Psychiatry and Psychology

Depression sucks, how do you deal with it? I heard there isn't really anyway to change your natural chemical balances (or imbalances), obviously there are drugs (legal and illegal), but they all have crappy side effects. I myself have a significant case of depression, that i simply wish would go away. I realize that there is no reason for my depression, but it doesn't change the way i feel. Maybe i'm some form of bipolar, because i have been known to be unusually happy on certain occasions, this is fairly rare though. Most of the time i'm not that depressed, but i am definately in deep depression more days than i feel good. If i want i can usually hide my depression …

Have any of you ever had them? When a person has had a terrible experience, the vision comes into their head unprovoked. My husband died peacefully in his sleep, and I sometimes "see" him, but it's not awful. My mother died less than 6 months later, she got sepsis from hip replacement surgery. The flashback of her death is horrible. She died of a massive GI bleed. I was in the room alone with her when she began to vomit blood. She was even weeping tears of blood, and I could see she knew what was happening and was terrified. So was I. I can't understand why my mind wants to make me keep seeing that. You'd think it would be more self-protective for me to bl…

This is just a few things I've noticed recently regarding my brain and time.. 1) Has anyone ever glanced at a ticking clock and thought just for a few moments that the clock was stopped because the second hand did not appear to be ticking regularly? Then, what seems like a few seconds later, you sort of snap out of it and realize that it is ticking normally? It only seems to happen when your attention quickly changes to something with regular intervals. I find myself at a lack of words to describe the feeling accurately, perhaps someone else will have a better description. 2) Does it ever seem that your dreams are not in sync with real time? For example, you may…

I have a question. Ive heard of people who have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder clean everything and get out of their way to clean and prevent any germs touching their body and always wash their hands, sometimes they put sheets all over their house and wear gloves and protective clothing and cant touch anything untill after they have clean it thuroughly and changed gloves before using it. My question is - WHY is that? Is it that they feel the germs or what?

How does the subconcious function??? ???

I went to a stage hypnotism show today which was very entertaining. I'd like some opinions on whether what is taking place is (a) real (b) moral © looked down upon by the psychology profession...

how do i hypnotise myself? I've heard of athletes who can do that, and make themselves feel cold, etc on command. Aren't there a bunch of steps of relaxation involved? I should ask my old rowing coach about it; he said when he was an athlete, he'd concentrate on the flame of a candle for hours on end & when he finished he said it felt like only 5mins had gone by.

it spreads without warning, it can pass through glass or just by sound alone! hardly anyone is Immune, and you`ve probably been affected MANY times in your life by it! YAWNING... WHY, is that when someone yawns, 9 times out of 10 you`ll yawn as well? what mechanism is at play here and what social role?

Hey everyone, I have a controversial question about the use of statistics in our field. The 3 parametric criteria (i.e., interval level of measurement of above, homogeneity of variance, normal distribution) - how strict do people adhere to these? As you might have noticed, there is a much greater number of studies (certainly in I/O psychology) that just stick to parametric stats, and that puzzles me. I've read that parametric tests are quite 'robust' in that there can be violations in the data in terms of the 3 criteria. If this is the case, does it matter if one chooses to use parametric even if the data violates the criteria? If a non-para test produces a significa…

Why will only a select few sounds wake you up sometimes? Like a train goes by and you don't wake up. But then the phone rings and you wake up. How does that happen?

I think they are. Altough they would like to think that they arent homo phobic. subconsiously every heterosexual is homophobic.

We are shown ancient humanoid skulls and are told that cranial capacity increased as humans evolved. It is also inferred that this increase in brain size corresponds to an increase in intellegence and learning ability. But, certain animals, like domestic dogs, come in all shapes and sizes. A very small dog with a small brain can often be more intellegent than a large dog with a large brain. This would tell me that the dog's intellegence has more to do with "wiring" than size. Also, some parrots have demostrated the ability to learn concepts and adapt them to speech. Not just "parroting" but answering questions like "what color is this?" "green" and their brains a…

For my a2 coursework I have to plan and carryout an experiment. The problem is I have no idea what to do about. Please help, i appreciate all suggestions. I would like to involve possibly a football theme or a memory theme. Something along those lines.

Try this. Close your eyes. When the sun is out, like in the afternoon, imagine yourself opening the door and looking outside your house. Then when the sun is not out, like at night, imagine yourself opening the door and looking outside. During yesterday afternoon, I visualized it, and I could see everything in pretty good detail because the sun was out. At night, when I tried to visualize it, everything was dark. I imagined myself opening the door, and it was night. I could hardly see the doorknob or the stairs or the flowers. There was some light reflecting off the car though, but that was pretty much all I could make out. Do you think it has something to do wi…

Like the title said, what is the Placebo Effect? Can it really physically heal a disease, or is it healing a disease by thinking positively about getting better? And did I put this thread in the right place? If not, please move it to the right place.

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who do u think would win? [in case you don't know who darren brown is , he is an amazing phsyco analyst (or thats what they call him). He even played Russian Roulett live on tele with live ammunition, and didnt just stop at one go, he kept going until the last chamber. In my opinion hes better than David Blaine]

i recently had a discussion with a friend of mine in which we were discussing the differences between men and women... or course not the obvious differences but the way their brains function differently. A question i had which neither of us could answer and neither could a couple of girls we asked is: If men are much more visually stimulated and react the way they do because of this visual stimulation, what do women have to compensate for it if one presumes that women aren't as visually stimulated as men. The thing i have problem with is the fact i believe that in recent years women have had the opportunity to become more visually stimulated and that is why pr…

When I was a kid, I lived in Moscow and started my primary education there. And as you can guess I picked up the Russian Language pretty fast and soon I was fluent in both written and spoken russian. But I only stayed there for 4 years, and then I had to move back to my home country. And then I didn't speak a single word of Russian for another 5 years. Mostly because there was noone else to talk to. I have completely forgotton to speak Russian now. And as you can imagine I just realised what a tradegy it is to just forget a whole language. I am sure if i tried to learn it again from scratch, I can learn it pretty quick. But I am a lazy person. I am a minimum effort, maxim…

I heard Paul Makenna on the radio once saying it doesnt work on every one and thats why they do the linking hands thing at the start of a stage show to get good subjects to work on. Now I am thinking of quiting smoking through hypnosis and want to know if i am susceptible 1st. No hypnotist id going to turn down my 200 quid now are they? They will just do me anyway and take the cash. Is there a way of finding out?

use this thread to share any little rhymes or sayings that help you remember Scientific facts. such as Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain red orange yellow green blue indigo violet as in the color spectrum. that type of thing here`s PART of another for the electo-negativity series: Sometimes People CAtch Malladys At Zoos Sodium Potassium Calcium Magnessium Aluminium Zinc there`s more but I only heard it once, anyway, help yourselves now, share away

This happened to me a long time ago, when I was sick. I woke up at around 3:00 A.M. I tried to fall asleep but I couldn't. It felt like 10 minutes passed, but when I turned around and looked at the digital alarm clock, only a minute passed. I turned around to try and sleep again. It felt like 10 minutes again, but only a couple of minutes passed. I did this for a couple more times, and I concluded that the alarm clock must be broken. A half hour later, I decided to stare at the clock to see if my counting coincided with the clock. I counted seconds in my head when the next minute appeared. I counted about 100 seconds to one minute on the clock. Then I counted out loud. I …

Hi everyone, another statistical question: If 0= no correlation, 1=perfect correlation, then how can a 'r' statistic be significant (p < .05) when it's stands at .14 for instance? (that's what my spss is reporting). Since this amounts to only 1% of the variance of one variable being accounted for by the variance of the other variable, this really does perplex me. Can someone give some guidance on this? Many thanks, Jon

Hi everyone, need advice on this. I realise that it should now be best practice to report effect sizes with respects to reporting on statistical results. I'm fine with this on anovas, t-tests, etc. However, I'm having trouble knowing if i should be reporting (or even if it is possible/appropriate) an effect size for a correlation (specifically a pearson's). Can someone give guidance on this? If I do have to do this, can you please give me the formula to calculate it correlation? Many thanks, await impatiently for some help. Cheers. J

My question is can that be true? Please read this entirely: May be someone had wrote it down before me, I don't know, please just read it. I think homosexual orientation is an illness, and not for all cases but for many of them I think I have good explanation of it. Many of so called homosexual actually don't believe they are geys, until something in their life totally mess up. In my observation people have fear of them and trying to avoid them. However if you are homosexual, but you don't believe it is true, and you have several best friends they still will believe that other other people are lieing. Here is my theory about many cases of homosexuality: This c…