September 2, 2010
i just graduated from medical school. i was diagnosed schizophrenia 1 year ago. currently i am stable and my symptoms are occasional. but i still can hear voices. i am confident that i am able to work. i have deep interest to further my study in psychiatry. does this specialty suitable for me? what are the challenges? have ever people who mentally ill become a doctor and then specialize? thank u for your comments
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September 1, 2010
I’m currently young and disillusioned. I’m confused as to my future, like every other teenager I can think of, but my potential fields are very specialized. I
One one hand, I’d like to be a doctor, specifically a forensic psychiatrist, or general psychiatrist. I think I’d enjoy being a professional, a medical doctor and rather well paid.
On the other hand, I’d rather like to be a policeman. Investigation, interrogations, chasing, hell even going on the beat and getting around, all of it’s active, and also generates respect. They are reasonably well paid as well.
I personally can’t make my mind up, any comments would probably help.
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September 1, 2010
So I am going through some personal stuff and I was wondering where I could get some therapy online for free.
Help is appreciated.
By the way, I understand I can get help from people here and most of you guys are great. But I would like some professional help without having to share my issues with the whole world.
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August 31, 2010
I would like to talk to my college disability office about disability accommodation for my anxiety disorder. However I’m concerned because they state on their website that "many disorders can be controlled with medication and/or psychotherapy so that they do not constitute a disability." I’m worried they’ll say I’m not in therapy so they won’t provide an accommodation.
I can’t afford therapy right now. The on-campus health center does not provide on-going therapy. Our insurance doesn’t provide enough coverage to make therapy practical (not enough visits allowed). I know there are community centers, but I’m in a rural area and I don’t own a car. I would have to hire a taxi to get there, which adds up quickly (no public transportation).
Can they legally deny me accommodations because I’m not in therapy?
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August 30, 2010
Why is this Psychotherapist pushing the parent of a person with problems to do something, which makes them feel even worse?
This Psychotherapist is considered a good psychotherapist and is the manager but her telling to pressure the parent’s adult child is making the kid feel worse. I don’t think that is good, in fact I think pushing someone to do something they hate is detrimental. What kind of a quack Psychotherapist is this? Is this what Psychotherapy is about? Its bogus, then! I would never push someone to do something. It only makes them feel worse and have them attack me back. In truth, you cannot help someone who doesn’t want help. Who knows what will happen that person might kill you or kill themselves or do anything else crazy.
Thoughts please.
Gregg- The Psychotherapist is telling the parent to push the adult child of the parent. The child is not mentally healthy (stressed and confused) and is having real problems and the pushing makes it worse.
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August 30, 2010
What ancient writers called demon possession is said to be mental disorder of the various types which are familiar to psychiatrists today. It is then argued that since modern psychiatry can explain the phenomena formerly attributed to demon possession we no longer need to believe in the existence or activity of demons. Now bear in mind psychiatry is rarely able to explain mental disorder, it is however able to ‘describe’ it as we can see from its terminology, which is almost entirely symptomatic or descriptive in character. It deals with ‘descriptions’ more than ‘causes’ although in a few cases it is able to identify specific causes of mental disorder. You see, the term demon possession defines a cause of mental disease, and is in a different category from the descriptive terminology with which modern psychiatry works. In psychiatric terms we may diagnose the Gaderene demoniac of Mark: 5. 2-7 as suffering from a manic-depressive psychosis. At the time he met Jesus he was in a state of acute mania, and from his local reputation he appears to have been frequently in such a state. By calling his disease a manic-depressive psychosis one has simply described his condition as a disorder of his personality which manifests itself by the occurrence of attacks of either mania or depression, or both states at different times in the same person. The diagnosis therefore is a purely descriptive one and tells us nothing about the cause.
Question:
In this light, would you consider demon possession to be real and occurring in many individuals today, but has been misdiagnosed by modern psychiatry who see only the symptoms and not the causes?
What say yea?
Bell Sound:
Really, oh please do tell!
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August 29, 2010
Not Physical Therapy Aide
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August 28, 2010
I wanted to get involved with the agency also I know they have a program for psychiatrists.
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August 28, 2010
The most dangerous criminals cannot be rehabilitated. Child predators, rapists, serial killers… these people cannot be "fixed." Attempts to rehabilitate them have failed over and over.
In the 70s, the American Justice system was all about furloughs and rehab and work release and feel-good do your own thing. So many murderers were released because they were considered "rehabilitated" just to kill again (sometimes many times) that the laws were changed. Rehabilitating these people DOES NOT WORK because they don’t WANT to change. No amount of rehabilitation or counseling or therapy is going to make a bit of a difference because they WANT to be killers or rapists or child molesters and there are A LOT of them. Why is this so hard to understand?
In the words of Dr. Park Dietz, world-renowned forensic psychiatrist and criminologist speaking of serial killers: "Their orgasm is more important than your life." You cannot rehabilitate a person like this. As far as child molesters, that is their sexuality. Period. Could someone rehab you out of YOUR sexuality? No. They tried to do that to homosexuals for years. It doesn’t work. Rapists have fused sexual excitement, control and violence in their minds long before they started raping and that is their sexuality too. It cannot be undone.
Why can people not understand that nothing can make these kinds of criminals any better or worse? They are going to do what they want to do, regardless.
(This is in part why I support the death penalty but that is not the point of this question.)
@Miss Independent: I am not talking about non-violent offenders. That is a whole different thing. And as far as the death penalty, it guarantees that that person will never kill anyone again. That is good enough for me. Just keeping them locked up is not enough. How many guards and other inmates are killed by murderers serving life sentences? If a guy goes to jail for stealing a car, should he have to die for that?
@The Blackadder: For appropriate cases, I advocate the death penalty. For others, I advocate maximum jail sentences. If we can’t rehab them, keep them out of prison as long as is possible based on the crime they commit. Then a very long, very strict parole, if they must be let out at all.
LMAO. That should be "out of commission", not "out of prison." ;0)
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August 26, 2010
I want to be someone that studies how the human mind works, for example, body language. Or how people feel when they write. Etc.
I want to be a professional in this kind of field.
So what do psychologists do, and what do psychiatrists do, or am I totally off, and this career has a different name?
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August 26, 2010
Im 25 years old next month. I have been messed up from the age of 15 up until this year Im finally all sorted, all better. I did self harm, a ton of drugs, needles, stripping, prostitution, crime…so much bad stuff. 3 years ago I met my husband. I settled down a bit then, and since I have had a baby girl- 1 1/2 years old now. I have really put the drug stuff behind me (I smoke weed once in a while but dont care about that)…the prostitution stuff was a bit harder to leave behind but Im prettymuch done with it..since my daughter was born its just been low key safe tricks (hand/blow)… I started counselling 4 months ago as I really wanted to sort my life out and be doing well by my 25th birthday. Things have been going well, Ive learnt a lot about myself, pulled my head in A LOT!
My question is -Is youth work the right field for me? I have interests in psychiatry type stuff, and I can sit on yahoo answers for hours being a know-it-all (LOL) Im working in an old folks home doing recreation activitiys (Like occupational therapist) I think I could understand some young people her in New Zealand? And one day do a study or a book on leaving the sex industry-as Ive found there is barely any info on it.
Am I going on the right path? I have a course of part time study starting in September….. Ikeep thinking they are going to find out Im a fraud. Im open about my past but…… jeeze I keep thinking I wont handle it?
Sorry its so long
Also I might add Ive barely done any tricks in the last 3 months… Its something I aim to stop by my 25th and Ive studied at great length the push-pull factor and my reasons. The course Im going to do will help me with a student income durring the 3 months….then what I dont know.
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August 26, 2010
can you get a bachelors degree in massage therapy that’s not online?
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August 24, 2010
So…. for forensics (speech) i am doing a humorous interpretation for the following story. I need help writing an intro. Any help would be much appreciated!!
Dr. Pickle
by: Louis Sachar
Actually his name was Doctor Pickell, with the accent on the second syllable. But that wasn’t why everyone called him Dr. Pickle.
Dr. Pickle was a psychiatrist. He had thick eyebrows and wore tiny glasses. He had a small beard on the tip of his pointed chin.
A psychiatrist is a doctor who doesn’t cure people with sick bodies. He cures people with sick minds.
Although Dr. Pickle had a pretty sick mind himself.
One day a woman came into his office. She smoked too much, and she wanted him to help her quit.
"I know that smoking is no good for me," she said as she puffed on her cigarette. "It’s bad for my heart. It fills my lungs with gunk. And my husband wont kiss me because my breath stinks. But I can’t quit!"
She finished her cigarette, smushed it out in an ashtray, then immediately lit another one.
"Have a seat," said Dr. Pickle
She sat down on the couch
"Look into my eyes," said Dr. Pickle
The woman stared deep into his deep, penetrating eyes.
Dr. Pickle held up a gold chain. At the end of the chain was a green stone that was almost transparent, but not quite. It looked like a pickle.
Hence, his name.
"Watch the pickle," he said, as he gently moved the chain.
The pickle went back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
The woman’s eyes went back and forth, back and forth, back and forth
"Put down your cigarette," Dr. Pickle said in a strong but gentle voice.
The woman set her cigarette in the ashtray as she continued to stare at the pickle.
"You are getting sleepy," said Dr. Pickle, "you will fall into a deep, deep sleep. One … Two … Three."
The woman’s eyes closed.
Dr. Pickle put down the pickle. "can you hear me?" he asked.
"Yes," said the woman, in a low voice from deep inside her.
"You will do what I say," said Dr. Pickle.
"I - will - do - what - you - say," the woman repeated.
"I am going to count to five," said Dr. Pickle, "And then you will wake up. And, as usual, you will want to smoke a cigarette."
"I - will - want - to - smoke - a - cigarette," the woman repeated.
"But when you put the cigarette in your mouth," said Dr. Pickle, "it will feel just like a worm. A wiggling, slimy worm."
"A - yucky - icky - worm," repeated the woman.
"Good," said Dr. Pickle. "Now just one more thing." He rubbed his beard and smiled. "Whenever your husband says the word ‘potato,’ you will slap him across the face."
"When - Fred - says - ‘potato’ - I - will - slap - his - face."
"Good," said Dr. Pickle. He counted to five. The woman woke up.
"So do you think you can help me?" she asked in her normal voice, as she reached for her cigarette.
Dr. Pickle shrugged.
She put her cigarette in her mouth, then screamed as she pulled it out.
She looked at the cigarette, puzzled. "Hm?" she said. She placed it back in her mouth, then spit it out onto the floor.
"I’m sorry," she said, a little confused. She picked up the cigarette and put it in the ashtray.
"That’s all right," said Dr. Pickle.
She took out a new cigarette from her pack but as soon as she put that in her mouth, she spit it out too.
"I’m sorry," she said again. "Idon’t know what’s come over me."
She walked out of his office shaking her head. She dropped her pack of cigarettes in the trash.
She never smoked agian.
It was an interesting thing about the word "potato." Whenever Fred said it, she slapped him, but she never remembered slapping him, so they’d get in a big fight, each calling the other crazy. Then they’d kiss and make up, which was nice because her breath didn’t stink.
They never figured out if it had anything to do with saying "potato." How could they?
But deep down they both must have realized it somehow, because while they used to eat lots of potatoes, they gradually ate fewer and fewer, until they finally stopped eating them altogether.
Dr. Pickle was a good doctor, but he kept playing those kinds of jokes on people. There was a woman who quacked like a duck whenever she saw a freight train with more than twenty cars. There was a man who took of his shoe anytime someone said "parking meter."
Eventually Dr. Pickle was caught, and he was no longer allowed to practice psychiatry. So he had to find another job.
He became a counselor at an elementary school.
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August 24, 2010
I strongly support cognitive behavioral therapy, psychology, clinical psychology, but, when it comes to psychiatry, I have my doubts. As we know, psychiatry is revolved around diagnosing medical conditions and treating them with medications, it is sometimes used in combination with cognitive behavioral therapy, but not exclusively, and psychiatry is just that on its own, diagnosis and medication.
There are three key players, stimulants with potential for abuse, antidepressants, which work by increasing serotonin in the brain, and the most controversial class of medications in psychiatry, and the most profitable to pharmaceutical industries, which are the atypical and typical antipsychotics.
Now these antipsychotic drugs work primarily by blocking dopamine, the key chemical in the brain responsible for pleasure (stimulants release dopamine and gives them their abuse for potential), movement, regulates hormones, and — in abundance — has been known to cause psychosis in a certain area of the brain.
Just to clarify, antidepressants and antipsychotics don’t work for everyone, some people get no relief from their psychotic symptoms, anxiety or depression on these medications, which leaves the door open to a whole host of possible causes. When it does work for people, it rarely resolves the problem altogether, but brings it under control with a whole host of side effects.
The problem is, for some people, even if low levels of serotonin in certain areas of the brain does cause depression and anxiety, and high levels of dopamine in certain areas of the brain do cause psychosis, the antidepressants and antipsychotics lack any selectiveness in the brain, and block dopamine, and increase serotonin — in abundance — which causes a chemical imbalance in the brain, which why people do tend to get sexual side effects on antidepressants, why they do tend to gain weight, lose the ability too feel pleasure, have movement disorders which can be irreversible, and lose their period, grow breasts or lactate on antipsychotics — these are symptoms of chemical imbalances, they’re not correcting them, as psychiatry so eloquently puts it.
My opinion on psychiatry is we don’t know enough about the brain and the causes of these disorders, to be messing around with its chemicals, simple as that. I don’t believe the diagnoses or "labels", are always accurate, have the same symptoms or have the same causes in people. I think we only know enough to treat people with cognitive behavioral therapy, not drugs.
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August 23, 2010
If you had a problem and felt like you needed therapy, would you be more willing to try seeing a therapist in person, or would you be willing to try online therapy?
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