March 2011
30 posts
fatespectrum asked: Might I remind you; I fucking love everything about your blog.
lonelymess asked: Hey!
I've spent the past 15mins going through your blog, and it's wonderful! :)
I suffer from major depression and general anxiety disorder. I read in a previous post of yours that you said that marijuana triggers a release of serotonin?
I smoke about once every 1-2 weeks. And the amount of stories I hear about marijuana 'causing'...
I've spent the past 15mins going through your blog, and it's wonderful! :)
I suffer from major depression and general anxiety disorder. I read in a previous post of yours that you said that marijuana triggers a release of serotonin?
I smoke about once every 1-2 weeks. And the amount of stories I hear about marijuana 'causing'...
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Psychology In Film: Requiem For a Dream
Directed by Darren Aronofsky, (director of Black Swan) Requiem For a Dream’s psychological profiling is A+++
It basically delves into the ~ dangers of drugs ~, but it does so in a way that isn’t corny or belittling. Although the movie does center around three teenagers, Requiem For a Dream doesn’t leave out the fact that drugs are drugs and they can plague a sixty year old...
tuesdayafter asked: hey! so i'm planning on doing an experiment of sorts, about how sleep affects me, personally. i got the idea after i slept early (for me) one night and the next day i went to bed really late. a few days after that i started comparing how i felt physically, and emotionally and also mentally and got the idea of conducting a month long experiment. is there anything, in your opinion that i should...
“People are disturbed not by things, but by their view of things.”
– Epictetus (via sirenpsychology)
flapjacksblog2 asked: Do you consider yourself a pirate adventurer?
Am I the only one who freaks out when commercials...
“I went to high school, I didn’t do great…
Still I gotta make more cash, more education’s what I’m lookin’ at!
When I get a degree, I will make a bigger salary
So now i’ve gotta see, which college is right for me!
I went on the internet, and found education KUN-EK-SHUN!!
~*~ Get connected (FOR FREE!!!!) Education Connection!!! ~*~
Then I think, Oh...
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Anonymous asked: your blog has become real boring this past month....
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Anonymous asked: Some film suggestions:
Frankie and Alice - dissociative identity disorder
A Beautiful Mind – schizophrenia
Prozac Nation – depression
The Virgin Suicides - depression
Into the Wild - self-discovery and happiness
Frankie and Alice - dissociative identity disorder
A Beautiful Mind – schizophrenia
Prozac Nation – depression
The Virgin Suicides - depression
Into the Wild - self-discovery and happiness
wordsthough asked: In the past you wrote that some of the chemicals released in our minds are the same chemicals in drugs only drugs were these chemicals overloaded and our brain chemistry wouldn't be the same after using, and I was wondering if using medication for mental illnesses like depression worked in a similar? Is it possible to become addicted to these pills? Will you be the same after using them? It...
Anonymous asked: Thank you for your psychology in film posts! They've been very helpful because I have to write my final paper on media portrayals of the mentally ill:)
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Cotard Delusion: The Walking Corpse Syndrome
The Cotard Delusion or Cotard’s syndrome or Walking Corpse Syndrome is a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which people hold a delusional belief that they are dead (either figuratively or literally), do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. In rare instances, it can include delusions of immortality.
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Psychological Experimentation: Psychic Driving
Psychic driving was a psychiatric procedure in which patients were subjected to a continuously repeated audio message on a looped tape, in order to alter their behaviour. In psychic driving, patients were often exposed to hundreds of thousands of repetitions of a single statement over the course of their treatment. They were also concurrently administered muscular paralytic drugs in order to...
Anonymous asked: You have 2 ask links.
wyndswept asked: Hello! I have a question that's kind of like deadbeattm's. As a young child (I would say around 5 years old), my younger sister used to see what some would call demonic visions. Could this be similar to deadbeattm's problem, her stage of brain development, or a separate thing altogether?
Fancy Medical Words: Cenesthetic Hallucination
white-coat:
A type of hallucination seen within schizophrenia providing patients with an altered state involving bodily organs. Huh? Best example: “OH MY GOD MY BRAIN IS ON FIRE!”
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Tai's Psychology Blog: The Psychology Behind... →
psychology2010:
In this synopsis, I talk about what blushing is, the physiological causes, situations in which we might blush and theories on the adaptive values of blushing.
When was the last time that you blushed? Was it when you said something you felt like you shouldn’t have said? Was it when you got…
deadbeattm asked: I have a question, being a psyche buff and all. I haven't looked into it myself really, but thought you might know. Anyway, I've been dealing with audio and visual hallucinations without substances. Not so much as of late, but I can feel something flowing through me that just hasn't jived right with me.
My friend has dealt with similar hallucinations, and has said it was all...
My friend has dealt with similar hallucinations, and has said it was all...
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Psychology In Film: Girl, Interrupted
If you’ve ever seen/read ‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story’, this is definitely it’s darker counterpart. After attempting to overdose on Aspirin, Susanna checks herself into a psychiatric hospital. Here she befriends a group of girls suffering from an array of disorders including anorexia, psychopathy, Pseudologia Fantastica (compulsive lying) and depression.
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Anonymous asked: my dads bastard one night stand is gonna have a kid
