disorder
The spectrum of Mental Health disorders is incredibly vast; we showcase the multitude of conditions that affect mood, thinking and behavior.
The One Who No Longer Absorbs the Bitter. Content Warning.
Please excuse the use of metaphors, symbols, and mythic writing. Please excuse the music I created with my own voice. Please excuse the AI generated metaphorical images of ancient times. Please excuse my filmmaker background. Please excuse my age of 76. Please excuse my abiliyu to want to keep learning which includes AI. Maybe I should crawl back in my 'dark night of the soul' depression. Pease excuse my love for science fiction, art, film, eccentric, and creating too many videos from visions I saw in my dreams. I know the majority of writers on this platform hate AI. So, the stories I create will not be read because you do not believe a 76 year old hippie child could create such nonsense. I do not write for naysayers and anyone who avoids being progessive. I have always been on the cutting edge of technology. I am a REAL LIVE HUMAN BEING.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 6 months ago in Psyche
From Chaos to Clarity: Understanding Life With ADHD From the Inside.
Growing Up With ADHD: My Unfiltered Experience Growing up, I always felt like I was living life at a different speed than everyone else. Not faster in a productive way—but faster in a chaotic, overwhelming, and often confusing way. My thoughts didn’t come one at a time; they came all at once, overlapping, competing, and pulling my attention in every direction. I didn’t have the words for it back then, but later I would come to understand it as ADHD.
By Robert Redford6 months ago in Psyche
The Witness Staff
The Witness Staff A real soul passed through this The Fantasy That Protects Your Back “If I had the strength today, I’d be rummaging through my closet and drawers, hunting for scraps of ribbon, old beads, forgotten feathers anything to dress my walking stick the way the old stories describe. But my back has already carried too much, and the film still waits unprocessed. So instead, I imagine the decorated staffs of the ancestors: ember wood, wind caller, moon thread sticks glowing in the dark. Mine will come later. For now, the fantasy is enough.” I will decorate my regular walking sticks soon.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 6 months ago in Psyche
The House of Two Worlds
The Cinematic Doorway Intro I finished shaping this piece in a quiet room today, letting the story settle into its own rhythm. This is the next chapter in the House of Two Worlds a moment caught between shadow and clarity, where the rooms speak in their own language. I included the long story and the summary of the words placed with music and spoken word. This is a debut to houses divided. There are many different lifestyles. An artist needs a creative environment. However, with rents so damn high everyone cannot live alone to create. Living in a paint bucket of music, art, and film is a struggle with a more conformist individual. Life is short. Life can be real.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 6 months ago in Psyche
Psychology
EXPERIMENT 1: THE INVISIBLE GORILLA 🦍 In 1999 psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris conducted an experiment that would become one of the most famous demonstrations of human cognitive limitation ever produced: they asked participants to watch a video of six people passing basketballs and to count the number of passes made by the team wearing white shirts, and approximately halfway through the video a person in a gorilla suit walked into the frame, faced the camera, beat their chest, and walked off, and when asked afterward whether they noticed anything unusual approximately fifty percent of participants reported seeing nothing out of the ordinary, completely failing to detect a gorilla that was visible on screen for a full nine seconds while they were focused on counting basketball passes 🏀
By The Curious Writer6 months ago in Psyche
The Second Brain
THE INTELLIGENCE YOU NEVER KNEW YOU HAD 🧬 There is a nervous system in your digestive tract that contains approximately five hundred million neurons, more than your spinal cord and more than any other organ system outside your brain, and this network called the enteric nervous system or colloquially the second brain operates with such autonomy that it can function completely independently of the brain in your skull, controlling digestion, producing neurotransmitters, communicating with your immune system, and influencing your emotional state through pathways that neuroscientists are only beginning to understand, and the discovery that your gut contains a nervous system complex enough to deserve the label brain has transformed our understanding of the relationship between what you eat, how you feel, and who you are in ways that challenge the Western assumption that identity and consciousness reside exclusively in the head while the body below the neck is merely a transport system for the brain above it 🧠💡
By The Curious Writer6 months ago in Psyche
The Emotion
How Unfelt Feelings Become Physical Symptoms THE BODY THAT SPEAKS WHEN THE MOUTH WON'T 🗣️ The migraine that appears every Sunday evening before the work week begins, the back pain that flares during family visits, the stomach problems that intensify during relationship conflict, the skin conditions that worsen during periods of unexpressed anger, and the chronic fatigue that has no medical explanation despite extensive testing are not coincidences or imaginary complaints but rather your body's attempt to communicate emotional information that your conscious mind refuses to process, because the body and mind are not separate systems but are two expressions of a single integrated organism, and emotions that are suppressed from conscious awareness do not disappear but rather are rerouted through the autonomic nervous system into physical symptoms that serve as the body's protest against the emotional censorship your psychological defenses impose 🏥
By The Curious Writer6 months ago in Psyche
Your Brain
The Neuroscience of Letting Go of Thoughts That Don't Serve You THE MENTAL CLUTTER DESTROYING YOUR LIFE 🧹 Your brain contains approximately eighty-six billion neurons forming trillions of connections that collectively produce every thought, memory, emotion, and behavior you experience, and like any system of this complexity it accumulates clutter over time in the form of neural pathways that were once useful but that no longer serve you, thought patterns established during childhood that were adaptive responses to childhood circumstances but that have become maladaptive in adult life, emotional reactions calibrated to threats that no longer exist, and habitual mental processes that consume cognitive resources without producing useful outputs, and this neural clutter which you experience as persistent negative self-talk, automatic anxiety responses, ruminative thought loops, and emotional reactivity that seems disproportionate to the situations triggering it, is not a permanent feature of your psychology but rather a collection of neural pathways that can be weakened and eventually eliminated through a process neuroscientists call synaptic pruning, the brain's built-in mechanism for deleting connections that are not being reinforced through use 🧠✨
By The Curious Writer6 months ago in Psyche
The Mental Health Crisis
THE PANDEMIC BEHIND THE PANDEMIC 😔 While the COVID-19 pandemic occupied global attention with its immediate mortality and economic disruption, a parallel pandemic of mental health disorders was accelerating beneath the surface, affecting more people and producing more cumulative suffering than the viral pandemic itself, and the World Health Organization's 2022 World Mental Health Report revealed that the scale of this crisis exceeds anything that mental health systems were designed to handle: approximately one billion people globally are currently living with a mental health disorder, anxiety and depression increased by approximately twenty-five percent worldwide during the first year of COVID-19 alone, and the WHO projects that by 2030 depression will be the leading cause of disease burden globally surpassing heart disease and cancer and every other condition in its impact on human functioning and quality of life, and this projection which seemed dramatic when first published is now considered conservative given the accelerating trends in youth mental health that suggest the crisis is worsening faster than models predicted 📊
By The Curious Writer6 months ago in Psyche
The Loneliness Epidemic
Why Governments Are Treating Isolation Like a Public Health Crisis THE SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING 🏥 In May 2023, United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory declaring loneliness and social isolation a public health epidemic, comparing the health impact of chronic loneliness to smoking fifteen cigarettes daily and warning that the increasing disconnection of American society was producing health consequences as severe and as deadly as the most recognized public health threats, and this advisory which represented the first time the nation's top public health official had identified loneliness as a crisis requiring urgent coordinated response reflected the culmination of decades of research showing that social isolation is not merely an emotional discomfort but a physiological condition that damages the cardiovascular system, suppresses the immune system, accelerates cognitive decline, increases inflammation throughout the body, and shortens lifespan by an estimated twenty-six percent compared to people with strong social connections 📋
By The Curious Writer6 months ago in Psyche
Your Handwriting Reveals
The Science of Graphology and What Your Pen Strokes Say About Your Personality THE INK DOESN'T LIE 🖊️ Every time you put pen to paper you are producing a neurological fingerprint as unique and as revealing as your actual fingerprint, because handwriting is not controlled by the hand but by the brain, and the specific patterns of pressure, spacing, slant, size, and letter formation that characterize your writing reflect deep neurological patterns including your emotional state, your personality traits, your cognitive style, and aspects of your psychological functioning that you may not be consciously aware of, and while the field of graphology has been controversial with mainstream psychology dismissing some of its claims as pseudoscience, a growing body of neuroscientific research is validating specific connections between handwriting characteristics and personality traits that suggest your pen reveals more about you than you realize 📝
By The Curious Writer6 months ago in Psyche
