Psychology - November 2007

I believe that when someone turns 18 yrs old, (well, maybe 21), they are grown! I can offer my opinion and advice, IF ASKED! But, why do other people insist on trying to make other people ADAPT to their opinions and viewpoints? Grown folks are gonna do exactly what they want to do? Why can't others accept that??

2007-11-03 19:28:33 · 5 answers · asked by 100% ♥Creole♥ 7

2007-11-03 18:13:17 · 6 answers · asked by andy t 3

I have these recurring nightmares that happen about 1-3 times a year. I've had them for as long as I can remember, and they are always identical, except for physical experiences. All the characters in my dream have aged as I have. These nightmares terrify me, I wake up in a sweat, and I'm not sure if I cry during my dream or as soon as I wake up, but I sob from fear every time I have them.

I can't remember much from them, when I try to explain it. I remember that my mom and I are sitting around in a room, something happens and my mom calls the police, but when she does it I get a bad feeling. Then I go outside and there's a woman sitting in a car, and it turns out my moms a bad guy, and the phone doesn't work, and I can't get help. If I had a bad relationship with my mom, it might make more sense, but we're best friends, probably the most like Lorelie and Rory Gilmore you can find.

I have no idea why i get these dreams, but I want them to stop. These are the ones I cant ignore...

2007-11-03 17:54:22 · 4 answers · asked by supernatural_luver 4

this thought is compulsive, it still happens inside of my head no matter how hard i try to repress it. i'm afraid i might kill someone and end up going to prison.

2007-11-03 17:51:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am an international student. I never really enjoyed doing school assignments, unless they enjoyed absolute freedom or creativity (such as "do a project about whatever you want" or to write my personal opinion about something).

I got ok/good grades due to my intelligence. But I hated homework assignments and always procrastinated them and avoided them.

My SAT scores and some independent projects, plus my ok/good grades got me a full scholarship at Bucknell University.

Now I am at Bucknell, and I find that college is all about studying and learning. But if I ever enjoyed learning, it was learning on my own out of curiosity. I NEVER have enjoyed assigned stuff. And I very much prefer creative stuff, like creating languages, codes, and writing personal opinions.

Here in college, I am being taught things. Yet, I hate learning. I want to do stuff on my own creatively... I am struggling, too much studying. This time my intelligence is not enough to get good grades. What to do?

2007-11-03 17:36:32 · 8 answers · asked by Kenneth D 1

2007-11-03 16:27:22 · 9 answers · asked by ? 3

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

If you don't send this to at least 8 people....Who cares?

2007-11-03 15:53:45 · 20 answers · asked by gagewin 1

.it seems that everyone views suicide as a selfish dishonorable act yet no one seems to understand the pure anguish and hell i seem to go through...ive thought about killing myself for years..i came very close several times but stopped in fear that i would just injure myself for life instead of finishing the job..suicide seems to be such a taboo in todays society and whenever someone talks about it they just get put down even more....im going to kill myself without a doubt..sometime soon..i know what it will put my family through and i kno its only a "permanent solution to a temporary problem" but im tired of struggling everyday to make it ...ive seen plenty of doctors been in the hospital and been on every psychotic drug there is..nothing has helped...im thinking bout just going all out and swallowing hundreds of pills then a gun to the head..please dont preach to me..but im just curious on ppls thoughts and opionions

2007-11-03 15:47:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Psychiatrists have classified me as one. But its not my choice and I have to exercise complete and total control over myself every waking hour to be even remotely acceptable to society and i still manage to mess that up by becoming extremely violent with some moron who pissed me off and then become totally calm again, or when i see some woman crying for her lost child, i laugh and could care less...she should have had her eyes on the child....

its not by choice that i am like this, but i have been ever since i can remember...the thing is, i control myself...so why is it when people find out what i am, they act like i have some deadly contagious disease like sars or the bird flu? not only that but they start avoiding eye contact....that actually makes it worse and harder to control

2007-11-03 15:35:55 · 3 answers · asked by vampychic727 2

2007-11-03 15:22:13 · 8 answers · asked by Beautiful Disaster 4

in the last week i have observed over 20 deer, 9 foxes, 12 skunks, 2 bears, 15 groundhogs, and a various assortment of other animals that we all made eye contact and neither ran or got hostile. this seems very strange, but soothing to me, and i live in a city

2007-11-03 15:01:19 · 20 answers · asked by At peace with myself 3

I need to know the best way to respond to stinging, condescending comments.

2007-11-03 14:47:17 · 8 answers · asked by chit-chaat7 3

For example -

Psychodynamic ( Freud , Jung )
Psycho-social ( Erikson )
Humanistic ( Maslow , Rogers )
Socio-cultural ( Vygotsky )
Cognitive – Behavioural
Social learning ( Bandura )
Ecological ( Bronfenbrenner )


I need to know where Piero Scaruffi fits in.

2007-11-03 14:45:37 · 1 answers · asked by Vicarious 4

Is Insanity nature or nurture? where can i find information on insanity?

2007-11-03 14:44:19 · 12 answers · asked by . n 1

2007-11-03 14:36:15 · 13 answers · asked by masonv80 3

If I go to the movies, someone has to sit right in front of me. If I am sitting at a bar, someone has to sit right next to me. When I park at the mall, I always park as far away as I can, but you guessed it, some one always parks right beside me.

Why?

2007-11-03 13:48:13 · 7 answers · asked by Petero 6

Ok im 14 and im scaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaared of the dark. Whenever I hear a sound or something I jump. Sometimes it feels as if though there is someone walking in the house even when i know there isnt. Im so paranoid that omgaaaa I actually CHECK my closet. I think thats going overboard. Seriously. It mostly the dark i hate cause thats when I get paranoid. I love to hear scary stories too and i cant stop wanting to hear them. GOSHH. so do you know any ways I can get over this fear of the dark and paranoidness?

2007-11-03 12:39:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-03 12:37:43 · 19 answers · asked by Rita 6

2007-11-03 12:21:58 · 8 answers · asked by Robert H 1

So say a couple has two kids, both of them are biological. Then they decide to adopt a third kid who is say 12...

Would it be fair to the adopted kid if the parents naturally love their biological children more?

Would it be fair to the biological children if the parents love all the children equally, and the attention was distributed equally even though the adopted child has been part of the family for a shorter period of time?

Do you think it is possible, if you have kids already to love an adopted child that old equally to your own children?

Just needing some ideas...

Thanks.

2007-11-03 12:13:48 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-03 12:05:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you think you have a life or do you consider yourself a psycopath?
After you read my info, do you think I'm a normal person or an idiot? Just answer based on the other questions I've asked and my public info.

2007-11-03 11:59:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

My Mum died nearly three years ago when I was 13, since then I've been living with my aunt, havn't seen my little brothers for months at a time, and have had a lot of problems going on.

I look forward to nights when I'm in alone, because I can cry without someone saying i need bereavment. I mean its normal for me to cry right?

But a lot of people have been saying I'm depressed, I can be fine one moment then the next I'm either sitting in silence staring at nothing at all; or I'm crying my eyes out. I'm almost always in a bad mood, so I take it out on who ever I'm talking to at the time. Which is really starting to p*ss people off tbh. I think about doing silly things a lot but I know I could never bring myself to do them.

My family keeps saying things; like when something falls in the kitchen someone will say 'Its your Mum', and I look to see if it is, then I just normally go upstairs and cry. A lot.

I cant talk to my family, but hate talking to strangers.

Help.. please.

2007-11-03 11:45:09 · 4 answers · asked by Littlen♥ 1

Is this a special birthday? I am feeling like I'm hitting that moment from being youngish and past my midlife moment! Not making a big deal of the day, but is this when I look someone's Mom and forget being an attractive women?

2007-11-03 11:40:14 · 8 answers · asked by Stay Low 2

2007-11-03 11:27:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

like you see people, you speak to them numerous times and the next time it´s like you don´t know them. You could swear it´s the first time you see them.

2007-11-03 11:26:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-03 11:17:47 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i m a really shy person and paraniod what can i do to stop the shyness and stop being paraniod.. cause i hate it

2007-11-03 11:16:28 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

The other week,one of my acquiantances from the gym informed me that he was going out with this girl fortwo months,but they never said anything toanyone.However during the last 2 weeks she has been passing by me alot,wanting my attention,being more polite an engaging in conversation at times. and all that stuff.She even looked and reacted when i was talking to another girl.Why would she be this way if she was going out with someone?I have detached myself from the situation,but evemn the day he informed me i saw her kiss him and hug him,but she was still friendly with me,could she just want to be my friend?

2007-11-03 11:05:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-03 10:59:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous