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16/01/2015

International LeadershOp Conference

16/01/2015

International LeadershOp Conference

International LeadershOp Conference announces its second speaker, MR. ARSLAN LARIK.

Charming, Influential and a person who believes Leadership is the art of bringing people together for a common cause- Larik is coming to International LeadershOp Conference and he wants to torch the fire in you!

at this January!

Register at: www.ileadershop.com

16/01/2015
International LeadershOp Conference

International LeadershOp Conference

He sees something in all of us. Are YOU ready to discover that potential, that "something" in you at ?!

If you're living anywhere in the world, anywhere in this country, and are ready to Lead, Act and Reflect, register NOW.

For registrations: www.ileadershop.com

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16/01/2015

Presenting the World Public speaking Champion

We are thankful to UNILEVER for being the exclusive Sponsor for Mr World Champion Speaker 2014 Dananjaya J Hettiarachchi .

Unilever Pakistan is the largest fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company in Pakistan. Operating in Pakistan for over the last four decades the company is playing a dynamic role in the elevation of living standards by bringing world class high quality products at the door step of their customers.

Unilever has made it possible for the public speaking champion 2014 to come and enlighten everyone at our event. Their support will open many new opportunities for the participants in ILC as well as help develop the necessary base to enhance the standard of the event.

Are You Ready to see something in you?

Register at : www.ileadershop.com

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16/01/2015

Register now!

We are shortlisting your applications on a rolling basis. You will be informed of your selection, payment and ticket delivery details latest by 21st January.

Happy registering!

31/10/2013

Women who live in warmer climates maintain lower weight, display more binge eating and purging, and have more body image concerns than women living in cooler climates.

31/10/2013

Women who answer to another woman in the workplace feel significantly more stressed than those who have a male supervisor.

31/10/2013

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27/10/2013

Every single face you have seen in your dreams is actually of people you have seen while awake over the course of your life.

23/10/2013

Sign language actually has its own version of tongue twisters called ‘finger fumblers’.

18/10/2013

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
— Frida Kahlo

18/10/2013

Diana Wilson had obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) for 26 years. Now working for OCD-UK, she shares her story here about how she finally overcame the disorder.

"My earliest memory of the illness was when I was about eight years old. The symptoms were a fear of stepping on the pavement cracks. I don't know why, but it made me feel physically uncomfortable if I did it.

"That was one ritual. Another ritual, which was a compulsion, was the fear that if I didn't say my prayers respectfully and sincerely, my mother might be killed in a car accident. I took on this huge responsibility as a child for another person's life.

"A lot of people know about the hand washing and the checking of things, but many people are unaware that OCD can also take a sinister angle, where you have a fear that you may harm your own children very violently.

"When I had my fourth child I had intrusive thoughts at bedtime that I would go to the children's bedrooms in my sleep, take out their dressing gown cords and strangle each one. This was horrendous to go through, because I didn't know whether I was going to do it or not.

"People with OCD are not dangerous and they do not harm, but I was permanently exhausted.

"That was the obsession: the compulsion was to try to relieve some of the pain and terror that came from those thoughts. I would get out of bed, find their dressing gowns, take the cords out of the dressing gowns and tie them into as many knots as possible, so that I wouldn't be able to put the cords around their necks.

"Then I'd go back to bed, but I still couldn't sleep. I would get out of bed again, get the cords, put them in a bag, seal the bag, and put the bag in a high cupboard. This would give a little relief, but it was still terrifying.

"After I saw my GP, I saw a consultant psychiatrist. I was put on antidepressants, which helped me enormously. Medication gave me the strength to sleep and eat well, so I could then have cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), which is a psychological treatment that deals with the present. I was able to put my heart and soul into my own recovery.

"I often used to ask myself what was wrong with my memory and why I couldn't remember whether the gas has been turned off, even though I'd checked it 13 times and I only checked 10 seconds ago. In fact, people with OCD have a perfectly accurate memory, but what we don't have is a confident memory. CBT can help to restore that."

11/10/2013

How many narcissists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Just one. All he has to so is hold it in place while the world revolves around him.

09/10/2013

Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline.
If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly.
If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2.
If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6.
If you are paranoid-delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Just stay on the line so we can trace the call.
If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are depressed, it doesn't matter which number you press. No one will answer.
If you are delusional and occasionally hallucinate, please be aware that the thing you are holding on the side of your head is alive and about to bite off your ear.

09/10/2013

If I've told you once, I've told you 273 times..... I do not suffer from OCD

09/10/2013

My psychiatrist said....
"Tell me, how long have you been having these hallucinations about seeing a psychiatrist?"

18/06/2013

so addiction can either be towards a substance such as co***ne or towards a behaviour such as video gaming.
Lets have everybody name as many types of addictions as they can! Start.

18/06/2013

The average drug addict needs to come up with $200 per day for his addiction.

16/06/2013

Sorry for delaying addiction week. It starts tomorrow for sure! so hang in there.

16/06/2013

To end depression in style here's an interesting read!

Excerpt from Noonday Demon – Andrew Solomon
It is not pleasant to experience decay, to find yourself exposed to the ravages of an almost daily rain, and to know that you are turning into something feeble, that more and more of you will blow off with the first strong wind, making you less and less. Some people accumulate more emotional rust than others. Depression starts out insipid, fogs the days into a dull color, weakens ordinary actions until their clear shapes are obscured by the effort they require, leaves you tired and bored and self-obsessed—but you can get through all that. Not happily, perhaps, but you can get through. No one has ever been able to define the collapse point that marks major depression, but when you get there, there's not much mistaking it.
Major depression is a birth and a death: it is both the new presence of something and the total disappearance of something. Birth and death are gradual, though official documents may try to pinion natural law by creating categories such as "legally dead" and "time born." Despite nature's vagaries, there is definitely a point at which a baby who has not been in the world is in it, and a point at which a pensioner who has been in the world is no longer in it. It's true that at one stage the baby's head is here and his body not; that until the umbilical cord is severed the child is physically connected to the mother. It's true that the pensioner may close his eyes for the last time some hours before he dies, and that there is a gap between when he stops breathing and when he is declared "brain-dead." Depression exists in time. A patient may say that he has spent certain months suffering major depression, but this is a way of imposing a measurement on the immeasurable. All that one can really say for certain is that one has known major depression, and that one does or does not happen to be experiencing it at any given present moment.
The birth and death that constitute depression occur at once. I returned, not long ago, to a wood in which I had played as a child and saw an oak, a hundred years dignified, in whose shade I used to play with my brother. In twenty years, a huge vine had attached itself to this confident tree and had nearly smothered it. It was hard to say where the tree left off and the vine began. The vine had twisted itself so entirely around the scaffolding of tree branches that its leaves seemed from a distance to be the leaves of the tree; only up close could you see how few living oak branches were left, and how a few desperate little budding sticks of oak stuck like a row of thumbs up the massive trunk, their leaves continuing to photosynthesize in the ignorant way of mechanical biology.
Fresh from a major depression in which I had hardly been able to take on board the idea of other people's problems, I empathized with that tree. My depression had grown on me as that vine had conquered the oak; it had been a sucking thing that had wrapped itself around me, ugly and more alive than I. It had had a life of its own that bit by bit asphyxiated all of my life out of me. At the worst stage of major depression, I had moods that I knew were not my moods: they belonged to the depression, as surely as the leaves on that tree's high branches belonged to the vine. When I tried to think clearly about this, I felt that my mind was immured, that it couldn't expand in any direction. I knew that the sun was rising and setting, but little of its light reached me. I felt myself sagging under what was much stronger than I; first I could not use my ankles, and then I could not control my knees, and then my waist began to break under the strain, and then my shoulders turned in, and in the end I was compacted and fetal, depleted by this thing that was crushing me without holding me. Its tendrils threatened to pulverize my mind and my courage and my stomach, and crack my bones and desiccate my body. It went on glutting itself on me when there seemed nothing left to feed it.
I was not strong enough to stop breathing. I knew then that I could never kill this vine of depression, and so all I wanted was for it to let me die. But it had taken from me the energy I would have needed to kill myself, and it would not kill me. If my trunk was rotting, this thing that fed on it was now too strong to let it fall; it had become an alternative support to what it had destroyed. In the tightest corner of my bed, split and racked by this thing no one else seemed to be able to see, I prayed to a God I had never entirely believed in, and I asked for deliverance. I would have been happy to die the most painful death, though I was too dumbly lethargic even to conceptualize su***de. Every second of being alive hurt me. Because this thing had drained all fluid from me, I could not even cry. My mouth was parched as well. I had thought that when you feel your worst your tears flood, but the very worst pain is the arid pain of total violation that comes after the tears are all used up, the pain that stops up every space through which you once metered the world, or the world, you. This is the presence of major depression.
I have said that depression is both a birth and a death. The vine is what is born. The death is one's own decay, the cracking of the branches that support this misery. The first thing that goes is happiness. You cannot gain pleasure from anything. That's famously the cardinal symptom of major depression. But soon other emotions follow happiness into oblivion: sadness as you had known it, the sadness that seemed to have led you here; your sense of humor; your belief in and capacity for love. Your mind is leached until you seem dim-witted even to yourself. If your hair has always been thin, it seems thinner; if you have always had bad skin, it gets worse. You smell sour even to yourself. You lose the ability to trust anyone, to be touched, to grieve. Eventually, you are simply absent from yourself.

23/04/2013

Okay so things are getting a bit too depressed aren't they? tomorrow we can start off the Addiction week so brace yourselves because this is one of my favourite topics!

21/04/2013

Here are a few positive outcomes of depression!

One find creativity in your life or work
Becomes more resilient
Reaches a goal
Sees the world in a different light
Becomes more empathetic of other people's needs and moods
Prioritizes what is important to you
Holds a belief that things happen for a reason.

21/04/2013

This is a description of depression by a sufferer who has now recovered:

I remember feeling very sad over something, so sad that I was crying every day, and feeling the most utter anguish imaginable for weeks and weeks.

But after the sad episode was resolved, I said to a friend who, like me, also suffers depression: 'It's been an awful period, but nothing, nothing like as bad as being depressed' and she laughed and said: 'I know exactly what you mean. Unhappiness is somehow real, and depression isn't, and that's what so awful about it. Funny how no one understands that.'

Depression is when you actually want to die. Or, rather, since it's difficult to want to do anything when you're depressed, when you no longer want to live. In my experience, depression is being unable to work, to laugh, to think straight even.

17/04/2013

so heres a question for you all to think about. Do you think depression could have any positive consequences on an individual's life?

16/04/2013

Biologically it has been researched that lower levels of serotonin (a neurotransmitter in the body) lead to depression and men produce 52% more serotonin than women which is why they are less prone to depression than women.

16/04/2013

In the bottomest pit of depression, people are actually least likely to commit su***de because they are too fatigued and helpless to take any form of action to improve their situation or to alleviate their misery. It is infact the stage at which they recover slightly where practitioners and family members need to be alert because that is where patients have the will and energy to take any form of action.

16/04/2013

Freud, a well known psych researcher, postulated that depression comes from anger turned towards oneself that leads to a person not eating, sleeping and other similar symptoms of depression.

16/04/2013

Alright so to make things a little more informative, we decided to assign a week for a particular disorder. Starting today we have the depression week so anyone want to share fun facts or simply facts about depression bring it on!

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