If you never change your mind, why have one?

i've learned a lot from here too than my psyc textbooks. i'm a psyc major as well. i'm glad you wrote up a thank you/good bye post. i wish you the best in your future.

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:31:41 -0500

Thank you very much.

Deleting.

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:06:17 -0500

Hello :)

Exactly one year ago on this day, I signed up for a Tumblr account and decided on the name Monster Psychology. I was on a vacation with my family when I did & I found myself much more involved in what I was doing online than what was going on around me. Everyone who has followed this blog since then has been so supportive and sweet. I’ve learned more from this silly blog than I have from any Psych. book i’ve ever read, and that has a lot to do with the super cool people that i’ve spoken to through Tumblr. This being said, I am deleting this account and starting from scratch. I won’t give the new URL here, because I don’t want what I intend to leave as a Thank You post to become a promotion. This account has garnered way more followers than I’d ever thought would care about some amateur’s psych. writings, so thank all of you for at least giving this a chance. I’m grateful for all of you, my decision to start new has more to do with myself and the direction I want to take in my life with psychology & writing than it does with anything else.

Goodbye, & a special thanks to those of you who tried to communicate with me further than the lengths of this blog. As silly as this sounds, and as much as KPBS advises against online friends, I really grew to care about some of you.

gossipgran: me rapping look at me now<3 ((((plz watch this...

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:29:11 -0500

gossipgran:

me rapping look at me now<3

((((plz watch this took me a lot of time to perfect thank u))))

This is what a perfect human being looks like

Frank Ocean | There Will Be Tears

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:01:15 -0500

Frank Ocean | There Will Be Tears

That quote below by Lemony Snicket. What does it mean? I just want to hear your interpretation on it.

"The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too."

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:46:25 -0500

Yeah, I love that quote :)

In my opinion, that part of the quote is relating to the way sometimes, it makes us feel a little better just knowing that someone else is going through the same thing we are. “… so that they can feel this way, too.” The author writes it a little negatively, but if you’ve read his children’s books or anything else he’s written, you’d know it’s intended.

"You think you’re a failure, but you’re not. You will only truly become a failure if you..."

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:43:43 -0500

“You think you’re a failure, but you’re not. You will only truly become a failure if you kill yourself. That is the ultimate resignation of dignity & self-respect. If you kill yourself, everyone who ever thought, implied, or told you that you’re worthless will be proven right.”

- Unknown

jeselnik: nyeeeeaaaah: trappingforthathead: How do people develop eating disorders? Do they just...

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:18:30 -0400

jeselnik:

nyeeeeaaaah:

trappingforthathead:

How do people develop eating disorders?

Do they just wake up one day and are like, “I don’t want to eat anymore?”

I think it’s more like waking up one day feeling like “I really need some attention”

The ignorance on this website will never cease to blow my mind.

I don't understand the correlation between the "clips presented" and "clip reconstructed from brain activity"?

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:05:00 -0400

Yeah, I don’t think whoever made the actual Tumblr post did a very good job of placing the right GIFS next to each other… It’s still an awesome thing, though:)

Basically what is on the left is something you’d be seeing on TV or in real life, right in front of you. What is on the right is more or less what your brain reproduces while you’re remembering said image.

UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture...

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:52:19 -0400

UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips. Eventually, this process will allow you to record and reconstruct your own dreams on a computer screen.

more here

asdfhjkl how is this even…

itgivesitthew: French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne, in the...

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:53:25 -0400

itgivesitthew:

French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne, in the 19th century, occupied himself with applying small electric shocks to the faces of his patients, in order to understand the muscular movements behind expression (and to at the same time discover something of the ‘soul’). The genuine ‘Duchenne smile’ is named after him, since it was he who discovered that a true smile involves the involuntary movement of the muscles around the eyes.

Still, um … ouch.

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Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:11:21 -0400

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any..."

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:45:37 -0400

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

- Carl Jung (via substancem)

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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:26:02 -0400

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Sun, 14 Aug 2011 05:39:41 -0400

"It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That’s above and beyond everything..."

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:52:26 -0400

“It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That’s above and beyond everything else, and it’s not a mental complaint - it’s a physical thing, like it’s physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don’t come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people’s words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.”

- It Kind of a Funny Story

Social Psychology of Racism

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:02:00 -0400

Categorization of People

- Stereotype: categorization based on some sort of similar characteristic, such as a physical appearance, religion, or belief.

- Prejudice: prejudging. Typically a negative attitude about an individual’s membership in a group.

- Discrimination: negative behavior. Actually acting upon one’s beliefs about another individual on the basis of membership in a group.

Effects of Racism

- Economic: keep demands for higher wages & better working conditions down.

- Social: segregation, leading to ignorance between groups of people.

- Political: fragmentation, which leads to the impairment of acting in unison for the better good.

- Personal: ignorance & fear leads to limitations in personal choice & personal choice.

*Full Article Here.

3 Controversial Mental Disorders

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:20:33 -0400

Female Hysteria - Hysteria was a common diagnosis for feisty and disobedient women, dating back to Ancient Greece. Greek philosophers, including Hippocrates and Plato, viewed the womb as a living creature that wandered through a woman’s body, often causing disease. In fact, the word “hysteria” is derived from the Greek word for uterus (hysteria). The most common prescriptions for hysteria were, of course, sex and masturbation, sometimes performed by the doctor himself, until the patient experienced “hysterical paroxysm” (orgasm).

Homosexuality - Many forget that homosexuality was, and is still, considered a mental disorder by many. The American Psychiatric Association did not declassify homosexuality as a mental illness until 1973. Gays were considered mentally ill in China until 2001, after 5 years of intensive study by the Chinese Society of Psychiatry. In many countries around the world, gays are still considered insane and immoral, facing punishment, ostracism and even death.

Drapetomania - Drapetomania was a purported mental illness that caused black slaves to flee captivity, described by American doctor Samuel Cartwright, in 1851. According to Cartwright, the illness resulted from masters who “made themselves too familiar with [slaves], treating them as equals” and prescribed “whipping the devil out of them” as a “preventative measure.”

*Read the full article here.

David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With the Dragon...

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:46:25 -0400

David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ Official Trailer

This trailer is so A+

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Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:23:58 -0400

don't ignore the fact that you miscatigorized non-24hour sleep syndrome. You should really do your research before you make your posts

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:15:00 -0400

I did not write that, this website did, you would know that if you looked at my source. And I didn’t ignore anything, that’s something I honestly didn’t know, so thank you for pointing it out.

However, your sassy-ness is not appreciated, this is my blog and I can post whatever I want.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

i've learned a lot from here too than my psyc textbooks. i'm a psyc major as well. i'm glad you wrote up a thank you/good bye post. i wish you the best in your future.

Deleting.

gossipgran: me rapping look at me now<3 ((((plz watch this...

Frank Ocean | There Will Be Tears

That quote below by Lemony Snicket. What does it mean? I just want to hear your interpretation on it. "The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too."

"You think you’re a failure, but you’re not. You will only truly become a failure if you..."

jeselnik: nyeeeeaaaah: trappingforthathead: How do people develop eating disorders? Do they just...

I don't understand the correlation between the "clips presented" and "clip reconstructed from brain activity"?

UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture...

itgivesitthew: French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne, in the...

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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any..."

Photo

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"It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That’s above and beyond everything..."

Social Psychology of Racism

3 Controversial Mental Disorders

David Fincher’s ‘The Girl With the Dragon...

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don't ignore the fact that you miscatigorized non-24hour sleep syndrome. You should really do your research before you make your posts

That quote below by Lemony Snicket. What does it mean? I just want to hear your interpretation on it.

"The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too."