Mental illness - Mental Health Assessments - Sanity
When someone's
behavior is
not normal, and when
abnormal behavior is
reoccurring, then it's time to seek
help. Everyone
over reacts from time to time, but when
over reactions become common and become
abusive and uncontrollable, then it's
time to seek
help. Almost everything can be
cured, you just have to
learn how to cure it.
Stable ground is
important physically and mentally.
Assessments
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Observing -
Stigmas.
Saneness is
experiencing life in ways
that are
similar to most people
that you know or have read about. You have
actions and
behaviors
that are similar to most people. You have similar
feelings and
emotions that you have also
witnessed in the majority of
other people. But you are still an
individual with some unique qualities,
which are based on your own personal
experiences,
your own personal
development,
your
relationships, your
level of knowledge,
your particular
diet, your
particular
environment, your
DNA and your
immune
system. So "normal"
is an approximation based on averages, it's not so much a
law of nature. Normal for you
may
not be normal for someone else. And normal is always
evolving and
adapting,
so what is normal today might not be so normal tomorrow, and what has
been
abnormal in the past, may not be so abnormal in the
present time
period.
Normal is
approximately
an average person who is within certain limits of
intelligence and
development, and having
sound powers of the mind.
Stable
is someone who is not so easily
distracted,
moved or
disturbed. Someone who is not subject to
sudden
changes or
extreme
changes or fluctuations. Someone who maintains an
equilibrium and is
self-restoring,
consistent or
dependable.
In the Right Mind describes a
person who is
calm,
reasonable, and
sane.
Conditions - Disorders - Treatable illnesses
We know for a fact from thousands of documented cases, that when
the
human brain is
injured, like from a
stroke, it loses some of its
abilities to
function
normally and work
effectively, as it was before the brain was injured. Injury to the
brain can happen in many
different ways, at
many levels
and for
many reasons, and
the body can also influence the mind. Brain injuries can cause behavior problems as wells as negatively effect
physical functions as well as mental functions. But the brain still has
the ability to over come or reduce the effects of injury by learning how
to
change and adapt through
learning and
therapy, with therapy being just another way of learning.
The brain is plastic, we
know this. But this ability can also be
vulnerable to manipulation
if you learn the wrong things at the wrong time, so don't ever take your
brain for granted.
Millions of people have undiagnosed mental
disorders that they're unaware of, which is not their fault, because they
don't teach
mental health assessments in
schools. You may learn about mental disorders in higher education
institutions like universities, but you will not learn anything about your
own mental problems, things that your afraid to talk about or admit to.
And mental problems are really just a lack of knowledge, a lack of
knowledge that you're unaware of, because you lack the knowledge that
makes you aware. Most all
disorders of the mind are directly related to a person not having enough
information and knowledge related to their well being. Even if a disorder
is some how related to a
physical issue, it is still how a person
reacts
to that particular issue, so the problem is still related to missing
information and knowledge, because you still have to
learn what
adjustments you need to
make, whether the adjustments are mentally or physically.
Glossary of
Psychiatry (wiki) -
Psychology.
It's sometimes hard to
reach out for help when you're not sure what
type of help you need,
or how to accurately explain the issues that you're having.
You can't run away from your problems or outrun them. You could go
to another place that could give you a better opportunity to face your
problems and help to solve your problems, but no matter where you run to,
your problems will always follow you where ever you go. You can run, but
you can't hide, especially hide from yourself. If you never address your
problems, and learn how to solve your problems, they will follow you.
Voluntary Commitment.
“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.” -
Rumi was
a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar,
theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan.
Most people lack the proper vocabulary and skills
that are needed to fully understand ones own thoughts, feelings and
body. That is why therapy sometimes works because it
attempts to figure out what information and knowledge is missing
so that a
Therapist may direct the patient to this important
information and knowledge. The patient can then figure out how to
process this information correctly, and thus function normally.
So a therapist is more of an educator, or at least should be,
that's if a therapist understands education, which most don't,
because
most teachers don't understand education. So when a
therapist offers to treat a disorder with
medication it is usually
an ignorant action. That's like a student who wants to learn
science, but instead of a teacher teaching the student science
the teacher says "take this drug." That is how idiotic Mental
Health Services are sometimes, and also how incredibly
incompetent our education system is.
Mental confusion is on both sides.
Disorder Definitions
Disorder is a
physical condition in which there is a
disturbance of
normal functioning. A change in the mind, or to feel uneasy or cause to be
worried
or alarmed. To become different in some particular way, without permanently
losing one's
former characteristics
or essence. A relational difference between states of mind, especially
between states before and after some event. The result of an alteration or
modification that may cause a loss of
saneness.
Mental Disorder is a
diagnosis by a
mental
health professional of a behavioral or mental pattern that may cause
suffering or a
poor ability to function in life. Such features may be
persistent, relapsing and remitting, or occur as a single episode. Many
disorders have been described, with signs and symptoms that vary widely
between specific disorders.
Organic Mental Disorders is a form of
decreased
mental function due to a medical or physical disease, rather than a
psychiatric illness. This differs from dementia. While mental or
behavioral abnormalities related to the dysfunction can be permanent,
treating the disease early may prevent permanent damage in addition to
fully restoring mental functions. An organic cause to brain dysfunction is
suspected when there is no indication of a clearly defined psychiatric or
"inorganic" cause, such as a mood disorder.
Personality Disorder are a class of mental disorders characterized by
enduring maladaptive patterns of
behavior,
cognition, and inner
experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those
accepted by the individual's culture. These patterns develop early, and
are
sometimes
inflexible, and are associated with significant distress or
disability. A
personality
disorder is a
rigid
and unhealthy pattern of thinking, functioning and behaving. A person with
a personality disorder has trouble perceiving and relating to situations
and people. May have impulsive and risky behavior, such as having unsafe
sex, gambling or binge eating. Unstable or
fragile self-image.
Unstable and intense relationships. Up and down moods, often as a reaction
to interpersonal stress. Suicidal behavior or threats of self-injury.
There are several types of personality disorders.
Suspicious or
paranoid personality disorder. Schizoid
personality disorder. Emotional and impulsive. Borderline personality
disorder. Histrionic personality disorder.
Narcissistic personality disorder.
Antisocial Personality Disorder. Avoidant Personality Disorder.
Dissociative Identity Disorder formerly known as
multiple personality disorder, is a mental
disorder characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring
personality states. There is
often trouble remembering certain events, beyond what would be explained
by ordinary forgetfulness. These states alternately show in a person's
behavior;
presentations, however, are variable. Associated conditions often include
borderline personality disorder,
post traumatic
stress disorder, depression,
substance misuse disorder,
self-harm, or
anxiety.
Mood Disorder is a
group of diagnoses in the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders or
DSM classification system where a disturbance in the
person's mood is hypothesized to be the main underlying feature. The
classification is known as mood (affective) disorders in International
Classification of Diseases or ICD.
Cyclothymia is characterized by numerous mood swings, with
periods of hypomanic symptoms that do not meet criteria for a hypomanic
episode, alternating with periods of mild or moderate symptoms of
depression that do not meet criteria for a major depressive episode.
Bipolar, Mood Cycling also known as manic
depression, is a
treatable illness involving extreme changes in mood, thought, energy, and
behavior.
Mood Swing
is an extreme or rapid change in
mood. Such mood swings can play a
positive part in promoting problem solving and in producing flexible
forward planning. However, when mood swings are so strong that they are
disruptive, they may be the main part of a bipolar disorder.
Bipolar Disorder is a mental disorder with periods of depression and
periods of
elevated mood. One moment you're extremely happy and the next
moment you're severely depressed.
Altered potassium levels in neurons may cause mood swings in bipolar
disorder. Researchers also find additional differences between the
neurons of people with bipolar disorder who respond to lithium and those
who don't.
Mania is
a state of
abnormally elevated arousal, affect, and energy level, or "a
state of heightened overall activation with enhanced affective expression
together with lability of affect." Although mania is often conceived as a
“mirror image” to
depression, the heightened
mood can be either euphoric or
irritable.
Psychosis is any severe mental disorder in which contact with
reality
is lost or highly
distorted.
Symptoms may include
false
beliefs or
delusions
and seeing or hearing things that others do not see or hear, like having
hallucinations. Other
symptoms may include incoherent speech and behavior that is inappropriate
for the situation. There may also be sleep problems, social withdrawal,
lack of motivation, and difficulties carrying out daily activities. People experiencing psychosis may
exhibit
personality changes and thought disorder. Depending on its
severity, this may be accompanied by unusual or bizarre behavior, as well
as
difficulty with social interaction and impairment in carrying out daily
life activities.
Mass
Psychosis (social influences) -
Self-Induced PropagandaPsycho
is a person afflicted with psychosis.
Psychotherapy.
Psychotic is a person suffering
from psychosis. Psychotic disorders are severe mental disorders that cause
abnormal thinking
and perceptions. People with psychoses lose touch with reality. Two of the
main symptoms are
delusions
and
hallucinations.
Psychotic Episode is a mental breakdown
were you may show slight changes in the way you act or think, or
experience hallucinations and or delusions.
Insane (crazy) -
Psychopaths
Confabulation is
a memory error defined as the production of fabricated, distorted, or
misinterpreted memories
about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.
People who confabulate present incorrect memories ranging from "subtle
alterations to bizarre fabrications", and are generally very confident
about their recollections, despite contradictory evidence.
Delusion is a
mistaken belief that is held with strong conviction even
when presented with superior evidence to the contrary. As a pathology, it
is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information,
confabulation, dogma,
illusion,
or some other
misleading effects of perception. They have been found to
occur in the context of many pathological states (both general physical
and mental) and are of particular diagnostic importance in psychotic
disorders including schizophrenia, paraphrenia, manic episodes of bipolar
disorder, and psychotic depression.
Transgression.
Deranged is someone
who is
insane and loses contact with reality.
Hypochondriasis refers to
worrying about
having a serious illness. This debilitating condition is the result of an
inaccurate perception of the condition of body or mind despite the absence
of an actual medical condition. An individual suffering from
hypochondriasis is known as a hypochondriac. Hypochondriacs become unduly
alarmed about any physical or psychological symptoms they detect, no
matter how minor the symptom may be, and are convinced that they have, or
are about to be diagnosed with, a serious illness.
Psychosomatic means mind (psyche) and body (soma). A psychosomatic
disorder is a disease which involves both
mind and body. Some physical diseases are thought to be particularly
prone to be made worse by mental factors such as
stress and anxiety. Your
current mental state can affect how bad a physical disease is at any given
time.
Placebos (the power
of the mind) -
Positivity
Rumination is the focused attention on the symptoms
of one's distress, and on its possible causes and consequences, as opposed
to its solutions. Both rumination and
worry are associated with
anxiety
and other negative emotional states; however, its measures have not been
unified.
Munchausen Syndrome is a psychiatric factitious
disorder wherein those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological
trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves.
Munchausen syndrome fits within the subclass of factitious disorder with
predominantly physical signs and symptoms, but patients also have a
history of recurrent hospitalization, travelling, and dramatic, extremely
improbable tales of their past experiences. The condition derives its name
from Baron Munchausen.
Somatic Symptom Disorder are symptoms that
cannot be
explained fully by a general medical condition or by the direct effect of
a substance, and are not attributable to another mental disorder (e.g.,
panic disorder).
Neuroticism is characterized by
anxiety,
fear,
moodiness,
worry, envy, frustration, jealousy, and
loneliness.
Neuroticism is one of the
Big
Five higher-order personality traits in the study of psychology.
Individuals who score high on neuroticism are more likely than average to
be moody and to experience such feelings as anxiety, worry, fear, anger,
frustration, envy, jealousy, guilt, depressed mood, and loneliness. People
who are neurotic respond worse to stressors and are more likely to
interpret ordinary situations as threatening and minor frustrations as
hopelessly difficult. They are often self-conscious and shy, and they may
have trouble controlling urges and delaying gratification. People with
high neuroticism indexes are at risk for the development and onset of
common mental disorders, such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and
substance use disorder, symptoms of which had traditionally been called
neuroses.
Conversion
Disorder is when a person presents
neurological symptoms, such as
numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, which are not consistent with a
well-established organic cause, and which cause significant distress. It
is thought that these symptoms arise in response to stressful situations
affecting a patient's mental health or an ongoing mental health condition
such as depression.
Regression is a
defense mechanism leading to the temporary
or long-term reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of development
rather than handling unacceptable impulses in a more [adaptive] way. The
defense mechanism of regression, in psychoanalytic theory, occurs when an
individual's personality reverts to an earlier stage of development,
adopting more childish mannerisms. Psychiatrist Joel Gold suggests that
careful use of "ARISE" (Adaptive Regression in the service of the Ego) can
sometimes yield creative benefits. To the extent that one is handling
thoughts and impulses less like an adult, ARISE involves play,
appreciation and primitive pleasures, and imagination.
Neurosis was a term for a class of functional
mental
disorders involving chronic distress but neither
delusions nor
hallucinations. The term is no longer used by the professional psychiatric
community in the United States. Neurosis should not be mistaken for
psychosis, which refers to a loss of touch with reality. Neither should it
be mistaken for neuroticism, which is a fundamental personality trait
according to psychological theory.
Neurosis
is having
poor ability to adapt to one's environment, an inability to
change one's life patterns, and the inability to develop a richer, more
complex, more satisfying personality.
Organic
Brain Syndrome is a syndrome or disorder of
mental function whose
cause is alleged to be known as organic (physiologic, consistent with an
organism's normal functioning) rather than purely of the mind. These names
are older and nearly obsolete general terms from psychiatry, referring to
many physical disorders that cause impaired mental function. They are
meant to exclude psychiatric disorders (mental disorders). Originally, the
term was created to distinguish physical (termed "organic") causes of
mental impairment from psychiatric (termed "functional") disorders, but
during the era when this distinction was drawn, not enough was known about
brain science (including neuroscience, cognitive science, neuropsychology,
and mind-brain correlation) for this etiologic classification to be more
than educated guesswork labeled with misplaced certainty, which is why it
has been deemphasized in current medicine.
Lunatic is a behavioral or mental pattern that may
cause suffering or a poor ability to function in life. Such features may
be persistent, relapsing and remitting, or occur as a single episode. Many
disorders have been described, with signs and symptoms that vary widely
between specific disorders. Lunatic is a
reckless impetuous
irresponsible person. Insane and believed to be affected by the
phases of the moon.
Aberration is
a disorder in one's mental state. A state or a condition that is different
from the norm. Aberration can also mean an
optical phenomenon
resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image.
Sequelae is any abnormality following
or resulting from a disease or injury or treatment.
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by
abnormal social behavior and
failure to understand what is real. Common
symptoms include false beliefs, unclear or confused thinking,
hearing
voices, reduced social engagement and emotional expression, and a lack of
motivation. People with schizophrenia often have additional mental health
problems such as anxiety disorders, major depressive illness, or substance
use disorder. Symptoms typically come on gradually, begin in young
adulthood, and last a long time.
4
Types Info-Graph (image).
Complement Component 4 in humans, is a
protein involved in the
intricate
complement system, originating
from the human
Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) system. It serves a number of critical
functions in
immunity, tolerance, and
autoimmunity with the other numerous components. Furthermore, it is a
crucial factor in connecting the recognition pathways of the overall
system instigated by
antibody-antigen (Ab-Ag) complexes to the other effector proteins of
the innate
immune response. For example,
the severity of a dysfunctional complement system can lead to fatal
diseases and infections. Complex variations of it can also lead to
schizophrenia. Yet, the
C4 Protein derives
from a simple two-locus allelic model, the C4A-C4B genes, that allows for
an abundant variation in the levels of their respective proteins within a
population. Originally defined in the context of the Chido/Rodgers blood
group system, the C4A-C4B genetic model is under investigation for its
possible role in schizophrenia risk and development.
Brain Maintenance.
Emotional Problems -
Anxiety -
Depression
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Behavior
Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Mental Health Questions and Resources
"Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily
evade
reality by avoiding the
distasteful situation; but
anxiety is a source
of education always present because one carries it within." -
Rollo May.
Help - Therapy - Psychiatric Treatment - Counseling
Therapist is a person
who is
trained in the use of
psychological methods for
helping patients overcome
mental problems or
emotional problems, but not so much
physical problems,
even though physical problems can sometimes
influence
your mental health. A therapist is the activity of
caring for someone and
is considered to be a
public service.
Listening.
Therapy is the
attempted
remediation of a
health problem, usually following a
diagnosis,
assessments and
observations. As a
rule, each therapy has indications and
contraindications. There are many
different types of therapy. Not all therapies are effective. Many
therapies can produce unwanted
adverse effects.
Treatment and therapy are
generally considered synonyms. However, in the context of mental health,
the term therapy may refer specifically to psychotherapy.
Tutor -
Friend -
Coach -
Reciprocate -
Assistance
Types (PDF) -
Privacy
Therapeutic is tending to
cure or
restore to health.
Nutritionist -
Disabilities.
Counseling is when someone provides
direction or
advice to another person so as to help them
make good decisions and
help them take a course of action that may benefit them and also help them
to
improve and progress.
Counseling
Resources.
Sober Companion or recovery
coach provides
one-on-one assistance to
newly
recovering individuals.
The goal is to help the client maintain total abstinence or
harm reduction from any
addiction, and to establish
healthy routines
at home or after checking out of a residential treatment facility.
Regulations do not exist for sober companions. A sober companion may be a
part of a whole medical and/or a clinical team of professional(s), may be
formally licensed as a mental health professional, or have well-respected
experiential experience in the field
and may work independently on their own.
Psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in
psychiatry.
Psychotherapy.
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the
diagnosis,
prevention, and
treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations
related to mood, behavior, cognition, and perceptions. Initial
psychiatric
assessment of a person typically
begins with a case history and
mental status
examination. Physical examinations and psychological tests may be
conducted. On occasion, neuroimaging or other neurophysiological
techniques are used. Mental disorders are often diagnosed in accordance
with clinical concepts listed in
diagnostic manuals such
as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), edited and used by
the World Health Organization (WHO) and the widely used Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association
(APA). The combined treatment of psychiatric medication and psychotherapy
has become the most common mode of psychiatric treatment in current
practice, but contemporary practice also includes a wide variety of other
modalities, e.g., assertive community treatment, community reinforcement,
and supported employment. Treatment may be delivered on an inpatient or
outpatient basis, depending on the severity of functional impairment or on
other aspects of the disorder in question. An inpatient may be treated in
a psychiatric hospital. Research and treatment within psychiatry as a
whole are conducted on an interdisciplinary basis with other
professionals, such as epidemiologists, nurses, or psychologists.
Psychologist
studies normal and abnormal mental states, perceptual, cognitive,
emotional, and social processes and behavior by experimenting with, and
observing, interpreting, and recording how individuals relate to one
another and to their environments. Most psychologists need a license to
practice
psychology. Typically, psychologists
need a doctoral degree in psychology, although a master's degree is
sufficient in some situations. Licensing and regulations can vary by
country and profession. Psychologists can work in applied or academic
settings. Academic psychologists educate higher-education students as well
as conduct research, with graduate-level research being an important part
of academic psychology. Academic positions can be tenured or non-tenured,
with tenured positions being highly desirable. Applied psychology applies
theory to solve problems in human and animal behavior. Clinical psychology
and Counseling psychology are two fields of applied psychology that focus
on therapeutic methods. Other applied fields such as industrial and
organizational psychology, forensic psychology, and others, aim to solve
problems in business, government, industry, and similar fields.
Interventions (behavior)
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Counseling -
Observer Errors People have
to meet you half way, if not, then it's hard to help them. If
people are not willing to meet you half way, then you have to know how to
gain their trust in order to help them.
Bend Over Backwards means that a person makes every effort to
achieve something, especially to be fair or helpful.
A person seeking help
should always try to talk to as many people as they can. You need to find
the right person who will advocate for you on your behalf. But you have to
be aware that some people will unfairly discriminate against because of
your health problems. And if you have a hard time communicating with
people because sometimes you're being misunderstood, then you need to find
someone who can help you to talk to other people for you. Keep reaching
out to people, you will eventually find someone who will understand your
situation.
You want to correct people when they
say things that are not true or inaccurate. But there is a time
and place for everything and you have to know when to draw the line and
say enough is enough. Most relationships have a lot complexities and a lot
of history. Try not to make
assumptions and don't take
awareness for
granted. If a person does not want to
tell the truth or
be
honest, and
if the person has difficulty understanding what the truth is, or has
difficulty determining what is true, then you have a complex person who
needs professional intervention.
Drug Guidance (how to take
prescription drugs safely).
Hands on Help
involves active participation in a direct and practical way or human
interaction requiring personal operation.
Regime
in
medicine is a
systematic
plan,
routine or therapy or
diet.
Government Regime.
Psychological Evaluation
(assessments)
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Social Science -
Stigma.
Humanistic
Psychology emphasizes individuals' inherent drive towards
self-actualization, the process of realizing
and expressing one's own
capabilities and
creativity. It helps the client
gain the belief that all people are
inherently good. It adopts a holistic approach to human existence and
pays special attention to such phenomena as creativity, free will, and
positive human potential. It encourages viewing ourselves as a "whole
person" greater than the sum of our parts and encourages self exploration
rather than the study of behavior in other people. Humanistic psychology
acknowledges spiritual aspiration as an integral part of the human psyche.
It is linked to the emerging field of transpersonal psychology. Primarily,
this type of therapy encourages a
self-awareness
and
mindfulness that helps the client
change their state of mind and
behavior from one
set of reactions to a healthier one with more productive self-awareness
and thoughtful actions. Essentially, this approach allows the merging of
mindfulness and behavioral therapy, with positive social support.
Psychology Types -
Privacy
Humanistic
Education is an approach to
Education based on
person-centered
teaching where
empathy, caring
about students, and genuineness on the part of the learning
facilitator were found to be
the key traits of the most
effective teachers.
Help is to
give help or assistance; be of service. Improve the condition
of. Be of use. Improve; change for the better.
The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or
furtherance of an effort or purpose. Contribute to the
furtherance of.
A means of serving. Therapy is out of reach for those in need,
especially when mental health professionals don't take insurance, only the
wealthy can afford their help. So the poor get punished again. But having
money or
insurance does not
guarantee quality care.
Recovery
is
a return to a
normal state of health, mind, or strength. The
action or process of regaining possession or control of
something
stolen or lost.
Recovery Approach is seen as a personal journey rather than
a set outcome, and one that may involve developing hope, a
secure base and sense of self, supportive relationships,
empowerment, social inclusion, coping skills, and meaning.
Healing the process of the
restoration of health to an
unbalanced, diseased or damaged organism.
Spontaneous Remission is spontaneous
healing or spontaneous
regression, is an unexpected improvement or cure from a disease
that appears to be progressing in its severity.
Preventive Healthcare consists of measures taken for
disease
prevention, as opposed to disease treatment. Just as health
encompasses a variety of physical and mental states, so do
disease and disability, which are affected by environmental
factors, genetic predisposition, disease agents, and lifestyle
choices. Health, disease, and disability are dynamic processes
which begin before individuals realize they are affected.
Disease
prevention relies on anticipatory actions that can be
categorized as primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.
Prevention of
disorders is obviously one of the most effective ways to
reduce the burden, another
good reason why education needs to improve.
Eradication of infectious diseases is the reduction of an
infectious disease's prevalence in the global
host population to zero. The total removal of a given pathogen
from an individual.
Cure is the end of a medical condition. The substance or
procedure that ends the medical condition, such as a medication,
a surgical operation, a change in lifestyle, or even a
philosophical mindset that helps end a person's sufferings. It
may also refer to the state of being
healed, or cured.
Evidence-Based Practice is the best available research evidence
bearing on whether and why a treatment works, clinical expertise (clinical
judgment and experience) to rapidly identify each patient's unique health
state and diagnosis, their individual risks and benefits of potential
interventions, and client preferences and values.
Brief Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy focuses on both
classical conditioning and operant
learning. And cognitive social learning theory, from which are taken ideas
concerning
observational
learning, the influence of modeling, and the role of cognitive
expectancies in determining
behavior. And
cognitive theory and therapy, which focus on the thoughts, cognitive
schema, beliefs, attitudes, and attributions that influence one's feelings
and mediate the relationship between
antecedents
and behavior.
Psycho-Therapeutic
is the treatment of mental and emotional disorders through the use of
psychological techniques designed to encourage
communication of
conflicts and insight into problems, with the
goal being relief of
symptoms, changes in behavior leading to improved social and
vocational functioning, and
personality growth.
Why I train grandmothers to treat depression: Dixon Chibanda (video
and text)
Recovery
Approach emphasizes and supports a person's potential for
recovery. Recovery is
generally seen in this approach as a personal journey rather than a set
outcome, and one that may involve developing hope, a secure base and
sense of self,
supportive relationships,
empowerment, social inclusion,
coping skills, and meaning.
Interventions.
Self-Healing is
the process of recovery (generally from psychological disturbances,
trauma, etc.), motivated by and directed by the patient, guided often only
by instinct. Such a process encounters mixed fortunes due to its amateur
nature, although self-motivation is a major asset. The value of
self-healing lies in its ability to be tailored to the unique experience
and requirements of the individual. The process can be helped and
accelerated with introspection techniques such as Meditation. Self-healing
is the ultimate phase of Gestalt Therapy. Self-healing may refer to
automatic,
homeostatic processes
of the body that are controlled by physiological mechanisms inherent in
the organism. Disorders of the spirit and the absence of faith can be
self-healed.
Systemic Therapy
seeks to address people not only on the individual level, as had been the
focus of earlier forms of therapy, but also as people in relationships,
dealing with the interactions of groups and their interactional patterns
and dynamics.
In order for someone to be a good counselor or a
good therapist, you have to be friends with the person that you
are trying to help, and you also have to be willing to hold that
persons hand through the most difficult areas of understanding
oneself, and the world around us. That kind of giving is the
Love
that is inside all humans. But this type of love is rarely used,
or is it completely understood. Why can't we have a course that
teaches students how to love, and the benefits of love, and why
we are
born to love?
When you are trying to help someone, and that person
doesn't meet
you halfway, then you will most likely not be able to fully reach that person.
So you need to learn how to go more then halfway. You may have to travel farther then the
other person is willing to travel, and you may have to go that extra mile
if needed.
When someone says that their friend is having a problem,
they may be talking about themselves. Does this type of deception have any
benefits? What are are the risks involved? Would this type of deception
effect an observation? Would it make an observation more objective than
subjective?
We need to teach people
how to be aware of their thoughts as much as they can during the
day.
Thoughts can effect your mood. This is fact. So you need to
be aware of your thoughts, and be aware of how you feel. You are
in control because you can control what you're thinking about.
You will not be able to do this all the time, but the more aware
you are, the more control you have. Tired? Fatigued? Lethargic?
Have trouble focusing? Feeling
depressed? Is it from
lack of
sleep? Or the lack of
exercise? Or the lack of
healthy
nutrition? Or maybe a sign of sickness? A
traumatic experience?
You should have the correct answers to these questions everyday.
If not, then you will be easily distracted without any warning.
Therapy should be a team effort were multiple people each spend some
time with a person in need so as to provide tutoring and guidance for a
particular type of knowledge or skill that a person needs at that
particular time in their life.
Some things Doctors need to
Focus on when Helping People with Mental Health Problems, or any
problems. Help people learn
relaxation techniques to help control
stress
and
anxiety.
Help people learn
breathing techniques to help them relax, and also help them increase
their
awareness and
focus.
Help people learn about
healthy eating habits and nutrition, and
the side effects from making
bad
food choices.
Help people learn how to create a
healthy environment and learn
how to avoid things that cause
stress and illness.
Help people learn
therapeutic exercises,
yoga and stretching to help increase
energy levels,
reduce pain and
improve mood.
Help people learn
time management to accomplish
goals and manage responsibilities.
Help people learn
how to
control bad habits and behaviors, and learn how to
replace them with good habits and good behaviors.
Help people learn
how to use
positive affirmations to increase happiness and also
to create a more positive future and outlook.
Help people learn
how to ask questions and learn how to
communicate more
effectively. Help people learn how to
educate themselves and help them locate valuable
information and knowledge.
We want to encourage appropriate
behavior without restricting a
persons
creativity. We want people to be
morally aware, but not
to be so self-conscious that it creates unneeded
fear or
anxiety.
We want to help people to learn about all the different ways
there are to make improvements in their life.
We want to help people to learn about how to maintain a good
lifestyle.
We want to help people to learn about how to develop and grow
into healthy and strong individuals, with unlimited potential.
We want to help people to manage and control their lives.
We want to help direct people to the best practices, and the
best course of actions they can make.
We want to help people to learn how to maximize their personal
experiences and learn how to increase their learning abilities
throughout their entire life.
Routines
People need a
Certified
Guide, a
Trained Psychologist,
a
Nutritionist, a
Meditation Specialist, a
Life
Coach and a
Friend,
all wrapped into one person or group of people. People need someone
they can be comfortable with, someone they can be honest with,
someone they can trust, someone who understands their pain,
someone who understands their struggles.
Mental Health Care Navigator is an individual who assists
patients and families to find appropriate mental health caregivers,
facilities and services. Individuals who are care navigators are often
also trained therapists and doctors.
Transtheoretical Model of behavior change assesses
an individual's readiness to act on a new healthier behavior, and provides
strategies, or processes of change to guide the individual through the
stages of change to Action and Maintenance. It is composed of the
following constructs: stages of change, processes of change,
self-efficacy, decisional balance and temptations.
Clinical Social Work
focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental
illness, emotional, and other behavioral disturbances. Individual, group
and family therapy are common treatment modalities.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker is the
mental health counseling branch of social worker and requires a
significant degree of training after graduating with a Master of Social
Work (MSW) degree. To become an LCSW, you will need to fulfill all the
requirements to gain licensure. This usually requires an extensive period
of post-graduate supervised work experience along with passing of an ASWB
approved national test. Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) Usually
requiring a minimum of a Master's degree in Social Work. Can assess and
make clinical evaluations of client’s mental health and diagnose mental
illness. Make judgments on the best course of treatments based upon
current clinical research in the social work field. Must adhere to high
standards regarding ethics and confidentiality as provided by the state
board. Usually involves signing an ethics
pledge or oath.
Counseling and GuidanceWe need to design a program
that combines different therapies, like
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy,
Biofeedback,
Holistic Therapy,
Experiential Therapy,
Motivational Enhancement Therapy,
Dialectical Behavior Therapy,
Meditation,
Nutrition,
Exercise,
Technology Uses,
Communication,
Social
Awareness and
Neuro-Feedback Training.
Using Neuroplasticity-Based Auditory Training to Improve Verbal Memory in
Schizophrenia.
Psychopathy by U.S. State: A translation of regional measures of the
Big Five Personality Traits to
regional measures of psychopathy.
Community Mental Health Act
Residential
Therapeutic Community
Friends Hospital
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Nurture your Soul
American Residential
Treatment Association
Thresholds
healthcare, housing, and hope for thousands of persons with mental illnesses.
National
Council for Behavioral Health
Psychonomic Society members typically study areas related to cognitive
psychology, such as learning, memory, attention, motivation, perception,
categorization, decision making, and psycholinguistics. Its name is taken
from the word psychonomics, meaning "the science of the laws of the mind".
Psychology - Studying Behaviors
Psychology is the
study of
behavior and
mind, embracing all aspects of
conscious and
unconscious experience as well as
thought. It is an academic discipline and a
social science which seeks to
understand
individuals and
groups by
establishing general principles and
researching specific
cases. In this field, a professional practitioner or
researcher is called a psychologist and can be classified as a social,
behavioral, or
cognitive
scientist. Psychologists attempt to understand the role of
mental
functions in individual and
social behavior,
while also exploring the
physiological and
biological processes that
underlie
cognitive
functions and behaviors. Psychologists explore concepts such as
perception, cognition,
attention,
emotion,
intelligence, phenomenology,
motivation, brain functioning,
personality, behavior, and
interpersonal relationships, including
psychological resilience,
family resilience, and other areas.
Psychologists of diverse orientations also consider the unconscious mind.
Psychologists employ empirical methods to infer causal and correlational
relationships between psychosocial variables. In addition, or in
opposition, to employing empirical and
deductive methods, some—especially
clinical and
Counseling psychologists—at times rely upon symbolic
interpretation and other inductive techniques. Psychology has been
described as a "
hub science", with psychological findings linking to
research and perspectives from the
social sciences, natural sciences,
medicine, humanities, and philosophy.
Psychologist -
Humanistic
Psychology -
Assessments
Psychotherapeutic is the treatment of a
mental disorder by psychological methods rather than medical means.
Transpersonal Psychology integrates the spiritual and transcendent
aspects of the human experience with the framework of modern psychology.
It is also possible to define it as a "spiritual psychology". The
transpersonal is defined as "experiences in which the sense of
identity or self extends beyond
(trans) the individual or personal to encompass wider aspects of
humankind, life, psyche or cosmos". It has also been defined as "
development
beyond conventional, personal or individual levels". Issues considered in
transpersonal psychology include spiritual self-development, self beyond
the ego, peak experiences, mystical experiences, systemic trance,
spiritual crises, spiritual evolution, religious conversion,
altered states of consciousness, spiritual
practices, and other sublime and/or unusually expanded experiences of
living. The discipline attempts to describe and integrate spiritual
experience within modern psychological theory and to formulate new theory
to encompass such experience. Transpersonal psychology has made several
contributions to the academic field, and the studies of human development,
consciousness and spirituality. Transpersonal psychology has also made
contributions to the fields of psychotherapy and psychiatry.
Social
Psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings,
and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied
presence
of others.
Psychological is
something mental or emotional as opposed to physical in nature. Relating
to psychology.
Folk Psychology is a human capacity to explain and
predict the behavior and mental state
of other people. Processes and items encountered in daily life such as
pain, pleasure, excitement, and anxiety use common linguistic terms as
opposed to technical or scientific jargon. Everyday language and concepts
such as "beliefs", "desires", "fear", and "hope".
Counseling Psychology counseling process and outcome; supervision and
training;
career development and
counseling; and prevention and health,
including focusing on assets and strengths, person–environment
interactions, educational and career development, brief interactions, and
a focus on intact personalities.
Clinical Psychology is an integration of science,
theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding,
preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction
and to promote subjective well-being and
personal development.
Applied Psychology is the use of psychological
methods and findings of scientific psychology to solve practical problems
of human and animal behavior and experience.
Analytical Psychology
is a school of
psychotherapy which originated in the ideas of
Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist. It emphasizes the importance of the
individual psyche and the personal quest for wholeness. Important concepts
in Jung's system are individuation, symbols, the personal unconscious, the
collective unconscious, archetypes, complexes, the persona, the id, ego,
and super-ego, the shadow, the anima and animus, and the self.
Abnormal
Psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns
of behavior, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as
precipitating a mental disorder. Although many behaviors could be
considered as abnormal, this branch of psychology generally deals with
behavior in a clinical context.
Experimental Psychology refers to work done by those who apply
experimental methods to psychological study and the processes that
underlie it. Experimental psychologists employ human participants and
animal subjects to study a great many topics, including (among others)
sensation & perception, memory, cognition, learning, motivation, emotion;
developmental processes, social psychology, and the neural substrates of
all of these.
People Smart -
Self-Smart
UCLA Department of
PsychologyUCSC Department of Psychology
UCSB Center for
Evolutionary Psychology
Psychonomic Society
Association
for Psychological Science
Discovering Psychology (Films)
Psychology Course Films at Yale (Audio-Video-Text)
Attacks on
Healthcare Workers Safeguarding Health
Psychopathology is the scientific study of
mental
disorders, including efforts to understand their genetic, biological,
psychological, and social causes; effective classification schemes
(nosology); course across all stages of development; manifestations; and
treatment. The term may also refer to the manifestation of behaviors that
indicate the presence of a mental disorder.
Mental Health Counselor is a person who uses psychotherapeutic methods
to
help others.
Psychotherapy
refers to a range of treatments that can
help with
mental health problems, emotional challenges, and some
psychiatric disorders. It aims to enable
patients, or clients, to understand their feelings, and what makes them
feel positive, anxious, or depressed.
Psychotherapy
is the use of
psychological
methods, particularly when based on
regular personal
interaction with adults, to help a person change behavior and overcome
problems in desired ways. Psychotherapy aims to improve an individual's
well-being and mental health, to resolve or mitigate troublesome
behaviors, beliefs, compulsions,
thoughts,, or
emotions, and to improve relationships and social skills. There is also a
range of psychotherapies designed for children and adolescents, which
typically involve play, such as sandplay. Certain psychotherapies are
considered evidence-based for treating some diagnosed mental disorders.
Others have been criticized as pseudoscience. There are over a thousand
different psychotherapy techniques, some being minor variations, while
others are based on very different conceptions of psychology, ethics (how
to behave professionally), or techniques. Most involve one-to-one
sessions, between the client and therapist, but some are conducted with
groups, including families. Psychotherapists may be mental health
professionals such as psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health nurses,
clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, or professional
counselors. Psychotherapists may also come from a variety of other
backgrounds, and depending on the jurisdiction may be legally regulated,
voluntarily regulated or unregulated (and the term itself may be protected
or not).
Psychopath.
Existential Psychotherapy
is a philosophical method of therapy that operates on
the belief that inner conflict within a person is due to that individual's
confrontation with the givens of existence.
Gestalt Therapy is an existential/experiential form
of psychotherapy that emphasizes
personal responsibility, and that focuses
upon the individual's experience in the present moment, the
therapist–client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a
person's life, and the self-regulating adjustments people make as a result
of their overall situation.
Gestalts.
Psychiatric Hospital
are
hospitals or
wards specializing in the treatment of serious
psychiatric illnesses, such as clinical depression, schizophrenia, and
bipolar disorder. Psychiatric hospitals vary widely in their size and
grading. Some hospitals may specialize only in short-term or
outpatient
therapy for low-risk patients. Others may specialize in the temporary or
permanent care of residents who, as a result of a psychological disorder,
require routine assistance, treatment, or a specialized and controlled
environment. Patients are often admitted on a voluntary basis, but people
whom psychiatrists believe may pose a significant danger to themselves or
others may be subject to involuntary commitment. Psychiatric hospitals may
also be referred to as
psychiatric wards or psych wards when they are
a subunit of a regular hospital. Psychiatric hospitals, also known as
mental health hospitals, and mental health
units.
Lunatic
Asylum (wiki).
Deinstitutionalisation is the process of replacing long-stay
psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health services
for those diagnosed with a mental disorder or developmental disability. In
the late 20th century, it led to the closure of many psychiatric
hospitals, as patients were increasingly cared for at home, in halfway
houses and clinics, and in regular hospitals.
Counseling
-
Therapy Help -
Support Groups
Mental
Health Questions - Resources
Psychiatrists
are not supposed to be
Drug Pushers.
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We are going to help you make your life better...
Giving someone good advice, knowledge and
helping them to learn coping skills could serve some patients
better than antidepressants or other psychoactive drugs, without
horrible side effects.
Roughly 55
Percent of U.S. Counties have no practicing psychiatrists,
psychologists, or social workers.
Bibliotherapy is an expressive therapy that involves the
reading of
specific texts with the purpose of healing. It uses an individual's
relationship to the content of books and poetry and other written words as
therapy. Bibliotherapy is often combined with writing therapy. It has been
shown to be effective in the treatment of depression. These results have
been shown to be long-lasting.
Books
Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) helps people to identify
their negative thoughts, assessing whether those thoughts are
distorted, and if so,
replacing those thoughts with more logical, reality-based
ones.
Behaviors.
Narrative Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that seeks to help people
identify their values and the skills and knowledge they have to live these
values, so they can effectively confront whatever problems they face. The
therapist seeks to help the person co-author a new narrative about
themselves by investigating the history of those qualities. Narrative
therapy claims to be a social justice approach to therapeutic
conversations, seeking to challenge dominant discourses that it claims
shape people's lives in destructive ways.
Covert Conditioning is an approach to mental health treatment that
uses the principles of behavior modification, which emerged from the
applied behavior analysis literature to assist people in making
improvements in their behavior or inner experience.
The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) is a
research institution dedicated to discovering what causes mental illness
and diseases of the brain. In addition, its aim is to help identify new
treatments for them and ways to prevent them in the first place. The IoPPN
is a school of King's College London, England, previously known as Institute of Psychiatry.
Psychoanalytic Theory is the theory of
personality organization and the
dynamics of personality development that guides psychoanalysis, a clinical
method for treating psychopathology. First laid out by
Sigmund Freud in
the late 19th century, psychoanalytic theory has undergone many
refinements since his work.
Psychoanalysis is a set of psychological and psychotherapeutic
theories and associated techniques, created by Austrian physician
Sigmund Freud and stemming partly from the clinical work of Josef
Breuer and others.
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of
psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through
dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Freud developed
therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered
transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process.
Though in overall decline as a diagnostic and clinical practice,
psychoanalysis remains influential within psychology, psychiatry, and
psychotherapy, and across the humanities.
Josef
Breuer was a distinguished physician who made key discoveries in
neurophysiology, and whose work in the 1880s with his patient Bertha
Pappenheim, known as Anna O., developed the talking cure (cathartic
method) and laid the foundation to psychoanalysis as developed by his
protégé Sigmund Freud.
Carl
Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical
psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry,
anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy and religious studies.
Jung worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital,
under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund
Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy
correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human
psychology. Freud saw the younger Jung as the heir he had been seeking to
take forward his "new science" of psychoanalysis and to this end secured
his appointment as President of his newly founded International
Psychoanalytical Association. Jung's research and personal vision,
however, made it impossible for him to follow his older colleague's
doctrine and a schism became inevitable. This division was personally
painful for Jung and resulted in the establishment of Jung's analytical
psychology as a comprehensive system separate from psychoanalysis. Among
the central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation—the
lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each
individual's conscious and unconscious elements. Jung considered it to be
the main task of human development. He created some of the best known
psychological concepts, including synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the
collective unconscious, the psychological complex and extraversion and
introversion. Jung was also an artist, craftsman and builder as well as a
prolific writer. Many of his works were not published until after his
death and some are still awaiting publication.
Patient Rights
Doctor-Patient Relationship. A patient must have
confidence in the
competence of their
physician and must feel that they can
confide in him or her. For most
physicians, the establishment of good rapport with a patient is important.
Some medical specialties, such as psychiatry and family medicine,
emphasize the physician–patient relationship more than others, such as
pathology or radiology, which have very little contact with patients. The
quality of the patient–physician relationship is important to both
parties. The doctor and patient's values and perspectives about disease,
life, and time available play a role in building up this relationship. A
strong relationship between the doctor and patient will lead to frequent,
quality information about the patient's disease and better health care for
the patient and their family. Enhancing the accuracy of the diagnosis and
increasing the patient's knowledge about the disease all come with a
good relationship between the
doctor and the patient. Where such a relationship is poor the physician's
ability to make a full assessment is compromised and the patient is more
likely to distrust the diagnosis and proposed treatment, causing decreased
compliance to actually follow the medical advice which results in bad
health outcomes. In these circumstances and also in cases where there is
genuine divergence of medical opinions, a second opinion from another
physician may be sought or the patient may choose to go to another
physician that they trust more. Additionally, the benefits of any placebo
effect are also based upon the patient's subjective assessment (conscious
or unconscious) of the physician's credibility and skills.
Shared Decision Making
is the idea that as a patient gives
informed
consent to treatment, that patient also is given an opportunity to
choose among the treatment options provided by the physician that is
responsible for their healthcare. This means the doctor does not recommend
what the patient should do, rather the patient's autonomy is respected and
they choose what medical treatment they want to have done. A practice
which is an alternative to this is for the doctor to make a person's
health decisions without considering that person's treatment goals or
having that person's input into the
decision-making
process is grossly unethical and against the idea of personal autonomy
and freedom. The process of turn-taking between health care professionals
and the patients has a profound impact on the relationship between them.
In most scenarios, a doctor will walk into the room in which the patient
is being held and will ask a variety of questions involving the patient's
history,
examination, and
diagnosis.
These are often the foundation of the relationship between the doctor and
the patient as this interaction tends to be the first they have together.
This can go a long way into impacting the future of the relationship
throughout the patient's care. All speech acts between individuals seek to
accomplish the same goal, sharing and exchanging information and meeting
each participants conversational goals.
Service Oath -
Good
Business Practices
Physician-Patient Privilege protects communications between a patient
and their doctor from being used against the patient in court. It is a
part of the rules of evidence in many common law jurisdictions. Almost
every jurisdiction that recognizes physician–patient privilege not to
testify in court, either by statute or through case law, limits the
privilege to knowledge acquired during the course of providing medical
services. In some jurisdictions, conversations between a patient and
physician may be privileged in both criminal and civil courts. If a
patient's private information
is disclosed without authorization and causes some type of harm to the
patient, he or she could have a cause of action against the medical
provider for malpractice, invasion of privacy, or other related torts.
Medical
Privacy is the practice of
maintaining the security
and
confidentiality of
patient records. It involves both the conversational discretion of health
care providers and the security of medical records. The terms can also
refer to the physical privacy of patients from other patients and
providers while in a medical facility. Modern concerns include the degree
of disclosure to insurance companies, employers, and other third parties.
The advent of electronic medical records (EMR) and patient care management
systems (PCMS) have raised new concerns about privacy, balanced with
efforts to reduce duplication of services and medical errors.
Medical Ethics is a system of
moral principles
that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in scientific
research. Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals
can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. These values
include the respect for autonomy, non-maleficence,
beneficence, and justice. Such tenets may
allow doctors, care providers, and families to create a treatment plan and
work towards the same common goal without any conflict. It is important to
note that these four values are non-hierarchical, meaning no one principle
routinely “trumps” another.
Malpractice Errors.
These are just some of the rights that a
person has under psychiatric care:You have the right to be
treated with dignity as a human being.
You have the right to full
informed consent and a full disclosure of all documented risks of any
proposed drug or “treatment.”
You have the right to be informed of all
available medical treatments which do not include the administration of a
psychiatric drug or treatment.
You have the right to have a thorough,
physical and clinical examination by a competent registered general
practitioner of one’s choice, to ensure that one’s mental condition is not
caused by any undetected and untreated physical illness, injury or defect
and the right to seek a second medical opinion of one’s choice.
You
have the right to a fully equipped medical facilities and appropriately
trained medical staff in hospitals, so that competent physical, clinical
examinations can be performed.
You have the right to choose the kind or
type of therapy to be employed, and the right to discuss this with a
general practitioner.
You have the right to education or training so as
to enable one to earn a living, and the right to work or to refuse a
particular type of work that is deemed harmful to your condition.
You
have the right to a proper diet and nutrition and to three meals a day,
and the right to daily physical exercise.
You have the right to make
official complaints, without reprisal, to an independent board which is
composed of nonpsychiatric personnel, lawyers and lay people.
You have
the right to see and possess one’s hospital records and to take legal
action with regard to any false information contained therein which may be
damaging to one’s reputation.
You have the right to fair and proper
legal representation and have private counsel with a legal advisor.
You have the right to take legal or criminal action, with the full
assistance of law enforcement agents, against any psychiatrist,
psychologist or hospital staff for any abuse.
You have the right to
manage one’s own property and affairs with a legal advisor, if necessary,
or if deemed incompetent by a court of law, to have a State appointed
executor to manage such until one is adjudicated competent. Such executor
is accountable to the patient’s next of kin, or legal advisor or guardian.
You have the right to sue psychiatrists, their associations and colleges,
the institution, or staff for unlawful detention, false reports or
damaging treatment.
You have the right to be in a safe environment.
Privacy - Confidentiality
Privacy
Rights are supposed to protect people, they are not supposed to be used to keep people in the Dark.
Privacy Rights should not be used to keep valuable
information and knowledge from family members and friends,
especially when they can have a positive impact on someone's
life who's suffering from mental illness.
Confidentiality Agreement (disclaimer)
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Stigma
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
was established to protect the privacy of patients' health information, it
was not supposed to be used to hide important information from family
members, or used to hide bogus fraudulent treatments so that scumbag
Doctors can avoid being sued for malpractice.
Why don't therapists talk to friends and family members of the
patient they are treating? We need have a way to communicate
to friends and family members so they can be apart of the
healing process, instead of being victims from drug side effects
or inadequate consulting. We can't use
ethical violations as a reason not to communicate to people
who are closest to the person being treated.
We make
pedophiles
have to register, but Doctor's don't want to share information
about someone's mental health problems because it might violate
their privacy rights. Why? People with mental health problems
commit crimes and murder everyday.
Everyone Has Problems, but we can't
blame other people
for every problem that we have. Or force other people to suffer
because of our problems. We have to work on solving our own
personal problems, and we have to help each other solve our
personal problems. This way everyone improves, which is the
goal, improve the quality of life for everyone. Let's do this,
and let us learn as much as we can. Because millions of people
can benefit from our experiences, and millions of people can
benefit from what we have learned from our struggles, and what
we have learned from the improvements and the mistakes that we made.
Problems with Mental Health Care Services
There are some good
therapists
out there, but be aware, the current mental health system has
some serious flaws. It's like going to a car mechanic, but
instead of your mechanic fixing your car, the mechanic only
fixes your car a little, so it keeps breaking down and you have
to keep bringing your car back to the mechanic. This is an
ignorant business model that crawled out from under a corrupt
capitalistic system, like
planned obsolescence. This is simply a
money
making scam. So the care itself is a sickness. It's very
difficult to help people when you are also sick. Sick treating
the sick = sick, that's sick.
Abnormal (not well) -
Privacy -
Rights
Inadequate Access to Mental Health Services.
Therapists don't have enough time to provide proper patient care which
includes the preparation and follow up work that goes into every
appointment. Psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, addiction
specialists and others represented by the National Union of Healthcare
Workers say that Kaiser mental health clinics are severely understaffed,
forcing some to work after hours to serve more patients. Meanwhile, they
say, patients are forced to wait as long as two months for follow-up
appointments because of inadequate staffing.
Too many people with mental health problems don’t
receive the care that they need because they are often
discriminated
against by medical practitioners, which can make it difficult
for them to
receive proper care. The problem is often a lack of
understanding of mental illness by some health care providers. A
patients thoughts and comments are usually misinterpreted. It’s
not uncommon for medical staff to attribute physical symptoms to
a behavioral health issue as opposed to a legitimate health
issue.
Just because someone can act normal and seem normal,
this does not mean they don't suffer from mental health
problems. I know this to be a fact because I have lived with
people struggling with mental health issues. They can be very
functional at times and seem very normal and pleasant, but later
one in the day they just fall apart, which makes it really
difficult for them to hold on to a job. And medical
practitioners think that spending a half hour with them is all
they need to understand them, which is a dangerous lie and
extremely negligent. And you just can't solve a persons problems
using
just drugs, that is totally insane and also negligent. People with mental health problems have a difficult
time explaining their problems correctly and accurately. Contradictions are looked at as being lies, when instead they
should be looked at as being an inability to explain things
correctly. And
lying could also be just a defense mechanism,
where they fear that the truth will somehow hurt them, or cause
them to be misunderstood.
They are not trying to deceive you, they are merely expressing
their
cognitive problems. So helping them and understanding them is
much more difficult, because they often live
in constant
fear of being labeled, or being taken advantage of,
so they become
paranoid.
So helping them goes way beyond just being compassionate towards
their
needs, this takes
communication skills and experience, which a lot of medical
practitioners don't have. We also need to communicate more with
everyone in contact with the person in need, because just like
everyone else on the planet, people act differently when around
other people. People also share things with some people but
don't share personal thoughts with other people.
Triangulation in psychology is a manipulation tactic where
one person will not communicate directly with another person, instead
using a third person to relay communication to the second, thus forming a
triangle. It is also a form of splitting in which one person manipulates a
relationship between two parties by controlling communication between
them. Triangulation may manifest itself as a manipulative device to
engineer rivalry between two people, known as
divide and conquer
or playing one (person) against another.
Splitting
in psychology
is the failure in a person's thinking to bring together the dichotomy of
both positive and negative qualities of the self and others into a
cohesive, realistic whole. It is a common defense mechanism used by many
people. The individual tends to think in extremes (i.e., an individual's
actions and motivations are all good or all bad with no middle ground).
This takes complete understanding
of people with mental health problems. We have to stop blaming
people for their problems, and we need to start helping people
by truly listening to them, and by giving them the support and
guidance that they need, so they can recover and eventually
become stable normal people, without the everyday struggles, and
without the constant fears of falling through the cracks.
Too many
people with mental health problems are in prison, where
their problems just get worse.
National
Alliance on Mental Illness
Managed Services Division (MSD) Behavioral Health Homes
1,000 homicides or more a year are committed by people with
untreated severe mental illness, 10 Percent of U.S. Homicides
90 per cent of people who die through suicide in the UK are
experiencing mental distress
Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American
Firearms
Mental illnesses account for 21 to 32 percent of global
disabilities
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years
lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and
injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for
the
Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.
Years of Potential Life Lost is also related to the years
that are lost from being ignorant, or doing ignorant things.
The Disability-Adjusted Life Year (
DALY)
is a measure of overall
Disease Burden, with
the
disease being ignorance
in this case.
"Our Health System is more about making money then helping
people."
Reiterate is to say something again or a number of times, typically for emphasis
or clarity.
Don't call it behavior modification, call it
Behavior Awareness. The
only way to be aware of something is to learn about it, whether
you're learning about it from experience or learning about it by
acquiring information and knowledge.
Salvage Therapy is a form of therapy given after an ailment
does not respond to standard therapy. used both to mean a second attempt
and a final attempt.
Determined
is having been learned or found or
determined especially by
investigation.
Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making
an inquiry or other effort. Establish after a calculation,
investigation, experiment, survey, or study. Shape or influence;
give direction to. Reach, make, or come to a decision about
something. Settle conclusively; come to terms.
Prescription drugs contribute to
over 22,000 fatalities a year in the US alone
If a bartender serves
alcohol
to a person, and that person then leaves and kills someone, the
bar is liable. But if a Doctor
prescribes a drug to a person, and that person kills
someone, shouldn't
the
Doctors also be Liable?
Double Standard is the application of different sets of
principles for similar situations.
Contradiction.
Hypocrisy is the contrivance of a
false appearance of virtue
or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations.
Electroconvulsive Therapy formerly known as
electroshock therapy, is a psychiatric treatment in which seizures
are electrically induced in patients to provide relief from mental
disorders. Typically, 180 to 460 volts of pulsed electricity are applied
externally to the patient's head resulting in approximately 800
milliamperes passed through the brain, for 100 milliseconds to 6 seconds
duration, either from temple to temple (bilateral ECT) or from front to
back of one side of the head (unilateral ECT).
Peter Breggin is an American psychiatrist and critic of shock
treatment and psychiatric medication. In his books, he advocates replacing
psychiatry's use of drugs and electroconvulsive therapy with
psychotherapy, education, empathy, love, and broader human services.(born
May 11, 1936).
breggin.com
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Lobotomies.
Types of Medical Malpractice. Delays in
diagnosis or misdiagnoses of a medical conditions. Failure to order or
interpret diagnostic tests results correctly. Treatment errors. Medication
errors.
Psychiatric Malpractice.
When to Sue Your Psychiatrist for Malpractice. Why is it important to
differentiate between malpractice and simply poor doctoring? Because in a
successful malpractice case, the patient can recover money damages to
compensate for injury, including emotional harm. Alternatives to a
malpractice lawsuit include filing a human rights complaint, filing a
complaint with the psychiatrist’s employer, filing an ethics charge
against the psychiatrist, writing negative online reviews for the
psychiatrist, or speaking with the psychiatrist directly. However, these
alternatives will not provide recompense to the patient for any harm
inflicted. In order to establish a malpractice lawsuit, a patient
generally has to establish four elements: There was a doctor-patient
relationship. The doctor breached the duty of reasonable care (i.e., was
negligent). The patient was injured (physically or mentally). There was a
causal link between the negligence and the injury.
Psychiatrists have been found to commit
malpractice by, among other things: Engaging in a sexual
relationship with a patient; Failing to conduct a proper suicide risk
assessment; Failing to prevent a patient’s suicide; Making an improper
diagnosis; Administering improper treatment or prescribing improper
medications; Failing to notice or diagnose a harmful condition; Failing to
warn third parties of threats from current patients as required to or
allowed by law; Creating false memories; Sharing information without
patient consent; Prescribing psychotropic medications without going
through the informed consent process; Threatening the patient; Falsifying patient records.
Our Broken Mental Health System
The Problems with Mental Health Care Services and Behavioral Health
Care Services. Getting people the correct care can be extremely difficult and
risky sometimes, especially when you want to avoid
stigmatizing
someone, and also avoid having someone's
personal information exposed, which could cause someone to
be unfairly judged or abused. Personal remarks, or other peoples
observations, can only tell us so much about a person.
We have to be extremely careful when investigating a persons
behavior, behavior that is questionable or odd. Who you talk
to could cause more
problems then solve. We don't want to turn other people into
informants. Talking to family members, friends, co-workers,
mentors or coaches, should be done with extreme care to avoid
implications or insinuations of any kind. Everyone should be
showing nothing but concern and well being of the person in
question. Reveal nothing, only listen. If creating a case file
or folder on someone must also be made in a way that does not
implicate or insinuate anything, other then showing concern and
well being. Describe a persons strengths, describe a persons
possible weaknesses. Describe what was learned, describe what
kind of progress was made, and describe what mistakes were made.
A Dearth Of Hospital Beds For Patients In Psychiatric Crisis
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry estimates
there are only 8,300 such specialists in the U.S., for more than 15
million young patients.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (wiki)
How do you help someone to reduce their fears and anxieties?
How do you help someone to keep from lying, exaggerating or
manipulating the truth?
How do you help someone to accurately measure reality?
Assessments -
Therapist
Education needs to improve how we educate our young about
Human
Behavior, so that more people can recognize flaws in themselves,
as well as in others, and be able to correct these flaws before
they turn into serious problems. If people were more
knowledgeable about human behavior, we would have less people
with behavioral problems.
Flaw
is not perfect. Inadequate. Not working properly. Subnormal in
function, intelligence, reasoning and judgment.
A perceived weakness in a person's character. An imperfection
that reduces someone's effectiveness.
Behavior that reduces potential, or reduces productivity.
Behavior that increases the probability of mistakes.
Behavior that increases the amount of problems that a person
could have, problems that could easily be avoided.
Countertransference is defined as redirection of a psychotherapist's
feelings toward a client—or, more generally, as a therapist's emotional
entanglement with a client.
Therapeutic Relationship refers to the relationship between a
healthcare professional and a client (or patient). It is the means by
which a therapist and a client hope to engage with each other, and effect
beneficial change in the client.
Projective Identification is when the recipient of the projection may
suffer a loss of both identity and insight as they are caught up in and
manipulated by the other person's fantasy.
Movies about Mental Health - Hollywood Films about Mental Health
Awakenings - Trailer - (1990) - HQ Penny Marshall's film
starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Patch
Adams Official Trailer #1 - Robin Williams Movie (1998) HD
Directed by Tom Shadya starring Robin Williams.
Good Will
Hunting Park Scene Robin Williams and Matt Damon 1997 (youtube)
Shrink
(2009) - Official Trailer (youtube)
Dead
Poets Society (1989) Original Trailer (youtube)
Deconstructing Harry - US Theatrical Trailer 1997 (youtube)
Silver Linings Playbook 2012
Unsane is a 2018 film that was shot entirely on the iPhone 7 Plus. The
film shows how the mental health industry chooses profit over people. It's
also a macrocosm example of the world that shows societies dysfunctions and problems
using
metaphors. When the sick person is the one
giving the therapy, then there is no help. Misinterpretations can spiral
out of control, like racism, prejudice and
discrimination. Ignorance is
the biggest threat to the world to our National Security. What happens
when family and friends can't understand you? They end up giving that job
to strangers.
Discovering Psychology (26 parts, each 25 minutes long)
Documentaries -
Of
Two Minds (01/01/2012 | 1 hr. 29 min.) - Take your best day
and your darkest moment...and multiply by a million. Of Two
Minds
explores the extraordinary lives, struggles and successes of a
few of the over five million Americans living with
bipolar disorder.
Mania -
Media Literacy -
Health Films.
Films on Mental illness
Ruby Wax:
What's so Funny about Mental illness? (youtube)
Elynn Saks Seeing Mental illness (video)
Vikram Patel: Mental Health for all by involving all (video)
Disability-Adjusted Life Year (costs from bad choices)
Network of Care
Centre for Global Mental Health
Sangath
David Anderson: Your Brain is more than a Bag of Chemicals
Up/Down"
Bipolar Disorder Documentary (2011) (youtube) -
Mania
On Falling Apart (a women's story about a
Nervous Breakdown)
Stigma of Raising Mentally ill Child (CBS News)
Experiencing
Psychosis with Digital LSD (youtube)
BBC - The
Trap, What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom, 1 of 3, March 11,
2007 (youtube)
R. D. Laing (wiki)
BBC - The
Trap, What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom, 2 of 3 - The
Lonely Robot (youtube)
Frontier Psychiatrist (youtube)
Social Services - Social Workers
We cannot place judgment on people seeking help. Because that's
not helping them. When we help people and provide them with
services, we must follow through and follow up to see if this
person needs more then just some particular service. They may
also need friendship, mentoring, guidance, consulting, advising
and tutoring. They also may need access to information and
Knowledge.
I don't believe you is not an answer.
Just because there are contradictions, this does not explain
things away. If you have evidence that makes someone else's
evidence to be questionable and possibly inaccurate, then you
must present this information, and it must be debated. If
reasoning is not used then there is no reasoning, thus your
reaction is wrong and bad.
Middleman or Filter? If you are
playing the middleman, you cannot pass judgment or interfere
with the service connection. if you are filtering people
then where does the people who are filtered out go? What happens
to them? You can not wipe your hands clean because you turned
someone away, or denied them services.
We must follow through and
follow up.
If not, then the services we provide misses an opportunity to
succeed. Saying that we cannot help everyone is a lie. We can,
and we shall. But to do this we need
new instructions and
improved training, and of course, we need more social service
providers, which will create more jobs, and also more awareness.
Care Management Processes Used Less Often For Depression
Than For Other Chronic Conditions In US Primary Care Practices.
Now that I don't see
certain friends as much, I have no idea if they are still struggling,
I can only guess, like a Doctor. A part time
observer knows very
little when compared to a fulltime observer.
We need to work together -
Privacy -
Rights
The fact that some psychologists have mental problems too, which proves that our education
system is inadequate and flawed.
Don't believe that someone is
getting the proper care they need
just because they are seeing Doctors. Most health care providers
don't know the patient well enough in order to provide them with
the best care they can give. Just like schools, don't believe
that someone is getting a
proper education just because they are going to school. We
can't share responsibilities if we don't know what the other
person is doing, or not doing. Working together needs
effective communication.
Though Mental illness is not perceived to be the main cause for
murders, you still have to wonder, what murderer is considered
to be in their right mind?
To say that a murderer was not
suffering from any form of mental illness, is to say that anyone
is capable of murder, which is false. To say that a person had
no history of mental illness does not say they did not have any
form of mental health problems. You could say that all murders
and crimes are committed by people who are not in their right
mind, because to say that a person was in their right mind when
they murdered or committed a crime is to say that everyone is f*cking
crazy in one way or another, which is also false. You could say
they someone was ignorant and did not know any better, which
brings us back to our
education problem, again.
You shouldn't let mentally ill people
have access to guns, or Power.
Just making it hard for people with mental illness to purchase
guns will not solve the
murder problem.
Mentally ill people should not have guns, but more important,
Mentally ill people should not have
power of authority. It's
clear to see that most politicians suffer from some form of
mental illness. So we need better screening, and we also need
more positive ways of helping people.
Everyone has some form and level of mental illness, it's just
that some people have it more then others. So some people have a
harder time staying healthy and a harder time dealing with
life's struggles. Everyone needs help, but some people need more
help then others. So even the people helping need help. We all
need a better education, especially one that includes learning
how to help others as well as learning how to
help
ourselves.
A License that proves you know how to
use the Human Brain.
We have
Driving Tests so that we can confirm that the person has
enough skill and knowledge in order to properly use a motor
vehicle without killing anyone. But we have no test or
Certification that confirms a persons ability to operate the
human brain.
Thus millions of people end up dead every year and the world is
plagued by corruption and criminals on all levels of government
and society. We need a driving test for the human brain. You
should be allowed to leave your house unless you can effectively
operate the human mind. A college degree is not a
license for the brain. A GED diploma is not a license for
the brain.
Just living with someone with mental illness will not
teach everything about mental illness. You have to be constantly educating
yourself about all the other knowledge and experiences that millions of
other people had. You just can't use the same information and knowledge to
understand and learn from something. You need an investigation, one that
requires you to ask the right questions from the right sources. And what
you learn from those investigations, you can now go back and examine your
subject from a much larger perspective, verses having a very small
perspective that never changes, and thus never understands or learns from
the experience. This process of learning should never stop, you have to be
vigilant, or you will fall behind and suffer from your own ignorance.
Vigilant is being carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible
danger.
Early Pediatric Interventions Can Prevent Behavior Problems in
Young Children
The Video Interaction Project is a unique and innovative
approach to lessening disparities through guided parent-child
interactions during pediatric visits that foster optimal
cognitive, linguistic, and social development.
The BELLE Project
Shanti
emotional and practical support to San Francisco's most
vulnerable individuals living with life-threatening illness.
Exploitation of the System
We can't
punish people in need just to discourage other people
from exploiting free services. If people lie to get free
benefits, especially when they have the means to provide for
themselves, then they still need help, just help of another
kind. If they are in the system, then we can communicate with
each other, and we can help each other.
Social Services has some faults, but the system proves it
can work beautifully when we operate it and manage it correctly.
We just have to make it more effective, more efficient, with
more feedback and more communication. Just giving people money
is very ineffective. If you don't educate people about the best
actions to take, actions that would provide them with the most
benefits, for themselves and for others, then just giving money
wont work, as we can clearly see. If we want to stop people from
doing things that do more harm then good, then we would have to
start with the corporations and our politicians. Do what I say,
not what I do. People don't mind following the rules, just as
long as everyone else follows the rules. Once we let people use
money to bend the rules, then you have no rules, you just have
criminals getting away with murder. We need to increase the
quality of training, and the quality of education, in order to
accurately correct this problem.
A
therapist,
psychiatrist or
psychologist is supposed to be someone who imparts the
most valuable knowledge on human behavior. A Therapist is
someone who helps a person manage their thoughts. A Therapist is
someone who guides a person through tough times when they feel
lost or unsure. You should ask your therapist what problems in their
own life have they overcome?
Because personal experience is extremely valuable. But a
therapist does not want to admit vulnerabilities or weaknesses
unless they can fully explain that those vulnerabilities or
weaknesses do not interfere with their judgment or their
understanding of other people. You want a therapist who is
strong, honest, sincere and dedicated, and most important, you
want someone who never stops learning about themselves or about
other people. An ignorant Doctor can be very dangerous, so
always ask questions.
Care Management Job Description(PDF)
"A good therapist will give real life responses to behavior,
as well as compassionate understanding and a scientific
observation."
Humanistic Psychology -
Mental
illness Training
How you respond to contradictions, or
lying, is
extremely important. Saying nothing sometimes can be a benefit
as long as the other person knows that you're listening, and not
trying to judge them. Correcting a person can sometimes make
things worse. You want to give a person your best advice without
making it sound patronizing. example; "Did you ever try this?"
"How would you know whether it's A or B?" Taking a persons mind
off their problems is effective as long as the change in the
subject offers relief, and that it also doesn't create another
thing for the person to worry about.
Guardianship Petitions
in Manhattan found that most of the requests came from
Adult Protective Services, at 40 percent. Friends and family
members filed about 25 percent of guardianship petitions, while
hospitals and nursing homes together represented almost 29
percent.
Legal Guardian is a person who has the
legal authority (and
the corresponding duty) to care for the personal and property interests of
another person, called a ward. Guardians are typically used in three
situations: guardianship for an incapacitated senior (due to old age or
infirmity), guardianship for a minor, and guardianship for developmentally disabled adults.
"The more I understand mental illness, the more I understand humans."
"Our ability to listen is extremely under utilized. This is the one skill that education needs to improve on."
Observation Flaws
It's very difficult to
truly know someone just by meeting with them for a couple of
hours. In almost every relationship,
it can take a person several months,
or even years, to truly know someone. So you have to have
excellent listening
skills and you have to spend a lot of
time with someone during personal moments where people
feel comfortable with you and reveal their
true self, and also be
honest about who they are. But even then, if an
observer is not
educated enough or
sympathetic enough, they will
fail to truly know the person that they have spent many days with,
even
under various situations. If a patient has close friends and
family, than close friends and family will most likely know more about that person than any
other person could. So a doctor or therapist can never just rely on their
own personal observations alone, they need more
witnesses and they
need more knowledge about that person in order to
correctly
analyze that person and correctly administer any treatment
to that person. Most
mental state examinations do not correctly identify the
needs of people, or their state of mind. These
assessments
and
evaluations need a lot of improving.
What happens if my
therapist needs a therapist? What
happens when my
psychiatrist or
psychologist needs a
psychiatrist?
Every Human communicates a
little differently, which means that the listener must process
incoming information according to that particular person's style of
communication. You have to be able to
speak someone's language if you want to
understand them.
Understanding the Mind of Another (PDF).
Hawthorne Effect a form of reactivity in which subjects
modify an aspect of their behavior, in response to their knowing that they
are being studied.
Is God Watching? Do you have
a
Conscience?
Airport Screening -
Public Surveys -
Relationship Questions
Surveillance Camera's Effects
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Hidden Cameras -
Gaze Perception
Pygmalion Effect is the phenomenon whereby others' expectations of a
target person affect the target person's performance.
High expectations
lead to better performance and low expectations lead to worse performance.
Being a Good
Example.
Observer-Expectancy Effect is a form of reactivity in which a
researcher's cognitive
Bias causes them to
subconsciously influence the
participants of an experiment.
Profiling -
Assumptions -
Pretending to Know
-
Gas-Lighting -
Legal Threat
One-Way Mirror
allows viewing from the darkened side but not vice versa.
Actor Observer Asymmetry explains the errors that one makes
when forming attributions about the behavior of others.
Empathizing Systemizing Theory suggests that people
may be classified on the basis of their scores along two dimensions:
empathizing (E) and systemizing (S). It measures a person's strength of
interest in
empathy (the ability to identify and understand the thoughts
and feelings of others and to respond to these with appropriate emotions);
and a person's strength of interest in systems (in terms of the drive to
analyze or construct them).
Ultimatum Game
is a game where one player, the proposer, is endowed with a sum of money.
The proposer is tasked with splitting it with another player, the
responder. Once the proposer communicates their decision, the responder
may accept it or reject it. If the responder accepts, the money is split
per the proposal; if the responder rejects, both players receive nothing.
Both players know in advance the consequences of the responder accepting
or rejecting the offer.
Role-Play Exercise
is an assessment activity in which candidates act out an
imaginary scenario that
closely mirrors a situation that could occur.
Mind Blindness described as a cognitive disorder
where an individual is unable to attribute mental states to the self and
other. As a result of this disorder the individual may be unaware of
others' mental states, or incapable in attributing beliefs and desires to
others.
Correlation
does not Imply Causation -
Cause and
Effect.
Attribution in psychology is the process by which individuals
explain the causes of
behavior and events.
Fundamental Attribution Error is the claim that in contrast to
interpretations of their own behavior, people place undue emphasis on
internal characteristics of the agent (character or intention), rather
than external factors, in explaining other people's behavior. The effect
has been described as "the tendency to believe that what people do
reflects who they are".
Parallel Process is a phenomenon noted between therapist and
supervisor, whereby the therapist recreates, or parallels, the client's
problems by way of relating to the supervisor. The client's
transference
and the therapist's countertransference thus re-appear in the mirror of
the therapist/supervisor relationship.
Phenomenology in psychology is the study of
subjective
experience.
Observational Error
is the difference between a
measured value of quantity and its
true value.
Observer Effect refers to changes that the act of
observation will make on a
phenomenon being observed.
People think and behave differently in Virtual Reality than they do in
Real Life.-
VR
Spatial Intelligence (space smart)
Self Diagnosis (self-smart)
Body Language Misinterpretations
(profiling)
Reality Television is supposedly
unscripted real-life
situations, and often features an otherwise unknown cast of
individuals who are typically not professional actors, although in some
shows celebrities may participate.
Reality.
Lying (detection) -
Biases -
Malpractice Errors
The Gender of the Experimenter may affect Experimental Findings. Rats
and mice show increased stress levels when handled by men rather than
women,
potentially skewing study results. The results of an IQ test can
depend on the gender of the person who's conducting the test. Likewise,
studies of pain medication can be completely thrown off by the gender of
the experimenter.
Minutia is a small or minor detail.
What happens when people lie during
mental health examinations?
What if someone doesn't know
the
truth?
Using two or more therapists together, or separately, to analyze
a patient, could make observations more accurate.
Second Opinion is to visit another physician other than the
one a patient has previously been seeing in order to get more information
or to hear a differing point of view. Some reasons for which a patient may
seek out a second opinion include: Physician recommends surgery.
Physician diagnoses patient with serious illness (such as cancer).
Physician recommends a treatment for the patient other than what the
patient believes is necessary. When physician recommends elective surgery,
it may be required by the insurance plan. In other cases, insurance will
not pay for a second opinion. Patient believes he/she has a condition that
the physician diagnosed incorrectly or failed to diagnose. The physician
himself/herself recommends a second opinion.
Confirm (valid)
Two Person Rule is a control mechanism designed to achieve a
high level of security for especially critical material or operations.
Under this rule all access and actions requires the presence of
two authorized people at all times.
Psychiatrists or
Doctors should only be allowed to administer drugs to patients
after they have exhausted
every known element that can affect a
person’s physiological condition.
Evidence-Based Practice
(questions to ask)
Informed Consent
Off-Label Use Contradiction is the use of pharmaceutical
drugs for an unapproved indication or in an unapproved age group, dosage,
or route of administration. Both prescription drugs and over-the-counter
drugs (OTCs) can be used in off-label ways, although most studies of
off-label use focus on prescription drugs.
Using Technology to
Reduce Fears and Anxieties
Expert Witness -
Collaborate
-
Evaluating an individual's Competency
You have to
test all other possible influences that a person is
exposed too before you ignorantly add another chemical into the
equation. First remove all possible influences that could have a
negative affect on a patient. (Environment, Diet, Allergies, Drugs, Chemicals, Exposure to Hazardous Elements, so on and so
on) Then make one change at a time and monitor the affects.
A pharmaceutical drug is only administered when all other
natural means of improving the patient’s health have been
exhausted. In some cases
the body can heal
itself if given the right information.
Insane - Crazy - You Got Problems
Insane is a state of mind
which
prevents normal
perception and interferes with normal behavior and
social interaction. Being afflicted with
shocking or
outrageous behavior that is characteristic
of
mental illness.
Insanity is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by
certain
abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as
violations of
societal norms, including a person becoming a danger to
themselves or others, though not all such acts are considered insanity;
likewise, not all acts showing indifference toward societal norms are acts
of insanity. In modern usage, insanity is most commonly encountered as an
informal unscientific term denoting mental instability, or in the narrow
legal context of the insanity defense.
Sanity or
Saneness
is
being
normal or having
sound powers of
the mind.
Abnormal is
deviating from what is normal or usual, typically in a way that is
undesirable or worrying.
Off the Rails
is to behave in a way that is not normal or acceptable, especially in a
manner that causes damage or malfunctioning. To have
lost track of reality
or to
lose control.
Madcap is characterized by undue haste and
lack of thought or deliberation. A reckless impetuous irresponsible
person. An amusingly eccentric person.
Eccentric is conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual.
Not having a common center; not concentric. A person with an unusual or
odd personality.
Eccentricities is strange and unconventional behavior.
Crack Pot is an eccentric or foolish and
impractical person. Someone totally unsound or a person who is crazy or
very strange.
Lost your Marbles
is to say that someone has
Lost their Mind
and is not making sense of things.
Raving is wild,
irrational, or
incoherent talk.
Very foolish or
weird.
Raving Mad
is talking or behaving irrationally. Insane Laughter.
Raving Lunatic is someone afflicted with or
characteristic of mental derangement.
Psychosis refers to an abnormal condition of the mind
described as involving a loss of contact with
reality.
Deranged is being
out of mental balance
and experiencing
great
confusion or disorder.
Derangement
is a
state of
mental disturbance and
disorientation. The act of
disturbing the
mind or body.
Disarray is a mental
state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior.
Untidiness or disorder, especially of clothing and appearance.
Mental Disturbance is a psychological
disorder of thought or emotion; a more
neutral term than mental illness.
Mental
Case or
Nutcase is someone who is
extremely ignorant
and
morally deprived.
Crazy: When something sounds crazy it means that people can't understand
it, or can't believe it, or can't accept it. People may think something is
foolish, risky or not well thought out. But that may be just a first
impression that is based on biases or lack of information or lack of
knowledge. Something's sound crazy when you first hear them, but when you
learn more about what something is, then it may not be so crazy after all.
When someone is thought to be crazy it
means that someone thinks that a person is experiencing confusion, or is
mentally imbalanced and suffering from a disorder.
People can also act crazy about certain things, which means they
are highly enthusiastic or excited about something that happened or
something they like a lot, like ice cream, or screaming when your team
scores. People can temporally go crazy and lose their minds for different
reasons, And some people go crazy and stay crazy because they lost contact
with awareness and reality for many different reasons.
Bat Shit Crazy is someone who is
certifiably nuts or eccentric with an unusual or odd personality.
Bats in the
Belfry refers to someone who acts as though they have bats flying
around inside their head.
Messed up in the Head is when you have
mental problems that causes confusion and
over reactions.
Not All There in the Head can mean that
a person is
lacking cognitive abilities and
might not be able to accurately reason or make sound decisions. Not
fully alert and functioning. Somewhat strange or lacking intelligence or
not mentally adequate or in full possession of one's wits. A little crazy
or silly.
Not Playing with a Full Deck
means that someone is mentally deficient and lacking normal intelligence,
alertness, and mentally stability.
Not the
Sharpest Pencil in the Drawer means that someone isn't very smart.
Not the Brightest Bulb on the Porch or A Few Bricks Shy of a Load.
Therapy is just one
of many
types of
Teaching Methods that we have. Choosing the right learning
method is
key.
Having Problems is when you're feeling
uneasy,
worried and
alarmed to the point of being
disturb in
the mind and having your
peace of mind or
tranquility diminished. An event that causes
distress, pain or
bodily suffering that makes
you feel sick or
indisposed and
susceptible to damage. A factor causing trouble in
achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative
result. A state of
difficulty that needs to be
resolved. A source of difficulty.
An effort that is inconvenient.
Depression
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Assessments -
Healing Recovery -
Over Eating -
Wasteful
Sick
is being affected by an
impairment of normal physical or mental function.
Affected with madness or
insanity. Disorder of the mind. A physical condition in
which there is a disturbance of normal functioning.
Any harm or
injury resulting from a violation of a legal right.
Sick can also mean that a person is affected with
madness or
insanity.
Something
shockingly repellent or
inspiring horror.
Impairment is a symptom of
reduced quality or strength.
The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of
physical or
mental unfitness.
Complication is an unfavorable evolution or consequence of a disease,
a health condition or a therapy. The disease can become worse in its
severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological
changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ
systems. A new disease may also appear as a complication to a previous
existing disease. A medical treatment, such as drugs or surgery may
produce adverse effects or produce new health problem(s) by itself.
Therefore, a complication may be iatrogenic (i.e. literally brought forth
by the physician). Medical knowledge about a disease, procedure or
treatment usually entails a list of the most common complications, so that
they can be foreseen, prevented or recognized more easily and speedily.
Depending on the degree of vulnerability, susceptibility, age, health
status, immune system condition, etc. complications may arise more easily.
Complications affect adversely the prognosis of a disease. Non-invasive
and minimally invasive medical procedures usually favor fewer
complications in comparison to invasive ones.
Infections -
Super Bugs -
Placebos -
Plasticity
Perverted is having an intended
meaning altered or misrepresented
perverted. Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or
good. To change the
inherent purpose or function of something. To change the meaning of
something or be
vague about
something in order to
mislead or
deceive. To
represent something
falsely and fraudulent.
If someone were
abused by a parent or other guardian, or
abused by the environment or from a bad diet, or abused by an institution, then
to say that person is crazy or has a mental illness is wrong and
incorrect. This person is suffering from a
traumatic
experience, and they need help to recover. We need to be very careful
with how we use labels, we need to spell things out.
Mental Health Resources
"Teaching is a psychological method, so if your teaching is
effective you won't have to spend so much time trying to fix the
mistakes you made with ineffective teaching. Educating the
source of our problems will solve our problems with mental
illness."
"You have to show
people how they can self-analyze themselves so they become aware
of their own abilities. Sometimes it's showing them the right
words or phrases that helps explain their
internal information so
they can understand themselves a little better. Then people
could ultimately direct that understanding outwards towards
others."
"You don't want to
force treatment on mentally ill people, you just have to educate
people more, so treatment is more accessible, treatment in more
places, and more people who are qualified to treat people."
"It's just how you act
sometimes, it's not who you are. Sometimes people act before they
think, not all the time, but it happens, so it's not that unusual. We don't always know why we act
the way we do, but one thing is for certain, we should never try
to defend our actions, we should only try to understand our
actions, and try to explain our actions as best as we can. We
are not trying to defend that we're human, we are only trying to
understand what being human is. We'll get there."
Introvert
When someone you know goes crazy,
you don't get angry or frustrated at them anymore,
because you know that person is just having one of those
moments, and they will eventually come back, so you have to ride
it out, and make sure that you try to learn something from that
moment, or that
psychotic episode. And if you can both learn something, then
that's even better. Moving forward is always better then never
improving.
Patience and
tolerance are skills, skills that are founded on
reason and logic. You don't make things better by making
things worse. You want to learn what were the things, and
combination of things, that triggered the crazy moment to
happen. and every time you identify something, the more control
and power you have over it's effect.
Decompensation is the failure to generate effective psychological
coping
mechanisms in response to
stress, resulting in personality
disturbance or disintegration, especially that which causes
relapse in schizophrenia.
Sensitive.
Decompensation is the functional deterioration of a
previously working structure or system. Decompensation may occur due to
fatigue, stress, illness, or old age. When a system is "compensated", it
is able to function despite stressors or defects. Decompensation describes
an inability to compensate for these deficiencies. It is a general term
commonly used in medicine to describe a variety of situations.
Defense Mechanism is an
unconscious psychological
mechanism that reduces
anxiety arising from
unacceptable or potentially
harmful stimuli.
Mental illness, Ignorance and
Mental Retardation, or Intellectual Disability, are forms of
a
Learning Disability that require
Specialized Instructions and Guidance so that
Preferred
Learning Methods are correctly used when needed.
Intellectual Disability
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Autism -
Savants
Worrying -
Depression
-
Anxieties
Psychological Problems -
Self-Smart -
Placebos
Biological Psychiatry
is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in
terms of the biological function of the
nervous system. It is
interdisciplinary in its approach and draws on sciences such as
neuroscience,
psychopharmacology, biochemistry, genetics,
epigenetics and physiology to investigate the biological bases of
behavior and psychopathology. Biopsychiatry is that branch / specialty of
medicine which deals with the study of biological function of the nervous
system in mental disorders.
IQ Score
below 70 does not mean that you're
retarded, it just means that you have not learned
enough. And just because you have a high IQ, this doesn't mean
that you
have learned enough, it just means that you're probably not
mentally retarded.
90% of Politicians, Corporate Leaders, and most
wealthy people, all suffer from some form of
Mental illness, Why?
"I find myself learning
more from people with problems then I do from so called normal
people, normal people can be f*cked up."
All your
struggles, problems and misunderstandings are mostly related
to
missing information and knowledge. If you need food, water or
shelter then you need information and knowledge that shows you
the correct actions to take in order to fill those
needs, or you can find someone else who has the necessary
information and knowledge that would help you fill those needs.
So you have to provide a way for people to have access to
important information and knowledge that would benefit them or
someone they know.
Helping people with their problems should
always include showing people how to be problem solvers.
99% of people know how to solve problems, the problem is that
people are not learning how to solve the problems that matter.
If you look deeply at any situation or look far enough into a
problem you will always find missing information and knowledge,
with some information being important and some information not
being so important, but something is missing.
People need time alone,
people need a sanctuary, a place all to themselves. A room that
offers protection. A room that offers peace of mind. A room that
offers Privacy.
But not Isolation
-
Temporary Introversion.
Mental health issues in animals proves that there is something real
happening.
Laurel Braitman: Depressed dogs, cats with OCD, what animal
madness means for us humans (video)
Mental illness is a broad term, it is also a really insulting
phrase to use, just like the word retard. I would just say that
someone is different and undefined in some areas. It's hard
sometimes to understand someone. Something's need to be
determined because they are vague and hard to understand.
Undefined or
Vague is not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished.
Not clearly
understood or expressed.
Lacking clarity or distinctness.
Determined is having been learned or found or determined especially by
investigation.
Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making
an inquiry or other effort. Establish after a calculation,
investigation, experiment, survey, or study. Shape or influence;
give direction to. Reach, make, or come to a decision about
something. Settle conclusively; come to terms.
"Sometimes it takes more then one person to understand something."
"It's hard to figure out someone's thinking when that person figures out things
differently, it's like learning a new language."
"I have learned more from people who are different then I have from all
the so called normal people that I have met."
Psychopaths
Psychopath is
a personality disorder
characterized by persistent
antisocial behavior,
lack of empathy
and
remorse, and bold,
disinhibited,
egotistical traits such as
shallow affect, glibness,
manipulation and
callousness.
Psychopathy is often
a
misdiagnosed mental
disorder
that is characterized by
amoral
behavior or
antisocial behavior. Some people
lack the ability to make emotional bonds. Emotional detachment is an
inability or the unwillingness to connect with other people on an
emotional level. People who have
an
antisocial or
narcissistic personality tend to have
empathy impairments.
Apathy is defined as a
lack of concern for other peoples suffering.
Some people can be
extremely egocentric, according to
the
journal of abnormal psychology. Some people are
choosing not to be normal, and some people are just confused and can't
understand what normal is. Freedom of expression is necessary. But some
people are not fully aware of what they're expressing, and they're not
being responsible for what they're expressing, which makes some of they're
expressions unnecessary and unproductive. So if your expression has no
purpose, then you eventually become dull and muted, and people will stop
listening to you. But we need people to hear us and recognize us. When we
stop listening, we stop communicating. We talk, but
we don't say anything.
We rarely share information that is an expression of who we really are.
This is because many of us don't know how to communicate effectively, or,
don't value communication as much as they should.
Psychosis.
People who lack empathy can
sometimes be the result of being raised in a
dysfunctional
family, but
behavioral
problems can be from an accumulation of several negative factors, like
being born into an unstable or confused family environment which could
effect child
development and influence psychological problems. It could be from a
parent who was mentally erratic or physically abusive, or maltreatment
from family members or friends. It could be from the lack of family
bonding, or poor peer relationships, or
abnormal cultural shaping,
or chaotic neighborhoods, or
education problems even though the person was a good student.
Behavioral problems could also arise from the absence of positive factors
such as
opportunities to be successful
and from the absence of adults who provide encouragement. Abnormal
behavior is more likely to erupt when a person has never learned how to
cope with life's problems and challenges.
Toxic Masculinity
can also have negative influences on people, especially when someone is condemned for feeling
their emotions. When an ignorant person believes that empathy is a sign of
weakness, it could make someone
be afraid to ask questions because the fear that they will look
stupid, so instead, they
pretend to know
things, which is a lot worse because it causes more problems than it solves.
This is one of the reasons why psychopaths rarely have
real conversations. Some of the signs
that may indicate that someone lacks empathy is, they're highly
critical of others and enjoy
putting other people down in the
hopes that it will make them look better or feel better about themselves.
They try to make others look stupid but end up looking stupid themselves.
Psychopaths can have a hard time
controlling their emotions, they seem
immune to or
unaware of other people's
feelings. They
accuse people of being overly
sensitive when they're upset. They
overreact and they
can't admit when they're wrong. Most people who lack empathy don't
realize it, especially when they can
profit from their abuse or be in a
position of authority. If you
reward a
criminal, they will usually stay a criminal. If you
look the other way and not
challenge the ignorance of a psychopath, then they will act as if they are
above the law. And if
you surround psychopaths with other psychopaths, then they will experience
a
confirmation bias
and end up staying a psychopath.
Psychopaths can go unnoticed and can easily
deceive most
therapists. They know how to deceive people
with lies and they
can lie on
almost any test that you give them. So they can trick most people into
believing that they don't have any problems. At times they can pretend to
care and empathize when needed, temporally being nice just to get what
they want. A type of empathy with a disclaimer. They do care about you,
but only as long as they can still be self centered. They can show
empathy, they just don't feel empathy or understand it deeply enough.
Their truth is underneath the surface and hidden from view, and sometimes
the truth is even hidden from themselves. Psychopaths can
act normal when needed, but
it's just an act. They don't have
a normal
conscience, and they
don't feel shame or guilt
in the same way that normal people do. And for some strange reason, they
can sometimes enjoy being an asshole. Maybe because some people were an asshole to
them, so they believe that being an asshole is normal, which is one of the
reasons why psychopaths don't care that they're being
abusive and
disrespectable. Deep down, they
can be
rotten to the core. They can also
have a tendency to think that everyone else is also abusive and
disrespectable like they are, so they think that it's normal to be
paranoid about other people, and pretend
that everyone else is just like them, which causes them to make
negative assumptions
about other people. Psychopaths like to
seek positions of authority, mostly because
they
want to have control over other people. And sometimes this control turns into
hate or
revenge, this is when a psychopath
can punish other people
for the abuse that they have encountered as a child. Psychopaths believe
that
the world revolves around them and
that they should always be
deserving of respect, if not, then they disrespect
others, which does not solve any problem, it only makes problems
worse, and also perpetuates the problems. A psychopath can suffer from
being
privileged and also suffer from
being
abused. This can create a
distorted interpretation of themselves and of the world, which can
manifest as a very
shallow behavior. The
ignorance that a
psychopath can
have about themselves, and about other people around them, can sometimes borderline on
delusional. They sometimes
can have a hard time defining the line between
fantasy and
reality. Almost in the same way
that
republicans
do. This is what happens when people don't know enough or have learned
enough. This creates a lot of confusion.
Sociopath is a personality disorder that is characterized
by a pervasive
pattern of disregard for the
rights of
others. An impoverished moral sense or conscience is often apparent,
as well as a history of crime, legal problems, and/or impulsive and
aggressive behavior or
abusive behavior.
Psychopathy Checklist is a psychological
assessment tool most commonly
used to assess the presence of psychopathy in individuals. It is a 20-item
inventory of perceived personality traits and recorded behaviors, intended
to be completed on the basis of a semi-structured interview along with a
review of 'collateral information' such as official records.
21 Traits on the Hare Psychopathy
Checklist:
Pathological lying, glib and superficial charm,
grandiose sense of self need for stimulation, cunning and
manipulative, lack of remorse or guilt, shallow emotional response,
callousness and lack of empathy, parasitic lifestyle, poor behavioral
controls, sexual promiscuity, early behavior problems, lack of
realistic long-term goals, impulsivity, irresponsibility, failure to
accept responsibility, many short-term marital relationships, juvenile
delinquency revocation of conditional release, criminal versatility. (So everyone is a little
crazy?).
People
who Lack Empathy. People with
low emotional
intelligence do not understand the emotions of others, they experience
little empathy for other people. They do not get what others are feeling,
so it is impossible for them to place themselves in another person's
shoes.
Signs of Empathy Deficit Disorder.
Ungenerous, closed,
poor listener, difficulty tuning into other people's moods, good or
bad. They
refuse to
listen to other peoples point of view. Extroversion, not overwhelmed, perhaps even energized by crowds.
Lacking in intuition or not having “gut feelings” about people. When you
suffer from it you're unable to step outside yourself and tune in to what
other people experience, especially those who feel, think, and believe
differently from yourself. People who lack
empathy usually jump fast into
criticizing others without putting themselves in other people’s shoes.
They seem to be cold or just out of touch for people that are suffering or
are less fortunate. They believe 100% in the rightness of
their own ideas
and/or beliefs, and judge anyone who does not hold their beliefs as being
wrong, ignorant or stupid. They have trouble feeling happy for others.
They have trouble making or
keeping friends. They have trouble getting
along with family members.
They feel entitled
to receiving favors and use you to serve their needs without showing
appreciation. They will even get offended if they don’t get their way. In
a group setting, they will talk a lot about themselves and their lives
without really caring about what other people share. They do or say
something that hurts a friend or a loved one, and tend to
blame his/her actions on them. They truly believe
that the fault is in the person receiving the hurt because they reacted
poorly, were rude or were oversensitive. People who lack empathy usually
lack self-compassion, self-love and are disconnected from their authentic
self and divine connection to source. They are probably not even aware
that such disconnection is like a
defense mechanism from their
ego because
if they empathize, they need to relate, get in touch with their feelings
and feel the pain. The truth is that without empathy, it is hard to create
deep emotional connections with others. Reduced empathy increases the risk
for increased
anger, irritability and reactive
aggression, and can also be related to
stubbornness,
racism,
bigotry and
intolerance.
How to Deal with People who Lack
Empathy. Don’t take their anger or judgments personally. Don’t try
to make them understand your feelings. Talk about facts with them. If you
don’t live with this person, try to distance yourself from their company.
Cultivate or nurture relationships with people who you trust. Know that
your value and worth does not depend on their validation and opinion of
you. Take loving actions towards yourself.
Some people just pretend
to have empathy. They only pretend to know what other people experience
and feel. They
never
have real conversations with people, they never listen, they never
learn, so they will never know or understand.
Adults can cry just
like babies do. Except adults cry in a different way. Adults cry in a way
that expresses abusive behavior, which is intended to punish people for
not being aware, and not understanding that they are an immature adult
that has insecurities and paranoia. So this ignorant adult is basically
saying that it's
your fault that they're an
asshole. And if you don't except the fact that this particular person is
f*cked up, then they will continue to f*ck you up.
How taking
pain killers like
paracetamol can reduce
empathy in a person.
Brain Chemistry.
How does a Person Develop Empathy? Early emotional
experiences
between babies and their caregivers are crucial to the development of
empathy. As caregivers nurture and
care for infants, babies make crucial associations between positive human
interactions,
reward systems, and feelings of
calm and safety. Children who feel safe, secure, and loved are eventually
more sensitive to others' emotional needs. Psychologists call this
connection between caregivers and babies “
attachment”
and research shows that quality of attachment is a predictor of empathy
and compassion later in life. Start by teaching children to understand
their own behavior and feelings - it provides the basic tools for
understanding the behavior and feelings of others. A child's individual
capacity for
empathy can further
be encouraged when parents model empathic behavior themselves.
What Empathy should mean to a child? A
child should understand that she or he is a distinct person from those
around them and that other people may have different feelings and
perspectives than their own. A child should be able to recognize feelings
in themselves and others and name them. A child should be able regulate
their own emotional responses. A child should be able to put themselves in
someone else’s shoes and imagine how someone else might feel. A child
should be able to imagine what kind of action or response might help a
person to feel better. Empathy is a work-in-progress throughout childhood
and adolescence and is shaped by a range of factors including nutrition,
family life, education,
experiences and environmental factors. Empathy does not,
however, simply unfold automatically in children. While we are
naturally born with the capacity for
empathy, its development requires experience and practice. Babies
begin reflecting the emotional states and expressions of those around them
right away. Thanks to
mirror neurons,
infants as young as 18 hours old often show some responsiveness to other
infants in distress. Newborns cry when hearing another infant's cry, and
studies have shown that children as young as 14 months offer unsolicited
help to adults who appear to be struggling to reach something. Babies have
also shown a distinct preference for adults who help rather than hinder
others. As children get older, the cognitive components of empathy begin
to emerge and complement the emotional templates they formed during the
first years of life. By the preschool years, children become more aware
that other people have separate bodies, feelings, and experiences. They
develop what is called a “
theory of
mind,” which enables them to engage in early “perspective taking,” a
precursor to being able to stand in someone else’s shoes and care about
what that feels like. The distinction between self and other matures
quickly throughout early childhood. For example, if a one-year-old sees
that a friend is upset he may go get his own mother to comfort him. A
two-and-a-half-year-old in the same situation may get his friend’s mother
because he now understands that his friend would want his own parent in a
time of distress. Of course, these interactions are still in the very
early stages of development and are limited to situations that toddlers
have experienced themselves, guided by responses modeled by adults who
care for them. Cognitive components of empathy really come into their own
by six or seven, when a child is more capable of taking another person's
perspective and offering solutions or help when they notice someone in
distress. As children's
executive
function skills mature and they become more capable of managing their
own distress, they gain the "cognitive space" they need to connect with
another person's experience without feeling totally overwhelmed
themselves. All of this practice is a foundation for the complex ethical
and moral issues that young people begin to take on like bullying,
inequality, or racism. Of course, these skills and behaviors unfold
differently for different children and depend upon context as well. A
tentative preschooler who feels safe and secure halfway through the school
year may be well poised to be an empathetic friend. The first day of
school? Maybe not so much. But all of these moments are opportunities to
create the conditions for empathy and plant seeds we hope will grow. We
can’t sit our children down for formal lessons in empathy. Instead,
empathetic responses emerge over time in the context of caring
relationships, modeling, storytelling. We develop
empathy as children,
primarily through observing how others show it. When we experience
physical pain or emotional distress ourselves, a neural circuit becomes
activated (anterior cingulate cortex—or ACC--and insula). Research shows
this same circuit gets activated when we see others suffer pain or
emotional distress. So seeing the suffering of others causes us to suffer
as well. Sometimes when we frequently or excessive share of others'
negative experiences, it can lead to emotional burnout.
Compassion
training actually affects which neural circuits are activated when viewing
the suffering of others. The brain circuit associated with reward and
affiliation became activated (medial orbitofrontal cortex and striatum).
Compassion can be trained as a coping strategy to overcome empathic
distress and strengthen resilience. Rather than feeling overwhelmed by the
suffering of others, those trained in compassion can offer help while
simultaneously deriving peace and satisfaction from reducing the suffering
of others.
But those
who experience early trauma are at much greater risk of becoming
aggressive or even psychopathic later on. They tend to
bully other children or even become
victimized by
bullies themselves. Increasingly, neuroscientists,
psychologists and educators believe that bullying and other kinds of
violence can indeed be reduced by encouraging empathy at an early age.
Simple neglect can be surprisingly damaging. Minds of young children who
have been neglected or
traumatized often fail to make the connection
between people and pleasure. Without empathy, we would have no cohesive
society, no trust and no reason not to murder, cheat, steal or lie. At
best, we would act only out of self-interest; at worst, we would be a
collection of
sociopaths.
Jobs that have the Highest Rate of Psychopaths
Working these types of jobs does not prove that you are a psychopath,
because jobs don't cause
criminal and
corrupt behavior, it's the persons lack of valuable knowledge
and information that causes ignorant behavior, which usually
comes from poor nutrition, a
bad upbringing,
poor education, bad
experiences, bad environment, and a
corrupt media system that influences ignorant behavior.
Kevin Dutton's research below suggests that.....
T
he following jobs
have the
Highest Rate
of Psychopaths:
1.
Chief Executive Officer (not surprising)
2.
Lawyer (not surprising)
3.
Media (Television/Radio)
(not surprising)
4.
Salesperson
5. Surgeon
(very surprised)
6.
Journalist(very surprised, unless they work for Fox News)
7.
Police officer
8. Clergy person
9. Chef
(very surprised)
10. Civil servant or
Politicians(not surprising)
These professions have the
Lowest Rate of Psychopaths.
1.
Care aide
2. Nurse
3.
Therapist
4. Craftsperson
5. Beautician or stylist
6. Charity worker
7. Teacher
8.
Creative artist
9. Doctor
10. Accountant
Professions that require
empathy or emotion had a
lower rate of psychopaths.(Of course there is no guarantee that this is always
true)
Toxic
Leadership.
The study, published online in
personality and individual differences, found that individuals with
the dark triad traits (narcissism, psychopathy, and machiavellianism) are
more likely to have studied business and economics. These results show
that your
personality, particularly having a “dark” personality, may
influence your educational choices.
International Society
for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID)
Psycho Therapy -
Ramones (youtube)
The
hardware or the
body
is ok, no damage. Physically everything is working properly.
It's just that the
software or the
mind
is riddled with
viruses. You need to run the right
programs
that will identify irrelevant thoughts and
quarantine them so that you can put them in the appropriate
folder, or delete them because some questions are useless.
The brain has the ability to
correct itself, but only when the
brain has the necessary information with clear instructions on
how to correctly process this new information.
In order to maintain the system you first must learn to
maintain
yourself because you are part of the system, if you struggle,
the system will also struggle.
When thinking patterns become fixed, processing
information becomes problematic, mostly because the brain needs
to adapt and modify its processing capabilities in order to
accommodate new information and new knowledge. This is not just
how the brain learns, this is how information evolves and
survives, just like it has for billions of years.
more..
The mental illness is typically found in about 1 percent of the
general population, according to the Toronto Star. Is that the
same one percent that
occupy wall street talks about?
Just because you experience
some of these behaviors below, this does not necessarily mean that you are
need of
help. You most likely need more knowledge and information in order
to understand why these particular
behaviors exist. There might be a
logical explanation. So you're not
crazy, you
might just be a little
under informed
and
unaware of a few things.
Physical Functioning
Fatigue.
Sleeping Problems.
Appetite Problems.
Eating Problems.
Sexual Problems.
Seeing Problems.
Hearing
Problems.
Overall Physical Health.
Vigorous Physical Exercise.
Physical Mobility.
Pain and Discomfort.
Over-Talkative
or Racing Speech.
Hyperactivity - Agitation.
Excitement - Elation.
Elated mood.
Avoidant-Dependent
Traits
Low Self Esteem.
Pessimism.
Loneliness.
Fearing
Rejection.
Fearing Separation.
Submissiveness.
Inability to Handle Conflict.
Histrionic-Borderline traits
Attention seeking.
Desire for Casual Sex or illicit Sex.
Harmful
Impulsiveness.
Emotional Instability.
Identity Confusion.
Social
Instability.
Risk of Harming Self.
Social
Functioning
Family problems.
Friendship problems.
Mistrust.
Dependent behavior.
Phobia - Panic - Obsession
Agoraphobia, phobias, panic attacks, obsessions or compulsions.
Negative Emotions
Depressed Mood.
Generalized Anxiety, Anger, Guilt or Shame.
Need for institutional care.
Lack of insight.
Schizoid Traits
Intimacy Avoidance.
Social Withdrawal.
Lack of Emotional Expression.
Obsessive Compulsive Traits
Perfectionism.
All work no play.
Inflexibility and Risk Avoidance.
Paranoid Traits
Suspiciousness.
Bearing Grudges.
Feeling Victimized.
Delinquent Behavior
Reckless Thrill
Seeking.
Disrespect for the Law.
Physical Violence.
Smoking.
Alcohol
- Drug Abuse -
Medication abuse.
Reality Impairment
Grandiosity.
Reality Distortion.
Severe Disorganization.
Intellectual functioning
Distractibility.
Apathy.
Forgetfulness.
Impaired Executive Functioning.
Impaired
Social Communication.
Repetitive fixated behavior.
Personal Neglect.
Psychomotor Slowing Confusion.
Narcissistic Antisocial Traits
Arrogance.
Selfishness.
Greed.
Lack of Kindness.
Aggressive Disrespect for
others.
Irresponsibility.
Dishonesty.
Just because we have a lot of crazy people around doesn't
diminish the fact that we all have brains and that we are all
very capable of incredible things. And most of our abilities are
not even known to us. So it's time that we
start knowing our
abilities, and stop allowing
our disabilities to flourish and cause havoc.
Mental Health Resources.
Psychological Evaluations - Mental Health Assessments
Psychological Evaluation is defined as a way of
testing people about their
behavior, personality, and
capabilities to
draw conclusions using combinations of techniques.
Psychological Research refers to
research that
psychologists conduct for
systematic study and
for
analysis of the
experiences and behaviors of individuals or groups. Their research can
have educational, occupational and clinical applications.
Psychological relates to
mental
functions or
emotional functions as opposed to physical functions.
Psychology.
Systematic Study believes that the
patterns can be
identified and cultivated to improve individual performance. The method of
accomplishing this is by examining behavior, looking for cause and effect
and searching for specific evidence.
Competence Assessment (PDF) -
IQ Test -
Rorschach Test Testing Flaws -
Observation Flaws
-
DSM
Competence in law concerns the
mental capacity of an individual to
participate in
legal proceedings or
transactions, and the mental condition a person must have to be
responsible for his
or her
decisions
or acts. A competency evaluation is a court-ordered
mental health assessment to determine how
much a defendant remembers and understands about his or her charges and
alleged offense, as well as his or her
capacity to understand court
proceedings and assist a lawyer in their defense.
High-Functioning
-
Actor -
Secrecy -
Lying -
Two Faced
Competency Evaluation in
law is an assessment of the ability of a
defendant to understand and rationally participate in a court process. Who
is deemed qualified to conduct a competency evaluation varies from state
to state. Estimates between 1983 and 2004 suggest the annual number of
criminal
competency
evaluations rose from 50,000 to 60,000.
Crazy -
Competency Evaluation
-
Competence in Human Resources
Measuring Value -
Measure Intelligence
-
Cognitive
Tests
-
Aptitude
Capacity in law is to protect
vulnerable members of society who have
insufficient knowledge, understanding and
maturity that
limits their ability to make
coherent binding
amendments to their rights, duties and obligations, such as getting
married or merging, entering into
contracts, making gifts, or
writing a valid will. When the law limits or bars a person from
engaging in specified activities, any agreements or
contracts to do so are
either voidable or
void for incapacity. Sometimes such legal incapacity is
referred to as incompetence.
Incapacity in contract law
generally means a person who is not mentally sound, which can include
being intoxicated. Persons who are intoxicated cannot legally enter into a
contract and intoxication
thereby makes the contract voidable.
Consent -
Diminished Responsibility
-
Culpability
Psychometrics is a field of study concerned with the theory
and technique of psychological measurement. As defined by National Council
on Measurement in Education (NCME), psychometrics refers to psychological
measurement. Generally, it refers to the field in psychology and education
that is devoted to testing, measurement, assessment, and related
activities. One part of the field is concerned with the
objective
measurement of
skills and
knowledge, abilities,
attitudes,
personality traits, and educational achievement. For example, some
psychometric researchers have, thus far, concerned themselves with the
construction and
validation of assessment instruments such as
questionnaires, tests, raters' judgments, and personality tests. Another
part of the field is concerned with
statistical research
bearing on measurement theory (e.g., item response theory; intraclass
correlation). As a result of these focuses, psychometric research involves
two major tasks: (i) the construction of instruments; and (ii) the
development of
procedures for
measurement. Practitioners are
described as psychometricians. Psychometricians usually possess a specific
qualification, and most are psychologists with advanced graduate training.
In addition to traditional academic institutions, many psychometricians
work for the government or in human resources departments. Others
specialize as learning and development professionals.
Psychometric Tests.
Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and
therapeutic techniques related
to the study of the
unconscious mind,
which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders.
Function Report for Adult Third Party Form SSA 3380 BK. The Social
Security Administration will need this information in order to determine
whether or not you are eligible for benefits.
Assessment Psychology
-
American
Psychological Association -
Software Testing
Psychopathy Checklist is a psychological
assessment tool
most commonly used to assess the presence of
psychopathy in individuals.
It is a 20-item inventory of perceived personality traits and recorded
behaviors, intended to be completed on the basis of a semi-structured
interview along with a review of 'collateral information' such as official
records.
P-Scan
or
Psychopathy Scan provides a useful tool for
developing a
hypothesis for
a particular person of interest, with respect to Psychopathy, and for
managing risk for
antisocial, criminal, and violent behavior.
The Hare P-Scan Research Version is a nonclinical tool that serves as a
rough screen for psychopathic features and as a source of working
hypotheses to deal with or manage suspects, offenders, or clients. It is
designed for use in law enforcement, probations, corrections, civil and
forensic facilities, and other areas in which it would be useful to have
some information about the possible presence of
psychopathic features in a person of interest.
Mathematical Psychology is an approach to psychological
research that
is based on mathematical modeling of perceptual, cognitive and motor
processes, and on the establishment of law-like rules that relate
quantifiable stimulus characteristics with quantifiable behavior. The
mathematical approach is used with the goal of deriving hypotheses that
are more exact and thus yield stricter empirical validations. Quantifiable
behavior is in practice often constituted by task performance.
Psychological Testing is an
objective and
standardized measure of a sample of
behavior.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a psychosocial
intervention for
treating mental disorders, focuses on the development of personal coping
strategies that target solving current problems and changing unhelpful
patterns in cognitions
(e.g., thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes),
behaviors, and
emotional regulation. It was originally
designed to treat
depression, and is now
used for a number of mental health conditions.
Cognition Measuring
(intelligence examinations)
Mental Status Examination is an important part of the
clinical
assessment process in psychiatric practice. It is a structured way of
observing and describing a patient's current state of mind, under the
domains of appearance,
attitude, behavior, mood and affect, speech,
thought process, thought content, perception,
cognition, insight and
judgment. There are some minor variations in the subdivision of the MSE
and the sequence and names of MSE domains.
Examinations.
Mental Health Assessment is when a professional like your family
doctor, a psychologist, or a psychiatrist, checks to see if you might have
a mental problem and what type of treatment may help.
Mental Health assessment
designed to uncover the likelihood that someone has Depression, Anxiety,
Bipolar, or Posttraumatic Stress (PTSD) Disorders.
Investigative Psychology attempts to describe the
actions of offenders and to develop an understanding of crime.
Assess is to
evaluate or
estimate the
nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of.
Assessment is the act of
judging or
assessing a
person or situation or event.
Research.
The Psychotic Symptom Rating Scales (PSYRATS)
is an
instrument designed to
quantify the severity of delusions and
hallucinations and is typically used in research studies and clinical
settings focusing on people with psychosis and schizophrenia.
Personalities -
Insane
-
Films about Mental Health
Mental State Examination is a 30-point
questionnaire that
is used extensively in clinical and research settings to measure cognitive
impairment. It is commonly used in medicine and allied health to screen
for dementia. It is also used to estimate the severity and progression of
cognitive impairment
and to follow the course of cognitive changes in an individual over time;
thus making it an effective way to document an individual's response to
treatment. The MMSE's purpose has been not, on its own, to provide a
diagnosis for any particular nosological entity.
Mental State Examinations (PDF).
Projective Test is a
personality test designed to let
a person respond to ambiguous
stimuli,
presumably revealing hidden emotions and internal conflicts projected by
the person into the test. This is sometimes contrasted with a so-called
"objective test" or "self-report test" in which responses are
analyzed according to
a presumed universal standard (for example, a multiple choice exam), and
are limited to the content of the test. The responses to projective tests
are content analyzed for meaning rather than being based on
presuppositions about meaning, as is the case with objective tests.
Projective tests have their origins in psychoanalytic psychology, which
argues that humans have conscious and
unconscious attitudes and
motivations that are beyond or hidden from conscious awareness.
Regression Testing
is a type of
software testing which verifies that
software, which was
previously developed and tested, still performs correctly after it was
changed or interfaced with other software. Changes may include software
enhancements, patches, configuration changes, etc. During regression
testing, new software bugs or regressions may be uncovered. Sometimes a
software change impact analysis is performed to determine what areas could
be affected by the proposed changes. These areas may include functional
and non-functional areas of the system. The purpose of regression testing
is to ensure that changes such as those mentioned above have not
introduced new faults. One of the main reasons for regression testing is
to determine whether a change in one part of the software affects other
parts of the software. Common methods of regression testing include
re-running previously completed tests and checking whether program
behavior has changed and whether previously fixed faults have re-emerged.
Regression testing can be performed to test a system efficiently by
systematically selecting the appropriate minimum set of tests needed to
adequately cover a particular change. In contrast, non-regression testing
aims to verify whether, after introducing or updating a given software
application, the change has had the intended effect.
Psychiatric Assessment
is a process of
gathering information about a person
within a psychiatric service, with the purpose of making a
diagnosis. The
assessment is usually the first stage of a treatment process, but
psychiatric assessments may also be used for various legal purposes. The
assessment includes social and biographical information, direct
observations, and data from specific psychological tests. It is typically
carried out by a psychiatrist, but it can be a multi-disciplinary process
involving nurses, psychologists, occupational therapist, social workers,
and licensed professional counselors.-
PDF.
Insanity Defense is a defense by
excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is
not responsible for their actions due to an
episodic or
persistent psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal
act. This is contrasted with an excuse of provocation, in which defendant
is responsible, but the responsibility is lessened due to a temporary
mental state. It is also contrasted with a finding that a defendant cannot
stand trial in a criminal case because a mental disease prevents them from
effectively assisting council, from a civil finding in trusts and estates
where a will is nullified because it was made when a
mental disorder
prevented a testator from recognizing the natural objects of her bounty,
and from involuntary civil commitment to a mental institution, when a
person is found to be gravely disabled or to be a danger to themselves or
to others.
Insanity Defense -
Plead InsaneThe
U.S. Supreme court ruled Monday March 23, 2020 that
states are free to abandon the insanity defense for accused criminals who
contend they did not know right from wrong. The decision upholds a
Kansas law that essentially allows consideration of mental status only at
the sentencing phase of a trial.
M'Naghten Rules is any variant of the 1840s jury instruction in a
criminal case when there is
a defense of insanity, "that every man is to
be presumed to be sane, and... that to establish a defense on the ground
of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing
of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason,
from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act
he was doing; or if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what
was wrong." It emphasizes cognition (knowledge), as compared to the
American Law Institute Model Penal Code test (ALI test), which broadened
knowledge to include capacity to appreciate the criminality of conduct,
and a volitional element as to capacity to conform to the law. In the
1960s, the ALI test mostly replaced the M'Naughten rule in America until
the 1980s, when in the aftermath of John Hinckley shooting President
Ronald Reagan, many ALI states returned to a variation of M'Naughten.
Forensic Psychiatry work with courts in
evaluating an
individual's competency to stand trial, defences based on mental disorders
(i.e. the insanity defence), and sentencing recommendations. There are two
major areas of criminal evaluations in forensic psychiatry. These are
Competency to Stand trial (CST) and Mental State at the Time of the
Offence (MSO).
Diminished Responsibility
is a potential defense by excuse by which
defendants argue that although
they broke the law, they should not be held fully criminally liable for
doing so, as their mental functions were "diminished" or impaired.
Diminished in strength, quality, or utility. Not working properly. Lacking
the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task. Not sufficient to
meet a need. Containing errors or alterations.
Corrupted, Dishonorable,
Dishonest.
Psychological Test Objectives
(wiki how) -
Diagnosis Problems
Mental
Health Checklist -
Depression Criteria (PDF)
Teen Screen for Mental Health -
Typical or Troubled -
Relationship Questions
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our
Understanding of Madness Hardcover. Susannah Cahalan’s first book Brain on
Fire documented her experience with a treatable autoimmune disease that
masqueraded as mental illness. The disease did so by causing inflammation
on her brain, and after being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, she was
given antipsychotic drugs and nearly transferred to the psych ward.
Luckily, an insightful doctor saved her from being committed to a very
different life than the one she is living now. A young reporter for the
New York Post when, one day, she began feeling like she had the flu.
Shortly thereafter, she was hospitalized, in the throes of full-blown
hallucinations and paranoia. she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and,
then, with schizophrenia. She was on the verge of being transferred to a
psychiatric unit when one gifted doctor played out a hunch. After a spinal
tap and biopsy of her brain, he diagnosed her with autoimmune
encephalitis. Cahalan says that this physical diagnosis, as opposed to a
psychiatric one, made all the difference. Doctors' labels altered the way
they saw me: as if a mental illness were my fault, whereas a physical
illness was something unearned, something "real. The minute the doctors
discovered my issues were neurological, the quality of care improved.
Researchers have found that it is possible to assess a person's ability to
feel empathy by studying their brain activity while they are resting
rather than while they are engaged in specific tasks. Traditionally,
empathy is assessed through the use of questionnaires and psychological
assessments. The findings of this study offer an alternative to people who
may have difficulty filling out questionnaires, such as people with severe
mental illness or autism.
On
Being Sane In Insane Place. How do we know precisely what constitutes
“normality” or mental illness? Conventional wisdom suggests that specially
trained professionals have the ability to make reasonably accurate
diagnoses. In this research, however, David Rosenhan provides evidence to
challenge this assumption. What is -- or is not -- “normal” may have much
to do with the labels that are applied to people in particular settings.
The more sane I become the more crazy people appear. Trying to understand
mental illness or just trying to understand just plain
ignorance is never straight forward. Approaching it
correctly is always difficult. When is the appropriate time for
honesty? What are the correct words to use when speaking the
truth? How do you know where the sanity ends and where the
insanity begins? And how do you keep your own
insanity from entering the conversation? It's like you have
to purge yourself from all
human emotions just so you can think clearly enough and
hopefully understand that moment in time when a person is
confused, and you don't know why? Take a deep breath and
think, have I answered all the right questions? You can learn
just as much from an insane person as you can from a person who
is thought to be sane. But how do I tell the difference? Is
there a
test for that? If there is a test for sanity, I'm positive
that the test itself is insane. We are just beginning to learn
that the human mind is an extremely large landscape that we are just
starting to explore. This is just another one
of those things that we will need to define. Put it on the list.
Stigmas
No one in their Right Mind would want to admit to a mental health
disorder, mostly because there is a
stigma, and
there is also
prejudice and
discrimination associated with a particular kind of
label. Besides
that, how is someone supposed to analyze themselves and express themselves
if they lack the knowledge and skills to do so. People who are suffering
physically or mentally can't treat themselves effectively, this is why we
have Doctors, but only if they are a
highly qualified
doctor. A health condition is not saying that someone is broken,
it's only saying that someone is in
need of extra care and extra support.
People recover all the time from diseases and injuries. But if you never
give a person a chance to recover and improve, then that persons condition
becomes a death sentence, and sometimes a slow and painful death.
Mental illness stigma: Concepts, consequences, and initiatives to reduce Stigma.
Social Stigma
-
Ratings -
Profiling
(stereotypes)
Stigma
Management. When a person receives
unfair treatment or alienation due
to a social stigma, the effects can be detrimental. Social stigmas are
defined as any aspect of an individual's identity that is devalued in a
social context. These stigmas can be categorized as visible or invisible,
depending on whether the stigma is readily apparent to others. Visible
stigmas refer to characteristics such as race, age, gender, physical
disabilities, or deformities, whereas invisible stigmas refer to
characteristics such sexual orientation, gender identity, religious
affiliation, early pregnancy, certain diseases, or mental illnesses. When
individuals possess invisible stigmas, they must decide whether or not to
reveal their association with a devalued group to others. This decision
can be an incredibly difficult one, as revealing one's invisible stigma
can have both positive and negative consequences depending on several
situational factors. In contrast, a visible stigma requires immediate
action to diminish communication tension and acknowledge a deviation from
the norm. People possessing visible stigmas often use compensatory
strategies to reduce potential interpersonal discrimination that they may
face.
Embarrassment is the shame you
feel when your
inadequacy or
guilt is made
public.
Shame is a
painful emotion resulting from an
awareness of
perceived inadequacy or guilt.
DSM-IV Codes are the classification found in the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text
Revision, also known as DSM-IV-TR, a manual published by the American
Psychiatric Association (APA) that includes all currently recognized
mental health disorders. The DSM-IV codes are thus used by mental health
professionals to describe the features of a given mental disorder and
indicate how the disorder can be distinguished from other, similar
problems.
DSM-5.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published by
the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and offers a common language
and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. It is
used, or relied upon, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug
regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies,
the legal system, and policy makers together with alternatives such as the
ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, produced by the
WHO.
I witnessed and observed some horrible things in mental
health services. You ask them for help and then someone gives you a pill
and then says "try not to think about it". WTF. There's no knowledge in
pharmaceutical pills. People need personal guidance, not a
part time drug dealer
who pretends to be your friend.
Drug Pushers.
(
not all mental health services are like this).
Affect Measures is one common way of studying
human emotion is to obtain self-reports from
participants to quantify their current feelings or average feelings over a
longer period of time. These are referred to as measures of affect or
measures of emotion. Even though some affect measures contain variations
that allow assessment of basic predispositions to experience a certain
emotion, tests for such stable traits are usually considered to be
personality tests.
Quality of Life Scale (PDF)
Invisible Disability are disabilities that are
not
immediately apparent. For instance, some people with visual or auditory
disabilities who do not wear glasses or hearing aids, or discreet hearing
aids, may not be obviously disabled. Some people who have vision loss may
wear contact lenses. A sitting disability is another category of invisible
impairments; sitting problems are usually caused by chronic back pain.
Those with joint problems or chronic pain may not use mobility aids on
some days, or at all. Most people with RSI move in a 'normal' and
inconspicuous way, and are even encouraged by the medical community to be
as active as possible, including playing sports; yet those people can have
dramatic limitations in how much they can type, write or how long they can
hold a phone or other objects in their hands. Invisible disabilities are
chronic illnesses and conditions that significantly impair normal
activities of daily living. In the United States, 96% of people with
chronic medical conditions show no outward signs of their illness, and 10%
experience symptoms that are considered disabling.
Control Questions Test (PDF)
Behavioral Analysis Unit is a department of the
United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Center for the
Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) that uses behavioral sciences to assist
in criminal investigations. The mission of the NCAVC and the BAUs is to
provide behavioral based investigative and/or operational support by
applying case experience, research, and training to complex and
time-sensitive crimes, typically involving acts or threats of
violence.
Related Subjects
-
Intervention -
Journalism
(investigate) -
Counseling -
Therapy Help -
Manual of Mental Disorders -
Disorders
-
Morals -
Workplace Ethics
-
Body Language -
Mental Health Websites -
Learning Disabilities -
Stress -
Emotions -
Depression.
You have to be very very careful of Mental Health Questioners, or
Check Lists, or
Assessments or any kind of
Testing. The answers you give can be easily exploited and
misinterpreted, which could lead to
misdiagnosis and bogus
treatments that can make your situation worse. You need to have
a professional or a highly intelligent well trusted friend with
you when answering these types of questions. Knowledge is your
best medicine and your greatest chance for improvements.
Measuring.
What happens when people lie during
mental health examinations? What if someone doesn't know
the Truth?
One in seven American children aged 2 to 8
suffers from a mental, behavioral or developmental problem, I would like
to see how they determine that, and I would like to know how they treat
these children without using harmful drugs.
Some of these
Cognitive Failures Questionnaires
are false and misleading, they confuse
Awareness with
Cognitive
Failures. There's nothing wrong with you, but there's something
definitely wrong with the questions they ask. The next thing you
know, they're pumping you with drugs. If there is a
Cognitive
Failure, it's your failure to see the bullshit that's right in
front of you. And there is a lot of bullshit. The People
with Cognitive Failures are the ones who are asking these types
of questions.
Accurately self analyzing yourself is a skill that you need to
learn, it is one skill that will benefit you your entire life.
IAT measures the strength of associations between concepts.
Project Implicit investigates thoughts and feelings that
exist outside of conscious awareness or conscious control. Visit
the research or demonstration websites to try out some tests and
learn more about the research and yourself!.
Early Detection and Intervention for
the Prevention of Psychosis Program
Prisons -
Films -
Movies
Transference Focused Psychotherapy, or
Awareness, or
Focus, or
just
Learning about Yourself
and the
World around you.
As of 2014, nearly one in five
American adults, 43.8 million people, experienced some type of
diagnosable mental illness last year.
More than 15 million people in the U.S. over the age of 18
suffered from an episode of major
Depression in
2013. More than nine million reported having serious thoughts of
Suicide, while 1.3
million actually attempted suicide.
SAMHSA said
these figures were comparable to the numbers for 2012. Major
depression was also a problem for about one in 10 adolescents
ages 12 to 17, or about 2.6 million teens. Only about 38 percent
of them received treatment. The need for effective treatment to
restore peoples well-being is extremely important.
Mental Health Care for Children
"Everyone is insane in varying degrees, it's just that some people hide it better then others."
"Are people who hide their insanity more dangerous then people who make their sanity visible to others by acting out?"
Committing Yourself to a Mental Institution
Voluntary Commitment is the act or
practice of a person admitting themself to a
psychiatric hospital, or
other mental health facility, voluntarily. Unlike in involuntary
commitment, the person is free to leave the hospital against medical
advice, though a period of notice, or the requirement that the leaving
take place during daylight hours, is sometimes required. In some
jurisdictions a distinction is drawn between formal and informal voluntary
commitment, and this may have an effect on how much notice the individual
must give before leaving the hospital. This period may be used for the
hospital to use involuntary commitment procedures against the patient.
People with mental illness can write psychiatric advance directives in
which they can, in advance, consent to voluntary admission to a hospital
and thus avoid involuntary commitment.
Mental health records are hospital/clinic files,
not part of a criminal
record.
Voluntary Patients agree to
be in the hospital for the purposes of observation, care and treatment. In
most cases, a voluntary patient must be referred to the facility by a
physician for assessment. Voluntary admissions usually require a
72-hour holding period for professional evaluation. Once the 72-hour hold
is lifted, patients can request a discharge or further care. Minors can
sign themselves into a voluntary hold in an emergency, but the legal
guardian must be notified within 24 hours. They can be kept in the hospital
against their will for up to 72 hours without permission from a judge.
Why go to hospital? feeling really sad, really frightened, or if you
are feeling out of control. injured or have physical symptoms from
self-harm, alcohol or drug use, or eating disorders. experiencing
hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not there). Having
thoughts of hurting yourself or others.
Average cost is $5,700 per MH stay. $4,600 per
SA stay. $9,300 per stay for all other conditions.
Admitting you need Help -
Self Intervention.
Voluntary Admission is also known as a “
201” to an
acute inpatient
psychiatric hospital occurs when a person goes for
psychiatric evaluation and the evaluating mental health provider and
patient agree that the patient would benefit from hospitalization and
meets criteria for hospitalization. The patient is required to sign a
consent form that is sometimes called a “201.” The 201 form documents the
patient’s rights and describes the inpatient hospital experience. By
signing the form, the patient agrees to being hospitalized on a locked
unit. If the patient later requests discharge, the hospital can hold the
patient on the unit for up to 72 hours until a mental health professional
can evaluate the patient for safety concerns. The patient will be
discharged if the evaluating mental health professional determines that
the patient is safe for discharge. If the mental health professional
evaluates the patient and feels that he/she is at risk of harm to
self/others or unable to care for self, the mental health professional can
convert the admission to an involuntary admission (“302”). The patient
will then be brought to mental health court within 5 days and the court
will determine whether the patient can be legally held on a psychiatric
unit. A patient may also be voluntarily admitted for a subacute inpatient
hospitalization.
Involuntary Admission is also known as a “
302”, to an acute
inpatient psychiatric hospital occurs when the patient does not agree to
hospitalization on a locked inpatient psychiatric unit, but a mental
health professional evaluates the patient and believes that, as a result
of mental illness, the patient is at risk of harming self or others, or is
unable to care for self. The person must pose a “clear and present danger”
to self or others based upon statements and behavior that occurred in the
past
30 days. If a person is admitted involuntarily, the patient will
either be discharged within
5 days or brought to mental health court
within 5 days (
120 hours) to request a longer commitment (a “
303”). The
decision to discharge the patient or request a longer commitment is made
by the treatment team based on concerns for safety of the patient or
others. The mental health court will determine whether the patient can be
legally held and treated on a psychiatric unit. The proceedings at mental
health court may be called a “commitment hearing.” Hearings are non-public
and confidential. If the patient objects to having family present and the
family did not petition the 302, the family may not be permitted to attend
the hearing. If the patient wishes to have a family member present, the
person may be admitted to the hearing as an observer. If family members
want to provide information supporting the hospitalization, they are
encouraged to give the information to the hospital presenter and let the
presenter provide the information at the hearing. This process helps to
reduce conflict between the patient and family members. If family members
have information supporting the discharge of the patient from the
hospital, they should give this information to the lawyer or advocate who
is representing the patient and this person will present the information
at the hearing.
Types of Inpatient Hospitals.
Acute inpatient psychiatric units
are locked psychiatric units that treat people who are struggling with
depression, mania, psychosis, self-harm, and suicide as well as other
psychiatric conditions. People can be admitted to these units voluntarily
or involuntarily. The units are locked for the safety of the people being
treated on these units.
Dual diagnosis units are a type of acute
inpatient psychiatric unit. They are locked and they treat people who are
struggling with BOTH addiction and depression, mania, psychosis, etc.
These units have a lot of experience treating drug and alcohol withdrawal
symptoms and may have therapeutic groups that focus on addiction. Some of
these units are also able to treat people who do not struggle with
addiction.
Inpatient detoxification and rehabilitation (detox and
rehab) units are NOT locked. People can only go to these units
voluntarily. These units are intended for people primarily struggling with
addictions. The groups on the unit focus on addiction and the staff is
experienced in managing withdrawal symptoms.
Subacute inpatient
hospitalization consists of treatment at a facility that may be unlocked.
People can only go there voluntarily. This type of hospitalization is
often useful when an issue at a person’s residence is contributing to the
person’s worsening symptoms but there is NOT an acute safety concern. Some
insurance plans do NOT cover subacute inpatient hospitalization.
Care Providers in the Inpatient Hospital Setting.
Attending
physicians/attending psychiatrists are the doctors who supervise the
resident physicians and medical students. The attending physician makes
the final treatment decisions. The attending physician may be on the unit
for only a few hours each day. He/she sees the patients each day and then
discusses the plan with the resident physicians and medical students. Some
hospitals only have attending psychiatrists and do not have medical
students or resident physicians.
Resident physicians/psychiatrists
are doctors who have completed medical school and are now training in
psychiatry. The “resident” physician is training in a specific area of
medicine (for example: psychiatry) under the supervision of more
experienced physicians (“attendings”). The resident physician is on the
unit most of the day and is usually the doctor who calls patient’s
families and outpatient doctors.
Medical students are people who
are in medical school and may or may not go into the field of psychiatry.
They often have more time than the attending and resident to have longer
conversations with families. If families provide information to the
students, the students will pass that information along to the resident
and attending.
Nurse practitioners and
Physician assistants are
mental health providers who are supervised by a psychiatrist.
Nurses are on the unit 24hrs a day and they are a wonderful resource. The
nurses can provide information about how a patient is doing and the name
of the doctor caring for the patient. They can also notify the doctor that
a family member called and would like to speak with the doctor.
Therapists are often on the unit throughout most of the day and facilitate
both individual and group therapy sessions. They can be a valuable
resource to patients, as well as their family members and the rest of the
treatment team by helping patients to learn coping skills to better manage
symptoms and stress upon discharge from the hospital.
Social
workers are available on all acute inpatient psychiatric units. They play
a very important role in determining what resources the patient will need
upon discharge. They may assist patients in obtaining housing (for
example: boarding homes, shelters). They can submit applications for case
management services, partial hospital programs, extended acute care, and
many other services. The services they can obtain for any individual are
limited by insurance and eligibility criteria.
How to Contact
Care Providers. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA) and state and local mental health laws limit the mental health
treatment information that can be released to families without the
patient’s consent. The law does NOT prohibit treatment providers from
receiving information from families. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to
provide information to hospital staff because the hospital will not
acknowledge that a person is admitted without consent from the patient to
release this information. To share information in this circumstance, you
can go on the hospital’s website to locate a relevant fax number or email
address and send your information that way. You can also mail information
(though this method may be too slow to be helpful). Hopefully, the
hospital will get the information to the appropriate provider.
Complaining
Complaining is expressing
pain or
dissatisfaction of
resentment. Express
complaints, discontent,
displeasure, or
unhappiness.
Complain is to
express complaints, discontent,
displeasure, or
unhappiness.
One of the most
disturbing things about people complaining is that they
complain about the same faults that they have that they see in other people.
People have the same
faults that they find disturbing
in other people.
Almost everything that people say about other people is what they are
saying about themselves. Either the person can't see the connections or
the similarities, or they may be just asking you a question. Why does
this behavior look bad? And does this type of thinking make any sense? And
those questions are difficult to answer when the person may not understand
the answers.
So
you may have to start from the beginning. Why are some people blind to
their own thoughts? Why don't people listen to their own advice? Is it because they have not
yet formed an awareness about themselves? It's more than just a
lack of
compassion and
tolerance, it's more related to a persons
ability to understand. How do we correct this
bias and
bigotry? Why is
it that some people don't want other people to have the same freedoms,
rights or things that they have? It's more than being
selfish or being
narrow minded.
It's
discrimination and prejudice and a
contradiction without
any
compassion. It's an
ignorant distortion
of
reality. There is a big difference between
complaining about something
and
explaining something. Complaining is not
problem solving.
Complaining is not
understanding. So when people complain to much it's not
necessarily saying that they are experiencing a lot of problems,
it's more that they are saying they have trouble dealing with
their emotions and that they lack sufficient information and
knowledge in order to
correctly comprehend the situation and make a
logical decision.
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us
to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl
Gustav Jung.
Takes One to Know One
is when the person who expressed criticism has similar faults to the
person being criticized.
Those Who Live in
Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones means that people should not
criticize others for faults that
they have themselves. You should not criticize others if you have similar
weaknesses yourself. One who is
vulnerable to criticism regarding a certain issue should not criticize
others about the same issue.
Don't dish it out if
you can't take it.
Two Wrongs don't make a
Right - Anger Management -
Hating Hurts you and not just others -
Contradictions
You don't want to talk or listen, all you want to do is
blame other people for the problems you
have, the problems that you caused because you don't want to listen or
learn or have real conversations.
Dissatisfaction is the feeling of being
displeased and discontent. Fail to satisfy.
Displeasure is the feeling of being displeased or
annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something.
Displeased is not pleased; experiencing or
manifesting displeasure.
Stress.
Discontent is a longing for something better than
the present situation.
Annoyance is the psychological state of being
irritated or annoyed.
Anger produced by
some annoying irritation. An unpleasant person who is annoying or
exasperating. Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of
unhappiness. The act of troubling or annoying someone.
Activism takes more
than a Protest
Irritated
is to be aroused to impatience or
anger.
Aggravation
is having unfriendly behavior that causes anger or
resentment. An exasperated feeling of annoyance.
Unhappiness are emotions experienced when not in a
state of well-being. State characterized by emotions ranging
from mild discontentment to deep grief.
Happiness -
Depression.
Well-Being is a contented state of being happy
and healthy and prosperous.
Raindrops Keep
Falling On My Head - BJ Thomas - I'm Never going to stop the rain by
complaining - (youtube).
Nagging is repetitious
behavior in the form of pestering,
hectoring, or otherwise continuously urging an individual to complete
previously discussed requests or act on advice.
Bullying.
If you have nothing nice to say, then it's best not to say
anything at all, unless you're
blowing the whistle on criminal activity, then you have to say
something. But be careful, criminals don't like to be exposed.
Blaming
Blame is the act of
accusing someone for
doing something
wrong or holding someone
responsible for a
problem that they may have caused.
To
assume that someone is
guilty, or to convict someone
of a crime, you need
proof
and
evidence. But holding
one person
accountable
is not enough. You have to change a law or
inform the public of a
serious problem, so that the public can work together to solve the
problem, instead of being victimized by a problem that's caused by
ignorance.
Blaming other people for a
particular problem does not solve the problem, or does it educate
you about a problem or help you to understand the problem. You can't learn
what the problem is just by blaming other people for a problem. If people
are too busy blaming each other for their problems, then people will never
have enough time to solve their problems, or have enough time to look for
the
root causes of
their problems. If you are not involved in solving problems, then you are
most likely part of the problem. If all you do is complain and blame and
point your finger, then you will always
have problems.
Whataboutism
is a blame shifting tactic to
avoid answering a question by
distracting
people with
irrelevant details about
something else. It attempts to discredit an opponent's position by
charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their
argument. Saying, "what about that person?" Just
criticizing someone else's
behavior does not explain your behavior.
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right -
False Equivalence. Blame shifting in a
lame attempt to excuse your own criminal actions.
Like when a 2 year old who says, "Jimmy did it so why can't I?". Well you
can't you moron. This is about you and your crime, and not about someone
else's crime. Just because some other scumbag got away with a similar
crime as you, this does not mean that people should just
look the other way. No way jose.
Blame-Shifting is when a person
blames other people for their problems, when in fact they are the source
of their problems. People blame other people to cover up their own ignorance
and short comings. People don't want to take responsibility for their
actions, or be responsible for their own personal problems. Thus when you
blame other people for your problems, this means that your problems will never
be solved. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Scapegoating is
when someone blames someone else
in order to use that person as
a
scapegoat, or
as a sad excuse for their
own
ignorant behavior.
Transference -
Hypocrisy -
Invalid Argument -
Babbling -
Delusional -
Ego
Buck
Passing is the act of attributing to another person or group one's own
responsibility.
Takes two to Tango is a saying that implies that more the
one person is to blame. So blaming just one person is wrong when there is
two or more other people involved.
Peoples behaviors are being
influenced by
the
corporate
controlled media and the
corporate controlled education
institutions, which are designed to influence people to blame each
other people for their problems. They do this because they know that if
people are too busy fighting among themselves, people will never fight the
real enemies of the state, which are the corporate monopolies that poison
society with an ignorant vocabulary, which influences ignorant behaviors
and irrelevant actions.
False Flag
Attack -
Profiling.
Psychological Projection is a theory in psychology
in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses
or qualities (both positive and negative) by
denying their existence in
themselves while attributing them to others. For example,
a person who is
habitually rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude. It
incorporates blame shifting. According to some research, the projection of
one's unconscious qualities onto others is a common process in everyday
life.
A sociopath will always accuse you
of doing the very thing that they are guilty of themselves. "It's
your fault that I'm a scumbag criminal". A person who is guilty of the
very thing of which they accuse another is trying to come up with a sad
excuse for them being a scumbag. Making false accusations when there is
insufficient supporting evidence is called
Lying.
The
first problem to solve is, stop blaming other people for your problems.
Look at yourself and see yourself. Just making
negative statements
about an individual or a group that their action or actions are socially or
morally irresponsible, is not enough.
When someone is
morally responsible for doing something wrong, this usually means that their action is
blameworthy. By contrast, when someone is morally responsible for doing
something right, we may say that his or her action is
praiseworthy. There
are other senses of praise and blame that are not ethically relevant. One
may praise someone's good dress sense, and blame the weather for a crop
failure.
Accused (law) -
Assumed -
Profiling -
Criticizing -
Takes One to Know One.Having
biases or
assuming things is like
going around acting like a
raving lunatic and
pointing your finger at people, which is
crazy. Just
let us know when you know something, something that can be proven with
facts and evidence, which we can assume you have, since you are claiming
to know something.
Fault is a
wrong action attributable to bad judgment,
ignorance or
inattention.
Responsibility for a
bad situation or event. Commit a
mistake or
make an error. Put or pin the blame on. The quality of being
inadequate or falling
short of perfection.
Remember, when you
point your finger at someone,
there is always three fingers pointing back at you. You should stop
blaming and start fixing.
Fix yourself and
fix your surroundings. Blaming
other people is the ultimate
distraction.
Blameworthy
is deserving blame or censure as being
wrong or evil or
injurious.
“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself
the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I
am about to criticize?”
Marcus Aurelius,
Meditations.
Victim Blaming
is an ignorant excuse that a criminal gives by saying that the
Victim of their crime may be at fault for
having attracted their hostility. "Like robbing a bank and saying it's the
banks fault for being robed because they have money" or "Abducting a child
because the child was not being watched at that particular moment", or
"Raping a women because she was wearing something that made you an insane
criminal."
Not that same as Mitigating Circumstances.
Externalize is to transfer an emotion
to an external person or thing.
Externalization is an
unconscious defense
mechanism by which an individual "projects" his or her own internal
characteristics onto the outside world, particularly onto other people.
For example, a patient who is overly argumentative might instead perceive
others as argumentative and himself as
blameless.
Internalize.
Don't blame the first person you see
because they may be influenced by someone else and not be fully
responsible. Like when living in an apartment building with several floors
above you, and a leak from above you might not come from the unit right
above you, it may come from somewhere above the unit above you, so you
must go higher in order to find the source of the leak. Another example is
with a
chain of command.
Don't blame the person following the order, blame the person who gave the
order for someone else to follow.
Don't jump to conclusions
or be quick to point a finger at someone. Do your research first, and look
at everyone as being
innocent
until proven guilty.
Problem
Solving -
Cause and
Effect.
"Stop blaming everyone for your problems, pick one
person you hate and then blame them for everything."
Actor-Observer Bias happens when something
negative happens to us we tend to blame it on outside influences. But if
the same thing happens to strangers, we tend to blame their choices.
Egocentric Bias is when we recall past
events as being more favorable than they actually were. When in doubt, we
recall a reality that allows for a better opinion of ourselves.
Too Optimistic.
Rosy Retrospection Bias makes us remember
past events as having been much better than they actually were.
Positivity Effect happens when we
evaluate people we like or dislike. For people we like, we tend to
attribute negative behavior to situations and positive behavior to their
character. For people we dislike, it’s the other way around.
You can dish it out but you can't take it -
Criticism
Anger
-
Ignorance -
Bias -
Criticism (critics) -
Complaint Law
Activism is much more then just
complaining, it's actually trying to do something about problems people
face. Having a
debate or an
argument is more
productive than just complaining.
It's not that you cannot get through to someone or reach out to
someone or manage to communicate to someone, it's more that you
have not yet learned how to get through to someone. There is
always a way in. The
Five Senses has many combinations.
Nobody's Fault But My Own - Beck (youtube)
Grasping at Straws is a desperate attempt
at saving oneself from losing an
argument by randomly making up excuses
and naming numerous insignificant reasons why you think that you're right.
This metaphoric idiom expression refers to a drowning man grasping for
anything, even a straw or flimsy reeds to save his life.
You should learn the difference between an Excuse and a Reason.
Excuse is when you try to defend or clear
away some offensive behavior, which is not justifying it. An
attempt to lessen the blame by attaching to a fault or offense and giving
a poor or inadequate example of something, or a reason or explanation put
forward to defend or justify a fault or offense.
Reason is when you explain an action
to be
rational or necessary by using correct and valid reasoning based
on known statements or events or conditions. You don't learn
from excuses, you learn by reasoning.
Political Racism -
Verbal False Flag Attacks - Like most
republicans,
all they do is complain and blame, but
they never explain. They make false claims and their comments seem to have no
aim, except to cause people pain, which is totally insane and a really
stupid game. Wouldn't you rather have a real conversation and make your
discussions productive, instead of being destructive and disruptive. You
hardly ever ask questions, but when you do, you pretend to know the
answers, so what's the point? Your argument is basically saying 'if
someone is not taking the time to prove you wrong, you must be right, even
though you have never proven yourself to be right." Your answers are
mostly shifting the blame and talking about someone else instead of
proving your point. You complain about the same things that you do
yourself. You just don't
contradict yourself, you embarrass yourself by
repeating someone's else's stupid behavior. You have nothing original and
nothing new to add, it's just the same old bullshit. It's like not saying
anything coherent is your new norm. Republicans are becoming really good at
just talking bullshit as if it is something to be proud of. You don't
explain anything or produce anything.
You're not solving any problems,
your just making problems worse. Just complaining and blaming is just
adding to the bullshit that you complain about, you're just a bullshit
feedback loop, the only thing that you accomplish is to keep spreading the
bullshit, to eventually being just shit. You use the same argument
that religious fanatics give. I can use my beliefs as an
excuse to violate
your beliefs without any reasoning, justification or decency. You
criticize other people for the same things that you do is not doing
anything constructive or saying anything constructive. You talk nonsense
and expect people to understand you. And when people try to figure out
what you're saying, you never answer any questions or give a straight
answer. You're a
frivolous mess. If you have nothing good to say, it's
most likely because you are not a good person. You claim everything is
fake news except for your news, which is also fake. You say the same
stupid things that someone else says and only because you like what they
said. You're just repeating and regurgitating nonsense, rumors and hearsay. Nothing but
ignorant rhetoric and non definitive
vague information where you pretend
to be saying something. Two wrongs don't make a right, but you think that
3 wrongs or 4 wrongs might be OK. They say that they question everything,
but they don't question themselves. They claim to know what propaganda is,
but see nothing wrong with
repeating propaganda. They claim to know what
misinformation is, but see nothing wrong with repeating misinformation
without ever confirming if the information is factual. They claim to know
what research is, but they expect others to do the research for them, and
then they assume that the information that they have has been researched.
They claim to know that an opinion and a belief is not the same as truth
or fact, but they are completely comfortable with only having opinions and
beliefs. They claim not to be gullible or naive, but prove that they are
gullible and naive by repeating nonsense. They claim that everyone else is
a fool, but not them. They claim to think for themselves, but they don't
believe that others can also think for themselves. They claim to question
things, but don't like it when other people question them. It's hard to
educate people who don't want to listen or learn, especially when they
pretend that they know enough.
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