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Fourteen Things That It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn—by Dave Barry

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:35:06 GMT

clipped by: djkraz
clipper's remarks: pretty funny stuff

Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

You should not confuse your career with your life.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Never lick a steak knife.

The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

Your friends love you anyway.

Tags: funny, humor

Einstein, Newton displayed autistic traits

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:10:01 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: "Psychiatry tends to focus almost exclusively on the negative side of different forms of mental illness," Fitzgerald said in statement. "I want to show that psychiatric disorders can also have positive dimensions."

Clip Source: www.physorg.com

Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton displayed symptoms of psychiatric disorders that may have been a key to their genius, a Dublin psychiatrist said.

Michael Fitzgerald, Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College, Dublin, said characteristics linked to autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger's syndrome are the same as those associated with creative genius, The Daily Telegraph said.

Fitzgerald, author of the book, "Genius Genes: How Asperger Talents Changed the World," said Enoch Powell and Charles de Gaulle both appear to have had Asperger's syndrome.

Speaking at a meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Academic Psychiatry, Fitzgerald said De Gaulle's Asperger's syndrome was critical to his success. He was aloof, had a massive memory, lacked empathy with other people, and was extremely controlling and dominating.

Isaac Newton was known to work non-stop for days and Einstein worked in a patent office because he was too disruptive to get a university job, the newspaper said.

Tags: einstein, newton, genius, creativity

Great Site - Check it Out!!

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:51:52 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: I stumbled upon this today. LMAO!

Clip Source: uncyclopedia.org

Religion

Religion is a mental illness.

The most common infection in the world, with over 90% of the populace infected with one or another strain. Religion is usually brought on by infection by the group VI Fatal Anginal-Infective Transcribing Hepatitis virus more often known by the acronym FAITH. Symptoms involve believing something that is not only unproven but also outrageously illogical simply because someone (or occasionally a book), somewhere, says it's true. In this respect, faith can be considered the chronic form of the lesser mental disorder gullibility. For synonyms, see How To Make a Million Dollars. The official catch phrase of religion is "Give us your money, and you will have a good afterlife!", known to critics as the "Pie In The Sky" allegory.

Tags: parady, satire, religion, atheist

Police tase Fla. wheelchair-bound woman 10x; she dies

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:27:38 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: Disturbing story. A schizophrenic woman in a wheelchair calls 911 because she believes she's in danger. When cops arrive, she's swinging a hammer and a knife around. They tase her ten times in two minutes, and she dies within an hour.

Clip Source: www.local6.com

Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser 10 Times

A Clay County woman's family said it's seeking justice after their loved one died shortly after being shocked 10 times with Taser guns during a confrontation with police.

The family of 56-year-old Emily Delafield said it would take the Green Cove Springs Police Department to court.

Within an hour of her call to 911, Delafield, a wheelchair-bound woman documented to have mental illness, was dead.

"One, she's in a wheelchair. Two, she's schizophrenic. Three, they're using a Taser on a person that's in a wheelchair, and then four is that they tasered her 10 times for a period of like two minutes," Alexander said.

According to a police report, one of the officers used her Taser gun nine times for a total of 160 seconds and the other officer discharged his Taser gun once for a total of no more than five seconds.

On her death certificate, the medical examiner ruled Delafield's death a homicide.

Tags: police, crime, news, u.s.-news

Virtual Hallucinations drive police crazy

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:57:34 GMT

clipped by: kkcapricorn
clipper's remarks: I would love to see that!!

Clip Source: www.wired.com

Being crazy is hard, but it's worth the effort. Especially if you're a cop, paramedic, or social worker who may someday need to deal with a person having a psychotic episode. At those times, empathy can be crucial.

That's where Virtual Hallucinations comes in. The training device, created by Janssen L.P., is a rig with earphones and goggles that plunges the wearer into the mind of a serious schizophrenic. The system offers two interactive scenarios. In one, you're riding a bus in which other riders appear and disappear, birds of prey claw at the windows, and voices hiss, "He's taking you back to the FBI!" The other features a trip to the drugstore, where the pharmacist seems to be handing you poison instead of pills, and hostile customers stare at you in disgust.

that can make all the difference when it comes to understanding what a mentally ill person is going through. And there's nothing crazy about that.

Tags: police, mental illness, psychology, knowledge

10 Common Myths about Mental Illness

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:26:24 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern
clipper's remarks: 8. Children can’t have serious mental disorders.

9. Doctor/patient confidentiality is absolute and always protected.

10. Mental illness is no longer stigmatized in society.

Clip Source: psychcentral.com

Top 10 Myths of Mental Illness

by John M. Grohol, Psy.D.
June 13, 2008

Clip Source: psychcentral.com

1. Mental illness is just like a medical disease.

Many mental health experts believe in the “bio-psycho-social” model of mental disorders. That is, there are multiple, connected components of most people’s mental illness that include three distinct, yet connected, spheres: (1) the biological and our genetics; (2) the psychological and our personalities; and (3) the social and our environment. All three seem to play an important role in most people’s development of a mental disorder.

2. Medications are the only treatment you need to treat a mental illness.

3. If a medication or psychotherapy doesn’t work, that means your situation is hopeless.

4. Therapists don’t care about you – they only pretend to care because you pay them.

5. If it isn’t serious, it can’t hurt you.

Clip Source: psychcentral.com

6. Psychology and psychiatry aren’t “real sciences.” They’re supported only by fuzzy research and contradictory findings.

7. Mental illness is a myth,

Can Depression Change Your DNA?

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:42:18 GMT

clipped by: dmegivern

Clip Source: psychcentral.com

Can Depression Change Your DNA?

Clip Source: psychcentral.com

New research points to significant modifications of an important gene that suggests depression may play a role in changing the very makeup of the brain.

Researchers at the Robarts Research Institute at The University of Western Ontario compared the brains of people who committed suicide with those who died suddenly of natural causes, such as a heart attack. They found that the genome in suicidal, depressed people was chemically modified by a process that is normally involved in regulating the essential characteristics of all cells in the body.

This is apparently the first study to show that proteins that modify DNA directly are more highly expressed in the brains of people who commit suicide. These proteins are involved in chemically modifying DNA in a process called epigenomic regulation.

The rate of methylation in the suicide brains was found to be much greater than that of the control group.

Tags: mental illness, genetics, epigenetics, depression

What is a Confessing Sam?

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:36:46 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth
clipper's remarks: Researchers ironically note that it is often just as difficult to know whether or not someone is telling the truth when they plead against themselves as when they plead for themselves.

Dr S M Kassin and two colleagues from the Department of Psychology at Williams College in Massachusetts report in the April, 2005 Law and Human Behaviour that when college students and police investigators judged 10 prison inmates confessing to crimes (half the confessions were true, half were false as they were concocted for the study), the students were more accurate than the police in determining who told the truth.

-More than 50 people confessed to having committed the famous and still unsolved Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles in 1947.
-At least six people have confessed to being the Zodiac Killer.
-At last count, 20 individuals have confessed to the 1996 murder of child beauty queen Jon Benet Ramsey.

Clip Source: www.theregister.co.uk

What is a confessing Sam?

"Confessing Sam" is the term in criminal psychology for a person who makes a false confession after a particularly widely publicised crime has taken place.

The first genuine Confessing Sam was Robert Hubert. In 1666, the Great Fire of London destroyed 80 per cent of the city. Hubert confessed to having started the fire by throwing a crude fire grenade through an open bakery window. At his trial it was proven that Hubert, a sailor, had not arrived in England until two days after the fire started, was never near the bakery where the fire started, and was so badly crippled that throwing anything was beyond him. If that were not enough, the bakery had no windows.

a perfect scapegoat

brought to trial, found guilty, and duly executed by hanging

Why does someone become a Confessing Sam?

mental illness, mental retardation, attention-seeking, publicity-seeking, or a combination

Often a psychiatric disorder

involving severe guilt feelings completely unrelated to the crime

16 Things That Took Me 50 Years To Learn

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:06:40 GMT

clipped by: martijnvreugde
clipper's remarks: Just get up and dance.

Clip Source: www.askmen.com

16 Things That Took Me 50 Years To Learn

January 27th, 2007
AskMen.com Rates This Joke: 8/10

1- You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight-savings time.

2- You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

3- The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

4- The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.

5- There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.

6- There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

7- People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

8- If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

9- The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

10- If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.

11- You should not confuse your career with your life.

12- A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

13- No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

14- When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

15- Your friends love you, anyway.

16- Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Tags: learning, advice

Pathologising Human Unhappiness

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:10:13 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: It is the last sentence that expresses my anger. I work with the severely mentally ill and I am sick and tired of resources being diverted to privileged, spoilt, articulate miseries. Sure, the latter need help but not from doctors.

Clip Source: www.spiked-online.com

Humanity, thou art sick

Shyness is now ‘social phobia’, and dissent is ‘Oppositional Defiant Disorder’. How did everyday emotions come to be seen as illnesses?

‘In my mother’s generation, shy people were seen as introverted and perhaps a bit awkward, but never mentally ill.’

So writes the Chicago-based research professor, Christopher Lane, in his fascinating new book Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness.

the introverted individual morphed into the mildly psychotic person whose symptoms included being aloof, being dull, and simply “being alone”

The sad consequence of this state of affairs is that the range of ‘healthy behaviour’ is being increasingly narrowed. ‘Our quirks and eccentricities - the normal emotional range of adolescence and adulthood – have become problems we fear and expect drugs to fix’,

those who really do need help – who suffer from real emotional or behavioural disorders – are increasingly losing out

Tags: mental illness

Faith is a mental illness.

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:19:47 GMT

clipped by: kinokonoko
clipper's remarks: The article goes off in another direction, but I think this quote nicely describes the box of mirrors people with religious faith lock themselves into. Let the games begin.

Clip Source: www.aikidojournal.com

Such minds do not see things as they are, rather preferring to hold beliefs. Anything that is different to their choice of delusion, or belief, is presumed a threat. Usually such individuals hold ideas about a “god” but they fail to conceive the obvious, that if a Supreme Being existed, it would be responsible for ALL creation. Instead they stricture, limit and bind their idea of a god into a box, in their own warped minds of how they, in their insecurity and hubris, determine a higher force should be. The obvious again evades them for in doing so they are proposing a blasphemy, according to their own rules, but don’t seem to realise or want to admit it. They usually talk about rules for others but they do not live these arbitrary rules.

Mental illness is a grave disorder. It gives rise to faith and then that “faith” is used to justify criminal activity and general misdeeds. Notable in the mentally ill is that they seek control of others but have little or no control over themselves.

Tags: faith, aikido, god

Apophenia

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:10:50 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness".

In statistics, apophenia would be classed as a Type I error (false positive, false alarm, caused by an excess in sensitivity). Apophenia is often used as an explanation of some paranormal and religious claims. It has been suggested that apophenia is a link between psychosis and creativity.

Conrad originally described this phenomenon in relation to the distortion of reality present in psychosis, but it has become more widely used to describe this tendency in healthy individuals without necessarily implying the presence of neurological or mental illness.

The identification of a face on the surface of Mars is an example of pareidoliac apophenia.

Tags: apophenia, definition, wikipedia, mlf

"Lefty Gene" discovered

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:26:13 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: An interesting story but as a lefty, I didn't like the comment about the link between left-handedness and schizophrenia.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Gene for left-handedness is found

Left-handers' brains are set up differently

Scientists have discovered the first gene which appears to increase the odds of being left-handed.

The Oxford University-led team believe carrying the gene may also slightly raise the risk of developing psychotic mental illness such as schizophrenia.

The gene, LRRTM1, appears to play a key role in controlling which parts of the brain take control of specific functions, such as speech and emotion.

In right-handed people the left side of the brain usually controls speech and language, and the right side controls emotions.

However, in left-handed people the opposite is often true, and the researchers believe the LRRTM1 gene is responsible for this flip.

They also believe people with the LRRTM1 gene may have a raised risk of schizophrenia, a condition often linked to unusual balances of brain function.

However, Dr Francks said left-handed people should not be worried by the links between handedness and schizophrenia.

Tags: left-handed, brain, genetics, genes, lrrtm1, science

The Science of Love

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:59:07 GMT

clipped by: bookchick49
clipper's remarks: Interesting article. Also has some quizzes.

Clip Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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Published Nov : 18 : 2004

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The Science of Love

Contents
	Key points
	Audio: love at first sight
	The three stages of love
	The science of flirting
	What makes you fancy someone?
	Does love drive you mad?
	Sensual signals
	Quiz: can you match the couples?
	Vote: do you believe in love at first sight?

There are three phases to falling in love and different hormones are involved at each stage

Events occurring in the brain when we are in love have similarities with mental illness

When we are attracted to somebody, it could be because subconsciously we like their genes

Smell could be as important as looks when it comes to the fanciability factor. We like the look and smell of people who are most like our parents

Science can help determine whether a relationship will last

Stage 1: LUST
Lust is driven by the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen. Testosterone is not confined only to men. It has also been shown to play a major role in the sex drive of women. These hormones as Helen Fisher says "get you out looking for anything".

Discover which type of partner you're attracted to by taking our face perception test.

Looking in their genes
When it comes to choosing a partner, are we at the mercy of our subconscious? Researchers studying the science of attraction draw on evolutionary theory to explain the way humans pick partners.

When we look at a potential mate, we are assessing whether we would like our children to have their genes. There are two ways of doing this that are currently being studied, (to find out more click on the links): pheromones and appearance.

The biology of body language
Get the low-down on your chat-up technique, with our scientific guide to flirting.

Tags: love, flirting, quiz, guides, entertainment

A Secret Life Of Madness

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:59:43 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Over 30 years, as she forged her career, she wrestled with uncouth visions, violent commands and suicidal impulses, Saks explained to her listeners. In her worst moments, the TV made fun of her, ashtrays danced and walls collapsed. Sure she was a witch, she burned herself as punishment with cigarettes, lighters and electric heaters. She believed she was single-handedly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. The brains of close associates were taken over by aliens.

Saks has schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder often characterized by social isolation, disorganized speech, delusions and hallucinations. She has defied the prediction of a doctor who once said she would never lead an independent life. She has even flourished, thanks to a strict regimen of medication and talk therapy.

Tags: mental, illness