The Psychology Thread

I'd say both but I remember being friends with a bunch of teenage girls, they were about as romantically intelligent as the teenage boys.

The Guardian on how tumblr's mental health communities are helping to bridge gaps for mental healthcare in the US.

So... should I be directing people who can't afford therapy to tumblr?

I can't believe I asked that with a straight face.

The upside: some form of support and access to information. The downside: unregulated, unverified, unaccountable...

I guess it helped people to realize that they have mental issues in the first place, and that such issues require treatment instead of thinking they go away on their own.

I have a question: What if you have a project that you want to work on and later on your friend "coerces" you to work on it but it ends up failing because your friend messed things up and/or circumstances beyond your control. You end learning a 'lesson' from it and you bear some resentment towards for 'ruining' your project. I think I saw it in a show once but is this phenomenon called? And what is a way to respond to this?

Surprisingly enough, it's called "being majorly pissed off". And bullied. :/

It's called "Feeling betrayed". First they forced you into it, then they screwed it up for you. I'm unaware of a technical term for it.

I suspect that betrayal is the technical term.

Betrayal usually refers to the subversion of assumed loyalty. This is more disappointment.

Loyalty to you is a thing.

I guess I'm just having trouble understanding the question. I don't see loyalty implied anywhere. Personal or otherwise. I also can't think of a name for the situation, but I sort of feel like it should have one. Maybe it is a trope?

If someone you trust coerces you then I'd say they'd betrayed you and your trust in them.

True. But when people say coerce, they don't usually mean coerce. I thought the loyalty thing was with them failing to finish the project?

I was referring to how the friend in question screwed up the project he was working and thus brings up some disastrous consequences.

Oh God, this is almost hilarious.

I've never seen symptoms of PTSD being displayed...by a robot character before. (It starts at 3:00

That was a pretty good battle scene.

That was tremendously well done. Whoever scripted that has more than an academic understanding, methinks.

You mean the PTSD or the battle scene?

Both. Nice detail about the download also triggering basically what amounted to a semi-self-constructed hallucination/memory/anxiety attack/hindbrain screaming at forebrain over not-as-buried-as-all-that info and behaviour. Sure, there's build-up, but... It played out in what felt like a proper, if condensed and quickening spiral.

Also, enjoyed the way the breaks were put on that attack. Actively engaging with external stimuli to reaffirm current temporal-emotional mental mapping? Niiiiiiice.

edited 14th Sep '16 7:17:28 PM by Euodiachloris

The psychological aspects were rather well done. OTOH, I wouldn't call the battle scene very realistic in an objective sense, but that's the subject for a different thread.

That animated short feels like a metaphor of a combat veteran returning to peaceful, civilian world after many years of seeing some serious stuff, experiencing trigger and flashbacks, but ultimately integrating back to society with the support from service animals/friends. I especially liked the bit where the sound of a woodpecker acted as the trigger. I heard a lot of stories of how fireworks can be very stressful to some veterans suffering from PTSD.

Of course, those kind of people are not killing sprees waiting to happen, obviously.

That made me cry the first time I watched it, not least because I would love to just bugger off with my family and go live in a cabin in the woods in peace and quiet (cliche, I know) but whatever weird complex it is that compels me to put myself in harm's way won't let me go.

My wife bought me a week-long holiday in the Cairngorms for my birthday because she knows how much I love the woods and how helpful I find it to spend time there.

edited 16th Sep '16 9:23:57 AM by InverurieJones

Animals react to mirror.

Heh. This reminds me of how recognizing yourself on mirror is a pretty advanced cognitive ability.

Help. I've been doing some research on Dissociative Identity Disorder, and trying to find reliable numbers of the likely prevalence of the condition in the general population. But most of the numbers I find are absolutely ridiculous. I see numbers as high as 5%. I don't think there are that many people with traumatic experiences in their history. And traumatic experience is one of the diagnostic criteria.

Not to mention, if the average classroom had at least one person with two people in their head, I doubt there would still be psychologists who think the whole thing is baloney.