Psychology - July 2006

Not only are police officers still using guns, but now they are putting 50,000 volts of electricity through people with tasers. Tasers are being used on citizens when guns would have never been used on people. Drunk people are getting tazed, senior citizens, and even children. Mostly for minor reasons. Tasers shoudl be banned. Here is a videoclip of a woman being tasered during a traffic stop.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/video/taser_video3a.html

2006-07-19 07:08:07 · 10 answers · asked by bgfhg g 1

I am writing an important work. While it's just data and speculations, it's fine, I can create thousands of pages full of them, but when it comes to a really serious analysis, I am paralyzed. I explain it by fear to take responsibility for my own thoughts and opinions, but this understanding doesn't help. Maybe someone knows what one can concretely do to overcome this fear? I don't accept answers of "Just do it!" type. I am a grown-up and had millions of chances to see that "just do it!" tactics does not take you anywhere, it just causes an even bigger feeling of guilt than before...

2006-07-19 06:50:10 · 2 answers · asked by Z 2

I have a hard time implying information. In other words, I have trouble “reading in-between the lines” when reading or when someone tells me something. This deficiency I have makes me struggle in school because I have to have my lectures re-explained so I can understand it. This makes me also struggle at work; because I need to know what my boss is telling me when he’s giving me important instructions. When someone tells me something simple, I often just don’t get it. This doesn’t have anything to do with focusing or paying attention, it’s dealing more with understanding simple things intuitively. What could I do to improve on this? Do you know any exercises I can do to strengthen this deficiency I have? Your help is greatly appreciated, thank you!

2006-07-19 06:47:09 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't know why, but whenever i'm around my boyfriend or certian friends i can't stop eating... even if my stomach is full i can't help but want something to eat... it's resulted a lot of weight gain, especially when i'm around him often... but when i'm with other friends i have no appetite... well, i either eat in healthier amounts or i eat very little... why is that?

2006-07-19 06:41:17 · 12 answers · asked by constanze_mylove 2

2006-07-19 06:31:18 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-19 06:24:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-19 06:13:22 · 11 answers · asked by ? 5

2006-07-19 05:59:48 · 34 answers · asked by a1000_desert_roses_bloom 1

One day I was at a grocery store and after I walked out I was walking to my car.I had alot on my mind that day I had a fight with one of my close friends.When I got to my car I started putting things into the car.I had a vision that the cart was drifting away and
when I looked back over to the cart I seen it moving towards a van.I got the cart before it hit the van. Was this a premoniton or just a coincidence?

2006-07-19 05:53:30 · 5 answers · asked by sweetlittlemama2006 4

I wasn't sure of which catergory to put this under...
I had a dream the other night that a man had a bomb strapped to his body and invaded our home (but everyone but me is acting fine when he walks around them!)... he is waiting for a friend... well, when his friend takes too long, he hands my dad the detenator and tells him "when I walk into the next room, push the button!" so dad does and it blows up... (dad still sits there watching tv and mom is cooking, like this happens everday!) then not 2 seconds later, his friend pulls up in the driveway, dad tells him about the other guy so the friend pulls into our garage (some how we end up outside...) jump into our car and now the car is chasing us with weapons... then i wake up before any pain is inflicted on my family...
i was just curious to see if anyone out there might now what this may mean...
thank you for your time...

2006-07-19 05:40:42 · 8 answers · asked by Fatty McButterpants 5

I have a friend that constantly is invading my life. She invites herself over for dinner, meddles in my life, has to be right, gets irritated, insists on doing my yard work and then expects payment for it, as if we have discussed it earlier (which we had NOT!) and constantly is up one day down the next.... Drama Drama Drama!!

And I am stuck in the middle of it!

I KNOW this is a personality disorder I am dealing with. I am a social worker and have gotten sucked into their lives before and before I knew it, I was saying "what the heck just happened here???"

I want control of my own life back! I also don't want to be rude b/c my kids play with hers on occassion. I just want to set the right kind of boundaries to make sure I keep this from invading my life...

Help!

2006-07-19 05:37:14 · 5 answers · asked by xxxcariooo 3

2006-07-19 05:36:10 · 9 answers · asked by evian 6

Left brained people get better grades in school and make more money. Most politicians (clinton the exception) are left brained.

Left brained people actually like working.

Creativity is useless in modern society, since everything is mass-produced.

Is it best to be anal-rententive and linear?

2006-07-19 05:33:50 · 13 answers · asked by electroberry1 3

2006-07-19 04:51:57 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am 46 and am not satisfied with my career but seem unable to make a clear decision as what to do with my life. My family supports my decsions but I believe that I am letting them down every time I make a change. I have floated around for the last 5 years...HELP!

2006-07-19 04:49:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

if you still asking this like ques. how do you feel when you're answering?

2006-07-19 04:40:31 · 12 answers · asked by caramba 1

A fetish is an object that arouses, like a sheep or feet. A perversion is an action that arouses, like playing table football or doing something to the sheep. What i want to know is, how do they form? I know someone with a perversion of watching his girlfriend have sex with animals (don't ask!) and this set me wondering... Are they formed by our experiencesn n life? Are they present from a early age and we just don't know they're there? Do they actually serve a biological purpose? Anything anybody can give me, i'll be grateful.

2006-07-19 04:36:45 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am 25 and she has her own room but doesnt use it. stays with me and keeps on doing her work and never allows me to even invite my friends nor does she cooperate. She is elder to me by two years. It irritates me so much and we have attitude problems that we never flow insame direction.

2006-07-19 04:31:13 · 11 answers · asked by handyplast007 2

2006-07-19 04:30:56 · 41 answers · asked by -Tequila17 6

to deceive someone to help someone get away with a bad thing he did

2006-07-19 04:28:38 · 13 answers · asked by Azazeal 1

2006-07-19 04:25:34 · 16 answers · asked by J.C. 4

2006-07-19 04:19:57 · 9 answers · asked by M.S 2

2006-07-19 04:11:06 · 19 answers · asked by Dighi_143 2

how can i tell if someone is a narcissist.
or rather how can i tell if i have that disorder.

also how can i get help to change.

2006-07-19 04:01:49 · 6 answers · asked by juan_yong 4

2006-07-19 03:55:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i.e. if you know the earth is going to destroy tomorrow by any way, what will be your most powerful emotion that you want to fulfill?

2006-07-19 03:46:34 · 23 answers · asked by Jay 1

can you tell? i've worked with the mentally ill. sometimes they look "normal" but there's nothing "normal" about them!

2006-07-19 03:41:12 · 5 answers · asked by luvmuzik 6

Perhaps some of you may think this is null and void but some psychiatrist believe that this kind of test help them understand their patients.

Question:
You and your family we`re riding along the open breeze blasting the sounds and having the time of your life.

Due to negligence, your dad forgot about the road and swerved into a tight turn and hit the barrier so hard it collapsed pulling the car into a ravine.

Here`s the difficult part.
The car is half way to falling into a dangerous pit, luckily, there was a slight bump on the rocks forcing the wheels to get stock in a temporary position but because of inbalance, only 2 can survive.

You are the only one hanging close to a nearby tree but letting go can be a bad decision besides that, one must hold the car breaks to prevent it from slipping along the cracks in the rocks.

The decision now lies to you, who would you save?

Your Mother
or....
Your Father

Saving one will leave you 35% chance of survival and 60% if you save yourself.

2006-07-19 03:13:59 · 14 answers · asked by Kent Ishii 2

A student of mine argues that he is right in using Likert type scales to measure the knowledge of his subject on the mechanics of condom use. Is he ritght? If the answer is "yes" Explain how?

2006-07-19 02:56:45 · 3 answers · asked by Venaktachalam R 1

2006-07-19 02:37:54 · 28 answers · asked by RACHEL 3