Psychology - November 2007

I know there are some people out there with actually medical issues so this question wont even involve them. I wont even talk about those classified as obese according to the BMI because according to that Im obese which is far from being the case.

My question is how can someone allow themselves to get to be 500lbs+ let alone anything above 300?

I cant comprehend it. Do they not understand portion control let alone control in general? My partner is 210 5'8" and admits to not having control so I put him on a diet and monitor his eating habits to get him to loose weight but what about the other 70% of Americans?

The other thing that I cant stand and am really disgusted with is women who are way overweight and think they look good in tight clothes meant for someone 1/8 of their size. When I see a plus size dress tastefully I let them know and commend them on it.

2007-11-06 02:03:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I already have an appointment but I need to know something before or get an idea. My son is 17 pretty much a good kid likes to be alone but there are certain things that are concerning me:
has no emotional feelings.We just lost our cat yesterday that weve had for yrs and all he could say is That sucks Hes always been like that. His father died when he was 9 he said he's better off. Hes verbally abusive to the younger kids and I catch him yelling or smacking the 6yr old in the head when I have told him not to!
Doesn't seem to care about anything.Today we are meeting with a social worker to determine if our family needs any help.People came to my house uninvited yesterday and my house is a wreck im alone with a clingy toddler I asked him to please stay home from school just for today to help me out with the baby(he's never been absent, yet fails all his classes)and he said he wanted to go to school. I begged him and he said no.I told him we might be separated,no emotion.What is it?

2007-11-06 02:01:55 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you kill yourself...its suicide.

If you kill someone, its murder.

If you ASK someone to kill you...Were you murdered? Or did you commit suicide?

If you asked them to do it...then you knew it would happen and you asked for it, so you clearly wanted it...so is it technically suicide? Or is it murder. I know the law would see it as murder, but the law is screwed up...so what do you think?

Murder....or suicide?

2007-11-06 01:55:57 · 4 answers · asked by Megan 3

2007-11-06 01:33:06 · 2 answers · asked by sillyfrog 2

it might make me and you smile!

2007-11-06 01:12:49 · 34 answers · asked by mary tyler moo 3

Ive been told its common practice to weed these people out of getting corporate jobs. Most compamies also create a hostile environment to introverts. This despite the fact the introversion is an inherited trait (i.e, your born with it). Should something be done about this.

2007-11-06 00:04:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

If it is unique, that is. The first question I asked on Yahoo Answers was something pertaining to my personality--how much I absolutely detest people who drive with complete disregard to traffic laws and safety. Something that still irritates me but I wanted to share my feelings and find others who agree with me.

What was the first question you asked on YA and why?

2007-11-05 23:56:02 · 7 answers · asked by Jean-Francois 5

2007-11-05 19:59:37 · 2 answers · asked by jhai 1

whats going on...

mood swings, slurring speach, irrational behaviour and thoughts... jumpy, unable to follow a conversation, blatently telling lies, then 10 mins late denying it and saying i made it up, feeling cold..

appearing to be pissed off their face after a glas of wine and worse after two..

i can honestly say, that i have never refused someone a further drink, but i felt responsible and so did...

erm, mistaking me for someone else... not remembering who they know that we have as common friends, and really actually appearing to think i was a different person to who i actually am...

frankly that was a little scary..

any ideas what the F ?? please.

2007-11-05 19:28:00 · 14 answers · asked by Maximus_Decimus_Meridius 4

I Can't imagine living without toilet facilities or toilet paper and not thinking this is not going backwards . Credit should go to science for approaching the real Garden of Eden through engineering and other scientific progress . Someday as we approach more and more close to an utopian society I hope our morality and honesty will not take it for granted .

2007-11-05 19:27:01 · 1 answers · asked by dogpatch USA 7

I can't switch jobs, the money is phenomenal here and I do love my job.

I have a hard time staying 'happy' and 'pleasant' with my on call patients. I get so tired of them wanting to know the gender of their baby when I am trying to find out whats wrong with their baby.

I get tired of them getting mad when the gender isn't what they wanted. I get tired of watching them drug, drink, smoke their baby to death in utero.

I get tired of doing meth addicts tripping out etc.

I work odd hours, I don't sleep well with being on call and up all different times of the night.

I get the next day off after being on call, but that is spent recouping from the previous night.

I plan small trips on weekends, I have mules and spend alot of time with them when I am not working.

What is your advice for burnout, what keeps you motivated? When you see the worst of human nature, how do you go back to the same grime the next day?

Any ideas?
Thanks!

2007-11-05 16:10:51 · 10 answers · asked by Mulereiner 7

I normally think that fear is what keep us alive. Bravery is what can lead to death but its also can be a symbolic to heroic. These things can be base on military issue or our daily routine. Would you rather be scared or brave?

2007-11-05 15:09:57 · 18 answers · asked by Sang 6

I was in a car accident 4 years ago that left me in a coma for two weeks. and i woke up to my wife divorcing me ( I don't blame her though).
I still have not rebounded socially, and contemplate suicide several times a day. I see a councilor and am on an antidepressant ( the one that worked the best of all the ones i have tried) but still suicidal.
My mind seems to have two flavors to it (outward) jealous and violent thinking, and (Inward) Suicidal idealization of self destruction.

I hide this all very well at my full time job and while going to college full time.

I really hate the fact that i am a 5'6" guy, and blame all of my lacking social life on the fact that "girls want tall guys", "not little shrimps" Shorties are supposed to be girls.

Any help for the crazy guy here?
its not as fun as it sounds......

2007-11-05 14:34:15 · 2 answers · asked by ohmyhead69 1

2007-11-05 14:23:40 · 2 answers · asked by I39 5

As I was saying, her latest boyfriend is the most scary. Too long to go into but I haven't liked him since the day we 1st met. 1 evening, my child asked me why she couldn't drive since her friend could (remember, both are only 8). Her friend said "You weren't supposed to tell. It's a secret." I asked her what she meant by "driving". Long story short, recent scary live-in boyfriend (who both celebrated their sobriety by drinking, since June) is letting her sit on his lap while he's driving. When my child & I were alone, I told her that she could NEVER go across the street & play inside her friend's house when boyfriend is there. The mom has been constantly at me to let my child spend the night. 2 weeks ago, she kept on pressing & I told her. (She & boyfriend are extremely vulgar, hot tempered & curse badly.) There have been 3 incidents each calling me the F word since, in front of the children, when she's tried to break my rule. Yesterday-the final straw. What should I do? Move?

2007-11-05 13:59:21 · 3 answers · asked by noodlesmycat 4

how do i go about doing that
im 15

2007-11-05 13:49:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is this strange strange or unusual? I like to have conversations with people in my head. We can talk about anything, and it's usually the same people, whichever ones are up to talking with me. They even have names. I've been talking to them for years, and I thought it was completely normal until I heard that it was weird to hear voices in your head. They haven't told me to do anything bad yet, so I don't see the problem. Should I get help? Or am I find talking to them?

2007-11-05 13:29:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have become disgusted with the music scene these days..I mean with crap like "girfriend", "lipgloss", "soulja boy", "he said she said", "stars are blind" and other completely shallow songs..millions of them I'm sure..I have to wonder is the music industry going to hell? Haa I wonder...

Why do people like stuff like this? Especially Soulja Boy..if I hear that B.S. one more time I might lose it...

Can someone "enlighten" me?

2007-11-05 13:28:42 · 12 answers · asked by Ivy Goodwitch 3

For 2 years, I have been renovating my house. My 8 year old daughter & I were not living in this house during the work. We moved back in the week school started in August. Ever since my child was 3, she's been friends with this little girl, who was being raised by her grandparents (who are very respected members of this community & a really great couple, too), while the child's mother was in drug rehab. While we weren't living in our house, the "mother's" parents bought the house directly across the street from me for their daughter & grandchild. When their daughter got out of rehab, she & her daughter moved in. When I 1st met the mother, she let something slip. She said something to the effect that "oh right, I still have to work on my man problem". She immediately allowed a guy to move in with her & has had a steady stream of boyfriends do the same, since. This latest one is the most scary. I don't have the space to continue my question. Will have 2 begin new thread

2007-11-05 13:27:01 · 5 answers · asked by noodlesmycat 4

well im not good at math or science. but i have a nack at psycology and stuff. So what type of classes?

2007-11-05 13:26:41 · 2 answers · asked by curtismayfield? 2

I just can't seem to get my homework done lately, for instance, today i wanted to get my homework done with 1st thing and now it's 8:16 and I'm only done with one assignment, the problem is, is that i get so distracted by checking on my latest rss feeds and fav. web sites. i need some help with focusing on my homework, what is the cause of my lack of focus, is their something i can do to help myself?

2007-11-05 13:18:18 · 5 answers · asked by John S 2

For example, as i type this, i literally spell each word out out in my mind. In the mean time, a deeper part of my mind focuses on whether anyone will understand what im trying to get across and in the meantime, there's always the sub-concious parts of our mind that we cant necesarilly communicate with ourselves, but it exists. What im trying to get across is that, i believe there are atleast three different levels of thinking. Do you agree?

2007-11-05 13:12:24 · 2 answers · asked by goldcharm 2

I've spent most of my life alone. Since my Dad died and my Mom walked out on me shortly after about 13 years ago I've had to work all the time just to keep my head above water. Now I've realized that being alone all these years has crippled me socially. I have trouble dealing with people or understanding their motives. I don't think I have a response to everyday social situations that a normal person would call normal. I know it's the reason why women hate me and I do poorly with people at work. I've tried to adjust my approach but I always just get annoyed with people in the end. I really just don't know what to do anymore and I'm getting sick of having to be recluse. I feel like 13 years in exhale is payment enough and it's time I meet someone that could make me happy. How can I go about doing this?

2007-11-05 12:50:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why is it that no matter what i want to do, or get, or achieve...something always stands in the way.

Its like im cursed when it comes to dreams and ambitions.

I wanted to join the military....and i cant now (i can, but not in the field i want),

I wanted to go to college, but now i really dont think i can make it.

Theres always something standing in the way, and im tired of it

i hate life.....i hate it more than i hate anything

2007-11-05 12:28:01 · 10 answers · asked by The Eternal Warrior? 4

I just got back from my school. Today I was away, and my friend told me that the band rehearsal was at 7:00 or 7:15. I didn't want to go because I was too scared and nervous, but my mum made me go. It was my first time. I showed up at around 7:00 and my mom insisted that she'd come in with me, so she did. When we went in the music room no one was there so my mom was asking all of the janitors if there was a band practice and I was really embarrassed and paranoid that everyone from the band could here me and they were all laughing and me because I couldn't find my way around. I was so embarrassed that I almost started crying and told me mom to take me home because I thought that everyone could here me and they were all laughing at me.
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2007-11-05 11:44:29 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

For example, sharing, caring and being fair....

2007-11-05 11:30:08 · 6 answers · asked by Hot Coco Puff 7

I'm interested in psychology and sociology and I'm deciding which one Im more interested in. Could someone give me a detailed description but on a 9th-12th grade level please?

2007-11-05 11:18:43 · 12 answers · asked by Baton Twirler 3

When you grow up and life just seems so repituos, nothing can excite you anymore,everything seems as if you have already seen it, tasted it, heard it, nothing new, nothing that attractive...
I wish I could see the world as I was child, like everything was so new, fresh, exciting, full of adventures, life was like a discovering journy, so many lovely things, so much laugh, I was loving life
Whats happened to me?
Is it just the way life is or there is something wrong with me?
by the way im 23
1 week ago

2007-11-05 11:17:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Well for the past year or two I've been feeling like something odd is happening in my house. It all started one night when my friend and I were watching T.V. She was standing right next to me and I saw a shadowy figure next to her. I did a double take but it vanished. A month or so later my mother saw a shadow of a person go across her wall while she was reading. My same friend saw the outline of a person outside my door when she was doing my hair, but noone was there. Sometiems when I close my eyes I see this odd scene play out in front of me, like I was actually there, a car crash and it's always the same and it feels like I'm there and I can here screaming and the wheels and everything. Sometimes in my room it feels like someone is watching me and I SWEAR I can feel a presence. And the weirdest, my friend and I were brushing our teeth one morning and my parent's door was going back and forth. It squeaks so I finally yelled "STOP!" and it stoped, but nobody was there. What do I do?

2007-11-05 11:07:36 · 3 answers · asked by Cat 4

I always feel like someone is watching me when I'm alone. Am I paranoid? Is it just me?

2007-11-05 10:55:01 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous