Social Science - 30 May 2007

It's what i think everytime i take a puff on my roll up. Don't smoke tailor made these days, they are laced with chemicals even more than tobacco.
I gave the other coping mechanisms like cutting and drinking up over the years.
So is it or not ... smoking ... a possible form of self harm?

2007-05-30 05:02:38 · 27 answers · asked by Part Time Cynic 7 in Psychology

i have been living with a circle of influential people since childhood. most of it indirectly. my granddad was one of Malaysia's successful senior judges, and my dad, he was a success himself. these put pressure on me on what am i to become in adulthood. taking my SPM this year, I'm an honor student. most people expect me to pursue engineering as it offers high paying start salary, but what I'm really interested with is construction management. i'm in a dilemma

2007-05-30 04:45:33 · 1 answers · asked by get_xed 1 in Psychology

I feel like I'm losing my mind. My life was pretty good. I was able to stay home and care for my kids. We were able to pay the bills, etc. But an old college loan surfaced that I had been looking for and is now a huge debt. Because of that, I now have to find a job. Because I've never done well at a job, I can't find anyone to hire me. I am miserable. I feel like my past is catching up with me and even though I want to move forward and take care of things, I'm stuck. I've even applied to WalMart, Target, and a grocery store and they don't want me. How do you get ahead with a bad past? I'm not even clear what I did wrong at past jobs, mostly they told me it was my personal issues. (I'm still not sure what personal issues). Is there a way to get past failures in my past or do you just throw in the towel? I don't see a positive side to this? I have no medical coverage either, so seeking help is out of the question, unfortunatly. Do you think I'm sick or just a big mess up?

2007-05-30 04:32:20 · 16 answers · asked by Wendy B 5 in Psychology

I am a teen, and I have to write a paper on how my life is different from my mother's life as a teen. Any suggestions?

2007-05-30 04:05:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

what is refered to as a 'mob' mentality?

2007-05-30 03:46:45 · 7 answers · asked by Snake Eyes 6 in Psychology

In real life I have been worried about finding a teaching job for 2007-2008. I am a certified teacher, but for 2006-2007 I have worked as a teachers aide because I couldn't find a local teaching job. My worries have kept me from sleeping well as we complete this school year. I love where I work and didn't want to have to leave here. I have been working with Adaptive Behavior (AB--special ed. kids who have severe emotional and/or behavioral problems) as an aide and wanted to keep working with them next year but I can't afford to keep working for less than half of teacher pay.

Recently I have had 2 recurring dreams. Each dream left me with a feeling of deep peace. In one dream, I was working with the same students next year. In the other dream, I was the school librarian next year.

I found out the meaning of those dreams yesterday when I was asked to work as the librarian/AB teacher next year...at teacher salary. They did this to keep from losing me.

Any similar stories?

2007-05-30 03:40:16 · 9 answers · asked by Deb 4 in Dream Interpretation

Let's contrast the difference. I hope to get a good mix of both groups.

2007-05-30 03:15:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

Last night I had a dream of a woman playing with a horse and then when she fell off the horse started running while she was still latched onto it. Then I started running towards the two of them and then almost caught up. When I finally caught up to them, the horse and the woman were laying on my driveway, the woman obviously hurt and the horse lying there eating some hay....

ANY IDEAS???

2007-05-30 03:14:09 · 13 answers · asked by jeff s 2 in Dream Interpretation

does anyone know what it means if people are stealing things from you in your dreams? the other night i had a dream that someone stole my dress, and last night i had a dream that someone stole my empty luggage from me.

2007-05-30 03:04:45 · 4 answers · asked by Steph 1 in Dream Interpretation

i had strange dream that there were many fishes in a tank, and they were trying to jum out, and I was trying to keep them in the tank and everytime I see a fish jumping out, I try to hold it, it feels smooth to touch, hehe, I try put it back in tank, then it jumps out again, then i try to put it back.
any idea what that means?
thanks

2007-05-30 02:53:35 · 13 answers · asked by Maria 2 in Dream Interpretation

To be more specific, I can never talk about death and even typing the word chills me to the bone. I am absolutely terrified of it and anything related to it. I cannot recall anything traumatic happening to me now or in my childhood to make me feel this way. Is there a name for this type of phobia? Does anyone else experience it? I am a middle aged woman, married with 6 grown kids and I am in good health. I have had this terrible fear for about 25 years. No, nothing happened 25 years ago to make me feel this way. It really bothers me. I don't want to die - ever! I can't talk about it to anyone because of the fear. I have to keep it to myself. This was very difficult for me to write but I am hoping someone can help me understand this. Thankyou.

2007-05-30 02:40:13 · 13 answers · asked by teatotler 4 in Psychology

I had this dream about 3 nights ago that my super- intendent had some people take me to a place of tourture like discusting water with I don't know what inside ........and he was basically threatening me,if you don't do (i don't know or remember what he was after) this is what I'll do to you.

Finaly he let me go,

I can't stop thinking of this dream and I'm trying to make sence of it.

I mean I still feel the fear I felt when dreaming it

Any advice

2007-05-30 02:36:39 · 4 answers · asked by lizbntz 2 in Dream Interpretation

2007-05-30 02:24:46 · 29 answers · asked by aLySSa<3 3 in Psychology

I am trying to do research on this subject and really need some key words to start out with it.

2007-05-30 02:08:52 · 10 answers · asked by Chris 3 in Psychology

My 67 year old mom has dreams of her deceased sister nearly every night. She also frequently dreams about deceased brothers, and her mom and dad, who have both long passed. She has become very disturbed by this lately, thinking it means she will soon join them.

2007-05-30 01:23:29 · 10 answers · asked by ~RedBird~ 7 in Dream Interpretation

I have so much stuff I need to get off my mind it's not funny anymore.

1. i've moved out of home 4 times only for them all to fail through somebody else's means (landlords, neighbours, employers)

2. any job i find i really suck at and only survive for limited amounts of time, i'm currently jobless and have been to more job interviews than anyone i know.

3. i seem to be the butt of everyones joke all the time.

4. people seem to dislike me, when ALL i've ever done is been nice to them and get derogatory comments back in return. they make me feel like an outcast.

5. my parents are separated, my dad just doesn't bother contacting us and my mum has very little faith in me.

6. everyone thinks i'm lazy and do flip all every day, but i try really hard most days to get a job

7. i have no girlfriend, i appear to get rejected by every girl i talk too...i wouldn't deem myself as being unattractive in anyway.

8. i'm actually horribly depressed from all 23 years of this now.

2007-05-30 01:09:02 · 12 answers · asked by dodge 1 in Psychology

In the past 10 years, i've had nightmares with different situations. Six of them ended in my untimely demise and one of them was a Nightmare within a Nightmare. If I recall correctly, it was listed like this:

I have been shot twice. Once by my one of my friends back in my old neighborhood.

I have been bitten by a snake.

I drowned in the water twice.

I have been killed by a village of feline/human hybrids after killing a black cat that have been in my nightmares since I was seven. (That was the nightmare in a nightmare)

What does these dreams mean because I don't have a single clue!

2007-05-30 01:08:44 · 6 answers · asked by javon56 4 in Dream Interpretation

hi, i'm 12 years old and i dunno about u but i've been watching a tv series in discovery channel called a haunting at night every day. It's about real paranomal experiences-yes ,, it's freaky. nowdays, i get dreams about me on a stormy night and the sky is red. i'm in the living room and i the phone rings so i get the phone. the person hangs up and like simpsons, in the sky a cross suddenly comes out and like hail mary is out on the porch, i go out and i dunno y but i suddenly say my prayers and she looked rilly scary and mad. then i also has this dream where it was rilly cold in the house, someone was murdered and there were reaky zombies coming out of my bro's room and i went to my room. and i dunno if u know who satan is - it' s the devil but there was a blue face boy in my room and i dunno y but i knew he was satan and i just stood up and wasn't afraid and he started screaming and i woke up. these dreams are kinda disturbing. anyone know what they mean ???ㅠ.ㅠ cuz i'm freaked out.

2007-05-30 01:00:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dream Interpretation

2007-05-30 00:54:03 · 6 answers · asked by sugar 2 in Psychology