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Depression
February 26th, 2007 by kurt-jumpman23
what are symptoms of depression?
- Feelings of overwhelming sadness and/or fear, or the seeming inability to feel emotion (emptiness).
- A decrease in the amount of interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, daily activities.
- Changing appetite and marked weight gain or loss.
- Disturbed sleep patterns, such as insomnia, loss of REM sleep, or excessive sleep (Hypersomnia).
- Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day.
- Fatigue, mental or physical, also loss of energy.
- Intense feelings of guilt, helplessness, hopelessness, worthlessness, isolation/loneliness and/or anxiety.
- Trouble concentrating, keeping focus or making decisions or a generalized slowing and obtunding of cognition, including memory.
- Recurrent thoughts of death (not just fear of dying), desire to just "lie down and die" or "stop breathing", recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt or a specific plan for committing suicide.
- Feeling and/or fear of being abandoned by those close to one.
Other symptoms often reported but not usually taken into account in diagnosis include:
- Self-loathing.
- A decrease in self-esteem.
- Inattention to personal hygiene.
- Sensitivity to noise.
- Physical aches and pains, and the belief these may be signs of serious illness.
- Fear of ‘going mad’.
- Change in perception of time.
- Periods of sobbing.
- Possible behavioral changes, such as aggression and/or irritability.
This according to the DSM manual, the bible of Psychiatrists. For the past month, I have suffered majority or half of these symptoms. And really! I don’t know why it was happening! Lately, I don’t experience these symptoms… Hapit na ang finals. Gamay nalang. Can’t wait to get home.
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On Freedom of Expression and Rights
February 26th, 2007 by kurt-jumpman23
| Date: | Saturday, 24 February, 2007 11:27 PM |
| Subject: | Just a reminder… |
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To the people of the Philippines Just to remind you that ALL HUMAN JUST A REMINDER=) http://www.friendster.com/bulletin.php?bid=114500966&uid=10708083 since this was posted in the friendster bulletin, topics like these encourage me to comment. but really, what does the word ABSOLUTE mean? As the web defines it, ABSOLUTE is: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn the list goes on.. hence, this bulletin post actually means that " The RIGHT to THINK " is unchangeable. The right is perfect. The right itself is true in all cases, except when the MAN is DEAD or existing as a reformed Spiritual, unseen entity. Because to think is a cognitive form of action/behavior/response that involves the highest seat in the brain: the frontal lobe, specifically the prefrontal cortex. What makes humans different from animals is the ability to think ( among other things ). Hence, the RIGHT to THINK, really is absolute. But wait… WHAT is A " RIGHT"? I browsed wikipedia, it says that: "In modern English and European systems of jurisprudence and law, a right is the legal or moral entitlement to do or refrain from doing something or to obtain or refrain from obtaining an action, thing or recognition in civil society." "The right is therefore a faculty of doing something, of omitting or refusing to do something or of claiming something. " ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights Based from these definitions, I classify RIGHT to THINK , as something as NOT REALLY A RIGHT. Why? Because Every HUMAN BEINGS can think without anybody noticing a person that he/she is thinking. RIGHTS should be expressed. It does not reside merely in our brain. For me, RIGHTS ARE THOUGHTS that are needed to be transformed into physical action, there should be bodily movements. Or else, what you think will be just thoughts in your brain. When you SPEAK your THOUGHTS, now that is a right. For example, in a certain situation, Person A was offered a huge amount of money by Person B to do something favorable to Person B. Person A was given time to think to accept it or not. But In this case ," to think" is not a right. Person A has the "right refuse or accept" the offer, which Person B recognized. Responses or behaviors elicited to do, claim, ommit or refuse something is fascilitated by thinking. However, rights like the right to live is not fascilitated by thinking but by instincts of our unconscious mind. " some Election is an issue that is very delicate. Because outcomes of the elections changes the peoples lives and the community as a whole. When people reiterate their freedom of expression, it is because they have the right to express it so. People’s opinions can change or influence thoughts of other people, but their opinions varies. This is why we have what we call PERSONALITY. People differ in different aspects. And also, in a delicate issue like the elections, people have the right to voice their concerns because this is the most opportunistic time when unsatisfied individuals could COMMUNICATE with the campaigning and trotting candidates. Candidates should listen and recongnize the rights of the people, for better communications so that goals can be achieved. Hence, when we stand on our opinions by expressing it with conviction, the right is not being "hallucinated" but used and exercised. However, I Agree that the freedom of expression should never be offending. All rights should never be abused unless the rights of the people are abused. This is a form of expression. Just like the bulletin post above: a form of expression, of opinion, by the poster. All of this is just a matter of expressing it with conviction. Opinions are either meant to be defended or changed. |
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4 Ps: Power, Politics, Pavlov and Peter Parker
February 2nd, 2007 by kurt-jumpman23
The great social philosopher Max Weber defined power as the “the probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance”.
Forsith, a Western psychologist and group dynamicist, argued that "social power is the most binding concept in the social and political sciences as nuclear energy is for physics and other hard sciences."
Politicians are sometimes called “Machiavellian”, for they can’t resist the thirst for power. They would do all means to have power. The end justifies the mean, so to speak. But there would be a few exceptions and I will elaborate about it later.
As Lord Acton’s famous(or infamous) maxim goes, “ Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
Why do such politicians do such thing? It’s because they are unconsciously hypnotized by the effects of the rewards of having power.
The Estradas: Loi and Jinggoy are now Senators, while her mother opts not to run again. Now these coming elections, they want JV Ejercito to run for Senate. What?! 80 million Filipinos, 24 senate seats, and the Estradas want to occupy two for every 3 years?! The same for the filibustering Alan Peter Cayetano, blubbering his way against Mike Arroyo to gain spotlight for the campaign trail to Senate to join her ineffective sister Pia Cayetano who still projects her girl-in-the-mountain-bike image in the Senate. They are a disgrace to their father.
In our city and province, political dynasty is rampant. It can’t be stopped. Coming these elections, its seems that two families are in the battle for supremacy. Heck, assumed candidates are members of nuclear families or extended families, depends on how you look at it.
Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo is one of the most durable women in the political arena. She’s a SHE. She is short. She seems weak physically. But those things belies her corrupting demeanor. With equally Machiavellian cohorts like Injustice Secretary Raul Gonzalez, she managed to survived political upheavals in the last two years. They won’t back down until they collected enough power.
Using Pavlovian Conditioning ( Remember your Psychology 101 Subjects in College in which it is one of the most fundamental tenets in LEARNING), she and her minions have extinguished or diminished the association of the Conditioned Stimulus (US) which is the Hello Garci Scandal, to its Conditioned Response ( CR ), which is the opposition of the Filipinos. There should be another unconditioned stimulus to have a very lingering and strong unconditioned response.
Likewise, some local politicians have used their pet projects, finished projects they manipulated to let the people know that “THEY HAVE DONE SOMETHING”. Come election time, they will associate these new roads and bridges to their image.
Again, using Pavlovian conditioning, generally the corrupt politicians are the US, which would elicit an unconditioned response, UR, which is dissatisfaction or opposition. With the projects they hastened to finish when election gets nearer, these things become the Neutral Stimulus( NS ).These NS will later be associated with the US, so that by Election Day, the unwise people will get swayed by these maneuvering tactics if gone undetected. If finished projects elicit positive response from the people, then politicians hungry of power will always try to let these projects associate with their image to also have a positive response from the people. In the laws of learning, we should always remember that the unconditioned stimulus elicits the greatest intensity from the unconditioned response, hence, politicians should be "original" from the start.
Come also this summer, Spiderman 3 will be shown in Cinemas. This third sequel features Peter Parker in black outfit. The trail says: “the greatest battle comes from within”. And lastly, as his Uncle Ben always reminds him, “ great power comes with great responsibilities”. In Philippine politics, those who followed Uncle Ben’s reminder were Manuel Quezon, Claro M. Recto, Ninoy Aquino and Joker Arroyo to name a few.
It remains to be seen whether Spiderman will triumph in this sequel. If ever he does, those corrupt leaders in our country should learn how to emulate Spiderman and the great leaders of yore. Power is indeed corruptive. We will battle this effect of power so that the good will triumph against the evil.
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