personality disorder
Personality disorders are as complex as they are misunderstood; delve into this diagnosis and learn the typical cognitions, behaviors, and inner experience of those inflicted.
Finding Hope in the Darkness
I woke up that morning with a heavy feeling in my chest as if an invisible weight was crushing my spirit. I tried to shake it off, convincing myself that it was just a passing feeling, but little did I know that this was the beginning of a long and arduous journey through depression.
Showering Through Sadness
It was a cold and gloomy morning, much like the state of my soul. As I dragged my weary body out of bed, a dark cloud seemed to hang over me, suffocating every ounce of joy and happiness. Depression had engulfed my life, casting a shadow over even the simplest of tasks. However, amidst the darkness, there was one routine that brought me a momentary glimmer of solace - my daily showers.
March of the Brain Rapists
Note: Public domain. Copy, print, paste, and distribute at will. "You have no idea how cruel psychiatry is. ... This is really a battle between good and evil." Psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Decoding Gaslighting
In a world where narcissism thrives, certain terms hold the power to unravel the intricacies of our relationships. Among them, "gaslighting" has gained prominence; its significance often elusive. In this exploration, we delve into gaslighting – its origins, manifestations, and the profound impact it has on our sense of reality.
Judith OkechPublished 8 months ago in PsycheWhispers of the Night
Chapter 1: Unveiling Shadows In the heart of our bustling city, a sinister presence lurked, casting an insidious shadow over its streets. This was a city accustomed to life's rhythms, but the rhythm had been disrupted by the whispers of a malevolent force—the chilling tale of a serial killer who'd come to be known as "The Enigma."
Akhil SinghPublished 9 months ago in PsycheCracking the Narcissistic Code: The Journey to Empowerment and Clarity
Today, I'm here to reveal a truth that might seem a tad. Once the narcissist realizes that you've cracked their code, things might take an unexpected turn. So, let's dissect this revelation and lay out the implications for you.
Judith OkechPublished 9 months ago in PsycheCan a Narcissistic Spouse Transform for the Better?
Today's compelling inquiry revolves around the possibility of fostering a successful relationship with an individual who exhibits narcissistic traits. This question has undoubtedly captured the attention of many, prompting us to delve right into the heart of the matter. Feel free to contribute your insights in the comments section below.
Judith OkechPublished 9 months ago in PsycheUnveiling the Enigma of Intelligence: 12 Intriguing Insights
Fact 1: The Multifaceted Dimensions of Intelligence Intelligence, a topic of enduring debate, holds immense significance for exploration. It profoundly influences human behavior, shaping personal and professional trajectories. In this exposé, we present captivating facts about intelligence, aiming to illuminate this intricate concept. Our collection of revelations, some surprising and even unsettling, offers a glimpse into the tapestry of human cognition. Regardless of where you stand on the intelligence spectrum, these insights are bound to stimulate contemplation and broaden your horizons. Let's delve in!
Judith OkechPublished 9 months ago in PsycheBREAKING THE CHAINS
Mental health, an integral part of overall well-being, has long been shrouded in stigma, misunderstanding, and discrimination. The negative perceptions of mental health challenges often deter individuals from seeking help and hinder society's ability to foster a compassionate and inclusive environment. However, the tide is turning as awareness campaigns and advocacy efforts gain momentum, aiming to dismantle these barriers and promote a more empathetic understanding of mental health.
Mariam AliPublished 9 months ago in PsychePersonality Disorder.
Personality disorders, a multifaceted and frequently misunderstood subject, have come to the forefront of psychiatric discussion in recent years. The complexities surrounding the diagnosis and understanding of these disorders primarily stem from their "ego-syntonic" nature. This concept means that individuals living with these conditions often don't recognize their issues as problematic. In some instances, they may attribute their challenges to others, mistakenly believing that the problem lies with everyone else but themselves.
Abagi T PetersPublished 9 months ago in PsycheWould it be a good idea for you be maniac?
Whenever, we hear the word maniac we quickly consider chronic executioners and the most ridiculously fiendish hoodlums in mankind's set of experiences and that is not completely off-base yet the cardiovascular specialist who saves your grandmother's life could truly be all the more an insane person rather than John Wayne Gacy I will break down what a sociopath is and isn't with a couple of models that will show you whether you take on a similar mindset as an insane person I'll show you the study of how an insane person works why he is what he is and provide you with a nitty gritty examination of why somebody the entire world views as an insane person truly wasn't then I'll show you why you genuinely should transform into a smidgen of a sociopath yourself first this is the way a genuine sociopath thinks Dr Kent Fall is one of the world's driving scientists on psychopathy he's presently a teacher of brain science neuroscience and regulation at the College of New Mexico as he runs the lab at the Brain research organization yet he started out by talking and dissecting the cerebrum sweeps of insane people in Canadian jails including one detainee he called Bounce in his book The maniac Whisperer he subtleties one of Sway's lawbreaker Attempts climbing over the boundary from Canada to the US to purchase containers of cigarettes to carry back to exchange on burdened pretty standard low-level wrongdoing stuff yet how Sway sold his pirated smokes shows the distinction among Maniacs and us so how about we think about how as a crook would empty his Products the simplest arrangement is discount them to a broker and afterward back person accomplishes the monotonous work of selling every container it's anything but a terrible arrangement you'd prepare your cash and afterward you're for one more excursion over the Line yet a maniac can show improvement over that the conspicuous client base for cigarettes is smokers they're your objective market here in any case so you sell straightforwardly to every one of the smokers that you can find then, at that point, do this process again it seems OK yet it wouldn't happen to a sociopath to do it that way there must be a more worthwhile choice like offering to underage children they'd struggle with getting smokes all alone so perhaps there's a flourishing Bootleg market ready to be tapped and this begins to indicate an insane person's absence of moral compass he just wouldn't mind that he was possibly causing damage to kids yet that is as yet not sufficient for a genuine maniac and what Sway truly did exhibits the insane person's all out solace with serious debasement in the event that it checks out Bounce's favored client was somebody who couldn't stroll into a general store and purchase a pack or even ask another person to purchase for them somebody who truly ought not be smoking somebody who might be embarrassed to be seen purchasing cigarettes by any stretch of the imagination not to mention truly smoking them somebody who might pay far more cash for the item than any other individual to stay away from that multitude of circumstances Bounce offered his cigarettes to pregnant ladies since they paid the most in addition to the fact that he never mulled over the results or ethics of it yet it was really glad for recognizing the most powerless and most beneficial clients for his carried Products Weave was a genuine sociopath yet his unfeeling impartial methodology and his all out absence of any culpability is just a minuscule piece of what comprises psychopathy the actual word is great and truly futile John seabrook's 2008 article in the New Yorker was named languishing spirits over an explanation that is in a real sense what the breakdown of the word mental case implies the off-kilter marriage of the Greek mind meaning soul and sentiment significance feeling or experiencing it's an extraordinary method for depicting something so perplexing and it additionally lets us know nothing the Conundrum with psychopathy is that we scarcely comprehend it regardless of Maniacs having consistently existed each clan in mankind's set of experiences has two or three Spirits that weren't exactly correct the inner voice that exists for every other person that ethical code they work inside to get along with the remainder of society it isn't there for them Maniacs have an example of hostile to social way of behaving that reaches out all through their lives and Society needs to discover some approach to managing it the book of Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Jewish Torah it was presumably composed around 400 BC and this is the way Deuteronomy managed an enemy of social youngster assuming somebody has a difficult and defiant child who doesn't submit to his dad and mom and won't pay attention to them when they discipline him his dad and mom will grab hold of him and carry him to the elderly folks at the Entryway of his town they will tell the elderly folks this child of our own is obstinate and defiant he won't submit to us he is an epicurean and a lush then every one of the men of his town are to Batter him to the point of death you should Cleanse the evil from among you all Israel will know about it and be apprehensive definitely this is one of the earliest on the off chance that not the earliest notice of psychopathy including a few components of the advanced agenda we use to assist with distinguishing Mental cases, for example, clear examples of flighty Conduct a background marked by adolescent misconduct and an inability to acknowledge liability regarding one's activities it reflects how unnerving a maniac is to typical individuals and the amount of a disrupter they can be not terrible, but not great either much that the focus point was better beat him the tar out of with rocks 100 years after the fact the Greek scholar theophrastus composed characters which frames 30 unique moral sorts and their ways of behaving one was the deceitful man who boldly swindles others and makes the most of them part of what clinicians could now allude to as a parasitic way of life from the Torah to characters we see awful individuals yet are they truly Insane people perhaps yet it's truly difficult to tell who's an egotist or self centered or coldblooded or who's neurodivergent Hans Asperger himself at first called Asperger's Condition mentally unbalanced psychopathy and it's not difficult to see the reason why Asperger utilized the term Alexa thymia is the failure to distinguish or convey one's own sentiments is it moment certainly clear whether somebody is Alexa thymic or that they don't have sentiments to convey what might be said about the absence of social close to home correspondence that is essential for a Chemical imbalance Range conclusion or less nuanced facial discernment how would you separate somebody who isn't excellent at it from somebody who isn't modified to mind hello take these five words and rank them from generally sincerely good to generally genuinely pessimistic acceptable for me the rundown goes like this it's absolutely conceivable that you rank pup first since you love canines and pups give you a feeling of Pleasure that is significantly more grounded than chuckling that is absolutely legitimate yet the remainder of the rundown appears to be clear a table is unbiased's it's a table you truly shouldn't feel too good or pessimistic about a table yet the two pessimistic words are different a stopping ticket sucks yet malignant growth is genuinely terrible you wouldn't need possibly one yet a stopping ticket is plainly ideal genuine insane people battle to rank words in this style in light of the fact that to them they're all lovely worth unbiased words there's no barely recognizable difference among pup and giggling and even pup and disease whatever they're both just things who cares to an insane person what will be will be the Subtlety we find on the planet albeit little subtleties that figure out who we are the way we explore life and how we process what's around us is genuinely hosed for a sociopath yet like line in Wayne's Reality you realize I assumed I had Mono once for a whole year turned out I was super exhausted could you at any point distinguish where normal issues stop and psychopathy starts or think about this perhaps an individual with a long history of standoffish way of behaving is only a major jerk that stuff is all important for psychopathy yet on its own it's deficient to meet our flow edge of determination as Humankind gradually recognized the most awful among its own positions they actually needed to sort out some solution for them for countless years there was presumably some variant of the Deuteronomy arrangement dispose of them in the event that not assault them genuinely you evade them In banishment you kill the issue and nullify the peril these individuals bring to your clan's endurance the yorubas of Nigeria called their maniacs are a thumping and the Inuit called them conlangeta psychopathy is definitely not a cutting edge peculiarity that is a result of our preposterously convoluted experiences no culture has been safe except for here's an inquiry consider the possibility that we could saddle psychopathy to help us in the development of companions I analyzed the idea of dunbar's number anthropologists and transformative analyst Robin Dunbar set that we have a restricted mental limit with regards to Significant informal communities yet in Kevin dutton's the insight of sociopaths Dunbar focuses to a famous early illustration of how individuals utilized the Maniacs liabilities Viking Berserkers these were absolutely Courageous Fighters who battled in unadulterated fury their ruthlessness and brutality contrasted especially not just from the European warriors who they experienced yet even from different Vikings they existed on the edges of Viking Society they were risky so why Exile your psychos when you can release them on your foes perhaps they were valuable after all we were unable to filter the cerebrums of Berserkers in 900 A.D yet assuming that we'd exposed them to utilitarian attractive reverberation imaging fmri we probably would have experienced a truly failing amygdala the amygdala is the almond-molded cerebrum district that is important for the limbic framework I definite in My Agony video we portray it as the trepidation focus of the cerebrum when you investigate the edge at the highest point of a structure your amygdala goes wild you know not to incline any further we are designed to handle a snake with our eyes and in a split second Sound the Caution Peril move away that is the amygdala in real life it is an enhancer of boosts to guide you and what not to do so what happens when your amygdala isn't extremely delicate Kent fall's initial fmri checks showed clear action deficiencies in the profound handling places of the mind including the amygdala and the front and post.
Mili AfzalPublished 9 months ago in Psyche"Wrap Your Eye and See The Poison Version of You"
In the quiet of your study, you sat hunched over your laptop, fingers tapping impatiently on the keys. A thick cloud of frustration hung in the air, your mind trapped in a suffocating cage of writer's block. The weight of your own expectations bore down on you, pushing you to the edge of your sanity.
CosmicClipPublished 9 months ago in Psyche