areas into other sciences. I will be writing an extensive essay on OCD, Depression and Schizophrenia however, I am struggling to find a documentary as a "starting point" to kind of broaden my knowledge a little and I am wondering if anyone can recommend a documentary which is academic (not people talking about themselves), about the scientific aspect of this disorder and maybe a study or even just one persons opinion…

Should drugs which cause people to become suicidal be allowed to be prescribed to teen or Children? ADD and many depression medication is said to have side effects of suicidal thoughts and behavior as well as worsening depression. Now teen and children are going to be more depressed naturally. If a child has to go through stuff like divorce or just neglectful parents they are not going to be very happy. Teens are often depressed since they are hitting puberty and don't always know how to handle it and often this results in them picking on other innocent teens who never did anything. Now instead of dealing with kids social problems and teaching everyone HOW to handle stres…

How can we promote family values while maintaining the interest of wooing the opposite sex? I think virtual marriages are the solution. Partners can share their key genetic information like racial profile, sex, age, height, weight etc and an algorithm could create a virtual kid that the prospective parents can "adopt". The kid will actually be an artificial intelligence bot that responds to the stroke play (transactional) of the parents. They can watch the kid grow and those parents that do a good job could be rewarded by actually being introduced to each other. Virtual kids of other parents could be adopted by new virtual parents. That way parents can look after a child…

This is often a disorder associated with people who have suffered rape, or witnessed a murder, have been abused or have come back from war. Not something you think about when you think about a Teenage girl breaking up with her infatuation. I was discussing this with someone about the movie "Twilight". She starts getting severe nightmares and starts waking screaming and its due to the fact her boyfriend dumped her and moved away. Now as someone who has had some very horrible breaks up in the past myself I dont really see how this would give you nightmares but I wanted to discuss it. Do you believe its possible to get PTSD from someone simply breaking up?

I'm going to make this short. I've heard that the difference between introversion and extraversion lies in the activity going on inside the brain, that lower brain activity means one needs to socialize in order to be energized, while higher brain activity means one gets tired out by over stimulation if they socialize too much. To me, the explanation for extraversion (having low brain activity and needing to socialize in order to be energized) sounds as though it would fit the description of some, if not many ADHD cases if the lower brain activity was more significant. What do you think?

Does your attire reflect subtle psychological imports? For example, a uniform sans a tie is very rarely a uniform. Also it implies a high state of alertness and aggression. Evaluate this against a trademark jeans-tshirt-sneakers combo and we see a behavioral pattern emerging here. How does this modify basic evolutionary responses which were based on " a no clothes approach". Our simian ancestors weren't known for their dress sense.... Does this mean anything, if at all? Please express your ideas. Thanks in advance.

the difference between poo and s*** is that we see the latter as being all-bad. this is an example of all or nothing thinking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology) A racial slur like n**** is also an example of seeing another person as being all-bad. It is thankfully no longer considered acceptable to use the N word but it is still acceptable to use other similar words like nerd or geek. when a religious person sees some action as a sin they are seeing that action as being all-bad. no thing and no body is all bad or all good.

one might wonder what the life of a schizophrenic is like. they come in all shapes, sizes, and types. here is a comparison against other diseases reaching 2.2 million in the U.S. alone. teens with the disease have a 50% mortality rate due mostly to suicide. why might I ask? imagine that everyone around you can hear your deepest thoughts. imagine that voices inside your head lead your mind to bad places. they are not real but yet they are undeniably there scoffing at your every thought. the weather man on TV infers things to you as if it were a live one on one Skype. your look of shyness amuses others around you giving credence to the lashings of the voices…

I'm wondering if anyone has come across information or therapies to relieve severe muscle tension (head, neck, throat, face) that is the result of PTSD, child abuse, trauma, emotional suppression, etc. I've discovered that learning to feel the tension and pain helps "dissolve" it. It's been beneficial to me personally, but feel like there must be writings or research on what it is I'm doing. If you're interested I'll explain my situation further... Tension in my throat, for example, has affected my ability to pronounce things correctly an made it painful to force out the words and speak fluidly. I discovered through Vipassana meditation that when I pay attent…

Many people probably had weird experiences when waking up, while transitioning between being asleep and the brain re-activating. I've had several myself... but there's one in particular which I never found an answer to and fascinated me quite a bit. It happened quite some time ago (I believe two or three years) but I still remember it pretty well. Over where I live, it's still common for merchants who buy and sell things to walk through the city yelling "we buy / sell whatever" as hard as they can. Sometimes that happens while I'm still sleeping, and I was occasionally woken up by said merchants. One morning however, such a merchant was the subject of a strange and in…

The video in the link below explains what is a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) and how it forms in term of physics principles. Please like the video if you find it useful. Thank you. link deleted

(debilitating) fear of heights = fear of pain the type of fear of heights that is so bad that you become completely paralyzed and incapable of even moving can't be overcome until you first overcome your fear of pain. Suppose that A fears pain and B doesnt fear pain it isn't that A & B feel the same thing and one fears it and the other doesnt. A & B feel completely different sensations A feels scary pain and B feels nonscary pain the difference is not one of intensity. they are two fundamentally different sensations. scary pain is completely debilitating. if I am far enough above the ground then I am completely paralyzed with fear furthermore fear of pain se…

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator divides people into extroverts and introverts. Extroverts are mainly concerned with outward appearance while introverts are more concerned with the underlying reality. Introverts worry that crowds will judge them by their appearance and the strain of "keeping up appearances" leaves them feeling drained. Extroverts, on the other hand, not only aren't drained of energy but are, in fact, energized by crowds. It is not at all true that introverts are loners. Introverts are very sociable people. Introverts just don't like mindless, thoughtless, mobs of people judging them by their appearance.

Since the article is now on PLOS One, that's a scientific peer reviewed journal. Are you going to keep denying it's real? Link: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0075637 I'm gonna bet they don't take this one down. Meanwhile, a reminder, there's an article on it on DeSmogBlog: http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/03/20/science-journal-retracts-paper-showing-how-climate-change-sceptics-were-conspiracy-theorists-after-sceptics-shout#comment-730191 So have you started kicking the stalker off yet? Dr. Lewandowsky's personal site is here, and he is currently moving from Australia's UWA to the University of Bristol. He is a cogni…

Hello everyone Here in Belgium, there's a tv show in which in some round, 3 players have to bid on how many answers on a list they can give (e.g. the water brands sold in some super market), the one with the highest bid can try to name their answers. Something remarkable: if a player picks a long list (let's say the bid 'n' answers, so they have to name 'n' answers), he/she will most likely name 'n-1' answers, leaving 1 open spot, failing the 'task'. I have also remarked this in class: when students have to learn a list of e.g. consequences of an event, most can name all but one. If they then take a look at the list, they remember the one they'd forgotten, bu…

1. Just wondering if the world, as we think we see it, actually exists or is it all just a sum total illusion created in our brains as a result of all the neuron; chemical messenger; synapse etc... in other words, the general working of a brain and what we are told and [most of us] learn throughout life? 2. Is it 'healthy' to think that everything is simply an illusion shared by the majority and created by the brains of that majority and to reduce reality to a sequence of neuron firing etc...? I have attempted to rephrase the above, yet, that's about as simple as I can put it.

Children are generally prohibited from watching horror flicks. Is this prudent in the light of current scientific analysis? Please refer : http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/23/headquarters-delight-fright As an illustrative excerpt from this article : The frontal lobes of the brain that deal with the rationalization of scary situations are also less developed in very young children. This means they may struggle to make sense of their automatic fear responses. Cortisol released during flight-or-fight responses reinforces memories of the event and, without appropriate frontal lobe controls, this can result in the feeling of fear recurring long a…

We can directly associate visual imagery with motor responses. For example, if we see something repugnant like filth on the pavement, we squirm. However, if we are reading a book and encounter the word "Squalor", we experience a similar response. (assuming of course that we know the meaning of the word). In my opinion, phonetics translate into visual imagery which translates into motor response. Visual imagery is an essential component in the neurological pathway in my opinion, even if it requires that we "interpret" the source and the input is not discrete. (like reading). Is this true? Please express your ideas. Thanks in advance.

What are the metabolic changes that occur when we are disgusted? When we are happy or elated (euphoria) then endorphins are released. When we are angry adrenaline is released. These emotions have been mapped to specific "bio-chemical markers" that define these conditions? What about disgust? I read in a study (of recent vintage) that shriveling our nose is a universal response to disgust. Then what are the corresponding metabolic changes that take place when we are disgusted? Please advise. Thanks in advance.

Narcissistic personality disorder is someone who is self centered, lacks remorse for others, has a delusion they are more than they are or are not what they are, might believe they are without flaw and will sometimes take on personas since they have no real sense of Identity. However how can you tell when someone is suffering from the disorder or the people around them are just intolerant? If someone happens to dress odd or act odd but is not really breaking rules or bothering someone and told they are a bother should they stop? If someone is quiet, to themselves do not have a lot of friends and loves the color red should they have to stop wearing red since a group of…

I am extremely forgetful or if what people say is true my mind is very selective. I tend to forget the essential things in life or instructrions on a daily basis more than the average person. Ex. 1. If I'm infront of my medicine and I pick up a glass first and I drink water I instantly think I took my medicine 2. 5 seconds after a conversation that is an order by a friend or parent I instantly forget and I something else then get yelled at for forgetting 3. Can't remember that I ate or not sometimes. 4. Can't remember what happened the same day in the correct order of event. Pretty important stuff that seems something that I think is a concern. Here is the …