- It Takes Two to Tangle; Relationship and Projections
Understanding the causes of conflict in your relationship is the beginning towards resolving the problems between you and your partner. Once we shine the light on the problem and begin to discuss them objectively, the solution is often within reach.Self-examination and profound introspection is a good starting point to understand the root cause of conflicts in your relationship. These causes may be deeply buried but are propelled by historical factors that are unknown to the individual. In which case, self-exploration is the most direct means of making them known and talked about constructively. - Depression, Holiday Blues, Seasonal Affective Disorder: The Other Side of Merry Christmas
Are you a victim of the holiday blues? The glare and dazzle of Christmas lights and the rush of activity between Thanksgiving and New Year can mask the other side of the holiday - depression and loneliness. While depression is a common illnesses for many adults, Christmas blues can be experienced by many who have heightened and unrealistic expectations about holiday events. - Latent Homosexuality: Paranoid Delusions Rage and Anxiety
Male homosexuality is more of a threat to men than female homosexuality is to women. It is widely agreed among psychotherapists that men who have an underlying fear of their homosexual tendencies often are vehemently abusive in their attacks against homosexuality. While those who do not feel threatened by any homosexual leanings within themselves have a greater understanding and more relaxed in their relationships with people of homosexual proclivities.It is further believed that transsexualists, those who change sex by surgical means, are so afraid of homosexuality that they rather give up their maleness forever than face their homosexual tendencies. Also, men often become sexually aroused by the display of female homosexuality even though they may find viewing any sexual activity between two men offensive. Women, on the other hand, usually exhibit little interest in witnessing an manifestations of either male or female homosexuality. - Psychopathic Personality: The Absence of Conscience
We are all familiar with the likes of, John Wayne Gacy, Gary Gilmore, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Ted Bundy; to name a few. These individuals are deadly social preditors better known as psychopaths whose glaring lack of conscience is made abundantly clear in popular books and movies. These psychopaths are the ghost of our daily lives at the office, at home, and in our relationships.Psychopaths have been around for a very long time and can be found in every race, culture, society, and every walk of life. At one time or another everyone has met these social predator, many of us been deceived and manipulated by them, and compelled share our lives with or repair the damage they left behind. Psychopaths are often charming, but always deadly; their goal is self-gratification at the other person's expense.Many psychopaths are criminals, but many others manage to remain out of prison. Like the social predators they are; psychopaths use their charm and chameleon-like coloration to charm they way through society, leaving many ruined lives behind. - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) : Challenges Established Family Norms and Beliefs
ADHD is described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th edition as a "persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that is more frequent and severe than typically observed in individuals at a comparable level of development."Children with ADHD are for more impaired in their adaptive functioning than children without ADHD, and their impaired functioning is mostly responsible for co-existing disorders of mood, anxiety, learning, and conduct. - Fluency Disorders: Stuttering vs Cluttering
While the spoken word is taken for granted by most of us, the use of the verbal language is challenging for millions of individuals living with speech-language disorders. It is estimated that approximately three million individuals, of all ages, suffers some form of fluency disorder. For many of those individuals daily communication is a struggle and their verbal ability does not open doors but closes them in the areas of academic, interpersonal relation, professional development, and personal achievement. - Autism - An Enigmatic Event Revisited: From the Refrigerator Mother to The Parent Trap
During the 1940s mothers of autistic children were labeled refrigerator mother. These mothers were often blamed for their children's anti-social behaviors, which included rigid rituals, speech difficulty, and self-isolation. As a result, many mothers of autistic children suffered from blame, guilt, and self-doubt from the 1940s throughout the 1970s, and to some extent, even today.This devastating disorder, best known as infantile autism, is inexplicably on the rise with no effective treatment in sight. The medical community today is just as much in the dark as they were in the 1940s. Many researchers are convinced that the environment in which we live plays a major role autism; the nation's fastest-growing developmental disorder. If this is so, than we must take into consideration the influence a chemically-driven world that we live in. Which, in turn, would dictate that the practice of both mothers and fathers be a part of any environmental study to determined the cause of autism. After all they share the same environment. - Suicide: The Final Taboo
There are certain subjects concerning which we speak often in jest, as if to prolong the need of ever discussing them seriously. Suicide is one of them. So great is the taboo on suicide that some people will not speak the word. The news papers is reluctant to print accounts of it. During the last twenty-five minutes somewhere in the United States someone committed suicide. Statistically, there are about 35,000 people who kill themselves each year in the United States. An estimated ten to forty times that number who try to kill themselves but didn't for one reason or another. Research suggests that it is twice as frequent in some European countries. In many communities suicide occur more frequent than homocide or traffic accident.
|
