On a cultural level, most social conditioning, focuses on either repressing desires or permitting only a certain strain of desires. All this results in distorted desires and completely maladaptive emotions like fear, shame, and guilt.
As an organism advances in intelligence, so, too, does its desires. There are the basic desires of the body [...]
Finding the right person to share your life with is like searching the ocean floor until you find a clam that shelters a priceless pearl. It is so prefect that you take it to a jeweler and you place it in a beautiful ring setting so you can show it off to everyone you [...]
Check this out...In the aftermath of the tragic events at Virginia Tech, I was reluctantly reminded of the anger and fear I experienced after 9/11. Itâs all just so shattering - to my reality, my sense of justice and my belief in the goodness of mankind. And it really pisses me off. The dark [...]
Check this out...If I could point to one year in my life that I consider to be the worst, it would definitely be 2005. The death of two of my grandchildren, as well as a whole lot of other things that happened is something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
Although it was hard losing my granddaughter [...]
It used to be called “mid-life crisis” - and haven’t all of us joked about it - a turmoil and discomfort that literally turns life upside down.
Nowadays this syndrome is being recognized as “work place burnout” and it is becoming more widespread and is affecting men and women alike throughout the entire workforce. Work [...]
Thomas Addison (1793-1860) English Physician
Thomas Addison was born in Long Beaton, near Newcastle in 1793, the same year that Marie Antoinette was found guilty of treason and was beheaded on the guillotine. He chose a remarkably similar career path to Hodgkins (Hodgkinâs Disease) and Bright (Brightâs Disease), graduating from Edinburgh University (1815), and then moving [...]
Similar to everyone else, you probably have an occasional period where you’re down in the dumps. But don’t fret; feeling a little bit down every now and then is normal. But when these low feelings persist, you may be in trouble. If they deepen over time no matter what you’re doing to change [...]
Check this out...Depression is a very real and treated the disease. Depressive disorders are not the same as a passing blue mood. Depression is very common and affects as many as one in eight young men, in their years. Depression is generally situational and reactive, and associated with pain, loss, or a major social transition. Sadness is [...]
Check this out...Similar to everyone else, you probably have an occasional period where you’re down in the dumps. But don’t fret; feeling a little bit down every now and then is normal. But when these low feelings persist, you may be in trouble. If they deepen over time no matter what you’re doing to change [...]
Check this out...Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) another psychotic disorder or diagnosis extensively found in youth is one of the most controversial diagnoses in psychology especially at present.Believe by some researchers that BPD is a name given to a particular manifestation of post-traumatic stress disorder theorized that when PTSD takes a form that emphasizes heavily its elements of [...]
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