do you think this is a good choice for our biggest oral report in psychology? or should i have chosen somethign better...?
i just am not sure if i can get enough info to do a 15 minute oral report!
2007-03-21 06:26:38 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
yeah. i study psychiatry all the time. schizophrenia is just a splitting with reality. you get delusional.the world is full of mental patients. and as an adult this training will help you understand the homeless and some mental criminals. also to defend yourself and to see the warning signs so you won't get sucked in.moonraven/cinderella
2007-03-21 06:34:15 · answer #1 · answered by cinderella 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, the category is too large, too vague, to really sink your teeth into in 15 minutes. Would it be wiser to choose a category of schizophrenia........one that had particular behavior? Have you considered Disassociated Identity Disorder? Most doctors are not convinced it really exists. While those of us WITH it, know it does, and we seek out therapists who understand this. D.I.D, with the amnesia, the black outs, the total personality change that may be completely unknown to the person with D.I.D. is really traumatic, and the basic fear is ALWAYS that the amnesia will strike, and that the D.I.D. patient will disappear from the family, and not even REMEMBER anyone in the family.........forever. The totally amazing part of D.I.D. is that the personalities are the person's own personalities at the age or ages that the person's brain has totally blacked out to keep the person from going crazy in the first place! So, one can be '6' yrs old one minute, and 63 yrs old, the next. One can be six, twelve, nineteen, thirty-six, twenty two, forty, and at more ages in her/his OWN life, and be totally different than the person WAS at that age. It's as if the brain WANTS to recapture those years, and DOES it by just whisping the person back to that age, to do it BETTER! Bad things can really happen, and the person may never know what happened during the 'blackout'. Convincing others of this is almost impossible. Panic attacks are pretty NORMAL for these people, as not knowing WHO you will be, WHERE you will be, WHAT you will be doing, and IF you will remember it at all, are huge questions! To top it off, each personality (age) comes with his/her own name attached..........a different name than the patient! There are no drugs to help this. Only the patient can learn to integrate himselves/herselves, and hope that this is enough. Integrate each 'age', choose a 'boss' and recognize any 'triggers' that set off the other 'ages' to just suddenly 'take over'. It never ends, it can only be regulated by the patient..........and that will NOT make the future 'safe'. Each day, each moment, the patient MUST be integrated and aware of the dangers. Still, the amnesia happens, and will always be 'lurking' in the darkness. Having at least one person understand the truths of D.I.D. is totally a must for the person who has this.
2007-03-21 13:46:05 · answer #2 · answered by laurel g 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a lot of information schizophrenia as well, I'd say if the report is for an "Abnormal Psych" class, then it might be a good subject line to follow.
I did my graduate prosem paper on Behavior Teratology.
2007-03-21 13:54:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea thats good, you could have done depression there is a lot of information on that.
2007-03-21 13:30:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋