Psychology - November 2006

As a tumble weed, or many snowflakes drifted,
Always feeling high strung, as if my weight has shifted,
Riled up over nothing, drawn toward my instinct to be....
Overwhelmed by my desire, to have someone next to me..
Not that I'm shy or all that bad looking, I catch an eye or two....
Cannot I find a woman to warm, when the temp is negative two----
Has the fire burned too low? Have the embers grown too cold?
All I seek is love and what follows, I'm only 32 years old!
Yet to be married, I've played the field, but I'm tired of running the bases...
New love may erase old wounds, And plant a smile on two faces!
Every poem I write is genuine, from my heart, my minds archive...
So my question is simple..Is it healthy to have this drive?
Toward love and warmth and a smiling face....the same one for the rest of my life?
As I watch my scenery pass, I would love to share it with a wife......

Hope you enjoyed it......I'm just bored with the single thingle. Sarcasm not necessary.....

2006-11-10 18:27:27 · 6 answers · asked by 35 YEARS OF INTUITION 4

I'm not answering questions just for the possibility to be chosen best answer, but it certainly make me feel more appreciated when it does happen. With every question I answer I do my utmost best to help the askerer. Therefor it is very frustrating when they don't even make an effort to pick a best answer. I don't mind if they choose someone else'e answer, just as long as they do so. So, please every user on this site, try to be considerate and choose a best answer!

2006-11-10 18:25:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I noticed in myself that my mood is off lately. Easily irritated. I am not normally like this. I am almost 42, am I going through another change??? I got put on antidepressants today. Isn't there another way to resolve or to not act this way anymore. Or am I to take these pills for the rest of my life. I am trying to figure out how to put my irritations, in to giving me something positive to conteract the negatives. Like exercise or something.

2006-11-10 18:19:28 · 9 answers · asked by cnacyn 1

Please read the following question and tell me if you agree with "Sweetie" about my being naive. If you agree tell me what is it that I have said that lead you to make that conclusion.
Kindly post your answers to his question here and not on the other page. thank you.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiIhTKdlqpzXCEeJbSPTvojsy6IX?qid=20061110221346AAKczCs

2006-11-10 18:18:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why is it, that the people we allow ourselves to be the most vulnerable with, are the people who hurt us the most?

2006-11-10 18:08:53 · 6 answers · asked by saucylilbrat43 2

2006-11-10 18:05:36 · 10 answers · asked by nevian 1

Most people has one or more of the following:
- wealth
- intelligence
- happiness
- dream or career
- a good family relation.
But most of the time, I felt that I have nothing of any one of this. Things are getting worst. I can consentrate because of this.

*Wealth
- We have tried everything but still, we are poor. We have no savings in the bank.

*Intelligence, Dream and Career
- They say am good, then why my grades are falling when I thinks of anything that I cannot get. There is always a better person that can defeat me.

*Family
- it has been destroyed 6 years ago due to misunderstanding.

*Happiness
- I already lost 3 bestfriends now, one in 1996, 2000 and 2004. And the person that I want to be with is so much different to me. We want to play computer games but we have different views in wines, beers and other forms of gimmicks. He joins other people for this matter, which makes me jealous. I desperate to have a bestfriend that I like and will likes me forever.

2006-11-10 17:46:07 · 5 answers · asked by Sai 1

Philosopher Hume pointed out that we have no underlying ‘personal identity’ beneath or behind these perceptions and feelings which come and go.

Do you agree that when you look within yourself you do not observe a “self” in addition to the perceptions and feelings that you observe within yourself?

If you agree that you do not observe your “self” in this way, should you conclude (with Hume) that you do not have an underlying ‘personal identity’ but that you are simply the “stream” of perceptions and feelings that you observe within yourself?

2006-11-10 17:42:49 · 3 answers · asked by FalennixonX 1

For example I'm afraid talking to my lecturers
I feel some fear in me when I'm in the company with my girlfriends,
I fear when I talk to friends,
I'm afraid when I'm talking to the cashier at the bank

2006-11-10 17:40:35 · 8 answers · asked by angate 3

Which of these research methods would you choose and why? case study, naturalistic observation, correlational research, survey research, or the experimental method
What would be the relative strengths and weaknesses of this study? What ethical considerations must be taken into account while undertaking this study?

2006-11-10 17:39:36 · 5 answers · asked by ? 1

2006-11-10 17:27:30 · 11 answers · asked by yin 2

I have a re-occuring dream theme in which I am trying to find houses that I used to living in in another state. But everywhere I go, they are torn down, built over, or just not there for some reason or another. I have been having these dreams at least every month for the past 10 years. While the dreams are all different, the theme is the same. Sometimes it is in first person, and I am actually doing the hunting, other times it could be me telling someone about the dreams, sometimes I am another person viewing myself trying to find the houses or places. The dreams are always different in some way, but ALWAYS having to do with me hunting down a non-existant past.

To supplement this, I should say that there are large blocks of my youth that I cannot recall. I have not had any physical trauma. I'm not sure if I have some type of blocked out mental trauma or not.

Can someone help me understand what these dreams are saying? Serious answers please.

2006-11-10 17:19:11 · 7 answers · asked by cuttinggrass4u 2

I am not in the war but with the threat of multiple new wars I understand that a draft is almost inevitable. And I think that I may be further isolating myself from the world and society as I pretend to believe that I am somehow special, or worthy of some sort of test. But Im not actually pretending, I feel like I am being tested by reality itself. I am not afraid to die, but I want to die for what I believe in, not for someone elses beliefs. I feel that I've gone through so much mental discomfort over the past few years and I dont believe that a war in Iran or North Korea will be the end for me. I realize that according to my research, others have gone through so much more suffering than I have, and that I have no basis for complaint.

2006-11-10 17:04:25 · 2 answers · asked by Sir 3

Can you please actually describe exactly the steps on how to do it, and ways and what to do. Everytime I talk to somebody they take me seriously or just the conversation just get wierd, like it gets nowhere and ackward. Please I want to make people adults and children and teens to want to be around me in a cool way not gay or stupid way.

2006-11-10 16:55:28 · 12 answers · asked by Wireless 2

Consider person A and B, A is optimist, B is pessimist. Theoretically, B needs some advice to become optimistic, and psychologists proudly say B can do so by having positive thoughts. I suggest that this is a paradox itself.

Lemma 1: If B is pessimistic, it is because the surroundings has influenced him in the negative ways (like always fail in doing something) that inductive knowledge suggests that B is not going to do any good in subsequent attempts.

Lemma 2: B might be pessimistic because of his genetics (such as autism which causes failure in social context and leads to poor self esteem).

The problem here is B is not able to think positively because he is in a condition where the way of thinking doesn't have any real outcome (just eg. if u don't study for your exam, having positive thoughts doesn't make u score better).

2006-11-10 16:52:58 · 6 answers · asked by jlryan87 2

Lately I've been questioning some elements of reality. Is absolutely everything some sort of test? Are my 5 senses some sort of sensory testing equipment? Im starting to consider the possibility of every single footbal program that I've watched, every news telecast, every piece of historic evidence and scientific fact has only inserted itself into my perception and my senses(my life) in order to test me. The existence of wildlife and wildlife habitat, the beautiful moon reflected upon the ocean during the evening, is something lying to me? Am I really just meant to die in warfare? Or do I have some sort of option? Please, can someone give me logical advice. I know I sound insane, and I AM, but I am also intelligent. And I stopped smoking cigarettes, marijuana and any other drugs or dirty habbits years ago in order to pursue the martial arts. I am DEAD serious, I have a couple glasses of wine a couple times a week and thats about it. I am not an drug adict, but maybe I am to dillusion..

2006-11-10 16:45:12 · 5 answers · asked by Sir 3

Tell us WHEN (approximate date & time), WHAT (what you did then vs. what you'd do now) and WHY.

ps. Today doesn't count

2006-11-10 16:30:47 · 16 answers · asked by xoxo 4

2006-11-10 16:23:25 · 9 answers · asked by miki 3

Poorva jenmah is mentioned in the Hindu mythology.

2006-11-10 16:00:26 · 4 answers · asked by murli d 1

some are very seriously disturbed.

2006-11-10 15:36:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Often I will dream of myself lying in bed, when i notice a large freakish looking spider descending from the ceiling right above me. I usually end up swinging my arm trying to swat it and that's usually the point when i wake up. I always 'feel' my hand hit it, and that's why I'm always fooled by the dream. I am not arachnophobic. Any ideas of what it could mean?

2006-11-10 15:17:42 · 47 answers · asked by durak28 1

Last night I had a very strange dream, and there is alot leading up to what I'm about to tell u, but Yahoo wouldn't let me use more than this number of characters. We past by a dead guys house where they were searching through his stuff. He had a collapsable boat and such. We asked for some nails or something, and a man with a mustache said something about stepping on a nickle. He handed us a power bait jar and to my surprise it had a small snake in it that was the cause of the mans death. The power bait jar had a hole in it, and the snake would stick it’s head through the hole. It was so small that it looked more like a worm than a snake. It was supposedly called a nail head, and it was dead. The man whom it bit, had grabbed it and stuffed it into the jar seconds before his death. The man died long ago, and the snake had killed itself by biting itself on the tail (which was scored) to end it’s imprisonment. It had killed itself, but somehow it came back to life. It was very strange.

2006-11-10 15:11:24 · 11 answers · asked by politicaltnt 2

if suddenly violent imaginations flash in your head due to unresolved anger in the past and at present? violent imaginations, such as, stabbing people in different ways with different weapons, torturing, or whatever cruelty you can inflict, or imagining aiming at a person at a point-blank range and shoot him/her right then and there?

clarification:

before you conclude that it's me, i would like to make it clear that it's not me. i am a frustrated psychologist (LOL!)
i just want to know if that case, mentioned above, is a sign of insanity, or the beginning of it.

what's your views about the matter?

my view is that it is.

2006-11-10 15:07:33 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

if u r lazy to do something, u get nothing.

2006-11-10 14:55:29 · 1 answers · asked by robert KS LEE. 6

i've really evolved into a different person over the past few years. i used to be a god fearing christian conservative who occasionally enjoyed classic rock. now, i'm a blaspheming agnostic liberal who loves jamming out to industrial rock! wow, how did this happen?

2006-11-10 14:39:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

my parents say i'm addicted to coffee(caffine) i dont think i am. but i was wondering how would i know? i dont need it but i just like it and want it.

2006-11-10 13:42:49 · 17 answers · asked by .:.:.Mizz_undaStood.:.:. 4

It seems hard for me to understand my feelings to a cool sci teach. I'm shy telling this to my friends so nobody knows it...

2006-11-10 13:42:36 · 15 answers · asked by Ashlyn_47 2

My original question was going to be, "Why do we fear change?" Yahoo directed me to the same quesiton asked by someone else, and the general consensus is that it's because we fear the unknown.

Okay, so let's make a scenario. There's a new type of email released, but you've been using, say, hotmail for the past three years. You've heard fantastic reviews about this new email, and you know it'll be better than hotmail if you take the time to learn how to use it. Yet, hotmail is reliable, safe. You understand it, nothing new or complex about it, so you don't embrace the change and stand by inferiority.

Why?

2006-11-10 13:38:02 · 8 answers · asked by Link 4

How do you know when it's time to change your life?

2006-11-10 13:31:38 · 12 answers · asked by Sophie 1

For Christmas and birthdays and things like that.

Be honest in your answer! A lot of you will be used to getting presents on certain occassions every year, but I am not. I feel jealous of my friends who get all sorts of wonderful things, and when they enquire what I got, I just smile and tell them not to ask. Is the nature of wanting things you don't need a selfish one?

2006-11-10 13:31:05 · 6 answers · asked by Link 4