Psychiatry and Psychology

Hi I just joined the forum and wanted to say hello to everyone. I have suffered from a variety of anxiety related disorders over the years and I know they can take a tremendous toll on a person's life. I have been "officially" diagnosed (among other things) with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Hypochondria, Panic Disorder, Depression, Phobias, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and have dealt with these conditions for the better part of ten years. Many of my family members are also sufferers to one degree or another. I take "benzos" and SSRI's but it still is'nt always easy. Anyway, glad to be here and that I fo…

Would it be accurate to say that a field of mathematics like calculus more intensively draws on visuospatial intelligence while a field of mathematics like probability more intensively draws on analytical intelligence?

I've heard that people who sleepwalk or talk are more likely to do so in their teens. Is this true? Or thirty years from now will my family still wake up to find me taking pictures down from the walls, plucking lemon leaves from the backyard, or yelling incoherantly at troublesome invisi-children?

I’ve heard that early English didn’t need words like “to” and “from” and “for” to originally make a sentence. That you just said king +gave +horses +men. And you figured out the meaning by what was most likely. It for example would not be likely that the men gave a King to the horse. I guess what I’m wondering is, How much more powerful would our thinking ability be if we say thought in Latin or ancient Greek?

I seem to have slipped off the normal human diernal schedual. I am sleeping from 4 am untill 2 pm. What the hell?

I have recently finished several theoretical papers about sleep, dreaming, schizophrenia, RLS and SIDS. Here is a list of these articles. 1. Memory Process and the Function of Sleep 2. Continual-activation Theory of Dreaming 3. Continual-activation Theory of Schizophrenia and Restless Legs Syndrome 4. Continual-activation Theory of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome All above theories are related to each other, and can be better understood by reading in the sequence from 1 to 4. These articles can be accessed from these two links: Article #1: http://www.journaloftheoretics.com/Articles/6-6/Zhang.pdf Article #2 to #4: http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/ Any…

how many psycological disorders are truly unique to their sufferers? what i mean is, most mental disorders (as far as i can tell) involve mental prosesses/phenomena which aren't unique to the sufferer, rather are more pronounced in the sufferer than in non-sufferers. egs: dyslexia: some people are heavaly dislexic. others are just 'bad at spelling/reading' schitzophrenia many people hear voices, oftern expressing thoughts that the person disagrees with, but can ignore them/accept them as normal mental prosess ocd i always have to check my front door to make sure its locked, oftern having to go back from a few meters from my door to check, even tho i know …

The source of all human unhappiness is the disproportion between intents and results. This thought just sort of popped into my mind. To me it seems like an accurate law. However I'm not educated in psychology, nor do I have the necessary empirical evidence at hand to prove it/disprove it. That's why I'm posting it here for you guys to consider it. Perhaps we can have a good discussion on it too. Thanks, Rune

Hi I just read somewhere that stress levels are at their highest in the morning and lowest at night. why is it that we become more calm as the day goes on, especially at night?

I don't think these has been done before. Why do people generally have problems with sleeping during the day. I know that it is dark at night and we are used to sleeping at night but if a person is really really tired why do they find it hard to go to sleep in the middle of the day? I know a lot people will say that they don't have a problem with sleeping during the day but many do have this problem (well, i do anyway!). Personally i find this is what happens. I stay up all night to do this crappy report and i hand it in at ten in the morning. So i'm recked tired and i decide to try and get some sleep. I close the blinds so it is as dark as it would be at night …

Well? I've been looking into a few of his works. Do you think I should read more?

Please add to this list: Attention Deficit Disorder: the individual can't focus on anything that requires attention to detail, he gets bored very easily, any does not have much motivation. He is only willing to engage in pure hedonism because anything else feels too much like a chore of painful proportions. The causes for this is believed to be a deficiency of the neurotransmitters norpinprine and dopamine. Medications for this include the latest non-stimulant drug Straterra. This is a norpinprine reuptake inhibitor which increases the concentration or norpinprine by blocking the receptors that uptake the norpinprine back into the neuron. Another class…

I have a massive case of OCD, and was wondering if there is a way to conqure it?

psychology is not a science but art.

I was just wondering why children from age 2-9 view thier blankets as a source of protection from anyhting "bad". We alll must have had experienes where we were scared as children and then hid under are blankets beliving that nothing then could harm us has anybody got a theory as to why, how and when this mental concept is developed .

Psychometric tests suck? I know the history of Psychometric testing and have compared them to other ways of categorising people by nature. You can pretty much make them come out what ever way you want by adjusting your mindset at the start of the test, yet some Employers pay large fees to have them administered? What do you folks think of the tests?

I was just thinking about this the other day. I dont know how much sense this makes. I call it the If something bad has happened something good must soon happen theory. Lets say that we can quantify "goods" and "bads." Anything that will make somebody happy is "good" and anything that will piss somebody off and otherwise put them in a bad mood is "bad". Tripping over a chair is "bad" while finding a new quarter is "good." So I'm going to call the average of these positives and negatives in a person's life as their "luck." Although most things that happen in one's life can be largely controlled or altered (paying attention, making good of the bad, etc) I think…

I have several questions 1. What is the brain like when a person is depressed, scientifically? 2. How does the anti-depressant pills work? or other pills? 3. When having a talk-therapy, what is the brain like and how does it change? 4. What happened to a person's brain whose depressed without any reasons and what caused it in the brain? If you could include anything else about depression that would be great. In advance, thank you for answering

Could pride (e.g. pride of one's achievements or pride of one's country) be an evolutionary defense mechanism designed to reward organisms to (1) engage in productive activity that aids survival (for individual achievement) and (2) form allies with others (group pride, like pride for country)?

How exactly does our brain allow us to realize that we are here? How are we actually awake? All I've been able to research is electrical impulses. I read that it is similar to the binary code of a computer. I think the brain has to be something more complex than that. Our brain seems to create our reality of the world. We actually know that we are here in the universe. Computers don't appear to know that. What does the brain have that a computer doesn't? We seem to be able to communicate within ourselves and actually create feelings based on our own thoughts. Electrical impulses is how our brain processes data, but what allows us to be aware of what is proces…

Why do we still hunt? What's the big thrill about shooting a wild animal? I'm not against it, I know plenty of people who do hunt, its just that I never quite understood it. If I was ever in an extreme condition where I had to hunt to survive I'm sure I could. But when I really don't have to, why would I? Is fishing any different? I like fishing. I am a catch and release guy. Why do I like it? I find it relaxing but I also find reading a book has the same effect. Maybe it has to do with outwitting wild creatures and getting some kind of pleasurable rush from it. If you watch those guys shoot a deer on TV you'd swear they're having an orgasm. Its almost primeval. Go o…

Q: how do you feel today? A: Hungry. Hungry is Not an emotion! A comment that women often level at men is that they have no idea what emotions are- hence the exchange above. So now I’m curious. How many emotions are there? I can think of: Happy. Sad. Angry Scared Anyone got any more?

i'm just wondering about something acordding to some of the iq tests i took i have an av iq of 129. But i dont feel as if its very accurate. My avgrade at school is a 92% but some of my friends who have a 95% av have lower iqs then mine so i dont really understand how that works. Can some1 shed some light? thx oh by the way if this is in the wrong topic feel free to move it.

Why sometimes we hate to listen to advice?

What's the purpose of sleep? The effects of not sleeping are well known. Depending on how long you've gone without sleep they can vary from just being tired, to halucinations, trouble forming memories, to more extreme and eventually fatal things. Experiments with animals and sleep deprivation show that it is pretty much always fatal. And it's not that the animals gets tired and then dies, various systems start to malfunction. the animals eat more, lose weight, and have 'digestive problems' among other things. it would seem that sleep is needed for the the body's regualtion, you know homeostasis. and not just for resting up. any thoughts?