Psychiatry and Psychology

is it possible that repressed memmories can come back to you in your sleep? i have been dealing with night terrors for about 2 years now and have been lately having strange but familiar memmories come back to me am i delusional or whats going on? i can stop these dreams by taking a sleep medication to stop my sleep walking and night terrors should i continue with that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terrors thanx for all the advice!

Is it true that if you are sleeping and you have a dream and if you die in that dream that you die in real life?

Greetings! I want to introduce one project of mine. Probably you will find it worthy, and, perhaps help me with some funding contributions.) Little about me: My name is Dmitri, I am neuropsychology master in University of Tartu(Estonia), right now researching mental imagery neural basis and ERPs, which is also part of my master thesis. During my study practice I worked in a mental hospital, and learned psychiatry and psychophysiology additionally. The projectis about constructing a starmap of all psychiatric symptoms and diseases. The Starmap idea - is to create flexible, easy and comfortable dynamic map ofall psychiatric syndromes, with an explanat…

If portions of the present definition of 'absolute' can be eliminated, maybe the definition of 'absolute' needs to be adjusted. I'm just interested in anyones reaction to this statement.

some people look always happy and seldom feel down, whereas some are vulnerable to blues. i think it is mainly due to their life experience and life attitude. when people get lots of blues and nothing can cheer them up in long term, does it show they have depression? what if that depression can go away on its own when they win a lottery or find a wonderful lifemate or receive a job promotion, or any good things, etc ? if it is working on them, they no need to take any medicine, that depression is just like a bad cold, everyone can get. it seems a fake depression. (as common as a bad cold everyone could get.) what is a real depression ? how common is it ?…

I'm thinking that if we were to implement emotional therapy, self esteem building techniques, and concentrating on developing children's individual interests we would end up with more rational adults. Say we redid the whole elementary educational system. Valued an elementary school teacher over a college professor. I would push for only having women as teachers. Anyways most importantly their would be 2 teachers per classroom. I would recommend 15 students maximum. Beginning at ages 3 and ending at 7. With little curriculum and mostly the teachers taking notes on the students. The hardest part of the year would be the beginning, getting to know the students and gettin…

Does completely rejecting a particular input of information (eg not listening to the surroundings) prevent emotional output that arises from evaluating that input? e.g. If you see one killing another you will feel disgust but a blind person doesn't. If so, does abstaining from information input actually produces a state of mind which is free of emotions?

This is kind of hard to explain, I'm just curious if there's any information or like a name for this. Have you ever noticed in your field of vision dots, and occasional shapes/lines that sort of fuzz/bounce overtop what's actually in front of you? If you defocues you can notice it better -- just like moving dots and things. It kind of has a rhythm like it bounces and it changes depending on what you're looking at -- like patterns. Am I the only person who sees this or does anyone else? It's not like you notice it all the time but I'm sure if you stare blankly at something you'll see what I'm talking about. I think it might be related to schizotypy, though I would…

If there were no light during 1month, can we see objects after then? Does long time no light give a harm effect to our eyes? Is our eyesight required continuous usage to see something every day?

Okay, you guys are going to laugh at me (go ahead) but I have a question about a Dr. Phil episode I just watched. Forget for a moment whether or not the show is representing psychology or not (I certainly don't watch it for that) or whether or not you approve of it, my question is strictly about some psychological effects that I am wondering about. The show was just a trigger for the question. However, in order to give some context, I am talking about this episode from earlier today: http://community.drphil.com/boards/?EntryID=32102&SubCategoryID=84&CommentID=0#CommentID_0 Okay, so my concern is mainly about the use of the polygraph in this particular…

This is a thought I've had since I was a kid, and met someone with brain damage for the first time. The question is, if you are in an accident, or have a stroke or anything that could give you brain damage, is your "inner self" still intact? I don't want to start talking about "souls", but is it like you're the same person, but when you try and think of something which requires part of your brain that's been damaged you just can't? Are you still you deep down?

I have a friend who is dealing with a very unstable boyfriend. He's seen psychologists, but never continues to see any. It seems in private he also a different person, especially towards her. She has given me a message between the two, and wanted me to get opinions on it. Would it be ok for me to post the conversation here, and allow you guys to analyze it and give your thoughts? She is not sure if how he acts is due to drugs, withdrawal, or mental instability.

Well, is it ? I read this article 2 months ago (I'm sure someone has read it here): http://www.arachnoid.com/psychology/index.html If not then I'll go over the main point the author tries to make: He says that psychology ISN'T a science because it isn't a strict discipline as all the other sciences such as Biology, Chemistry and Physics. He goes on to say that different types of mental illnesses are being 'founded' by the hundreds every year and this number is expotentially growing and so soon "no behaviour will be normal." He says that there is ethical restrictions on experimenting on humans (because there is) preventing proper analysis of psychology/…

I saw a wonderful psychiatry movie called- the batman dark knight. I think the characters of the movie the batman, the joker, two face, the commissioner are dwindled in time frame like perfect examples of schizophrenia. The script writer must have been a psychiatrist!

Hi all, I haven't managed lucid dreams since I was a kid (when they just seemed to happen naturally) and I've just read this article http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228442.400-hijack-your-own-dreams-to-improve-your-skills.html So I wondered if you guys have managed it and if you had any tips? Also, hypothetically, what benefits do think you could reap from this ability? What skills would you practice?

I have a close adult friend who copies the behaviour of others in a strange and enduring way. Some little while ago she witnessed two children in dispute and one of the children thrust their face very close to that of the other and repeated foul mouthed abuse in short and repeated bursts of the f word three times in a very loud voice. When she is upset by almost anything, and it can be a very trivial matter, she responds with the precise behaviour. Even when her behaviour was explained to her in calm and rational terms she refused to recognise that there was a problem. There are other similar examples of this emulation of behaviour. It it a recognised condition?

(This has been posted with permission from the administrator of scienceforums.net) Hi everyone, I am conducting research into dental fear and anxiety as part of my postgraduate degree in Health Psychology. The research aims to increase our understanding of how people become fearful of the dentist. It has received full ethical clearance from the Institute of Work, Health, & Organizations at the University of Nottingham. If you have a fear or phobia of the dentist, or feel extremely anxious when you attend an appointment, please click here for further information about the study and how you can take part: https://www.surveymo...talfearresearch I…

There is a centry-old myth that men are more rational, women more emotional. Is this really true? While I have no doubt that women are more emotional than men, I don't think this impedes on their rationality. Speaking only from my personal encounters with women, their higher emotionality is compensated for by better emotional management skills. That is, they seem better equiped to manage their emotions and express them is socially and practically acceptable ways. They don't as often go off the hinge as men do. So with this better skill at managing emotions, perhaps their faculties of rationality and logic remain safe and untampered? I don't know. First, I'm as…

Most of us are aware that we are tampering with our own evolution more than pressured darwin-evolution itself is. But are their other ways we can alter our own evolution besides medical science and our diet? I think so. One of the major problems we have today is peoples emotions fogging their thoughts and judgement. Plus their subconscious thoughts. What if we turned elementary school into a therapeutic place for children to learn to recognize their emotions and be able to set them aside? I see a much more bright clearer future for a lot of people.

Here is an article based on a study, which shows a causal relationship, stating that higher analytical reasoning equates lower religious belief. What does the psychology community on this forum think? Offer any thoughts, opinions, related research. I suggest taking a look at the original study if you have access to journals. http://neurosciencenews.com/analytic-thinking-decrease-religious-belief-psychology-study/

When I was 14 I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The reason being that I had told my doctor that I knew that my house was being bugged. I came from a rural background to Mumbai and settled in Malabar Hill which is is like the Beverly Hills of the city. My accent in English was thickly rural so I was made fun of by my rich/posh schoolmates. At the same same time a girl near my house started repeating what was said at my house, conversations between my parents and stuff. During the same time I was watching art films(Ozu, Kubrick, Godard etc) and reading serious books(Flaubert, Wittgenstein, Descartes etc). I was obviously a loner and had become notorious for my ac…

What is the role of "iris" during emotions?

EDIT: I just read on Wikipedia that there is no evidence that identifying a child's learning style will improve their learning. Is there a lot of research on the best ways for people to learn and retain information? I want to know about it. What's a good source? I'm looking at books, but I'm only finding books aimed at teachers.

I have long noticed that when I drive, I have a sense of what is parallel to the other ways to get to my objective. I base when I turn on that sense. However, I also note that my wife instead uses landmarks to know when to turn. I have also seen that this characteristic has been researched and documented. One explanation is that since we evolved through millions of years of evolution in hunting-gathering groups, the men, as hunters, for some reason depended upon this directional sense more than did the women doing the gathering. It is also of note that when a man gets old, he can lose that directional sense completely. When he does, he is ashamed to admit it and resis…

1. How common is schizophrenia among children (e.g. 10-15 year old or even younger)? 2. Does schizophrenia has any cure? Is there any instance of a person being fully cured of it? Thanks in advance!