I had an egd woke up at my house not remembering anyting about the procedure this was a good thing but I have a super memory and im now finding forming new memories or remembering what i did this day kinda fuzzy is this forever?Does the drug versed cause permanent anterograde amnesia?
I don't know what you mean by permanent, but yes. You will not remember any of the events that occur while on versed, and many times will have amnesia for the moments immediately before or after receiving the dose. The amnesia will be permanent, but you'll only lose a sliver of time. As far as I know, there are no long lasting amnesic events.
Friday, March 9, 2012
How can i find people with Anterograde amnesia?
Is there a way to find people with this illness? I mean it would be pretty fun to meet a guy with it. We could be best buddies in the morning then beat the hell out of each other in the evening and be best buddies again in the next morning. The more i think about meeting someone with it the more i think it would be fun. I could tell him a joke that keeps him laughing for like a minute and half a minute later when he is still laughing he has forgotten the joke and then i tell it again and again for 2 hours.How can i find people with Anterograde amnesia?
That's sad that people have that I think this whole thing is a joke and you should be ashamed of yourself!!! If you were even remotely serious I would give a serious answer. I don't think theres anyway to "hook up" with people that suffer from chronic memory loss in less you went to hospitals that had people like that or look on dating websites for people with disabilities. Anyway this sounds like you are patronizing those less fortunate than you.
That's sad that people have that I think this whole thing is a joke and you should be ashamed of yourself!!! If you were even remotely serious I would give a serious answer. I don't think theres anyway to "hook up" with people that suffer from chronic memory loss in less you went to hospitals that had people like that or look on dating websites for people with disabilities. Anyway this sounds like you are patronizing those less fortunate than you.
Whats it like as a day in the life process of someone who is victim of Anterograde Amnesia?
I was just wondering if anyone out there knew someone, and could shed some light on the subject for me. All the videos online weren't exactly enough to suppress my curiosity.Whats it like as a day in the life process of someone who is victim of Anterograde Amnesia?
Have you ever seen "Finding Nemo"?
Dory has the same problem.
so, I think it would be like that.
"A boat?! Hey! I saw a boat. It passed by not to long ago. Come on follow me."
"Why are you following me? A boat?! Oh yeah I saw a boat. It passed by not to long ago.
Come on follow me."
"Why are you following me?"
Like that.Whats it like as a day in the life process of someone who is victim of Anterograde Amnesia?
My father who is 101 y/o has it right now . I suspect he has had a brain injury. You can tell him something but he will forget it in the next moment. The really neat thing is,if someone teaches him something today he will have no memory of it but will preform the task. I think it is mostly the hippocampus that is responsible. There are 3 major areas responsible . At his age he just goes with the flow. I suspect it might be frustrating to a younger person.
Have you ever seen "Finding Nemo"?
Dory has the same problem.
so, I think it would be like that.
"A boat?! Hey! I saw a boat. It passed by not to long ago. Come on follow me."
"Why are you following me? A boat?! Oh yeah I saw a boat. It passed by not to long ago.
Come on follow me."
"Why are you following me?"
Like that.Whats it like as a day in the life process of someone who is victim of Anterograde Amnesia?
My father who is 101 y/o has it right now . I suspect he has had a brain injury. You can tell him something but he will forget it in the next moment. The really neat thing is,if someone teaches him something today he will have no memory of it but will preform the task. I think it is mostly the hippocampus that is responsible. There are 3 major areas responsible . At his age he just goes with the flow. I suspect it might be frustrating to a younger person.
Is there any medical evidence that during anterograde amnesia, memories can be remembered in dreams?
In the movie "50 First Dates", Drew Barrymore painted pictures of Adam Sandler because he was in her dreams, but she otherwise had no remembrance of him. Is this possible?Is there any medical evidence that during anterograde amnesia, memories can be remembered in dreams?
Decide urself, to me only dead mind can be incapable to see a dream
Decide urself, to me only dead mind can be incapable to see a dream
In Finding Nemo, Dory suffers from anterograde amnesia. Is there any diagnostic criteria that were incorrect?
I want to know if there are any chacteristics of anterograde amnesia from Dory that was presented incorrectly in the film.In Finding Nemo, Dory suffers from anterograde amnesia. Is there any diagnostic criteria that were incorrect?
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How would u be able to tell if a person was faking anterograde amnesia? retrograde amnesia?
How would u be able to tell if a person was faking anterograde amnesia? retrograde amnesia?How would u be able to tell if a person was faking anterograde amnesia? retrograde amnesia?
Um, you can't really - because symptoms vary - i.e. MOST people with anterograde amnesia still respond to conditioning; so someone faking it might not - but then that might be due to a separate problem in the brain. And MOST people retain motor skills with retrograde amnesia. But not necassarily all (i.e. there was a case where the suspected a student of faking because he'd forgotten how to ride a bike and swim; but they couldn't prove anything).How would u be able to tell if a person was faking anterograde amnesia? retrograde amnesia?
Having had a moderate to sevre brain injury for the past 20 years I concur with this answer
I'm still leaerning the dynamics of my brains ability to think as opposed to my minds ability to remember
the above distinction was conjured after reading "Operation Manual for Spaceship Earth
Um, you can't really - because symptoms vary - i.e. MOST people with anterograde amnesia still respond to conditioning; so someone faking it might not - but then that might be due to a separate problem in the brain. And MOST people retain motor skills with retrograde amnesia. But not necassarily all (i.e. there was a case where the suspected a student of faking because he'd forgotten how to ride a bike and swim; but they couldn't prove anything).How would u be able to tell if a person was faking anterograde amnesia? retrograde amnesia?
Having had a moderate to sevre brain injury for the past 20 years I concur with this answer
I'm still leaerning the dynamics of my brains ability to think as opposed to my minds ability to remember
the above distinction was conjured after reading "Operation Manual for Spaceship Earth
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What formal tests and scans are recommended for confirming/dis-confirming anterograde amnesia?
If a patient shows symptoms of anterograde amnesia which neuropsychological assessments and imaging techniques would be recommended in order to confirm or dis-confirm whether a patient is diagnosed?What formal tests and scans are recommended for confirming/dis-confirming anterograde amnesia?
Anterograde amnesia, also known as fixation amnesia, is the inability to remember or recognize new information or new events that occurred after the amnesia鈥檚 onset. Retrograde amnesia, also known as evocation amnesia, is the inability to remember or recognize information or events that occurred prior to onset.
The Hanoi Towers Problem is one of the tests used to assess a patient cognitive abilities after the operation that caused his/her amnesia. Contrary to the image that many people have of memory as a vast collection of archived data, most of our memories are actually reconstructions. They are not stored in our brains like books on library shelves. Whenever we want to remember something, we have to reconstruct it from elements scattered throughout various areas of our brains.
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Anterograde amnesia, also known as fixation amnesia, is the inability to remember or recognize new information or new events that occurred after the amnesia鈥檚 onset. Retrograde amnesia, also known as evocation amnesia, is the inability to remember or recognize information or events that occurred prior to onset.
The Hanoi Towers Problem is one of the tests used to assess a patient cognitive abilities after the operation that caused his/her amnesia. Contrary to the image that many people have of memory as a vast collection of archived data, most of our memories are actually reconstructions. They are not stored in our brains like books on library shelves. Whenever we want to remember something, we have to reconstruct it from elements scattered throughout various areas of our brains.
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Anterograde amnesia?
Name one piece of information you might not remember if you had anterograde amnesia.Anterograde amnesia?
Anterograde amnesia is a loss of memory of what happens after the injury that caused the amnesia.
So I would assume that you wouldn't know what happens after the injury ^^
Anterograde amnesia is a loss of memory of what happens after the injury that caused the amnesia.
So I would assume that you wouldn't know what happens after the injury ^^
Dissociation, Depersonalization, Emotional Blunting, but NOT MPD?
I know I do not have multiple personality disorder. I never have missing time or amnesia. I also never feel like I have been completely taken over by another personality. Both of those are two of the key markers of MPD, also known as DID. But I don't dissapear, and I always realize that I am me.
However, while I don't do it often, I dissociate sometimes. I know that is normal, to a degree. I have anxiety, which I know makes a person more prone to it, also, and I usually dissociate when stressed, rather than, at some random moment. I have depersonalized a bit, as well, I believe. Twice (quite a long time ago, though) I felt I was inside my body, but it was diff. than the normal sensation of that. It was as if I was cut off from everything else, and maybe a little detached from the body, though I could operate it. I've also had times several years ago, when I felt a little drugged out or spacy, when dissociating, and I had to ask my friend once if I really said something. I pretty much knew I had- but she said there was even more I'd said at the time, that I didn't recall, but I was not only stressed, but angry, at the time I said it, and a whole lot was said, so it's no wonder I didn't recall all of it well. That was pretty normal. It seemed to be dissociation, though, because I was feeling spacy at the time. Once, under stress, I dissociated and forgot how I knew my friend, but I recognized her. I don't do this a lot, but I do it sometimes, almost always when under stress, which is fairly normal for someone with anxiety, I suppose, and also is connected with BPD.
Worrisomely, though, I did it once, however, when not stressed at all, and another time when I'd been going through a lot of stress, but that night wasn't particularly bad compared to the nights around it, and I still disociated. I also used to block out a lot of my emotions entirely, or blunt them, except for anger. I wonder if that was a type of dissociation or depersonalization. During that period of my life, which lasted a long time, I sometimes cried when I wasn't feeling anything emotionally.
At one point, during the time when I'd said the things I only half way remembered (though I was me and in my body when it happened), which was the day after I'd had a dissociative moment despite not being particularly stressed (though I was under a lot of stress around that time), I had been acting (for months) like I was me, but not exactly. I know people change, and I know situations affect them. I had went through a very upsetting situation- nothing traumatic, but I was depressed. A very important realtionship had ended and I just...shut down emotionally more so than usual, in a way. I was depressed, felt empty, etc., but I was also numb in a way, and I was very cold. I became really selfish because I thought everyone was out for #1, and in order to even break even, I had to thinkt he same way. I felt like a darker part of myself had suddenly grown stronger- it was me, but a part of me that normally stayed at the back, and never stayed at the front for long at a time. Yet, suddenly she was at the front all the time. And the decent part of me was still there, but she grew dim and wasn't calling the shots much. Oddly, during that time, while my writing was the same, I was consciously aware, it was part of me, and I had the same name as always, I did do some tiny little things diff. besides having a diff. personality in a way. I have always opened my pop lids to where the metal tab goes all the way in. I don't even think about it, it always does that. I HATE looking at them part way in, as a side note. Anyway, suddenly, I naturally, always opened them only slightly inward. It was a tiny thing, but I was an adult and had NEVER done it that way in my life. I naturally always applied more pressure. I also went from having trouble looking people in the eyes, and having to force myself to do it enough, to staring a lot unless I forced myself to look away (which I did). Of course, maybe that was because I was shut down and just didn't care anymore, which shut down my social anxiety, which had caused the nervous glancing away.
During that time, people stared at me like crazy, even if I didn't stare at them. I know it sounds paranoid, but I am positive it was not in my head. Groups of people looked at me for a long time, and if I caught them looking, they did not break their gaze, but held mine till I looked away. If I looked again, they still stared. I've been stared at before, but this was not normal. My friend that I hung out with mentioned it, even before I said a word about it. She is sometimes a little paranoid, and perhaps I am, also, but not as much as she is, but this was not something she normally said, and we'd been friends for years, so for her to notice it around the same time I did....I thought maybe it was true. Then, people did it to such a terrible degree, IDissociation, Depersonalization, Emotional Blunting, but NOT MPD?
Your very long question left insufficient space for my usual answer, which may be viewed at: http://your-mental-health.8m.com/blank_1鈥?/a> on DP/DR. Anxiety; see pages 1, %26amp; i. BPD; pages g, %26amp; x. I suggest that you also adopt effective treatments for stress; see pages 1, %26amp; m.
However, while I don't do it often, I dissociate sometimes. I know that is normal, to a degree. I have anxiety, which I know makes a person more prone to it, also, and I usually dissociate when stressed, rather than, at some random moment. I have depersonalized a bit, as well, I believe. Twice (quite a long time ago, though) I felt I was inside my body, but it was diff. than the normal sensation of that. It was as if I was cut off from everything else, and maybe a little detached from the body, though I could operate it. I've also had times several years ago, when I felt a little drugged out or spacy, when dissociating, and I had to ask my friend once if I really said something. I pretty much knew I had- but she said there was even more I'd said at the time, that I didn't recall, but I was not only stressed, but angry, at the time I said it, and a whole lot was said, so it's no wonder I didn't recall all of it well. That was pretty normal. It seemed to be dissociation, though, because I was feeling spacy at the time. Once, under stress, I dissociated and forgot how I knew my friend, but I recognized her. I don't do this a lot, but I do it sometimes, almost always when under stress, which is fairly normal for someone with anxiety, I suppose, and also is connected with BPD.
Worrisomely, though, I did it once, however, when not stressed at all, and another time when I'd been going through a lot of stress, but that night wasn't particularly bad compared to the nights around it, and I still disociated. I also used to block out a lot of my emotions entirely, or blunt them, except for anger. I wonder if that was a type of dissociation or depersonalization. During that period of my life, which lasted a long time, I sometimes cried when I wasn't feeling anything emotionally.
At one point, during the time when I'd said the things I only half way remembered (though I was me and in my body when it happened), which was the day after I'd had a dissociative moment despite not being particularly stressed (though I was under a lot of stress around that time), I had been acting (for months) like I was me, but not exactly. I know people change, and I know situations affect them. I had went through a very upsetting situation- nothing traumatic, but I was depressed. A very important realtionship had ended and I just...shut down emotionally more so than usual, in a way. I was depressed, felt empty, etc., but I was also numb in a way, and I was very cold. I became really selfish because I thought everyone was out for #1, and in order to even break even, I had to thinkt he same way. I felt like a darker part of myself had suddenly grown stronger- it was me, but a part of me that normally stayed at the back, and never stayed at the front for long at a time. Yet, suddenly she was at the front all the time. And the decent part of me was still there, but she grew dim and wasn't calling the shots much. Oddly, during that time, while my writing was the same, I was consciously aware, it was part of me, and I had the same name as always, I did do some tiny little things diff. besides having a diff. personality in a way. I have always opened my pop lids to where the metal tab goes all the way in. I don't even think about it, it always does that. I HATE looking at them part way in, as a side note. Anyway, suddenly, I naturally, always opened them only slightly inward. It was a tiny thing, but I was an adult and had NEVER done it that way in my life. I naturally always applied more pressure. I also went from having trouble looking people in the eyes, and having to force myself to do it enough, to staring a lot unless I forced myself to look away (which I did). Of course, maybe that was because I was shut down and just didn't care anymore, which shut down my social anxiety, which had caused the nervous glancing away.
During that time, people stared at me like crazy, even if I didn't stare at them. I know it sounds paranoid, but I am positive it was not in my head. Groups of people looked at me for a long time, and if I caught them looking, they did not break their gaze, but held mine till I looked away. If I looked again, they still stared. I've been stared at before, but this was not normal. My friend that I hung out with mentioned it, even before I said a word about it. She is sometimes a little paranoid, and perhaps I am, also, but not as much as she is, but this was not something she normally said, and we'd been friends for years, so for her to notice it around the same time I did....I thought maybe it was true. Then, people did it to such a terrible degree, IDissociation, Depersonalization, Emotional Blunting, but NOT MPD?
Your very long question left insufficient space for my usual answer, which may be viewed at: http://your-mental-health.8m.com/blank_1鈥?/a> on DP/DR. Anxiety; see pages 1, %26amp; i. BPD; pages g, %26amp; x. I suggest that you also adopt effective treatments for stress; see pages 1, %26amp; m.
AP Psychology Questions!?
please help me answer these questions..
2. Although panic attacks strike suddenly and without
warning, a person may develop aversion to places where
they have occurred, especially if escape is determined to be
difficult or embarrassing. This avoiding behavior may
develop into
1) panic disorder
2) social phobia
3) agoraphobia
4) reclusion disorder
5) situational phobia
3. Which of the following is NOT a symptom of acute stress
disorder?
1) Derealization
2) Depersonalization
3) Flashbacks
4) Obsessions
5) Selective amnesia
4. Systematic desensitization is a commonly used treatment
for which of the following disorders?
1) Specific phobia
2) Generalized anxiety disorder
3) Bipolar depression
4) Catatonic schizophrenia
5) Bulimia
5. A feeling of "free-floating anxiety" is most closely
associated with
1) Agoraphobia
2) Paranoid personality disorder
3) Psychosis
4) Generalized anxiety disorder
5) Mental retardation
6. Laura is a high school student who before she leaves her
house, must check every window in the house because she
believes that if she does not, a robber will break in and steal
her family's belongings. Her therapist gives her a SSRI,
and engages her in therapy where she does not allow Laura
to check the windows before leaving, and repeats this with
Laura many times.
Laura is demonstrating symptoms of
1) Obsessive-compulsive disorder
2) Unipolar depression
3) Undifferentiated schizophrenia
4) Mania
5) Psychosis
7. Which of the following types of disorders is Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder?
1) Mood
2) Somatoform
3) Psychotic
4) Anxiety
5) Organic
8. Which of the following is an example of an obsession?
1) Stalking
2) Hoarding
3) Washing
4) Counting
5) Fear of germs
9. Which of the following is an example of a compulsion?
1) Washing one's hands for a half an hour three times a
day
2) Concern with death and dying
3) Feeling as if something terrible is going to happen
4) Preoccupation with order and exactness
5) Worrying that someone will break into one's home
10. Hyperviligance, the feeling of constantly being on guard for
threats in one's environment, is a symptom of which of the
following disorders?
1) Post traumatic stress disorder
2) Generalized anxiety disorder
3) Disorganized schizophrenia
4) Borderline personality disorder
5) Obsessive-compulsive disorder
11. Which of the following presents the highest risk for
developing post traumatic stress disorder?
1) A student studying for a cumulative final examination
2) A couple going on their honeymoon to Maui
3) A man recently fired from his job
4) A soldier recently home after two years in combat
5) A schizophrenic patient suffering from auditory
hallucinations
12. A soldier recently home from a war zone is susceptible to
developing
1) agoraphobia
2) post traumatic stress disorder
3) acute stress response
4) body dsymorphic disorder
5) social anxiety disorder
13. Heather, by relatively normal standards, is an average
looking person. Many people refer to her as quite pretty,
but she is convinced that her nose is grotesque, extremely
large, disfigured, and this is the first and only thing
anybody notices about her.
Which diagnosis would Heather qualify for?
1) Hypochondriasis
2) Somatization disorder
3) Conversion disorder
4) Body dysmorphic disorder
5) Disfigurement disorder
14. Which of the following categories of mental illness does
body dysmorphic disorder fall under?
1) Mood
2) Anxiety
3) Somatoform
4) Organic
5) Dissociative
15. Delia often complains of body parts hurting, and is
convinced she has one disease or another. She has seen
several doctors in order to get multiple prescriptions for her
symptoms, and usually they just give her a mild sedative to
satisfy her incessant demands for attention.
Delia's behavior is characteristic of which of the following?
1) Panic disorder
2) Bipolar depression
3) Schizophrenia
4) Hypochondriasis
5) Dissociative Identity disorder
16. In which of the following may a person experience
hallucinations?
I. Schizophrenia
II. Bipolar disorder
III. Hypnagogia
1) I only
2) II only
3) III only
4) I and II only
5) I, II, and III
17. Which of the following is a defining characteristic of major
depressive disorder?
1) Presence of hallucinations or delusions
2) Lack of conscience for wrongdoing
3) Alternating periods of mania and profound periods of
sadness
4) A chronic state of despair that is disruptive to an
individual's social functioning
5) A state of dejection and mild discontent with life
18. Which of the following would be the correct diagnosis for a
person who exhibits depressive symptoms during late fall
and the winter, but exhibits no symptoms during the rest of
the year?
1) Bipolar disorder
2) Post traumatic stress disorder
3) Seasonal affective disorder
4) Melancholia
5) Mild depression
please help mee !!!!!AP Psychology Questions!?
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2. Although panic attacks strike suddenly and without
warning, a person may develop aversion to places where
they have occurred, especially if escape is determined to be
difficult or embarrassing. This avoiding behavior may
develop into
1) panic disorder
2) social phobia
3) agoraphobia
4) reclusion disorder
5) situational phobia
3. Which of the following is NOT a symptom of acute stress
disorder?
1) Derealization
2) Depersonalization
3) Flashbacks
4) Obsessions
5) Selective amnesia
4. Systematic desensitization is a commonly used treatment
for which of the following disorders?
1) Specific phobia
2) Generalized anxiety disorder
3) Bipolar depression
4) Catatonic schizophrenia
5) Bulimia
5. A feeling of "free-floating anxiety" is most closely
associated with
1) Agoraphobia
2) Paranoid personality disorder
3) Psychosis
4) Generalized anxiety disorder
5) Mental retardation
6. Laura is a high school student who before she leaves her
house, must check every window in the house because she
believes that if she does not, a robber will break in and steal
her family's belongings. Her therapist gives her a SSRI,
and engages her in therapy where she does not allow Laura
to check the windows before leaving, and repeats this with
Laura many times.
Laura is demonstrating symptoms of
1) Obsessive-compulsive disorder
2) Unipolar depression
3) Undifferentiated schizophrenia
4) Mania
5) Psychosis
7. Which of the following types of disorders is Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder?
1) Mood
2) Somatoform
3) Psychotic
4) Anxiety
5) Organic
8. Which of the following is an example of an obsession?
1) Stalking
2) Hoarding
3) Washing
4) Counting
5) Fear of germs
9. Which of the following is an example of a compulsion?
1) Washing one's hands for a half an hour three times a
day
2) Concern with death and dying
3) Feeling as if something terrible is going to happen
4) Preoccupation with order and exactness
5) Worrying that someone will break into one's home
10. Hyperviligance, the feeling of constantly being on guard for
threats in one's environment, is a symptom of which of the
following disorders?
1) Post traumatic stress disorder
2) Generalized anxiety disorder
3) Disorganized schizophrenia
4) Borderline personality disorder
5) Obsessive-compulsive disorder
11. Which of the following presents the highest risk for
developing post traumatic stress disorder?
1) A student studying for a cumulative final examination
2) A couple going on their honeymoon to Maui
3) A man recently fired from his job
4) A soldier recently home after two years in combat
5) A schizophrenic patient suffering from auditory
hallucinations
12. A soldier recently home from a war zone is susceptible to
developing
1) agoraphobia
2) post traumatic stress disorder
3) acute stress response
4) body dsymorphic disorder
5) social anxiety disorder
13. Heather, by relatively normal standards, is an average
looking person. Many people refer to her as quite pretty,
but she is convinced that her nose is grotesque, extremely
large, disfigured, and this is the first and only thing
anybody notices about her.
Which diagnosis would Heather qualify for?
1) Hypochondriasis
2) Somatization disorder
3) Conversion disorder
4) Body dysmorphic disorder
5) Disfigurement disorder
14. Which of the following categories of mental illness does
body dysmorphic disorder fall under?
1) Mood
2) Anxiety
3) Somatoform
4) Organic
5) Dissociative
15. Delia often complains of body parts hurting, and is
convinced she has one disease or another. She has seen
several doctors in order to get multiple prescriptions for her
symptoms, and usually they just give her a mild sedative to
satisfy her incessant demands for attention.
Delia's behavior is characteristic of which of the following?
1) Panic disorder
2) Bipolar depression
3) Schizophrenia
4) Hypochondriasis
5) Dissociative Identity disorder
16. In which of the following may a person experience
hallucinations?
I. Schizophrenia
II. Bipolar disorder
III. Hypnagogia
1) I only
2) II only
3) III only
4) I and II only
5) I, II, and III
17. Which of the following is a defining characteristic of major
depressive disorder?
1) Presence of hallucinations or delusions
2) Lack of conscience for wrongdoing
3) Alternating periods of mania and profound periods of
sadness
4) A chronic state of despair that is disruptive to an
individual's social functioning
5) A state of dejection and mild discontent with life
18. Which of the following would be the correct diagnosis for a
person who exhibits depressive symptoms during late fall
and the winter, but exhibits no symptoms during the rest of
the year?
1) Bipolar disorder
2) Post traumatic stress disorder
3) Seasonal affective disorder
4) Melancholia
5) Mild depression
please help mee !!!!!AP Psychology Questions!?
No one is going to help you. You need to learn this one your own.
Is it alright for me to put my veganism to the side for a short time?
I’ve been vegan for two years and I can in no way say that I took the proper measures of handling my veganism in the right way. I’ve always just picked out foods that didn’t have animal product in it and not really took into concern the massive amount of calories that I would be subtracting from my diet by choosing this lifestyle. My health has been slowly spiraling. I’ve continuously kept loosing weight and muscle. Over the two years I’ve began to develop severe amnesia and can never remember anything. It frightens me a little because recently my body has started to get overloaded with problems now. I’ve dropped to 120 pounds at 5”10 (male.) I’ve started to think that I’ve been developing a dissociative disorder over the past two years because my vision is always shaking a little even though I have 20/20. I’m always blankly staring and can never concentrate and feel like my mind is getting cut off from reality. I’m starting to feel so weak all the time and can’t stand to do anything. I’m just so exhausted ALL the time, and now my body has started to feel extreme hunger. I’m hungry ALL the time and when I do eat, I can’t eat that much because my stomach is so small and not used to proper amounts of food.
It’s been extremely difficult for me to think about putting my vegan lifestyle off until I regain my health and learn to approach the diet better. It’s a deep seated value of mine never to use animals for trivial human needs. I can’t imagine using animals as food or products. I’m really opposed to it but I feel like my body is dying and I can’t get the calories I need on how much money I have most of the time. I’m always offered food by other people but I can never eat it because they only have animal product foods. This is the last thing that I want but I’m just in so much pain and I feel like I am getting delusional. When I talk to people I never understand what I’m saying. I’m always repeating my words, and completely going blank. I’m basically suffering all the symptoms of progressing starvation.
I really would like get some advice from fellow vegans because I know exactly what people that eat animals will say. I prefer advice from people who value the vegan diet. I need some serious advice here. It just E --- ffin hurts being this hungry all the time. I think I'm going to go out of my mind or curl into a little ball.Is it alright for me to put my veganism to the side for a short time?
I guess I am wondering if you actually are vegan. Really it seems like you are doing a diet and aren't really getting the whole veganism thing. Maybe you are not really sure but a question like this makes me question things.
"The word 'veganism' denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude — as far as is possible and practical — all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, including humans and the environment.
In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals."
I think you just need to talk to a nutritionist and see what you are missing and simply eat more calories. You cannot just not do something right and then just give up and blame others or use others as an excuse. With all the wealth of information out there about pure vegetarian dieting it isn't super hard to eat well. I am not sure what you are eating if you are eating.
Here is some help:
http://www.drgreger.org/
http://www.greenpeople.org/listing/Preve…
http://www.veganhealth.org/
http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/
Are you asking permission? Its your body and your right to eat what you want.Is it alright for me to put my veganism to the side for a short time?
I think you have an eating disorder that is not really related to veganism. See a nutritionist that can help you learn to choose the right foods for your needs. It sounds like you're lacking enough calories overall.
I completely understand what you're going through-- the same thing happened to me. You, at least, are recognizing it. It didn't until it had spiraled out of control. I tried to "freestyle" veganism, and it resulted in severe digestive problems and health complication. My suggestion? See a nutritionist, explain your dilemma, and look for alternative routes. It sounds like you don't have the money to do this, but a good nutritionist who respects a) your financial situation and b) a vegan lifestyle might be a really, really important step for you to take.
In the meantime...
Quick fix, and this sounds stupid, but go for peanut butter and carbohydrates. Peanut butter is cheap, dense in nutrients, and you can get it in large amounts. You need nutrient dense foods right now that are also cheap-- sweet potatoes, dried fruit, nuts, rice, oils, starchy veggies and fruits (bananas come to mind). When I was, quite literally, a starving artist and trying to get my health back in check I LIVED on oatmeal, peanut butter, bananas, and sweet potatoes with olive oil. CERTAINLY not ideal, but it was at least enough to give me the caloric energy to function. Hopefully, while you try to get the health-ball rolling, you can pursue these cheap options. Best of luck.
STAY HYDRATED.Is it alright for me to put my veganism to the side for a short time?
Veganism isn't your problem, but your specific diet is. As a vegan, I enjoy a very energized life and also lift weights. In fact, it was as a vegan that I started setting higher and higher Personal Bests (a Personal Best is the highest weight you as an individual have been able to lift on a specific exercise) for my deadlifts. I hold onto my muscle BETTER as a vegan than I did as an omnivore, and I also build muscle mass in the same amount of time as I did when I was an omnivore.
So I have more energy and am still making gains in the gym.
What gives, right? Why can I enjoy a healthy, fit lifestyle while you're having trouble concentrating or dropping weight?
While you focus on ensuring you're getting animal-free products, I don't see you actually stating you're focusing on a well-rounded diet with an appropriate amount of calories. Omnivores also lose weight and have mental issues when they don't get enough food. In fact, your symptoms are also the same that anorexics experience because you both have something in common: inadequate food intake.
As I explained, it has nothing to do with you being vegan, but everything to do with your specific food choices. Feel free to email me your current diet plan and I'll be happy to revamp it for you. Or you can read a blog post I made about something I call "Nutrient Sneaks," which basically shows you how to cram more nutrition into your meals without much effort and using natural, cheap food. http://dailyveganeats.tumblr.com/post/25…
you should see a doctor, if your health is declining like that there might be a different underlying cause that you've missed. even if it is malnutrition from a poorly planned vegan diet you can get test done to see what you're low on and that way you can know what you need to eat.
You sound like you have vitamin B1, vitamin B 12, and iron deficiency.
A symptom of B1 deficiency is feeling tired all the time.
A symptom of B 12 deficiency is lack of memory or focus.
A symptom of iron deficiency is also fatigue.
Make sure you eat lots of cereal with either soy milk, rice milk, or almond milk.
Eat vegetarian mock meats like veggie burgers, veggie nuggets, veggie deli slices, ground crumbles, tofu, etc.
Boca, Morningstar Farms, Worthington, Tofurkey, Lightlife, Amy's Kitchen, and Yves are companies that have good vegan products. You can find these products at a whole food store or big chain supermarket like Pathmark, Shop Rite, or Stop %26amp; Shop.
Since your body is currently lacking the nutrients it needs, I highly reccommend you buy a pack of
Deva Vegan multi-vitamins online.
You will be able to get Vitamin B1, B12, and Iron from these tablets, plus several other nutrients.
On Amazon.com, a 6 month supply of Deva Vegan Multi-vitamins is only $14.45, and shipping is free on orders over $25 dollars.
Absolutely. By choosing to prevent animal suffering you are letting YOURSELF suffer. You need to see a doctor and nutritionist so they can plan a vegan diet that will give you the nutrients you need. In the meantime, help animals in other ways by not buying products tested on animals and animal product free health/beauty aids. Once your health comes back, you can resume a BALANCED vegan diet.
I feel like this whole story isn't true, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
You could try eating properly, which would be an alternative to just including meat and or dairy and still not eating properly.
If you are deficient in any nutrients this is easily shown through a blood test. Go and have some blood tests and if they do not show any deficiencies this means your diet is not responsible for your condition/s. This is important as you may have a serious illness such as a brain tumour so a doctor wold logically be your fist port of call. I get that if you live somewhere like america you might be reluctant to go to a doctor since the US has no health care system and you have to pay a fortune just to see a health professional, but seriously if your brain isn't working properly (lack of memory, poor vision) you need to get your **** together and see a doctor even if it means spending all your savings or borrowing money off friends and family to do so.
Here's the story of a young woman who had problems with the vegan diet. Read it and see if any of it sounds familiar. Look. You get one body in life. If you damage it permanently, and you can, you'll be damaged for the rest of your life. You know what you need to do to get better: eat meat. Whether you do it or not is up to you.
http://voraciouseats.com/2010/11/19/a-ve…
"It’s a deep seated value of mine never to use animals for trivial human needs."
Trivial human needs? So the need to survive and prosper in life is a trivial need? Look dude, humans have used animals as a food source for millions of years, and animals have eaten other animals to survive for hundreds of millions of years. One way or another, if an animal is being used for food, that animal is going to suffer in some capacity as it dies, but when it does, there is consolation to the fact that another living creature is going to continue to live, grow, and prosper thanks to the sacrifice of that animal. I wish it wasn't that way but that's the way the circle of life is. It's not like most of the animals we eat can contribute much anyway, chicken, turkeys, sheep and most fish and cows are barely even aware of their existence. Pigs are different, and I refrain from eating pork as often as I can for that reason. But ultimately we survive much better when we can eat meat and absorb the protein that is the building blocks of our body. You can choose to live the life you've been living, but to me it sounds like you are destroying yourself for a cause that goes against millions of years of evolution. I think you should adjust your thinking because your health and your life is more important than the lives of farm animals who do nothing but eat, poop, and mate. If you think it isn't then I feel sorry for you.
BTW I think it's hilarious how all the vegans gave my answer a thumbs down when they know I make valid points. They have no understanding of the value of life, they think that being a human is equal to being an animal when it's not even close. I love animals, especially dogs, and I consider them better than humans in many ways because they show us the best of some of our own attributes. But ultimately, if you don't value the human intellect, then you don't value your own existence. What would many farm animals contribute to the world if they didn't give us milk, eggs, and meat? They are a part of the circle of life, except mankind has learned how to distribute them at a much larger and faster rate. Sure the conditions can be far from ideal, and unfortunately you can't avoid the fact that many animals lives will be taken in vain and no one will consume their meat, but for the most part that isn't true. Being a vegan is like a religion to me, it is based on values that make sense to some degree but often times it's taken to an unnecessary extreme to the detriment of individuals. Not only that but some of the core foods in a vegan diet are not meant to be the core of any person's diet, such as soy which is talked about here http://www.optimumchoices.com/Soy.htm Ask any nutritionist and they will tell you moderation is the key to a healthy diet, and vegans can only have so much moderation because all they eat are essentially beans, legumes, seeds and grains for protein. I'm allergic to many beans and legumes, so if I were to choose to become a vegan, what will a vegan tell me I'm able to eat? Mostly things I will get sick on of course. There is nothing that will ever convince me that a vegan diet is healthy for an individual, and I definitely don't believe that you should be eating animal protein all the time, but like all things there should be balance and moderation for the best results. Vegans will never make sense to me, keep giving me thumbs down all you want but you'll be the ones suffering the consequences of your ridiculous diet when it's all said and done.
It’s been extremely difficult for me to think about putting my vegan lifestyle off until I regain my health and learn to approach the diet better. It’s a deep seated value of mine never to use animals for trivial human needs. I can’t imagine using animals as food or products. I’m really opposed to it but I feel like my body is dying and I can’t get the calories I need on how much money I have most of the time. I’m always offered food by other people but I can never eat it because they only have animal product foods. This is the last thing that I want but I’m just in so much pain and I feel like I am getting delusional. When I talk to people I never understand what I’m saying. I’m always repeating my words, and completely going blank. I’m basically suffering all the symptoms of progressing starvation.
I really would like get some advice from fellow vegans because I know exactly what people that eat animals will say. I prefer advice from people who value the vegan diet. I need some serious advice here. It just E --- ffin hurts being this hungry all the time. I think I'm going to go out of my mind or curl into a little ball.Is it alright for me to put my veganism to the side for a short time?
I guess I am wondering if you actually are vegan. Really it seems like you are doing a diet and aren't really getting the whole veganism thing. Maybe you are not really sure but a question like this makes me question things.
"The word 'veganism' denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude — as far as is possible and practical — all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, including humans and the environment.
In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals."
I think you just need to talk to a nutritionist and see what you are missing and simply eat more calories. You cannot just not do something right and then just give up and blame others or use others as an excuse. With all the wealth of information out there about pure vegetarian dieting it isn't super hard to eat well. I am not sure what you are eating if you are eating.
Here is some help:
http://www.drgreger.org/
http://www.greenpeople.org/listing/Preve…
http://www.veganhealth.org/
http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/
Are you asking permission? Its your body and your right to eat what you want.Is it alright for me to put my veganism to the side for a short time?
I think you have an eating disorder that is not really related to veganism. See a nutritionist that can help you learn to choose the right foods for your needs. It sounds like you're lacking enough calories overall.
I completely understand what you're going through-- the same thing happened to me. You, at least, are recognizing it. It didn't until it had spiraled out of control. I tried to "freestyle" veganism, and it resulted in severe digestive problems and health complication. My suggestion? See a nutritionist, explain your dilemma, and look for alternative routes. It sounds like you don't have the money to do this, but a good nutritionist who respects a) your financial situation and b) a vegan lifestyle might be a really, really important step for you to take.
In the meantime...
Quick fix, and this sounds stupid, but go for peanut butter and carbohydrates. Peanut butter is cheap, dense in nutrients, and you can get it in large amounts. You need nutrient dense foods right now that are also cheap-- sweet potatoes, dried fruit, nuts, rice, oils, starchy veggies and fruits (bananas come to mind). When I was, quite literally, a starving artist and trying to get my health back in check I LIVED on oatmeal, peanut butter, bananas, and sweet potatoes with olive oil. CERTAINLY not ideal, but it was at least enough to give me the caloric energy to function. Hopefully, while you try to get the health-ball rolling, you can pursue these cheap options. Best of luck.
STAY HYDRATED.Is it alright for me to put my veganism to the side for a short time?
Veganism isn't your problem, but your specific diet is. As a vegan, I enjoy a very energized life and also lift weights. In fact, it was as a vegan that I started setting higher and higher Personal Bests (a Personal Best is the highest weight you as an individual have been able to lift on a specific exercise) for my deadlifts. I hold onto my muscle BETTER as a vegan than I did as an omnivore, and I also build muscle mass in the same amount of time as I did when I was an omnivore.
So I have more energy and am still making gains in the gym.
What gives, right? Why can I enjoy a healthy, fit lifestyle while you're having trouble concentrating or dropping weight?
While you focus on ensuring you're getting animal-free products, I don't see you actually stating you're focusing on a well-rounded diet with an appropriate amount of calories. Omnivores also lose weight and have mental issues when they don't get enough food. In fact, your symptoms are also the same that anorexics experience because you both have something in common: inadequate food intake.
As I explained, it has nothing to do with you being vegan, but everything to do with your specific food choices. Feel free to email me your current diet plan and I'll be happy to revamp it for you. Or you can read a blog post I made about something I call "Nutrient Sneaks," which basically shows you how to cram more nutrition into your meals without much effort and using natural, cheap food. http://dailyveganeats.tumblr.com/post/25…
you should see a doctor, if your health is declining like that there might be a different underlying cause that you've missed. even if it is malnutrition from a poorly planned vegan diet you can get test done to see what you're low on and that way you can know what you need to eat.
You sound like you have vitamin B1, vitamin B 12, and iron deficiency.
A symptom of B1 deficiency is feeling tired all the time.
A symptom of B 12 deficiency is lack of memory or focus.
A symptom of iron deficiency is also fatigue.
Make sure you eat lots of cereal with either soy milk, rice milk, or almond milk.
Eat vegetarian mock meats like veggie burgers, veggie nuggets, veggie deli slices, ground crumbles, tofu, etc.
Boca, Morningstar Farms, Worthington, Tofurkey, Lightlife, Amy's Kitchen, and Yves are companies that have good vegan products. You can find these products at a whole food store or big chain supermarket like Pathmark, Shop Rite, or Stop %26amp; Shop.
Since your body is currently lacking the nutrients it needs, I highly reccommend you buy a pack of
Deva Vegan multi-vitamins online.
You will be able to get Vitamin B1, B12, and Iron from these tablets, plus several other nutrients.
On Amazon.com, a 6 month supply of Deva Vegan Multi-vitamins is only $14.45, and shipping is free on orders over $25 dollars.
Absolutely. By choosing to prevent animal suffering you are letting YOURSELF suffer. You need to see a doctor and nutritionist so they can plan a vegan diet that will give you the nutrients you need. In the meantime, help animals in other ways by not buying products tested on animals and animal product free health/beauty aids. Once your health comes back, you can resume a BALANCED vegan diet.
I feel like this whole story isn't true, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
You could try eating properly, which would be an alternative to just including meat and or dairy and still not eating properly.
If you are deficient in any nutrients this is easily shown through a blood test. Go and have some blood tests and if they do not show any deficiencies this means your diet is not responsible for your condition/s. This is important as you may have a serious illness such as a brain tumour so a doctor wold logically be your fist port of call. I get that if you live somewhere like america you might be reluctant to go to a doctor since the US has no health care system and you have to pay a fortune just to see a health professional, but seriously if your brain isn't working properly (lack of memory, poor vision) you need to get your **** together and see a doctor even if it means spending all your savings or borrowing money off friends and family to do so.
Here's the story of a young woman who had problems with the vegan diet. Read it and see if any of it sounds familiar. Look. You get one body in life. If you damage it permanently, and you can, you'll be damaged for the rest of your life. You know what you need to do to get better: eat meat. Whether you do it or not is up to you.
http://voraciouseats.com/2010/11/19/a-ve…
"It’s a deep seated value of mine never to use animals for trivial human needs."
Trivial human needs? So the need to survive and prosper in life is a trivial need? Look dude, humans have used animals as a food source for millions of years, and animals have eaten other animals to survive for hundreds of millions of years. One way or another, if an animal is being used for food, that animal is going to suffer in some capacity as it dies, but when it does, there is consolation to the fact that another living creature is going to continue to live, grow, and prosper thanks to the sacrifice of that animal. I wish it wasn't that way but that's the way the circle of life is. It's not like most of the animals we eat can contribute much anyway, chicken, turkeys, sheep and most fish and cows are barely even aware of their existence. Pigs are different, and I refrain from eating pork as often as I can for that reason. But ultimately we survive much better when we can eat meat and absorb the protein that is the building blocks of our body. You can choose to live the life you've been living, but to me it sounds like you are destroying yourself for a cause that goes against millions of years of evolution. I think you should adjust your thinking because your health and your life is more important than the lives of farm animals who do nothing but eat, poop, and mate. If you think it isn't then I feel sorry for you.
BTW I think it's hilarious how all the vegans gave my answer a thumbs down when they know I make valid points. They have no understanding of the value of life, they think that being a human is equal to being an animal when it's not even close. I love animals, especially dogs, and I consider them better than humans in many ways because they show us the best of some of our own attributes. But ultimately, if you don't value the human intellect, then you don't value your own existence. What would many farm animals contribute to the world if they didn't give us milk, eggs, and meat? They are a part of the circle of life, except mankind has learned how to distribute them at a much larger and faster rate. Sure the conditions can be far from ideal, and unfortunately you can't avoid the fact that many animals lives will be taken in vain and no one will consume their meat, but for the most part that isn't true. Being a vegan is like a religion to me, it is based on values that make sense to some degree but often times it's taken to an unnecessary extreme to the detriment of individuals. Not only that but some of the core foods in a vegan diet are not meant to be the core of any person's diet, such as soy which is talked about here http://www.optimumchoices.com/Soy.htm Ask any nutritionist and they will tell you moderation is the key to a healthy diet, and vegans can only have so much moderation because all they eat are essentially beans, legumes, seeds and grains for protein. I'm allergic to many beans and legumes, so if I were to choose to become a vegan, what will a vegan tell me I'm able to eat? Mostly things I will get sick on of course. There is nothing that will ever convince me that a vegan diet is healthy for an individual, and I definitely don't believe that you should be eating animal protein all the time, but like all things there should be balance and moderation for the best results. Vegans will never make sense to me, keep giving me thumbs down all you want but you'll be the ones suffering the consequences of your ridiculous diet when it's all said and done.
DID or what other disorder?
I'm trying to write about a character with a mental disorder in my story. The problem is that I already kind of know what it is but am not so sure what mental disorder it is, and if it can even be considered a mental disorder.
She seems to have a dissociative personality disorder (2 personalities, a third maybe) but she can control them, and there's no amnesia. Its something that only appears when she is by herself, its not like she can control them but she can avoid showing them or being noticeable with them in front of others.
She is quiet and studious- study hard and be perfect, the other likes adventure and is outgoing- wayy too much- she doesn't care how it will affect her later- fun is number one, the third is the one forming- she likes a bit of both but she can balance fun and work.
Its hard and it gives her headaches when she tries to control them because if she lets the wrong one out, its just bad. And when she is one of them for too long her emotional state is less-happy (is this even a word?)
Sorry its too long, if anyone could tell me about this I'd appreciate it. or stuff to change, the character fits in the story now but it can be changed.DID or what other disorder?
First you have to understand that what you're creating, this character of yours, most likely isn't going to fit perfectly into any mental disorder diagnosed in the real world. Normally when people write about characters with diagnose disorders they research the disorder they desire extensively and make their character possess the characteristics and experience the correct symptoms. The way you've done it isn't going to get perfect results, after all in your mind where this character has been created anything goes even if it's physically impossible or never before seen in the real world.
Perhaps you can make not knowing the disorder part of the story? Leaving it as something that just is without further explanation can create a very interesting atmosphere within a piece of writing.DID or what other disorder?
I think it's like an imaginary friend disorder lol. Or schizophrenia. Usually people with DID can't control when their personality comes out.DID or what other disorder?
yes this would be nothing like schizophrenia and would be far off from DID as well.
If you want to write the story you want to write than you have let it be a fictional illness. Only real in the realms of your story.
Or if you want to do a story that fits with a real disorder your going to have to change a lot of the way you want to have it play out and do some research how the disorder works before you get into writing about it.
She seems to have a dissociative personality disorder (2 personalities, a third maybe) but she can control them, and there's no amnesia. Its something that only appears when she is by herself, its not like she can control them but she can avoid showing them or being noticeable with them in front of others.
She is quiet and studious- study hard and be perfect, the other likes adventure and is outgoing- wayy too much- she doesn't care how it will affect her later- fun is number one, the third is the one forming- she likes a bit of both but she can balance fun and work.
Its hard and it gives her headaches when she tries to control them because if she lets the wrong one out, its just bad. And when she is one of them for too long her emotional state is less-happy (is this even a word?)
Sorry its too long, if anyone could tell me about this I'd appreciate it. or stuff to change, the character fits in the story now but it can be changed.DID or what other disorder?
First you have to understand that what you're creating, this character of yours, most likely isn't going to fit perfectly into any mental disorder diagnosed in the real world. Normally when people write about characters with diagnose disorders they research the disorder they desire extensively and make their character possess the characteristics and experience the correct symptoms. The way you've done it isn't going to get perfect results, after all in your mind where this character has been created anything goes even if it's physically impossible or never before seen in the real world.
Perhaps you can make not knowing the disorder part of the story? Leaving it as something that just is without further explanation can create a very interesting atmosphere within a piece of writing.DID or what other disorder?
I think it's like an imaginary friend disorder lol. Or schizophrenia. Usually people with DID can't control when their personality comes out.DID or what other disorder?
yes this would be nothing like schizophrenia and would be far off from DID as well.
If you want to write the story you want to write than you have let it be a fictional illness. Only real in the realms of your story.
Or if you want to do a story that fits with a real disorder your going to have to change a lot of the way you want to have it play out and do some research how the disorder works before you get into writing about it.
I do not know what I should do about this?
I think I have either a dissociative (not multiple identity) disorder or PTSD that stems from a very young age. But because of the amnesia (limited to the situation), and the incident being so far back now I'm not sure how to explain it; and I am also afraid that I won't be taken seriously anyone. but it affects my everyday life to a severe degree. I never had any counselling for it (as far as I can remember) but it has always been a problem that I thought was in the background but has been with me my whole life and it was worsening slowly until I recently remembered a good deal about the whole thing and haven't been able to function. what can I do? I've no idea where to startI do not know what I should do about this?
Start with a counselor. If it doesn't feel right, don't stick with him or her. Go to another one. If you can, see a therapist (again, if first or the second doesn't feel right to you, get out and find another). I hope you find someone who can begin to help you easily but it's not always that way. Sometimes it depends on their experience, the chemistry between you and the therapist/counselor/etc. or just how you feel opening up to him or her. If you know someone who sees a therapist s/he likes, start there. You may be in for a long journey with ups and downs along the way but keep at it and it almost always gets better. It helps to understand. You can also browse through the book sections for self-help to get started and learn the language and what they mean by different things. Best of luck. It's better to do these things with some successes and some failures, learning as you go rather than staying stuck and getting worse. It doesn't get better by itself unfortunately.
Start with a counselor. If it doesn't feel right, don't stick with him or her. Go to another one. If you can, see a therapist (again, if first or the second doesn't feel right to you, get out and find another). I hope you find someone who can begin to help you easily but it's not always that way. Sometimes it depends on their experience, the chemistry between you and the therapist/counselor/etc. or just how you feel opening up to him or her. If you know someone who sees a therapist s/he likes, start there. You may be in for a long journey with ups and downs along the way but keep at it and it almost always gets better. It helps to understand. You can also browse through the book sections for self-help to get started and learn the language and what they mean by different things. Best of luck. It's better to do these things with some successes and some failures, learning as you go rather than staying stuck and getting worse. It doesn't get better by itself unfortunately.
Please help me with this problem? Please this is really serious, it is making me crazy?
My name is Jack and i am 19 years old. Here is the problem.
When i go out of my house, i always find people staring at me, i always believe that they are trying to make fun of me or either they are trying some way to kill me. I always think that all people are part of plot and they are always noticing my acts.
I think like people are outside to catch me and beat me for something i have done. I always daydream, even when i am walking. I always have voices in my head which argue which other, giving me a headache. To stop these voices i try to hum a song in my head, but when i hum the song, it get struck in my head and keep on replaying and i can't stop it.
I feel different people inside me. A child inside me always cry because i have no one i can call friend, a psyco inside me always want revenge and always say me mean words. He always influence me for killing people or stealing things. But atleast i am able to control the voices, somehow i am not doing things which they are murmuring in my mind.
I searched on internet and found these voices in mind can be DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) but i am not sure. Because i don't have amnesia. But yes, i forget things easily. I can't remember yesterday things except study material. Maybe because i am always lost in my own fantasy world. I told this to dad, and he said that these are voices of my consious mind (i didn't tell about killing people)
Don't know but these voices always take charge of me. Sometimes, i care about me very much like combing my hair and looking good. Otherwise i don't even comb and look mess.
I don't feel emotions, and i feel lifeless. Suicidal thoughts always come in mind, but i don't act over them.
Sometimes i think i am faking those voices because these are coming from my own mind, but why will i fake these voices.
I am bad-tempted, and i shout for small things. The voices are different all the time, some are like good behavior other are destructive. I can hear them clearly but they got no names. They say me as my protector. These voices always give me instructions so i can protect myself from people which i always suspect that they are making plot against me.
I always change bus routes, and cautious about my own moves, i try to protect myself from looking at people face, as i think they can read my mind. But sometimes i feel cool as young guy. I got sleep problems, as these voices always come in head. But if i try hard or shout, these voices stop. But as another day rises, they are back again. These voices always say me to kill my parrents as the voices think they are plotting against me. But i don't believe the voices as i love my parents very much. Sometimes i feel like boy, sometimes like girl, sometimes mature, sometimes psyco, sometimes loving man but sometimes just crazy. I do stupid stuff, can you believe i asked a girl for sex in return for money, when i don't even have good money. It was my huge mistake of my life, as all girls now hate me, and boys make fun of me. They call me crazy, psyco, or just nuts. It is so bad. When i feel angry i feel like killing other people and my heart beat is at high rate, but when i am in social life i feel like panic and my heart feels numb. I am always confused sometimes i think i am having factitious disorder, but why only me in the whole world will have such thing. As i told before when these voices take over, i feel like dissociating, but i know what they are doing. I just feel like a passenger and my body is being driven by voices. At that time i can't control myself except shouting in head to stop this mess. I only forget about yeasterday things, i forget things easily, but i have no blackouts. Is this really something to worry about or are these just my own consious mind. Or i am faking it (Why would i fake this) it's craziness.
Please help me, or tell me medications or medicines which can stop me from daydreaming and stop these voices on head. One thing i forget to tell, i don't like living with people and i spend my time alone (as said before it looks like they are plotting against me) and i am really feared about people (as i said i don't look at people face as i think they can read my mind. One thing more when i stare at people face, i keep on staring (i know it is stupid) but i can't stop. My walking is clumsy and i am a clown in my class (yes, i am good instudies)
Thanks for answers in advance.
One thing more, i only hear voices in head, not outside of head and i don't see things.
I feel like many people inside me or what you call multiple personalities (as i said no amnesia, i only forget yeasterday and offcourse past days). One thing more i can't remember childhood clearly, but when i think hard i can remember everything. I got abused in childhood (but it wasn't that much abuse) My child hood had been all alone, no friends. All treated me bad, called me names, laughed at my clumsy walking. BeatPlease help me with this problem? Please this is really serious, it is making me crazy?
sucks dude
When i go out of my house, i always find people staring at me, i always believe that they are trying to make fun of me or either they are trying some way to kill me. I always think that all people are part of plot and they are always noticing my acts.
I think like people are outside to catch me and beat me for something i have done. I always daydream, even when i am walking. I always have voices in my head which argue which other, giving me a headache. To stop these voices i try to hum a song in my head, but when i hum the song, it get struck in my head and keep on replaying and i can't stop it.
I feel different people inside me. A child inside me always cry because i have no one i can call friend, a psyco inside me always want revenge and always say me mean words. He always influence me for killing people or stealing things. But atleast i am able to control the voices, somehow i am not doing things which they are murmuring in my mind.
I searched on internet and found these voices in mind can be DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) but i am not sure. Because i don't have amnesia. But yes, i forget things easily. I can't remember yesterday things except study material. Maybe because i am always lost in my own fantasy world. I told this to dad, and he said that these are voices of my consious mind (i didn't tell about killing people)
Don't know but these voices always take charge of me. Sometimes, i care about me very much like combing my hair and looking good. Otherwise i don't even comb and look mess.
I don't feel emotions, and i feel lifeless. Suicidal thoughts always come in mind, but i don't act over them.
Sometimes i think i am faking those voices because these are coming from my own mind, but why will i fake these voices.
I am bad-tempted, and i shout for small things. The voices are different all the time, some are like good behavior other are destructive. I can hear them clearly but they got no names. They say me as my protector. These voices always give me instructions so i can protect myself from people which i always suspect that they are making plot against me.
I always change bus routes, and cautious about my own moves, i try to protect myself from looking at people face, as i think they can read my mind. But sometimes i feel cool as young guy. I got sleep problems, as these voices always come in head. But if i try hard or shout, these voices stop. But as another day rises, they are back again. These voices always say me to kill my parrents as the voices think they are plotting against me. But i don't believe the voices as i love my parents very much. Sometimes i feel like boy, sometimes like girl, sometimes mature, sometimes psyco, sometimes loving man but sometimes just crazy. I do stupid stuff, can you believe i asked a girl for sex in return for money, when i don't even have good money. It was my huge mistake of my life, as all girls now hate me, and boys make fun of me. They call me crazy, psyco, or just nuts. It is so bad. When i feel angry i feel like killing other people and my heart beat is at high rate, but when i am in social life i feel like panic and my heart feels numb. I am always confused sometimes i think i am having factitious disorder, but why only me in the whole world will have such thing. As i told before when these voices take over, i feel like dissociating, but i know what they are doing. I just feel like a passenger and my body is being driven by voices. At that time i can't control myself except shouting in head to stop this mess. I only forget about yeasterday things, i forget things easily, but i have no blackouts. Is this really something to worry about or are these just my own consious mind. Or i am faking it (Why would i fake this) it's craziness.
Please help me, or tell me medications or medicines which can stop me from daydreaming and stop these voices on head. One thing i forget to tell, i don't like living with people and i spend my time alone (as said before it looks like they are plotting against me) and i am really feared about people (as i said i don't look at people face as i think they can read my mind. One thing more when i stare at people face, i keep on staring (i know it is stupid) but i can't stop. My walking is clumsy and i am a clown in my class (yes, i am good instudies)
Thanks for answers in advance.
One thing more, i only hear voices in head, not outside of head and i don't see things.
I feel like many people inside me or what you call multiple personalities (as i said no amnesia, i only forget yeasterday and offcourse past days). One thing more i can't remember childhood clearly, but when i think hard i can remember everything. I got abused in childhood (but it wasn't that much abuse) My child hood had been all alone, no friends. All treated me bad, called me names, laughed at my clumsy walking. BeatPlease help me with this problem? Please this is really serious, it is making me crazy?
sucks dude
Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
Why are people who normally would have been diagnosed as having DID, now being diagnosed with Bipolar I?
And, now why is it no longer considered trauma related? Why is everyone stating that it is hereditary?
Dissociation is a mental process in which there is a lack of connection in thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or identity. While dissociating, certain information is not associated with other information as it normally would be. Some believe that dissociation exists on a continuum ranging from daydreaming to Dissociative Identity Disorder at the other. However there is great overlap between the different dissociative disorders (DD), including DID.
Symptoms
* Multiple personalities, on average 10 though there can be as few as two and as many as 100
* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics
* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don't remember people, places, etc.)
* Often they are depressed or suicidal
* Self-mutilation is common
* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations
* The average age for the development of alters is 5.9 years
* Depressive symptoms
* An inability to focus in school (in childhood)
* Conduct problems (in childhood)
Why are parents now allowed to blame the child? When really the parent is the one with the problems?Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
i think it's more like children are being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder when they could have a number of other disorders.
for example for years i have been misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder when i have borderline personality disorder and a friend of mine with the same thing when all he had was adult adhd.
from what i have read there is no way DID is hereditary. it is obviously a disorder that is cause only by a child's mind having to defend itself against the trauma that was caused in its life.
if anything it is ONLY the parents fault if this disorder appears in this child. (with only minimal exceptions).
in answer to the question you posted, a lot of the psychological problems are, to a certain point, the parents fault. ESPECIALLY DID.Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
I have heard very few people claim that DID is hereditary, its fairly well accepted that most cases are associated with severe child abuse. As to why its misdaignosed- because the DSM is far from scientific. What looks like dissociation to one therapist looks like mania to another and perhaps psychosis to a third. They've actually done studies one this- given the exact same case study, but half the therapists are told the client is male and the other half are told its a female, they come back with completely different diagnoses. Same for if they give the exact same case study, but an "expert" implies to some of the therapists that the patient is psychotic, and to other that he is neurotic. There is also a study called "sane in insane places" where sane people had themselves admitted to a psych ward and then acted completely normally. Everything they did was labeled and pathologized even though they were in fact acting like normal people. Human behavior can be interpreted in many different ways by the observer, which is why the same person can be given numerous different labels. In the rest of medicine, it is much more concrete- a cough is a cough, a heart murmur always sounds the same etc. And of course, there is a tendency to think horses, not zebras. Bipolar is thought to be far more common than DID. So when a patient presents with symptoms, the "safer" diagnosis is bipolar.
Why are parents allowed to blame the child? I wish I knew. Probably because children rarely speak up and make it clear what is happening to them. Most try their very best to hide it. And, of course, few people want to think that a child could be being abused, particularly if they know the parents well or the parents are influential. Its unlikely that the child will sue you for leaving them in their home and medicating them, but you can bet parents will put up a fight if you take away their kids and accuse them of abuse- even when its true. so without concrete evidence, many adults are reluctant to allege abuse. -Nebbikebandit nada bluebook
And, now why is it no longer considered trauma related? Why is everyone stating that it is hereditary?
Dissociation is a mental process in which there is a lack of connection in thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or identity. While dissociating, certain information is not associated with other information as it normally would be. Some believe that dissociation exists on a continuum ranging from daydreaming to Dissociative Identity Disorder at the other. However there is great overlap between the different dissociative disorders (DD), including DID.
Symptoms
* Multiple personalities, on average 10 though there can be as few as two and as many as 100
* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics
* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don't remember people, places, etc.)
* Often they are depressed or suicidal
* Self-mutilation is common
* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations
* The average age for the development of alters is 5.9 years
* Depressive symptoms
* An inability to focus in school (in childhood)
* Conduct problems (in childhood)
Why are parents now allowed to blame the child? When really the parent is the one with the problems?Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
i think it's more like children are being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder when they could have a number of other disorders.
for example for years i have been misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder when i have borderline personality disorder and a friend of mine with the same thing when all he had was adult adhd.
from what i have read there is no way DID is hereditary. it is obviously a disorder that is cause only by a child's mind having to defend itself against the trauma that was caused in its life.
if anything it is ONLY the parents fault if this disorder appears in this child. (with only minimal exceptions).
in answer to the question you posted, a lot of the psychological problems are, to a certain point, the parents fault. ESPECIALLY DID.Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
I have heard very few people claim that DID is hereditary, its fairly well accepted that most cases are associated with severe child abuse. As to why its misdaignosed- because the DSM is far from scientific. What looks like dissociation to one therapist looks like mania to another and perhaps psychosis to a third. They've actually done studies one this- given the exact same case study, but half the therapists are told the client is male and the other half are told its a female, they come back with completely different diagnoses. Same for if they give the exact same case study, but an "expert" implies to some of the therapists that the patient is psychotic, and to other that he is neurotic. There is also a study called "sane in insane places" where sane people had themselves admitted to a psych ward and then acted completely normally. Everything they did was labeled and pathologized even though they were in fact acting like normal people. Human behavior can be interpreted in many different ways by the observer, which is why the same person can be given numerous different labels. In the rest of medicine, it is much more concrete- a cough is a cough, a heart murmur always sounds the same etc. And of course, there is a tendency to think horses, not zebras. Bipolar is thought to be far more common than DID. So when a patient presents with symptoms, the "safer" diagnosis is bipolar.
Why are parents allowed to blame the child? I wish I knew. Probably because children rarely speak up and make it clear what is happening to them. Most try their very best to hide it. And, of course, few people want to think that a child could be being abused, particularly if they know the parents well or the parents are influential. Its unlikely that the child will sue you for leaving them in their home and medicating them, but you can bet parents will put up a fight if you take away their kids and accuse them of abuse- even when its true. so without concrete evidence, many adults are reluctant to allege abuse. -Neb
Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
Why are people who normally would have been diagnosed as having DID, now being diagnosed with Bipolar I?
And, now why is it no longer considered trauma related? Why is everyone stating that it is hereditary?
Dissociation is a mental process in which there is a lack of connection in thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or identity. While dissociating, certain information is not associated with other information as it normally would be. Some believe that dissociation exists on a continuum ranging from daydreaming to Dissociative Identity Disorder at the other. However there is great overlap between the different dissociative disorders (DD), including DID.
Symptoms
* Multiple personalities, on average 10 though there can be as few as two and as many as 100
* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics
* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don't remember people, places, etc.)
* Often they are depressed or suicidal
* Self-mutilation is common
* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations
* The average age for the development of alters is 5.9 years
* Depressive symptoms
* An inability to focus in school (in childhood)
* Conduct problems (in childhood)
Why are parents now allowed to blame the child? When really the parent is the one with the problems?Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
Children and Animals just don't have a voice of their own. Whatever they say or do is ignored or undermined.
If you try to point this out while you are the same age as the children being yanked around,.. boy oh boy does it NOT COUNT.
It's pretty easy for a parent with mental problems or drug abuse problems to lie about their child and the other adults to believe them. It's easy to ignore what children say or act out.
As for disorders and mental illness. They have everything screwed up to begin with. They just keep shuffling things.. they're already renamed Multiple Personality Disorder again. The average person is fed inaccurate stereotypes.. they are taught Schizophrenia is really what would be Bipolar and Multiple Personality Order combined %26gt;.%26lt;
Try to remember though, real humans often have more then one condition. Which isn't why the stereotypes exist. It's because enough doctors were idiots.
Then there are all the misdiagnoses. I have talked to people who have been getting mental care for 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 years.. everything constantly changes. Their diagnoses constantly change. And I don't mean just the name of a disorder changes,.. the doctors suddenly decide they are something completely then they were before.
Having an imagination is a mental illness to enough people, that children are all screwed up based on normal childhood behavior and milestones.. so this throws stats around wildly. The doctors and schools will mislabel children to fit whatever the child needs to be to get the Hot New Med or the one the doctor will be rewarded for the most.
Then there are the damn side effects from the meds,.. my doctors over dosed me on experimental meds.. they then decided the side effects were symptoms -- but as in symptoms of an illness for someone not on any meds. They gave me more experimental medications. It's normal for them to give more meds for side effects and then more meds for the side effects to the meds that were given for side effects. It makes a nice mess, even out of people without mental or health problems, which gives an inaccurate description of the person normally.
Additionally, all children have an imagination, have trouble focusing long periods of time, and will cause problems for another human being.
The following are caused by psych meds no matter who takes them:
* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics
* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don't remember people, places, etc.)
* Often they are depressed or suicidal
* Self-mutilation
* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations
* Depressive symptoms
Now to get down to the not so obvious. If a parent is mentally ill or a drug addict.. they are going to have some negatives in their parenting. If they are certain things, then their children will have trauma pretty early. I even have a friend who is Mentally Retarded ( the doctors can't decide on what type) from her mother "partying" while she was pregnant. Her mother lost her previous child when she set the house on fire and left them, an infant, to die inside the burning house... they waited until the place was thoroughly engulfed before telling anyone the baby was still inside. If you were to survive such an experience.. you would have had a great trauma before you were 6. Unfortunately, some of the people who take care of children removed from their real parents are themselves abusive or sexual deviants (those kids get double the trauma and from what I've seen are mislabeled Schizophrenic because of Adults favoring Adults).
Added: girrl88.. of everyone I've known to take Psych meds,.. they always had side effects. Most had that list,.. it is nearly impossible for a Doctor to get you on a perfect med at perfect dosage right off the bat. So far the only people that do not have side effects and things work perfectly for are people in denile, people who do not see reality perfectly ( often because of the meds), drug seekers, people who do not take their medication, and.. especially.. people who are having side effects in a way they are unaware of them ( when you are in the car with these people, they some times drive off the road and babble nonsense -- but to them they are perfectly fine, everything is normal.. and the side effects can only be reported by family members or friends.. which requires paper work and the person will not believe so is unlikely to agree upon. And that is a good way to lose your drivers liscence and to learn the hard/wrong way you are having side effects. I know a few people that have had that happen at this point.. they "do best" with medications-- more like they are not seeing reality).Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
Well, I'm not quite sure which question you want answered...
"Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?" - I would guess that most people don't realize that the parent is in need of psychiatric care.
"Why are people who normally would have been diagnosed as having DID, now being diagnosed with Bipolar I?" - I was completely unaware that folks with DID were being misdiagnosed as Bipolar. There has been a rise in the number of folks being diagnosed as bipolar but that is mostly due to bipolar finally being considered a spectrum illness. Where did you get the info about the misdiagnoses?
"And, now why is it no longer considered trauma related? Why is everyone stating that it is hereditary?" - As far as I know DID is still considered a trauma related illness whereas bipolar is hereditary.
And sailortinkitty - this whole bit that I'm quoting is untrue.
"The following are caused by psych meds no matter who takes them:
* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics
* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don't remember people, places, etc.)
* Often they are depressed or suicidal
* Self-mutilation
* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations
* Depressive symptoms"
THESE THINGS ARE NOT CAUSED BY PSYCH MEDICATIONS IF THE MEDS ARE APPROPRIATE AND CORRECTLY TAKEN.
It both saddens and scares me to see this kind if erroneous information being spread.
And, now why is it no longer considered trauma related? Why is everyone stating that it is hereditary?
Dissociation is a mental process in which there is a lack of connection in thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or identity. While dissociating, certain information is not associated with other information as it normally would be. Some believe that dissociation exists on a continuum ranging from daydreaming to Dissociative Identity Disorder at the other. However there is great overlap between the different dissociative disorders (DD), including DID.
Symptoms
* Multiple personalities, on average 10 though there can be as few as two and as many as 100
* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics
* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don't remember people, places, etc.)
* Often they are depressed or suicidal
* Self-mutilation is common
* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations
* The average age for the development of alters is 5.9 years
* Depressive symptoms
* An inability to focus in school (in childhood)
* Conduct problems (in childhood)
Why are parents now allowed to blame the child? When really the parent is the one with the problems?Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
Children and Animals just don't have a voice of their own. Whatever they say or do is ignored or undermined.
If you try to point this out while you are the same age as the children being yanked around,.. boy oh boy does it NOT COUNT.
It's pretty easy for a parent with mental problems or drug abuse problems to lie about their child and the other adults to believe them. It's easy to ignore what children say or act out.
As for disorders and mental illness. They have everything screwed up to begin with. They just keep shuffling things.. they're already renamed Multiple Personality Disorder again. The average person is fed inaccurate stereotypes.. they are taught Schizophrenia is really what would be Bipolar and Multiple Personality Order combined %26gt;.%26lt;
Try to remember though, real humans often have more then one condition. Which isn't why the stereotypes exist. It's because enough doctors were idiots.
Then there are all the misdiagnoses. I have talked to people who have been getting mental care for 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 years.. everything constantly changes. Their diagnoses constantly change. And I don't mean just the name of a disorder changes,.. the doctors suddenly decide they are something completely then they were before.
Having an imagination is a mental illness to enough people, that children are all screwed up based on normal childhood behavior and milestones.. so this throws stats around wildly. The doctors and schools will mislabel children to fit whatever the child needs to be to get the Hot New Med or the one the doctor will be rewarded for the most.
Then there are the damn side effects from the meds,.. my doctors over dosed me on experimental meds.. they then decided the side effects were symptoms -- but as in symptoms of an illness for someone not on any meds. They gave me more experimental medications. It's normal for them to give more meds for side effects and then more meds for the side effects to the meds that were given for side effects. It makes a nice mess, even out of people without mental or health problems, which gives an inaccurate description of the person normally.
Additionally, all children have an imagination, have trouble focusing long periods of time, and will cause problems for another human being.
The following are caused by psych meds no matter who takes them:
* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics
* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don't remember people, places, etc.)
* Often they are depressed or suicidal
* Self-mutilation
* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations
* Depressive symptoms
Now to get down to the not so obvious. If a parent is mentally ill or a drug addict.. they are going to have some negatives in their parenting. If they are certain things, then their children will have trauma pretty early. I even have a friend who is Mentally Retarded ( the doctors can't decide on what type) from her mother "partying" while she was pregnant. Her mother lost her previous child when she set the house on fire and left them, an infant, to die inside the burning house... they waited until the place was thoroughly engulfed before telling anyone the baby was still inside. If you were to survive such an experience.. you would have had a great trauma before you were 6. Unfortunately, some of the people who take care of children removed from their real parents are themselves abusive or sexual deviants (those kids get double the trauma and from what I've seen are mislabeled Schizophrenic because of Adults favoring Adults).
Added: girrl88.. of everyone I've known to take Psych meds,.. they always had side effects. Most had that list,.. it is nearly impossible for a Doctor to get you on a perfect med at perfect dosage right off the bat. So far the only people that do not have side effects and things work perfectly for are people in denile, people who do not see reality perfectly ( often because of the meds), drug seekers, people who do not take their medication, and.. especially.. people who are having side effects in a way they are unaware of them ( when you are in the car with these people, they some times drive off the road and babble nonsense -- but to them they are perfectly fine, everything is normal.. and the side effects can only be reported by family members or friends.. which requires paper work and the person will not believe so is unlikely to agree upon. And that is a good way to lose your drivers liscence and to learn the hard/wrong way you are having side effects. I know a few people that have had that happen at this point.. they "do best" with medications-- more like they are not seeing reality).Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
Well, I'm not quite sure which question you want answered...
"Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?" - I would guess that most people don't realize that the parent is in need of psychiatric care.
"Why are people who normally would have been diagnosed as having DID, now being diagnosed with Bipolar I?" - I was completely unaware that folks with DID were being misdiagnosed as Bipolar. There has been a rise in the number of folks being diagnosed as bipolar but that is mostly due to bipolar finally being considered a spectrum illness. Where did you get the info about the misdiagnoses?
"And, now why is it no longer considered trauma related? Why is everyone stating that it is hereditary?" - As far as I know DID is still considered a trauma related illness whereas bipolar is hereditary.
And sailortinkitty - this whole bit that I'm quoting is untrue.
"The following are caused by psych meds no matter who takes them:
* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics
* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don't remember people, places, etc.)
* Often they are depressed or suicidal
* Self-mutilation
* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations
* Depressive symptoms"
THESE THINGS ARE NOT CAUSED BY PSYCH MEDICATIONS IF THE MEDS ARE APPROPRIATE AND CORRECTLY TAKEN.
It both saddens and scares me to see this kind if erroneous information being spread.
How to create Multiple Personalities (MPD/DID) It really works. Create instant personalities (100% working)?
First of all we must know about MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) or the latest name (Dissociative Identity Disorder). Many people still believe that DID is a myth and doesn't exist. But the truth is it really exists. And second myth is that anyone can fake DID, That is not truth, a person cannot fake DID because DID sufferer got different brain waves to different stimuli, voices are different. handwriting are different.thinking patterns are different and lot other things.
(REMEMBER I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OF CORE PERSONALITY/OR SPLITTING OF BRAIN)
(DOING THIS METHOD INCORRECTLY CAN RESULT IN FORMING SCHIZOPHRENIA)
Things required: Tape Recorder, Electroshock pads, antidepressants and sleeping pills, a room with deep white or deep dark colour.
Time required: 3 months course
Method: What we are going to do is split the core personality into many alters. For that we need electro cognitive therapy. And we are using electroshock pads for that. You will need a friend who will keep watch on the whole therapy.
Now for first day, ask your friend to give you electoshocks, remember use only that much electricity which you can handle. More than limit will only damage brain nerves. Now, first try with low electroshock. Only stop when you are exhausted. Now take antidepressants with sleep pills. When you wake up again start the electoshock therapy but now with more current flow (only 50% of which you can handle). Do this three or four times a day, and remember to take the antidepressants doses with sleep pills. Do this for one week.
Now your brain is ready for splitting and creating alters.
Next week, start using the tape recorder. Record some noises in the tape (anything like car horns, dog barking, people having verbal fights). Today we are going to name alters parts. Again have electroshock (keep increasing electroshock level. This time 65% of what you can handle). After electroshock have antidepressants doses but no sleeping pills. Now have headphones and just listen to the voices you recorded. Do this three or four times a day. It will remain for one more week.
After tha week, your alters are ready. But we now need amnesia so that you can give alters their own identity. Use electroshock with tape reverse (listen back-stage voices). Soon you will start hearing voices. Now your alters are ready and you have also created amnesic barricader. Now for another one week, you have to live alone in dark white or dark black room.In this time the alters will form and you will start hearing voices in head. These voices will argue. After one week, do the above process again.
After three months, according to your brain waves and doses you will get 16-27 different personalities with amnesic barricader.
Q%26amp;A
Q1- What will happen if i don't take sleeping pills after electoshock?
- It will cause head ache, because your brain waves are in developing stage and sleeping is the best process for faster results.
Q2- What if i do electroshock for only one week and don't take antidepressants?
- This will cause you to form schizophrenia, because your alters are not fully created, there will be only voices, these are not multiple personalities, these are splitting mind.
Q3- Is there any danger?
- I don't think so, psyctrist have created this method, this is used by them to see true potential of brain.
Q4- What if i don't want to create amnesic barricaders?
- You will live choatic life, because you will find your body, not responding to your commands. so amnesia is better for that.
You can ask question if you want. I am always here to helpHow to create Multiple Personalities (MPD/DID) It really works. Create instant personalities (100% working)?
Seriously this is stupid. You can't create multiple personalities like this. But you know that some dumbass somewhere is going to stick a fork into a light socket trying it out. You also can not created Schizophrenia but shocking yourself. This is stupid.How to create Multiple Personalities (MPD/DID) It really works. Create instant personalities (100% working)?
True MPD is acquired only in young childhood,without instruction, during extreme trauma of the child.
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(REMEMBER I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OF CORE PERSONALITY/OR SPLITTING OF BRAIN)
(DOING THIS METHOD INCORRECTLY CAN RESULT IN FORMING SCHIZOPHRENIA)
Things required: Tape Recorder, Electroshock pads, antidepressants and sleeping pills, a room with deep white or deep dark colour.
Time required: 3 months course
Method: What we are going to do is split the core personality into many alters. For that we need electro cognitive therapy. And we are using electroshock pads for that. You will need a friend who will keep watch on the whole therapy.
Now for first day, ask your friend to give you electoshocks, remember use only that much electricity which you can handle. More than limit will only damage brain nerves. Now, first try with low electroshock. Only stop when you are exhausted. Now take antidepressants with sleep pills. When you wake up again start the electoshock therapy but now with more current flow (only 50% of which you can handle). Do this three or four times a day, and remember to take the antidepressants doses with sleep pills. Do this for one week.
Now your brain is ready for splitting and creating alters.
Next week, start using the tape recorder. Record some noises in the tape (anything like car horns, dog barking, people having verbal fights). Today we are going to name alters parts. Again have electroshock (keep increasing electroshock level. This time 65% of what you can handle). After electroshock have antidepressants doses but no sleeping pills. Now have headphones and just listen to the voices you recorded. Do this three or four times a day. It will remain for one more week.
After tha week, your alters are ready. But we now need amnesia so that you can give alters their own identity. Use electroshock with tape reverse (listen back-stage voices). Soon you will start hearing voices. Now your alters are ready and you have also created amnesic barricader. Now for another one week, you have to live alone in dark white or dark black room.In this time the alters will form and you will start hearing voices in head. These voices will argue. After one week, do the above process again.
After three months, according to your brain waves and doses you will get 16-27 different personalities with amnesic barricader.
Q%26amp;A
Q1- What will happen if i don't take sleeping pills after electoshock?
- It will cause head ache, because your brain waves are in developing stage and sleeping is the best process for faster results.
Q2- What if i do electroshock for only one week and don't take antidepressants?
- This will cause you to form schizophrenia, because your alters are not fully created, there will be only voices, these are not multiple personalities, these are splitting mind.
Q3- Is there any danger?
- I don't think so, psyctrist have created this method, this is used by them to see true potential of brain.
Q4- What if i don't want to create amnesic barricaders?
- You will live choatic life, because you will find your body, not responding to your commands. so amnesia is better for that.
You can ask question if you want. I am always here to helpHow to create Multiple Personalities (MPD/DID) It really works. Create instant personalities (100% working)?
Seriously this is stupid. You can't create multiple personalities like this. But you know that some dumbass somewhere is going to stick a fork into a light socket trying it out. You also can not created Schizophrenia but shocking yourself. This is stupid.How to create Multiple Personalities (MPD/DID) It really works. Create instant personalities (100% working)?
True MPD is acquired only in young childhood,without instruction, during extreme trauma of the child.
I disagree with this posting.
Many mental health questions?
Ok so I have many questions for you, so for some background I'm only 14, a freshman in high school, and female.
First, I think I may have something like multiple personality disorder or bipolar. I have a few completely different personalities. I have one that I had since a kid: Shy, self conscious, quiet, and depressed side. I remember having that since I was really young, also i remember having a really happy, hyper, strong personality. Having just two would be fine but I started to get more. I have a really well um perverted side? that side really tends to **** things up with my normal life, and I have a really mean side sometimes, like really mean. I know it's not like normal bipolar though, because they don't shift randomly or anything, I stay that way for awhile. People it's really messing me up, one day I have my whole life ahead i want to become a successful doctor, the next day I wanna be a playboy bunny, 2 days later i wanna throw myself out of my window, and the next day I just don't give a ****. I wikipediad it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder i looked at the signs and symptoms out of all they list the only thing I don't have is amnesia. I don't forget anything, but I have all other symptoms derealization, anxiety attacks, and I hallucinate the personalities. But i don;t quite qualify because it says u have to have the amnesia. So what the hell do i have??
I have major procrastination too. For example I had a paper due Friday, 3rd. I had a month to do it but i didn't do it at all. Everytime I try to do something I feel like I should but i can't. So I didn't go to school that day, I had spring break all the next week, and still didn't do it, I fight with myself everynight. I know Im supposed to be doing it but I feel like something inside me is screaming DONT!!! So I end up having a panic attack and scratching the hell out of my face and arms. Why the hell do i do this?
Another thing i tend to talk to people that aren't there. Like when I go into my garage i talk to the hobos, murderers, and rapists that aren't really their. Seriously it sounds like this everytime I want an icecream. Hello? look, if there's like a murderer or rapist in here, please come out know. I don't like people jumping out at me. I'll come easy so don't try to scare me please. Oh and all you hobos feel free to eat anything you can find, then i flip the lights of lock the door and run my *** upsstairs. That's not normal either is it?
I also heard someone who wasn't their call my name twice over the past three months. that isn't normal so what the **** is wrong with me??
Another really wierd thing is my dreams I have really strange and vivid dreams, i knew i had really good dreams, so i said I was going to learn to think in them, i went to bed thinking about it and nothing happened, but the next night when I wasnt thinking about it I had a dream about school, and I thought "I can't be at school" But then immeadiatyl thought, "crap I am at school" and really thought I was and that was the end of my thinking I was completely convinced i was at school even though it was nothing like school, but i went through the whole dream thinking I was, is that weird?
And yes people i realize i'm insane. I know my thoughts aren't normal because while other people are thinking about how cool thier new phones are im thinking about how the world works and how beautiful the circue de sloeil was. My mom always said I couldnt be crazy because crazy people never noticed they were crazy. Well im one smart crazy person.Many mental health questions?
Bless you for being open and wanting to address your issues. Work with a knowledgable psychiatrist and keep away from drugs and alcohol please. you can become nore quickly addicted than most. Someone really needs to give you a full and complete evaluation and that can take as many as 5 sessions.Many mental health questions?
yes n noMany mental health questions?
Uh, wow. This sounds a lot like me. Except a lot less severe. I actually removed that metal thing that lifts my bed a foot of the ground, because I always thought that something was going to grab my foot. This, among everything else you mentioned.
But, no, I'm a little worried about you. Frankly, you sound Schizophrenic. Tell your mom and demand to see a doctor.
And if you ever feel the need to talk, I think I would be able to understand. This is all so eerie.
You sound like a perfectly normal 14 year old girl who is freaking herself out by reading too much wikipedia. Seriously, you are normal a.d hormonal. But if you really want to then go to a psychiatrist...... they will know better than us idiots on Yahoo Answers.
First, I think I may have something like multiple personality disorder or bipolar. I have a few completely different personalities. I have one that I had since a kid: Shy, self conscious, quiet, and depressed side. I remember having that since I was really young, also i remember having a really happy, hyper, strong personality. Having just two would be fine but I started to get more. I have a really well um perverted side? that side really tends to **** things up with my normal life, and I have a really mean side sometimes, like really mean. I know it's not like normal bipolar though, because they don't shift randomly or anything, I stay that way for awhile. People it's really messing me up, one day I have my whole life ahead i want to become a successful doctor, the next day I wanna be a playboy bunny, 2 days later i wanna throw myself out of my window, and the next day I just don't give a ****. I wikipediad it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder i looked at the signs and symptoms out of all they list the only thing I don't have is amnesia. I don't forget anything, but I have all other symptoms derealization, anxiety attacks, and I hallucinate the personalities. But i don;t quite qualify because it says u have to have the amnesia. So what the hell do i have??
I have major procrastination too. For example I had a paper due Friday, 3rd. I had a month to do it but i didn't do it at all. Everytime I try to do something I feel like I should but i can't. So I didn't go to school that day, I had spring break all the next week, and still didn't do it, I fight with myself everynight. I know Im supposed to be doing it but I feel like something inside me is screaming DONT!!! So I end up having a panic attack and scratching the hell out of my face and arms. Why the hell do i do this?
Another thing i tend to talk to people that aren't there. Like when I go into my garage i talk to the hobos, murderers, and rapists that aren't really their. Seriously it sounds like this everytime I want an icecream. Hello? look, if there's like a murderer or rapist in here, please come out know. I don't like people jumping out at me. I'll come easy so don't try to scare me please. Oh and all you hobos feel free to eat anything you can find, then i flip the lights of lock the door and run my *** upsstairs. That's not normal either is it?
I also heard someone who wasn't their call my name twice over the past three months. that isn't normal so what the **** is wrong with me??
Another really wierd thing is my dreams I have really strange and vivid dreams, i knew i had really good dreams, so i said I was going to learn to think in them, i went to bed thinking about it and nothing happened, but the next night when I wasnt thinking about it I had a dream about school, and I thought "I can't be at school" But then immeadiatyl thought, "crap I am at school" and really thought I was and that was the end of my thinking I was completely convinced i was at school even though it was nothing like school, but i went through the whole dream thinking I was, is that weird?
And yes people i realize i'm insane. I know my thoughts aren't normal because while other people are thinking about how cool thier new phones are im thinking about how the world works and how beautiful the circue de sloeil was. My mom always said I couldnt be crazy because crazy people never noticed they were crazy. Well im one smart crazy person.Many mental health questions?
Bless you for being open and wanting to address your issues. Work with a knowledgable psychiatrist and keep away from drugs and alcohol please. you can become nore quickly addicted than most. Someone really needs to give you a full and complete evaluation and that can take as many as 5 sessions.Many mental health questions?
yes n noMany mental health questions?
Uh, wow. This sounds a lot like me. Except a lot less severe. I actually removed that metal thing that lifts my bed a foot of the ground, because I always thought that something was going to grab my foot. This, among everything else you mentioned.
But, no, I'm a little worried about you. Frankly, you sound Schizophrenic. Tell your mom and demand to see a doctor.
And if you ever feel the need to talk, I think I would be able to understand. This is all so eerie.
You sound like a perfectly normal 14 year old girl who is freaking herself out by reading too much wikipedia. Seriously, you are normal a.d hormonal. But if you really want to then go to a psychiatrist...... they will know better than us idiots on Yahoo Answers.
Multiple Choice questions?
Answers. A. Dissociative B.Manic depressive C.antisocial personality. D. Schizophrenia
1. disorder in which mood shift from one emotional extreme to another for no apparent reason.
2. disorder characterized by unpredictable disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior
3. disorder, such as amnesia, in which a person becomes disconnected from his or her identity
4. disorder in which a person performs cruel acts without feeling any guiltMultiple Choice questions?
1) B. Manic depressive
2) D. Schizophrenia
3) A. Dissociative
4) C. Antisocial PersonalityMultiple Choice questions?
1. Manic Depressive (Bipolar Disorder)
2. Schizophrenia
3. Dissociative
4. AntisocialMultiple Choice questions?
1. B
2. D
3. A
4. C
1. disorder in which mood shift from one emotional extreme to another for no apparent reason.
2. disorder characterized by unpredictable disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior
3. disorder, such as amnesia, in which a person becomes disconnected from his or her identity
4. disorder in which a person performs cruel acts without feeling any guiltMultiple Choice questions?
1) B. Manic depressive
2) D. Schizophrenia
3) A. Dissociative
4) C. Antisocial PersonalityMultiple Choice questions?
1. Manic Depressive (Bipolar Disorder)
2. Schizophrenia
3. Dissociative
4. AntisocialMultiple Choice questions?
1. B
2. D
3. A
4. C
Psychology Help, Can't Find these?
3. Regarding possible environmental causes of schizophrenia,
the concept of expressed emotion refers to an interactive
style characterized by
A. hostility, criticism, and intrusiveness.
B. obsessive perfectionism.
C. withdrawal and isolation.
D. practical jokes
4. Dr. Cranberry suspects that her client is selectively failing to recall an event that must,
by all evidence, be stored in his memory. If the therapist turns out to be correct in this
assessment, she’ll identify the disorder as dissociative
A. fugue. C. repression.
B. identity disorder. D. amnesia.
6. Which therapeutic approach doesn’t require the presence of a psychological
professional?
A. Family therapy C. Humanistic therapy
B. Interpersonal therapy D. Self-help therapy
7. In the context of trends in community psychology, which statement is true?
A. Telephone hotlines are a negative development in community psychology.
B. A high proportion of homeless adults suffer from a psychological disorder.
C. Psychoactive drugs have greatly increased the need to physically restrain mental
patients.
D. Deinstitutionalization has been greatly decreased in recent years.
8. Psychologists consider _______ behavior to be behavior that causes people to
experience distress and prevents them from functioning in their daily lives.
A. aberrant C. abnormal
B. adolescent D. deviant
9. The key theme in humanistic therapy is
A. self-criticism. C. emotional expression.
B. philosophical reasoning. D. self-responsibility
10. A reference work developed by the American Psychiatric Association is referred to as
DSM-IV-TR. In that acronym, “S” stands for
A. Statistical. C. Standardized.
B. Standard. D. Symposium.Psychology Help, Can't Find these?
Please take help from your class-mates. Or please spare me your books for a day at least.Psychology Help, Can't Find these?
3 = A
4 = C
6 = D
7 = D
8 = C abnormal
9 = C
10 = A statistical
ps are you going to pay me for doing your homework?! LOLmexican food popeyes menu
the concept of expressed emotion refers to an interactive
style characterized by
A. hostility, criticism, and intrusiveness.
B. obsessive perfectionism.
C. withdrawal and isolation.
D. practical jokes
4. Dr. Cranberry suspects that her client is selectively failing to recall an event that must,
by all evidence, be stored in his memory. If the therapist turns out to be correct in this
assessment, she’ll identify the disorder as dissociative
A. fugue. C. repression.
B. identity disorder. D. amnesia.
6. Which therapeutic approach doesn’t require the presence of a psychological
professional?
A. Family therapy C. Humanistic therapy
B. Interpersonal therapy D. Self-help therapy
7. In the context of trends in community psychology, which statement is true?
A. Telephone hotlines are a negative development in community psychology.
B. A high proportion of homeless adults suffer from a psychological disorder.
C. Psychoactive drugs have greatly increased the need to physically restrain mental
patients.
D. Deinstitutionalization has been greatly decreased in recent years.
8. Psychologists consider _______ behavior to be behavior that causes people to
experience distress and prevents them from functioning in their daily lives.
A. aberrant C. abnormal
B. adolescent D. deviant
9. The key theme in humanistic therapy is
A. self-criticism. C. emotional expression.
B. philosophical reasoning. D. self-responsibility
10. A reference work developed by the American Psychiatric Association is referred to as
DSM-IV-TR. In that acronym, “S” stands for
A. Statistical. C. Standardized.
B. Standard. D. Symposium.Psychology Help, Can't Find these?
Please take help from your class-mates. Or please spare me your books for a day at least.Psychology Help, Can't Find these?
3 = A
4 = C
6 = D
7 = D
8 = C abnormal
9 = C
10 = A statistical
ps are you going to pay me for doing your homework?! LOL
Me and my "modes" ha ha, I'm curious!?
I have modes. Or I call them modes. I have "Baby Mode" "Demented Mode" "Stuck-up Mode" "Depressed Mode" "Hyper Mode" "Solitary Mode" "Needy Mode" "Spiritual Mode" "Atheist Mode" and many others. Sometimes I'm in a mode for a month, sometimes three weeks, sometimes one, sometimes an hour, sometimes a minutes, and sometimes a second. I'll be high off of murderous thoughts at one point in time and the next I'll be preaching about righteousness and how immoral and inhuman people can be. I'll be desperate for attention and desiring the arms of someone wrapped around me like a security blanket one month and the next month I'll be confined in my room praying that no one will come in to utter a word for if they do I'll get so angry and annoyed with them. I'll think the world has no point and that it's pointless to live. Then I'll think that everything is a miracle and life is the most amazing thing this world has to offer. Most of the time I criticise what I think. "How could you even think of hurting that poor mouse!" "Ugh, I don't even know how I thought life was so magnificant." I annoy myself to no end. I have about ten other voices in my head screaming at me, crying to me, pleading with me, whispering to me, teasing me, etc.
I'm curious as to if the rest of you are like this. I know it's not dissociative identity disorder because I don't get amnesia. And I'm still me all the time.
Also I have "Story Mode" (constant need to write stories) "Book Mode" (become obsessed with reading) "Journal Mode" (write personal experiences and such, self explanatory) and "Talking Mode" (desire to talk about every little thing).Me and my "modes" ha ha, I'm curious!?
Yeah! We all switch modes like this! I mean, we may not define it all the time, but we are ALL set in modes EXACTLY like this! It's completely normal, no worries. :)
I don't know how old you are, but you sound old enough to make an appointment with a psychologist and/or psychiatrist.They are the people who can administer the tests and talk with you about your history to make a diagnosis and recommend a treatment plan from there.
And it can be helpful to talk to someone who won't judge your feelings and experiences.
Good luck!Me and my "modes" ha ha, I'm curious!?
YOU CAN PUT THIS IN WHATEVER CATEGORY YOU WANT TO AND YOU CAN CHOOSE TO THINK WHATEVER YOU WANT, YOU CAN BE WHOEVER YOU WANT TO BE AND IF YOU WANT HELP YOU NEED TO SEEK IT OUT WITH A THERAPIST AND FROM WHAT YOU SAID YOU ARE JUST MORE NORMAL THAN ABNORMAL.
THIS IS WHAT I DO,
YOUR ASSISTANT
Yeah, totally every1 goes thru this. Some nights I can't get to sleep cuz I'm in "Neat Freak" mode %26amp; have 2 literally get my butt up and clean and organize. I'm organization obsessed naturally, always have been. @ McDonald's when I was 3%26amp;4y/o I would put the balls back IN the ball pin while other kids were throwing them out lolz. Anywayz yeah it's normal.
- iTealMe and my "modes" ha ha, I'm curious!?
I know how you feel. One month of school, I am searching ways to do my hair and make-up, trying to get noticed. Trying to be around friends, the talkative funny type. The next I don't want to talk to any of my friends, I hate the world, i'm wearing black, and don't care about school when i use to be a straight a student.
One day I will read about some author or something, and I will get an idea, and suddenly get this idea, that its time to write a book. This usually don't last, I'll give up or move on to something else.
I've had days where i just want to relax and have fun, and the next, I want to be as smart as I can be. I'll start reading books, learning algebra. 2 hours later.... forget this! I hate learning, what the heck am I doing???
I don't know, as long as it isn't hurting your life, there is nothing wrong. Depression is described as long mood swings, but these don't seem to be harming you. So what if you want to be rebelious one week and then read a lot another. As long as your not ignoring your friends for so long that they don't want to talk to you, going into "hate school mode" for so long that you drop to D's.
as long as its not really bad, i think its all part of being a teen.
I'm curious as to if the rest of you are like this. I know it's not dissociative identity disorder because I don't get amnesia. And I'm still me all the time.
Also I have "Story Mode" (constant need to write stories) "Book Mode" (become obsessed with reading) "Journal Mode" (write personal experiences and such, self explanatory) and "Talking Mode" (desire to talk about every little thing).Me and my "modes" ha ha, I'm curious!?
Yeah! We all switch modes like this! I mean, we may not define it all the time, but we are ALL set in modes EXACTLY like this! It's completely normal, no worries. :)
I don't know how old you are, but you sound old enough to make an appointment with a psychologist and/or psychiatrist.They are the people who can administer the tests and talk with you about your history to make a diagnosis and recommend a treatment plan from there.
And it can be helpful to talk to someone who won't judge your feelings and experiences.
Good luck!Me and my "modes" ha ha, I'm curious!?
YOU CAN PUT THIS IN WHATEVER CATEGORY YOU WANT TO AND YOU CAN CHOOSE TO THINK WHATEVER YOU WANT, YOU CAN BE WHOEVER YOU WANT TO BE AND IF YOU WANT HELP YOU NEED TO SEEK IT OUT WITH A THERAPIST AND FROM WHAT YOU SAID YOU ARE JUST MORE NORMAL THAN ABNORMAL.
THIS IS WHAT I DO,
YOUR ASSISTANT
Yeah, totally every1 goes thru this. Some nights I can't get to sleep cuz I'm in "Neat Freak" mode %26amp; have 2 literally get my butt up and clean and organize. I'm organization obsessed naturally, always have been. @ McDonald's when I was 3%26amp;4y/o I would put the balls back IN the ball pin while other kids were throwing them out lolz. Anywayz yeah it's normal.
- iTealMe and my "modes" ha ha, I'm curious!?
I know how you feel. One month of school, I am searching ways to do my hair and make-up, trying to get noticed. Trying to be around friends, the talkative funny type. The next I don't want to talk to any of my friends, I hate the world, i'm wearing black, and don't care about school when i use to be a straight a student.
One day I will read about some author or something, and I will get an idea, and suddenly get this idea, that its time to write a book. This usually don't last, I'll give up or move on to something else.
I've had days where i just want to relax and have fun, and the next, I want to be as smart as I can be. I'll start reading books, learning algebra. 2 hours later.... forget this! I hate learning, what the heck am I doing???
I don't know, as long as it isn't hurting your life, there is nothing wrong. Depression is described as long mood swings, but these don't seem to be harming you. So what if you want to be rebelious one week and then read a lot another. As long as your not ignoring your friends for so long that they don't want to talk to you, going into "hate school mode" for so long that you drop to D's.
as long as its not really bad, i think its all part of being a teen.
Me and my "modes" ha ha, I'm curious!?
I have modes. Or I call them modes. I have "Baby Mode" "Demented Mode" "Stuck-up Mode" "Depressed Mode" "Hyper Mode" "Solitary Mode" "Needy Mode" "Spiritual Mode" "Atheist Mode" and many others. Sometimes I'm in a mode for a month, sometimes three weeks, sometimes one, sometimes an hour, sometimes a minutes, and sometimes a second. I'll be high off of murderous thoughts at one point in time and the next I'll be preaching about righteousness and how immoral and inhuman people can be. I'll be desperate for attention and desiring the arms of someone wrapped around me like a security blanket one month and the next month I'll be confined in my room praying that no one will come in to utter a word for if they do I'll get so angry and annoyed with them. I'll think the world has no point and that it's pointless to live. Then I'll think that everything is a miracle and life is the most amazing thing this world has to offer. Most of the time I criticise what I think. "How could you even think of hurting that poor mouse!" "Ugh, I don't even know how I thought life was so magnificant." I annoy myself to no end. I have about ten other voices in my head screaming at me, crying to me, pleading with me, whispering to me, teasing me, etc.
I'm curious as to if the rest of you are like this. I know it's not dissociative identity disorder because I don't get amnesia. And I'm still me all the time.
Also I have "Story Mode" (constant need to write stories) "Book Mode" (become obsessed with reading) "Journal Mode" (write personal experiences and such, self explanatory) and "Talking Mode" (desire to talk about every little thing).Me and my "modes" ha ha, I'm curious!?
same as before, I wish you luck.,
Your assistantMe and my "modes" ha ha, I'm curious!?
in other words, it sounds like you experience the full spectrum of human emotion
I'm curious as to if the rest of you are like this. I know it's not dissociative identity disorder because I don't get amnesia. And I'm still me all the time.
Also I have "Story Mode" (constant need to write stories) "Book Mode" (become obsessed with reading) "Journal Mode" (write personal experiences and such, self explanatory) and "Talking Mode" (desire to talk about every little thing).Me and my "modes" ha ha, I'm curious!?
same as before, I wish you luck.,
Your assistantMe and my "modes" ha ha, I'm curious!?
in other words, it sounds like you experience the full spectrum of human emotion
Can u be sent to mental assylum without ur permission if not then when? askin 4 generl knowledge?
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Acute stress disorder | Adjustment disorder | Agoraphobia | alcohol and substance abuse | alcohol and substance dependence | Amnesia | Anxiety disorder | Anorexia nervosa | Antisocial personality disorder | Asperger syndrome | Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder | Autism | Autophagia | Avoidant personality disorder | Bereavement | Bibliomania | Binge eating disorder | Bipolar disorder | Body dysmorphic disorder | Borderline personality disorder | Brief psychotic disorder | Bulimia nervosa | Childhood disintegrative disorder | Circadian rhythm sleep disorder | Conduct disorder | Conversion disorder | Cyclothymia | Delirium | Delusional disorder | Dementia | Dependent personality disorder | Depersonalization disorder | Depression | Disorder of written expression | Dissociative fugue | Dissociative identity disorder | Down syndrome | Drapetomania | Dyspareunia | Dysthymic disorder | Erotomania | Encopresis | Enuresis | Exhibitionism | Expressive language disordeCan u be sent to mental assylum without ur permission if not then when? askin 4 generl knowledge?
Yes you can if you're a danger to yourself or others.
What happened - did your medical dictionary have all the pages ripped out after it had got to the letter "E" !=
I've never been involuntarily committed but as a therapist have had to do many.
Taraoffs vs. California ruled that one by law must break confidentiality if someone is a danger to self, another or harm is being done to that person (if a minor). It has very little to do with an actual "diagnosis". Certinaly not many that you have listed above!
To explain why each is a mental disorder would take hours. I urge you to look up DSM IV-TR definitions or go to your libary and look at a DSM IV-TR which will give you details on each disorder.
Generally each of these is considered a mental disorder because there is nothing physically wrong with the person ( a physical diagnosis should always be ruled out before a mental disorder is diagnosed) but the symptoms disorder associated with the disorder has a large impact on many aspects of that person life.Can u be sent to mental assylum without ur permission if not then when? askin 4 generl knowledge?
Yes, you can be committed, the answers are correct, as to the criteria, however they, did not include, "if you are deemed a treat to society".
Most all of the so called, disorders you ask about are now being treated with drug's.
You somehow, however hit on the major cause of many of these problems early on in you statement.
Alcohol/Drug abuse is, in many cases the major cause of these problems. (In particular in the Western Cultures)
The research is in that would validate, everything that has been stated above. As to why it has not been acted on, is a whole different subject. Mostly economics's.
The only effective way of dealing with this problem, that I am aware of is through a non-profit organization. AA, NA.
So much more could be said, however to what avail?
Hi,all it takes is 2 doctors to sign a form %26amp; then your sectioned.Can u be sent to mental assylum without ur permission if not then when? askin 4 generl knowledge?
If you are shown to be a danger to yourself another person can and will make the decsion for you.
It is best when a person needs help.
First things first - it depends on which state you live in - all states have differnet laws.
Secondly it doesn't matter where you live it is EXTREMELY difficult for that to happen - you not only have to be a harm to yourself and others but you have to have a constant history of both.
Third you must be signed in by a three party petition - three people which knows the patient must sign a waver stating you are extremely dangerous and they fear harm of someone in the general public and all three MUST know of the conditions and sign under oathe that they would be willing to testify in a court under oathe that they know of this behavior.
A judge will the decide if and how long you will be sent to get help.
If they think permanent care is something they will usually send you for more elvulations and to a local state hospital where you will then go back before the same judge to get reevulated.
This process can take a VERY long time and rarely happens.
Just as if they committed a horrible crime - it must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that you are incapable of acknoweldging right and wrong and to care for yourself and are a MAJOR harm to yourself and others.
Most of everything listed above does apply to most states.
You could be sectioned
go away...ur giving me a condition.
If anybody working in the health system of authority deem that you are at risk from yourself or are a risk to others then they can sections you without your permission, under the mental health act.
If you are diagnosed with all of the above you would be in care
You can be committed against your will if you can be deemed a danger to yourself or to others.
Yes, you can be mandated to be admitted to a psychiatric facility or a behavioral center.
(mental asylum?!- that's an archaic title.)
I've been in a behavioral center/ psychiatric facility- (voluntarily) and it's not as bad as you would think %26amp; no, I'm not ashamed to tell anyone about this- because I voluntarily seeked help and I'm way more "normal", than a lot of people- lol (laughing like a loon-
j/k)
Oh, and anxiety is a condition way beyond normal worry and anxiousness- it is extreme!
If you become a danger to yourself or others then you can be sectioned by two doctors under the mental health act. I see there's nothing wrong with your medical dictionary.
You can be commited against your will if you are a threat to yourself or anyone else, they normally put you on a 48-72 hour hold to determine if you need further help...if you need to talk IM me or email me. Good Luck
You can only be sectioned under the mental health act if you are identified as being a danger to yourself and or others.
It is actually very hard to get sectioned. There will be a GP and an ASW (Approved Social Worker) an ambulance and often the Police.
Normally its a section where you can be initially detained for upto 28days, for assessment/ diagnosis and treatment.
At the 28day stage your case would be reviewed and it would be determined that you either needed an extention to be kept on the ward for further treatment/ observations OR you would be relased, with hopefully a careplan/ follow up plan. (If medication is involved at discharge you can be allocated a CPN - Community phychiatric Nurse)
We all have varying levels of mental health (although most will not admit to it). It only becomes an issue when it effects your ability to live your everyday life.
Hope this answer makes sense?
can someone kill me? Don't want to live no more!
Yes, one can be admitted to a psych unit against their own will; it is called an involuntary admission (or a 1013). This happens when the person is a threat to harm themselves or others.
If you are deemed to be a danger to either yourself or someone else then you can be sectioned under the Mental Health Act. The police can section you for an assessment and then if the doctors and social worker who interview you deem it necessary you can then be sectioned for further assessment (s.2 - up to 28 days) or for treatment (s.3 - up to 6 months). Both can be renewed at the end of the section time. If you try to leave the hospital whilst under a section the staff have the right to try and stop you, or if you do leave they can call the police to bring you back.
I suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder and Dissociation and when I get depressed am a danger to myself. I have been in hospital several times, the last admission was against my will under section 2. Not all of what you mentioned are "mental illnesses" and you therefore cannot be sectioned if you suffer from them, this applies to agoraphobia (fear of outdoors), bibliomania (love of books) and sleep disorders etc.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/The鈥?/a>
Acute stress disorder | Adjustment disorder | Agoraphobia | alcohol and substance abuse | alcohol and substance dependence | Amnesia | Anxiety disorder | Anorexia nervosa | Antisocial personality disorder | Asperger syndrome | Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder | Autism | Autophagia | Avoidant personality disorder | Bereavement | Bibliomania | Binge eating disorder | Bipolar disorder | Body dysmorphic disorder | Borderline personality disorder | Brief psychotic disorder | Bulimia nervosa | Childhood disintegrative disorder | Circadian rhythm sleep disorder | Conduct disorder | Conversion disorder | Cyclothymia | Delirium | Delusional disorder | Dementia | Dependent personality disorder | Depersonalization disorder | Depression | Disorder of written expression | Dissociative fugue | Dissociative identity disorder | Down syndrome | Drapetomania | Dyspareunia | Dysthymic disorder | Erotomania | Encopresis | Enuresis | Exhibitionism | Expressive language disordeCan u be sent to mental assylum without ur permission if not then when? askin 4 generl knowledge?
Yes you can if you're a danger to yourself or others.
What happened - did your medical dictionary have all the pages ripped out after it had got to the letter "E" !=
I've never been involuntarily committed but as a therapist have had to do many.
Taraoffs vs. California ruled that one by law must break confidentiality if someone is a danger to self, another or harm is being done to that person (if a minor). It has very little to do with an actual "diagnosis". Certinaly not many that you have listed above!
To explain why each is a mental disorder would take hours. I urge you to look up DSM IV-TR definitions or go to your libary and look at a DSM IV-TR which will give you details on each disorder.
Generally each of these is considered a mental disorder because there is nothing physically wrong with the person ( a physical diagnosis should always be ruled out before a mental disorder is diagnosed) but the symptoms disorder associated with the disorder has a large impact on many aspects of that person life.Can u be sent to mental assylum without ur permission if not then when? askin 4 generl knowledge?
Yes, you can be committed, the answers are correct, as to the criteria, however they, did not include, "if you are deemed a treat to society".
Most all of the so called, disorders you ask about are now being treated with drug's.
You somehow, however hit on the major cause of many of these problems early on in you statement.
Alcohol/Drug abuse is, in many cases the major cause of these problems. (In particular in the Western Cultures)
The research is in that would validate, everything that has been stated above. As to why it has not been acted on, is a whole different subject. Mostly economics's.
The only effective way of dealing with this problem, that I am aware of is through a non-profit organization. AA, NA.
So much more could be said, however to what avail?
Hi,all it takes is 2 doctors to sign a form %26amp; then your sectioned.Can u be sent to mental assylum without ur permission if not then when? askin 4 generl knowledge?
If you are shown to be a danger to yourself another person can and will make the decsion for you.
It is best when a person needs help.
First things first - it depends on which state you live in - all states have differnet laws.
Secondly it doesn't matter where you live it is EXTREMELY difficult for that to happen - you not only have to be a harm to yourself and others but you have to have a constant history of both.
Third you must be signed in by a three party petition - three people which knows the patient must sign a waver stating you are extremely dangerous and they fear harm of someone in the general public and all three MUST know of the conditions and sign under oathe that they would be willing to testify in a court under oathe that they know of this behavior.
A judge will the decide if and how long you will be sent to get help.
If they think permanent care is something they will usually send you for more elvulations and to a local state hospital where you will then go back before the same judge to get reevulated.
This process can take a VERY long time and rarely happens.
Just as if they committed a horrible crime - it must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that you are incapable of acknoweldging right and wrong and to care for yourself and are a MAJOR harm to yourself and others.
Most of everything listed above does apply to most states.
You could be sectioned
go away...ur giving me a condition.
If anybody working in the health system of authority deem that you are at risk from yourself or are a risk to others then they can sections you without your permission, under the mental health act.
If you are diagnosed with all of the above you would be in care
You can be committed against your will if you can be deemed a danger to yourself or to others.
Yes, you can be mandated to be admitted to a psychiatric facility or a behavioral center.
(mental asylum?!- that's an archaic title.)
I've been in a behavioral center/ psychiatric facility- (voluntarily) and it's not as bad as you would think %26amp; no, I'm not ashamed to tell anyone about this- because I voluntarily seeked help and I'm way more "normal", than a lot of people- lol (laughing like a loon-
j/k)
Oh, and anxiety is a condition way beyond normal worry and anxiousness- it is extreme!
If you become a danger to yourself or others then you can be sectioned by two doctors under the mental health act. I see there's nothing wrong with your medical dictionary.
You can be commited against your will if you are a threat to yourself or anyone else, they normally put you on a 48-72 hour hold to determine if you need further help...if you need to talk IM me or email me. Good Luck
You can only be sectioned under the mental health act if you are identified as being a danger to yourself and or others.
It is actually very hard to get sectioned. There will be a GP and an ASW (Approved Social Worker) an ambulance and often the Police.
Normally its a section where you can be initially detained for upto 28days, for assessment/ diagnosis and treatment.
At the 28day stage your case would be reviewed and it would be determined that you either needed an extention to be kept on the ward for further treatment/ observations OR you would be relased, with hopefully a careplan/ follow up plan. (If medication is involved at discharge you can be allocated a CPN - Community phychiatric Nurse)
We all have varying levels of mental health (although most will not admit to it). It only becomes an issue when it effects your ability to live your everyday life.
Hope this answer makes sense?
can someone kill me? Don't want to live no more!
Yes, one can be admitted to a psych unit against their own will; it is called an involuntary admission (or a 1013). This happens when the person is a threat to harm themselves or others.
If you are deemed to be a danger to either yourself or someone else then you can be sectioned under the Mental Health Act. The police can section you for an assessment and then if the doctors and social worker who interview you deem it necessary you can then be sectioned for further assessment (s.2 - up to 28 days) or for treatment (s.3 - up to 6 months). Both can be renewed at the end of the section time. If you try to leave the hospital whilst under a section the staff have the right to try and stop you, or if you do leave they can call the police to bring you back.
I suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder and Dissociation and when I get depressed am a danger to myself. I have been in hospital several times, the last admission was against my will under section 2. Not all of what you mentioned are "mental illnesses" and you therefore cannot be sectioned if you suffer from them, this applies to agoraphobia (fear of outdoors), bibliomania (love of books) and sleep disorders etc.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/The鈥?/a>
Please, Help?
Gloria is a friend of yours. You've noticed that sometimes she seems to be behaving unlike herself. Her voice quality and facial expressions aren't like her usual ones. Also, the way she dresses is very different from day to day. Another friend, a clinical psychologist, tells you that Gloria may be suffering from dissociative?
A. fugue
B. identity disorder
C. amnesia
D. depersonalizationPlease, Help?
B, although a competant psychologist would never just flippantly toss out diagnoses about a person that they are not treating.
A. fugue
B. identity disorder
C. amnesia
D. depersonalizationPlease, Help?
B, although a competant psychologist would never just flippantly toss out diagnoses about a person that they are not treating.
Engaged to Mental Illness... Should I say "I do"?
Situation: BF has been dx with Dissociative Disorder (Not DID but amnesia, lost time, "foggy"memory)
He has a good job, limited friendships, insecurity issues despite his intellect and looks, sensitivity that is so profoundly fragile that the slightest suggestion of a comment that could be negative elicits a response that is way out of proportion.
I love himbut Idont want to llive with things as they are. Hes been in therapy and it helps but how long will it take? Will it always be this way? Should I I do...or should I say goodbye?
PS Im too old to "wait and see" This year is go time, whichever way I decide. ThanksEngaged to Mental Illness... Should I say "I do"?
nooooo! don't say goodbye! i have depersonalization disorder. they have some key differences but things can change. leaving him is not only stupid but selfish.Engaged to Mental Illness... Should I say "I do"?
If there's this much question about it in your mind, I would say that you shouldn't get tied down to him...Engaged to Mental Illness... Should I say "I do"?
If you love someone deeply enough you'll go through what ever it takes to be by their side. Honestly don't be so selfish and only think about your self here
Make a list of the pros and cons of being married to him. Also list things that you want/desire in a marriage and think if he will be able to help you achieve these goals.cheesecake factory locations what is computer
He has a good job, limited friendships, insecurity issues despite his intellect and looks, sensitivity that is so profoundly fragile that the slightest suggestion of a comment that could be negative elicits a response that is way out of proportion.
I love himbut Idont want to llive with things as they are. Hes been in therapy and it helps but how long will it take? Will it always be this way? Should I I do...or should I say goodbye?
PS Im too old to "wait and see" This year is go time, whichever way I decide. ThanksEngaged to Mental Illness... Should I say "I do"?
nooooo! don't say goodbye! i have depersonalization disorder. they have some key differences but things can change. leaving him is not only stupid but selfish.Engaged to Mental Illness... Should I say "I do"?
If there's this much question about it in your mind, I would say that you shouldn't get tied down to him...Engaged to Mental Illness... Should I say "I do"?
If you love someone deeply enough you'll go through what ever it takes to be by their side. Honestly don't be so selfish and only think about your self here
Make a list of the pros and cons of being married to him. Also list things that you want/desire in a marriage and think if he will be able to help you achieve these goals.
Split Personality & Alter Ego Questions?
Are they the same thing or are they two totally different things?
Can you have dissociative identity disorder without having amnesia.
For those of you that have it or know well about it, what's it like for the people. Inside their head I mean. Do they hear multiple thems talking to them? Or is it silent? Or what? I'm just curious. Recently watched Sybil, both the 1st remake and the 2nd remake. Both were well done, but the 1st was the best. Anyway, it got me wondering.Split Personality %26amp; Alter Ego Questions?
I think we all have a bit of alter ego - which is essentially being "full of ourselves" at some time in our life. Most of us can control our ego and not stretch it so far out of whack that we turn it against us or hurt others.
However, Sybil is a portrait of what happens to some people who are extremely and severely mistreated. The mind splits and aids us in building "divided rooms" (or personalities) to cope with certain events. This is a rare disorder but it is a survival skill that some people are able to develop in order to maintain order in their life.
Most people get Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and become self abusive or turn violent against others.
Can you have dissociative identity disorder without having amnesia.
For those of you that have it or know well about it, what's it like for the people. Inside their head I mean. Do they hear multiple thems talking to them? Or is it silent? Or what? I'm just curious. Recently watched Sybil, both the 1st remake and the 2nd remake. Both were well done, but the 1st was the best. Anyway, it got me wondering.Split Personality %26amp; Alter Ego Questions?
I think we all have a bit of alter ego - which is essentially being "full of ourselves" at some time in our life. Most of us can control our ego and not stretch it so far out of whack that we turn it against us or hurt others.
However, Sybil is a portrait of what happens to some people who are extremely and severely mistreated. The mind splits and aids us in building "divided rooms" (or personalities) to cope with certain events. This is a rare disorder but it is a survival skill that some people are able to develop in order to maintain order in their life.
Most people get Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and become self abusive or turn violent against others.
Psychology questions for a big test tommorow please help!!!!!!!!!!?
1. Define psychology.-
2. Understand how psychological theory is modified.
3. Name the four principle aims of psychology.
4. Know the where the greatest number psychologists are employed and what area of psychology they are trained in.
5. John B. Watson argued for a psychology based on what?
6. Pavlov's technique in teaching dogs to salivate to a bell is called what?
7. B. F. Skinner made major contributions to what field of psychology?
8. What field of psychology has emphasized the roles of insight and understanding in problem solving.
9. Who established the school of psychology known as Psychoanalysis.
10. Jean Piaget is associated with which psychological perspective?
11. What is empirical research?
12. What is a hypothesis?
13. What is an operational definition of a variable.
14. Define:
a) random sample
b) selection sample
c) stratified sample
d) volunteer bias
e) validity
f) reliability
15. Be able to choose the weakest correlation from a set of correlation statistics.
16. Distinguish between an independent and dependent variable.
17. Explain the all or none principle of neural firing.
18. What process reveals the influence of nature through the unfolding of traits as determined by genetic code.
19. Recognize the order and describe the stages in Erik Erikson developmental theory.
20. Know the defining markers of secure attachment.
21. Be familiar with the classic rhesus monkey research of the Harlows on attachment and material deprivation.
22. Understand Baumrind鈥檚 description of the relationship between competence in children and parenting styles.
23. Understand Piaget鈥檚 definitions of assimilation and accommodation.
24. Name Piaget's stages of cognitive development in order of increasing age.
25. Name and describe Kohlberg鈥檚 stages of moral development.
26. Differentiate between sensation and perception.
27. Understand:
a) the principle illustrated by the Rubin vase.
b) the phi phenomenon
c) stroboscopic motion
d) direct inner awareness
28. Understand levels of consciousness described by Freud. (conscious, preconscious, and unconscious)
29. Understand Freud鈥檚 common defense mechanisms including:
a) repression
b) suppression
c) sublimation
d) displacement
e) regression
f) reaction formation
30. Why is REM sleep called paradoxical sleep.
31. How do behaviorists define learning?
32. Ivan Pavlov provided evidence that reflexes can be learned through what process?
33. Understand the concepts and mechanical relationships between the following in Pavlov鈥檚 theory of conditioned response and learned association:
a) Unconditioned stimulus
b) Conditioned stimulus
c) Unconditioned response
d) Conditioned response
e) Extinction
f) Spontaneous recovery
g) Higher-order conditioning
h) Stimulus generalization
i) Stimulus discrimination
34. Define and understand the relative effectiveness of each of the following:
a) delayed conditioning.
b) simultaneous conditioning.
c) trace conditioning.
d) backward conditioning.
35. Why is taste aversion considered to be a special case in learning theory?
36. Distinguish between positive and negative reinforcement and punishment.
37. Define and know the relative effectiveness of each of the following reinforcement schedules.
a) variable and fixed interval reinforcement schedules
b) variable and fixed ratio reinforcement schedules
c) continuous reinforcement schedule
38. Understand the current research findings on the effects of viewing violence in the media in children and adults.
39. Understand the following terms in memory theory:
a) procedural
b) episodic
c) semantic
d) iconic
e) acoustic
f) echoic
g) eidetic
h) elaborative rehearsal
40. Know the three stages of memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval.
41. Define and distinguish between dissociative, retrograde and anterograde amnesia.
42. Define and distinguish between achievement and intelligence.
43. Know who developed the theory of multiple intelligences.
44. Understand that the Wechsler intelligence scales highlight children's relative strengths and weaknesses as well as measure overall intellectual functioning.
45. The Wechsler scales are made up of subtests grouped into what two categories?
46. According to the Wechsler scales, the middle 50% of scores fall within the "broad average range". Know this range.
47. Understand the following terms in drive reduction theory:
a) Need
b) Drive
c) Homeostasis
d) primary drive.
e) acquired drive.
48. Understand the basic orientation of Maslow鈥檚 hierarchy of needs. (you will not have to name them.)
49. Understand Attitude-discrepant behavior and justification of effort as used with cognitive dissonance theory.
50. Describe the personality theory of Freud and the defense mechanisms we covered in class.
51. Know the five common traits in the Trait theory of personality.
52. Understand how the concept of free-will is viewed by all the different perspectives we coverPsychology questions for a big test tommorow please help!!!!!!!!!!?
1) OK, I'll just write a book in this box.
2) What?
3) Ask 100 psychologists, get 100 answers.
4) In the world? In the USA? How are you defining a psychologist? In the UK, anyone can call themselves a psychologist.
...
50) Right, I'll just go and find out what was in your class. Even though I don't know *which* class.
51) Here's a clue: OCEAN.
52) And that would require knowing the perspectives you cover.
I think you get the gist. These are not answerable questions. Hopelessly optimistic just pasting them here. I suspect you're going to fail. But you're going to deserve it.Psychology questions for a big test tommorow please help!!!!!!!!!!?
Are you kidding me?
2. Understand how psychological theory is modified.
3. Name the four principle aims of psychology.
4. Know the where the greatest number psychologists are employed and what area of psychology they are trained in.
5. John B. Watson argued for a psychology based on what?
6. Pavlov's technique in teaching dogs to salivate to a bell is called what?
7. B. F. Skinner made major contributions to what field of psychology?
8. What field of psychology has emphasized the roles of insight and understanding in problem solving.
9. Who established the school of psychology known as Psychoanalysis.
10. Jean Piaget is associated with which psychological perspective?
11. What is empirical research?
12. What is a hypothesis?
13. What is an operational definition of a variable.
14. Define:
a) random sample
b) selection sample
c) stratified sample
d) volunteer bias
e) validity
f) reliability
15. Be able to choose the weakest correlation from a set of correlation statistics.
16. Distinguish between an independent and dependent variable.
17. Explain the all or none principle of neural firing.
18. What process reveals the influence of nature through the unfolding of traits as determined by genetic code.
19. Recognize the order and describe the stages in Erik Erikson developmental theory.
20. Know the defining markers of secure attachment.
21. Be familiar with the classic rhesus monkey research of the Harlows on attachment and material deprivation.
22. Understand Baumrind鈥檚 description of the relationship between competence in children and parenting styles.
23. Understand Piaget鈥檚 definitions of assimilation and accommodation.
24. Name Piaget's stages of cognitive development in order of increasing age.
25. Name and describe Kohlberg鈥檚 stages of moral development.
26. Differentiate between sensation and perception.
27. Understand:
a) the principle illustrated by the Rubin vase.
b) the phi phenomenon
c) stroboscopic motion
d) direct inner awareness
28. Understand levels of consciousness described by Freud. (conscious, preconscious, and unconscious)
29. Understand Freud鈥檚 common defense mechanisms including:
a) repression
b) suppression
c) sublimation
d) displacement
e) regression
f) reaction formation
30. Why is REM sleep called paradoxical sleep.
31. How do behaviorists define learning?
32. Ivan Pavlov provided evidence that reflexes can be learned through what process?
33. Understand the concepts and mechanical relationships between the following in Pavlov鈥檚 theory of conditioned response and learned association:
a) Unconditioned stimulus
b) Conditioned stimulus
c) Unconditioned response
d) Conditioned response
e) Extinction
f) Spontaneous recovery
g) Higher-order conditioning
h) Stimulus generalization
i) Stimulus discrimination
34. Define and understand the relative effectiveness of each of the following:
a) delayed conditioning.
b) simultaneous conditioning.
c) trace conditioning.
d) backward conditioning.
35. Why is taste aversion considered to be a special case in learning theory?
36. Distinguish between positive and negative reinforcement and punishment.
37. Define and know the relative effectiveness of each of the following reinforcement schedules.
a) variable and fixed interval reinforcement schedules
b) variable and fixed ratio reinforcement schedules
c) continuous reinforcement schedule
38. Understand the current research findings on the effects of viewing violence in the media in children and adults.
39. Understand the following terms in memory theory:
a) procedural
b) episodic
c) semantic
d) iconic
e) acoustic
f) echoic
g) eidetic
h) elaborative rehearsal
40. Know the three stages of memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval.
41. Define and distinguish between dissociative, retrograde and anterograde amnesia.
42. Define and distinguish between achievement and intelligence.
43. Know who developed the theory of multiple intelligences.
44. Understand that the Wechsler intelligence scales highlight children's relative strengths and weaknesses as well as measure overall intellectual functioning.
45. The Wechsler scales are made up of subtests grouped into what two categories?
46. According to the Wechsler scales, the middle 50% of scores fall within the "broad average range". Know this range.
47. Understand the following terms in drive reduction theory:
a) Need
b) Drive
c) Homeostasis
d) primary drive.
e) acquired drive.
48. Understand the basic orientation of Maslow鈥檚 hierarchy of needs. (you will not have to name them.)
49. Understand Attitude-discrepant behavior and justification of effort as used with cognitive dissonance theory.
50. Describe the personality theory of Freud and the defense mechanisms we covered in class.
51. Know the five common traits in the Trait theory of personality.
52. Understand how the concept of free-will is viewed by all the different perspectives we coverPsychology questions for a big test tommorow please help!!!!!!!!!!?
1) OK, I'll just write a book in this box.
2) What?
3) Ask 100 psychologists, get 100 answers.
4) In the world? In the USA? How are you defining a psychologist? In the UK, anyone can call themselves a psychologist.
...
50) Right, I'll just go and find out what was in your class. Even though I don't know *which* class.
51) Here's a clue: OCEAN.
52) And that would require knowing the perspectives you cover.
I think you get the gist. These are not answerable questions. Hopelessly optimistic just pasting them here. I suspect you're going to fail. But you're going to deserve it.Psychology questions for a big test tommorow please help!!!!!!!!!!?
Are you kidding me?
Suffering from depersonalization, and am totally frightened...?
I sometimes don't recognize myself at all in terms of my thoughts, my voice, who I am. It freaks me out because there is nowhere to run when this happens. I feel like I am not myself, or like I am someone else. It is confusing. I have reason to believe I am suffering from depersonalization and derealization, and it sucks.
I also have a lot of existential rumination about the universe, and what existence is. I don't know how much more I can take.
I am wondering if depersonalization and derealization can ever turn into a dissociative fugue or amnesia? I am so afraid of what this can turn into. Can someone tell me if it sounds like depersonalization, and also what the prognosis is? Can I become more dissociated?Suffering from depersonalization, and am totally frightened...?
I don't know anything about depersonalization, but things like what you described happen to me too. I just don't freak out about them. It could be just a very rich imagination. At least that's what I think I have. I love to think about existence, universe, infinity and stuff like that, but I enjoy it and thank God that I have such a great imagination. You should do the same.Suffering from depersonalization, and am totally frightened...?
LOL if it didn't help at all you shouldn't have chosen it for the best answer. You shouldn't try to diagnose yourself if you really think it's something serious. Talk to a psychiatrist. He will know for sure what's your problem. I really don't like the one star ratings.
I also have a lot of existential rumination about the universe, and what existence is. I don't know how much more I can take.
I am wondering if depersonalization and derealization can ever turn into a dissociative fugue or amnesia? I am so afraid of what this can turn into. Can someone tell me if it sounds like depersonalization, and also what the prognosis is? Can I become more dissociated?Suffering from depersonalization, and am totally frightened...?
I don't know anything about depersonalization, but things like what you described happen to me too. I just don't freak out about them. It could be just a very rich imagination. At least that's what I think I have. I love to think about existence, universe, infinity and stuff like that, but I enjoy it and thank God that I have such a great imagination. You should do the same.Suffering from depersonalization, and am totally frightened...?
LOL if it didn't help at all you shouldn't have chosen it for the best answer. You shouldn't try to diagnose yourself if you really think it's something serious. Talk to a psychiatrist. He will know for sure what's your problem. I really don't like the one star ratings.
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Psych help on a question on personality multiple choice?
. A police chief tells of a well-dressed, well-groomed woman who came in to fill out a report about her missing sister. A careful description was given. A few days later, the chief visited the home of the report filer. At the house, he met the woman who had been described as missing. She insisted she did not have a sister. A clinical psychologist investigated and determined this to be a case of:
a. split personality.
b. psychogenic fugue.
c. dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality).
d. amnesia.Psych help on a question on personality multiple choice?
A and C are the one and the same. Call it split personality, dissociative identity disorder, or multiple personality disorder, there is almost no evidence to support that it exists [1]. It has been popularized by hollywood.
It is (probably) not B. A fugue is the assumption of a new idenity, where you completely leave your home and family and take on your new life
In that a could be loosely called, as noted by the DSM-IV, confusion with your personality, that could be a correct answer.
It is obviously not amnesia.
c. multipe personalityPsych help on a question on personality multiple choice?
D.
best guess 50% probability
A and/or C (they are very closely related)Psych help on a question on personality multiple choice?
it would be between A and D because they are so closely related. Actual chances of this actually happening are very very slim but it does occur every once in a while.
b/s = bulls**t
Let's first address that there are individuals who will do almost anything as an attention getting device. For example the pretentious suicide who never manages to commit suicide. And, also that selections a. and c. are one in the same only the number of personalities are of difference.
Second, MPD is not easily understood nor recognized, it can be periods of dissociative behavior either known or not known by the individual. It can also be complete personality change(s) where some personalities are not known to other personalities, and some are. Usually there is a commanding presence of a gate keeper personality - oft times this personality is defensive.
Third, no one is quite sure what the trigger mechanisms are that allows the behavior to manifest itself (i.e., personality changes). One example has been for persons who have problems with alcohol. Watch the movie 'Blind Date' with Bruce Willis and Kim
Basinger to get an idea. Another example, a personality that shuts down for periods of time, almost to the level of a complete blackout, where all they can claim, is they shut there eyes - open their eyes only to discover some time period has elapsed. The movie, 'Mr. Jones' would be informative here. Mr. Jones was more a depressive personality.
Episodes of passing time loss are most upsetting to the personality once they discover the absent of time, indeed one individual I know of - years ago, awoke (i.e., came aware) after a period of three months. From California, his episode ceased when he became aware on an Arizona country road, he found a paper bag in his hand with considerable money and the bag had blood on it. He had sustained physical injuries he could not account for. He has had many episodes of this nature - to my knowledge he has attempted suicide several times and twice was almost successful. I mention, his family was completely disfunctional and both his parents where long time alcohol abusers. He could never account for the bag nor the money, he displayed a complete disregard or disinterest with the money.
Further, of one person I know who suffers from time absences, as a child the individual suffer brutal attacks and beating from a parental figure; besides many times wishing to be dead, as a child, with highly stressful situations and the infliction of pain, the individual would loose time and experience periods of what was described as periods of darkness - not sleep. The person also related after a highly stressful situation this reaction; passing into California from Oregon the individual stopped at a State Beach, stepping out of an automobile and leaned standing against the side of the car looking out at the sea. This was related as being around 10:00 a.m. in the morning - around 3:00 p.m. awareness returned. The individual claimed only to have blinked with nothing but blackness in between. For this individual, this was a first time recognizable event and was very upsetting to the extent medical assistance was sought out. The impression that the blink was precisely that and nothing more - and then came the realization that hours had past with no accounting. The individual was still standing along side his automobile the entire period.
In the absence of more information and past history (police or agency) of the individual in the situation: I would opt for either - a highly pretentious person or possibly an MPDed individual. Which will probably not help you with a direct answer.
If you are interested in how I know of the person leaning against the car, ask me. It would be an interesting answer.
Hmmm, i'd say c. dissociative identiy disorder
a. split personality.
b. psychogenic fugue.
c. dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality).
d. amnesia.Psych help on a question on personality multiple choice?
A and C are the one and the same. Call it split personality, dissociative identity disorder, or multiple personality disorder, there is almost no evidence to support that it exists [1]. It has been popularized by hollywood.
It is (probably) not B. A fugue is the assumption of a new idenity, where you completely leave your home and family and take on your new life
In that a could be loosely called, as noted by the DSM-IV, confusion with your personality, that could be a correct answer.
It is obviously not amnesia.
c. multipe personalityPsych help on a question on personality multiple choice?
D.
best guess 50% probability
A and/or C (they are very closely related)Psych help on a question on personality multiple choice?
it would be between A and D because they are so closely related. Actual chances of this actually happening are very very slim but it does occur every once in a while.
b/s = bulls**t
Let's first address that there are individuals who will do almost anything as an attention getting device. For example the pretentious suicide who never manages to commit suicide. And, also that selections a. and c. are one in the same only the number of personalities are of difference.
Second, MPD is not easily understood nor recognized, it can be periods of dissociative behavior either known or not known by the individual. It can also be complete personality change(s) where some personalities are not known to other personalities, and some are. Usually there is a commanding presence of a gate keeper personality - oft times this personality is defensive.
Third, no one is quite sure what the trigger mechanisms are that allows the behavior to manifest itself (i.e., personality changes). One example has been for persons who have problems with alcohol. Watch the movie 'Blind Date' with Bruce Willis and Kim
Basinger to get an idea. Another example, a personality that shuts down for periods of time, almost to the level of a complete blackout, where all they can claim, is they shut there eyes - open their eyes only to discover some time period has elapsed. The movie, 'Mr. Jones' would be informative here. Mr. Jones was more a depressive personality.
Episodes of passing time loss are most upsetting to the personality once they discover the absent of time, indeed one individual I know of - years ago, awoke (i.e., came aware) after a period of three months. From California, his episode ceased when he became aware on an Arizona country road, he found a paper bag in his hand with considerable money and the bag had blood on it. He had sustained physical injuries he could not account for. He has had many episodes of this nature - to my knowledge he has attempted suicide several times and twice was almost successful. I mention, his family was completely disfunctional and both his parents where long time alcohol abusers. He could never account for the bag nor the money, he displayed a complete disregard or disinterest with the money.
Further, of one person I know who suffers from time absences, as a child the individual suffer brutal attacks and beating from a parental figure; besides many times wishing to be dead, as a child, with highly stressful situations and the infliction of pain, the individual would loose time and experience periods of what was described as periods of darkness - not sleep. The person also related after a highly stressful situation this reaction; passing into California from Oregon the individual stopped at a State Beach, stepping out of an automobile and leaned standing against the side of the car looking out at the sea. This was related as being around 10:00 a.m. in the morning - around 3:00 p.m. awareness returned. The individual claimed only to have blinked with nothing but blackness in between. For this individual, this was a first time recognizable event and was very upsetting to the extent medical assistance was sought out. The impression that the blink was precisely that and nothing more - and then came the realization that hours had past with no accounting. The individual was still standing along side his automobile the entire period.
In the absence of more information and past history (police or agency) of the individual in the situation: I would opt for either - a highly pretentious person or possibly an MPDed individual. Which will probably not help you with a direct answer.
If you are interested in how I know of the person leaning against the car, ask me. It would be an interesting answer.
Hmmm, i'd say c. dissociative identiy disorder
Is there a way to remember things after amnesia caused by DID?
I believe that I might have Dissociative Identity Disorder (or Multiple Personality Disorder).
I will sometimes black out and not remember what has happened for the past few minutes or hours, and my friends will sometimes tell me what has happened and a few times they have mentioned a "Nethen" and a "Tyson", so (if I have DID) I just want to know if there is a way I can remember what has happened during a fugue state.
Thank you.Is there a way to remember things after amnesia caused by DID?
i have DID and i use a journal that the other alters write in and we show it to my therapist each week
online support sites like http://selfhelp.yuku.com are helpful. it has sections dedicated to DID.
i want to help you.Is there a way to remember things after amnesia caused by DID?
If you have Multiple Personality Disorder And you haven't seen a doctor the first thing to do is go see one as soon as possible,
Get some tests done and get on medications and counseling regularly if you catch is sooner in life it can be controlled some of this is mental blockage of terrible things or negative memories that people want to forget so bad that it forms itself in the mind into a another person or persons,
causing blackouts or the personification of the other persons who will have no memories of each other...... IF YOU WISH TO LIVE ANY KIND OF NORMAL LIFE SEE A DOCTOR! ! ! ...
The longer you wait the worse it can get until you loose your self.........
Stay Safe GOD BLESS YOU! Good Luck!!Is there a way to remember things after amnesia caused by DID?
Usually therapy can include hypnosis as a way to rememebr.pf changs locations forza motorsport 3
I will sometimes black out and not remember what has happened for the past few minutes or hours, and my friends will sometimes tell me what has happened and a few times they have mentioned a "Nethen" and a "Tyson", so (if I have DID) I just want to know if there is a way I can remember what has happened during a fugue state.
Thank you.Is there a way to remember things after amnesia caused by DID?
i have DID and i use a journal that the other alters write in and we show it to my therapist each week
online support sites like http://selfhelp.yuku.com are helpful. it has sections dedicated to DID.
i want to help you.Is there a way to remember things after amnesia caused by DID?
If you have Multiple Personality Disorder And you haven't seen a doctor the first thing to do is go see one as soon as possible,
Get some tests done and get on medications and counseling regularly if you catch is sooner in life it can be controlled some of this is mental blockage of terrible things or negative memories that people want to forget so bad that it forms itself in the mind into a another person or persons,
causing blackouts or the personification of the other persons who will have no memories of each other...... IF YOU WISH TO LIVE ANY KIND OF NORMAL LIFE SEE A DOCTOR! ! ! ...
The longer you wait the worse it can get until you loose your self.........
Stay Safe GOD BLESS YOU! Good Luck!!Is there a way to remember things after amnesia caused by DID?
Usually therapy can include hypnosis as a way to rememebr.
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