Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Big Emotions - Psychology Today

until September 2, 2019

beginning to end

page 14 - They tested children from "Russia, Germany, and Norway."

page 14 - Children who end up somehow practicing extroversion get positive feedback and develop the best.

page 28 - Autism may be caused by bad living/health habits. (They discuss mostly too much of Omega 3's being a problem and fatty acids influencing communication between regions of the brain.)

page 38-39 - We sometimes make are mind focused on things that don't matter, like that we're not good enough, and some the opposite.

page 40 - Some people's self-esteem is based on how many Likes they have on social media.

page 40 - It's about keeping up your social status, sometimes in an evil, lazy way which is by making sure others don't reach their goals, believing doing this to some people will raise them up, just a fight of jealousy of those with worse lives or something or who are worse as people.

page 39-40 - They talk a lot about how humans are used to fighting for survival.

page 42 - People who are usually mean can apparently act nice, when others aren't in the limelight, like identifying with someone who's hurt by society.

page 48-50 - People with problems try to get accommodations on the SAT, but colleges must know these things.

page 56 - People like to copy other people.

page 60 - Other people are important yet some detrimental. People still try to pair up people who are incompatible.

page 75 - China tries to make it easy for people they can trust and harder for people they can't. This is in the social media section.

page 76 - In some things, they judge according to family relations.

page 78 - People get permanently put in categories while trying new opportunities.

page 87 - They think psychopaths like jobs with power, rather than just remain tagging along dysfunction-ally.

page 88 - There is a connection between psychopathy and BPD (borderline personality disorder.)

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Mental Health - A New Understanding

Special TIME Edition

until July 26, 2019

pages 16 -  96 (the end)

It's true people used to seek out connections with other people, yet when computers came out it stopped.  (page 16)

Adolescents may be more lonely than "adults" or the elderly as suggested in a previous statement.  (page 16)

People who are lonely have problems with metabolism, high blood pressure, etc.  That means they may be fatter or have a fatter look, I think even if they don't eat especially bad and if they aren't unusually inactive even.  (page 18)

Loneliness is even common in cancer and diabetes.  (page 18)

I am supposing it can cause mental illnesses, for example schizophrenia, despite that people think mental illnesses have nothing to do with anything...  (page 18)

Teenagers and young adults are most at risk for this period of loneliness.  (page 19)

People who spend more time on social media may be less lonely.  (page 19)

I'm guessing people of mixed race can be very lonely, and people of minority/colored races are lonelier than others as a group.

Doing dorky activities can combat the effects of loneliness.  (page 20)

They go so far as to say to me that people whose friends apparently abandoned them before if they had any should consider being institutionalized.  (page 21)

Some people went through moodiness before college, but for some apparently it hits sometime in college, probably near the beginning.  Rich people would go and drop out right away, some maybe not even showing up.  (page 30)

It's sad how discriminating colleges are because it is important to study and get a degree.  (page 30)

Some exercise of some sort and practice can help...  (page 63)

Holding a grudge is bad for you.  (page 70)

Kids should practice exercise throughout the day.  (page 70)

It is good to help people, but in the end people only want to get close to people who are very likable.  Sorry to burst your bubble.

You need to be careful around depressed people.  (page 77)

People need to make depressed people feel successful and worth it, not just in need of treatment alone.

Small things can send people off in self-pity.  (page 80)

Saturday, December 14, 2019

Mental Health - A New Understanding

Special TIME Edition

until July 26, 2019

pages 6 - 15

Mental illness can be seen as punishment or possession, rather than just science.  (page 7)

Wealthy English people sent family members to asylums.  (page 7)

Sex and dreams are a topic.  (page 7)

$2.5 trillion a year are spent on mental health problems.  (page 7)

People seem friendlier to kids with mental health problems than adults, like in criminal justice.  (page 7)

Mental illness is seen as a loss of control, for whatever reason or supposedly there being no reason.  (page 12)

Sometimes, clowning around innocently is seen as a mental illness.  (page 12)

Mental illness can be connected to being violent by accident, like 1 time, even if the reason is clear and not a mystery.  (page 12)

Usually, if someone diagnosed with a mental illness behaves badly, it is often the same as when someone without a mental illness does, it is stated here.  (page 13)

Different cultures have different customs, and they can be seen as mentally ill, which can also be related to crime.  (page 13)

Anything different people do having different backgrounds is grounds for being diagnosed with a mental illness, unfairly and probably detrimentally socially.  (page 14)

Other languages have more descriptive words, that in English you would make more words to describe some one thing.  It must get very complex if your language has more descriptive words.  Unfortunately, people would spot them out as curse words, I'm guessing, in some way or to some degree.  (page 15)

English seems to have more words to explain one same type of thing in different mannerisms.  (page 15)