Disorders

So this is our last chapter in our psychology and the chapter we had to read was treating psychological disorders. To me this part of psychology was a good learning area for me. I would have to say that most of what i read about is how I would of though they treated different disorders. So of the ways they treat different disorders are by medicine which I already knew but then there was electroconvulsive therapy where they shock peoples brains into triggering a brief seizure. Which I found to be to be a bit much because they didn't but the person under when they were doing the electroconvulsive therapy. I know we have a mental hospital here in Pines which was used back in in the 1950's until about 1990. This place was for people how were consider to be crazy back in those days and they really did use the electroconvulsive therapy there and room was still set up the same as it was back when they used it. Reason I was in that building was because my office is moving over there by the building and I asked if someone could take me into the old mental hospital because i'm taking psychology and I wanted to see if any of the recorders or anything was left in there. Well let me just say this that the old hospital was pretty scary even though it was pretty much empty at this point. There were still some office stuff in there and also rooms that had medical beds. So like the last chapter said there were big stereotypes placed on people with mental illness and it is sad because they were locked away. Yes, the place it was at was for the criminally insane and also people with mental disorder like schizophrenia. Another thing I want to talk about is people who have to take medicine to help with there disorders. When I comes to the different medications that are used I don't know  if there more helpful or not with the people who take them. So of the side effects are pretty bad. So medicines can lead to suicide or even increased anxiety. I've seen when people don't take there medicine for whatever reason and they totally lose all control and have a mental break down its pretty scary to watch. My aunt is  bipolar and I have seen the effects of her not taking her medicine and how its a very sad and scary sight. She is uncontrollable one minute she is okay and then the next minute she is on the other end with a bad attitude and I would say pretty crazy. She yells and screams and acts like a total beast like a whole other person. Then there was the guy at my office about a week ago that had a break down in the middle of my office yelling and screaming and then through himself on the floor like a child because they didn't get their way with something. I never realized how many people are effected by mental disorder whether it is something more basic or something that is a chemical imbalance which can only be helped with medicine for the rest of the persons life and even then sometimes the medicine doesn't as work for the person so they have to keep trying new medicines until they find the right one or even amount of the medicine they need to take in order to control there disorder.  

relating classes to work

So today at work we had a customer came into our house and he had a total mental down in the middle of the office. I would like to say he has a mental disease but i'm not very sure which one. He was upset about his bill for this month and when the customer service stuff tryed to example to the man about the minimum bill he throw himself on the floor and started screaming like he was a 3 year old child. I was blow away by this whole thing and since we are reading about mental disease's in psychology I would have to say he either has a mental disease or is under a lot of stress which is cause this break down. We weren't able to get him to relax or even to sit up in a chair. Which he went into this fit he wasn't hearing anything anyone in the office had to say. We ended up call the police dept and asked they come with the fire dept because of what was happening with this man. Once the cops came he still didnt really relax but they did talk to him and call his wife which we came to find out the man has a mental disorder and that he may be off his medican. So felt to bad for this guy because i've never come across this before other then my Aunt which is bipolor, but when it comes to her she has more of a mood swing then a mental break down like this man had today at our office. I do believe after watching this whole thing this morning that some people really do have a mental sickness that does need medican and doctors care. I feel so bad for people who have different disorders which effect there everyday life.

Chapter 12

So the last chapter we had to read and study was defining psychological disorders. We'll  after reading about some of the disorders they talked about the nature vs nurture and how those two things can effect someone which many cause an disorder. A lot of the disorders are treatable and don't have long lasting effects on the person. Then there are other disorders which people live with but they pretty control everything in that persons life which sometimes makes the person live unlivable. They also spoke about ADHD all the way to sexual disorders. I was shocked about how many disorders there are out there and how a lot of people live with the disorder their whole life or even sometimes grow out of it or sometimes even get some disorders later in life. I didn't realize how many thousands of people are effected by all different types of disorders from all around the world and also the United States.  Within this chapter they talk all about causes and impacts or the disorders also the treatments for the different disorders.  How this chapter relates to my everyday life is that I have a family member who is bio polar and also I found of the guy I'm seeing had ADHD as a child.  When it comes to my family member I now better understand the disorder and how it is treated and how difficult it is to live with thAt disease because of the mood swings and ups and downs. Then with ADHD I was joking with the guy I'm seeing and told him I believe you have ADHD because of the fact the variety of behaviors they talk about in the chapter totally fit him. Then he told me as a small child he was on medical when it and I totally believe he still has this disorder as a 30 year man. The closer to the end of this class we get the more I'm really starting to enjoy it and understand and relate the stuff I have learned to my everyday life. 

Personality

So the last chapter we had to read In psychology was on personality. After reading the chapter it made me think about myself and others and why we are the way we are when it comes to personality.  The book makes it seem like a lot of our personality comes from traits which relates to our behaviors. Which I never though were related to personality. So I ended up taking the personality test which when I got my results I don't believe the personality test really show our true personality. I even had my parents read the results and asked them if what the test said sounded like me. Their answer was NO not at all. Then there was the Big Five which explain substantial proportion of behavior. After reading the five different one they have listed I don't really see myself as anyone of those. I would have to say I'm more of a mix of like two of them which are openness to experience and conscientiousness. These two aren't 100% like me but they do have some quilts that are like me. Well one to the next subject be I carry on to much. I took the chapter 11 quiz and let me tell you that quiz had nothing to do with the chapter at all which sucked! Well at least to me that quiz and what I read didn't relate at all :/
So after all of this is said and done I know have been using this personality study with people I work with or even friends. I can tell that some of peoples personalities have to do with how they were raised or even where they grow up of what they saw growing up. It's kind of weird but I do believe that our behavior has to do with our personality even though before when I first read the chapter i can't see how those two things related  to each other. Pretty cool on how after I have read these chapters in this book I took the things I have learned and use them at work a lot. Reason for this is because I work with the public and it is even difficult to handle some of the people with their crazy and wild behaviors and personalties.  Like when it comes to the people I work with our personalities are so different in ways but in other we are a lot a like. Example some of the ladies I work with are from New York well a lot of them are and the age group is from 66 to 28 and they all have that tough and out spoken  kind of attitude about them. I guess it has to do with where they were raised because they all come from different areas in New York and different back grounds but some of their behaviors are a lot a like its kind of crazy now that I'm looking for these kind of things.