If you never change your mind, why have one?

What do you guys think of this? Honestly, I never really took a side just because of the way the media demonized her. I figured it was kind of impossible to really look at the case from an unbiased perspective when BABY KILLER was plastered all over the news. I still don’t know/really care. Every week we’d find out someone on the trial had been lying or withholding information, it just became kind of ridiculous. Then random people started coming out of no where to say they had an affair with so & so, they found the body blah blah wanting their 15 minutes of fame. 

So what do you guys think? Is her Not Guilty Verdict deserved? 

1.) Dysphoria - “Often used to describe depression in psychological disorders, dysphoria is general state of sadness that includes restlessness, lack of energy, anxiety, and vague irritation. It is the opposite of euphoria, and is different from typical sadness because it often includes a kind of jumpiness and some anger. You have probably experienced it when coming down from a stimulant like chocolate, coffee, or something stronger. Or you may have felt it in response to a distressing situation, extreme boredom, or depression.”

2.) Normothapy - “Psychiatric theorist Christopher Bollas invented the idea of normothapy to describe people who are so focused on blending in and conforming to social norms that it becomes a kind of mania. A person who is normotic is often unhealthily fixated on having no personality at all, and only doing exactly what is expected by society. Extreme normopathy is punctuated by breaks from the norm, where normotic person cracks under the pressure of conforming and becomes violent or does something very dangerous. Many people experience mild normopathy at different times in their lives, especially when trying to fit into a new social situation, or when trying to hide behaviors they believe other people would condemn.”

3.) Aporia - “You know that feeling of crazy emptiness you get when you realize that something you believed isn’t actually true? And then things feel even more weird when you realize that actually, the thing you believed might be true and might not — and you’ll never really know? That’s aporia. The term comes from ancient Greek, but is also beloved of post-structuralist theorists like Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Spivak. The reason modern theorists love the idea of aporia is that it helps to describe the feeling people have in a world of information overload, where you are often bombarded with contradictory messages that seem equally true.”

These were three of my favorite from a full list you read here. It’s weird to think how much modern culture has affected us, not only physically but mentally, or am I wrong? Could Normothapy have been a problem for someone in the 19th Century as well? 

Well that title got your attention, didn’t it? 

If it did, all that means is you’ve got a good working brain :)

Your primitive brain is hardwired to constantly be on the look out for 3 things: sex, food, & danger. This is why you just can’t help but look when there’s a gruesome car crash on the side of the road, your primitive instincts are kicking in & you’re wondering if you’re in danger. 

In primitive times, actually, even now, all that really matters is whether you’re eating, whether you’re reproducing, & whether you’re in danger. Without naturally seeking these things out, it’d be impossible for a species to live on. 

Written Based On: (http://www.businessinsider.com/100-things-you-should-know-about-people-2010-11?op=1#ixzz1R0vToi7z)

‘Do you ever feel like you are addicted to email or twitter or texting? Do you find it impossible to ignore your email if you see that there are messages in your inbox? Have you ever gone to Google to look up some information and 30 minutes later you realize that you’ve been reading and linking, and searching around for a long time, and you are now searching for something totally different than before? These are all examples of your dopamine system at work.’

(Read the Full Article: http://www.businessinsider.com/100-things-you-should-know-about-people-2010-11?op=1#ixzz1R0vToi7z)

The term “biophilia” literally means “love of life or living systems.” It was first used by Erich Fromm to describe a psychological orientation of being attracted to all that is living and vital. Wilson uses the term in the same sense when he suggests that biophilia describes “the connections that human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life.” He proposed the possibility that the deep affiliations humans have with nature are rooted in our biology.

Human preferences toward things in nature,  while refined through experience and culture, are hypothetically the product of biological evolution. For example, adult mammals (especially humans) are generally attracted to baby mammal faces and find them appealing across species. The large eyes and small features of any young mammal face are far more appealing than those of the mature adults. The biophilia hypothesis suggests that the positive emotional response that adult mammals have toward baby mammals across species helps increase the survival rates of all mammals.

- Wikipedia