s-stormborn:

aportraitoftheartist-asayoungfan:

Is probably the singularly most unsettling thing to ever exist on the internet

There is a conflict in you caused by your inability to connect emotionally with others. The emotional commitment seems to bring with it a raft of limiting factors or else they are perceived to require you to give up some of what you feel is integral your own sense of self. Consequently, intimacy will leave you feeling over-exposed. This is why you avoid it.

 You are responding negatively to a hostile environment or a situation in which you feel you do not have control. There is a rebellious quality to your day to day responses which have not gone unnoticed. In response, you have attempted to avoid situations in which you will lose your temper or become agitated. In all likelihood, you are failing this attempt and have become irrational and angry in public. A feeling of perpetual resentment may result, in which case you will become isolated and unlikeable.

literatureismyutopia:

Life may be sad, but it’s always beautiful: Literary Syndromes

1. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
   Unlike the namesake of this disorder, sufferers of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome perceive their body parts and other objects in altered sizes. AIWS is commonly associated with migraines, brain tumors, use of psychoactive drugs, and signs of epilepsy and mononucleosis. This is also called Todd’s Syndrome.
2. Rapunzel Syndrome
   This syndrome is named after the fairy tale princess with beautiful and astonishingly long hair in one of Brothers Grimm’s bedtime stories. The Rapunzel Syndrome is a rare intestinal condition in humans resulting from tricophagia, or the abnormal urge to eat one’s hair. This diagnosis is medically referred to as trichobezoar. In ancient times, the hair found in intestinal tracks are believed to be an elixir of some sort, able to cure lots of diseases.
3. Cinderella Syndrome
   Named after the main character in one of Charles Perrault’s fairy tales, this syndrome refers to the common phenomenon in kids where they make exaggerated stories about how they are abused, mistreated, or neglected by adoptive/step-parents. This is different from ‘Cinderella Complex’, which is said to be women’s fear of independence and an unconscious desire to be taken care of by ‘stronger’ others (like metaphorical Fairy God moms or Princes Charming).
4. Peter Pan Syndrome
    “I don’t want to grow up!” says J.M. Barrie’s popular character from Neverland. According to pop-psychology, sufferers of Peter Pan Syndrome are adults who are socially immature. They tend to avoid responsibilities and often feel the need to be mothered.
5. Dorian Gray Syndrome
    This syndrome is named after the handsome main character of Oscar Wilde’s book The Picture of Dorian Gray who sells his soul so that his portrait will age instead of himself. Sufferers of DGS are characterized by an excessive preoccupation with their physical appearances and youth, thus having problems in terms of coping with aging. Often, people with DGS have narcissistic traits and are heavily reliant on cosmetic procedures and products.
6. Othello Syndrome
    Sufferers of Othello syndrome, very much like the namesake of this disorder from one of Shakespeare’s works,  are characterized by intense and often delusional distrust of their partners. This syndrome is also called morbid jealousy and is often associated with alcoholism and sexual dysfunction. It can also be found in the context of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
   
7. Pollyanna Syndrome
    Named after Eleanor Porter’s protagonist in her best-selling children’s book, Pollyanna Syndrome is the psychological phenomenon wherein a person becomes blindly or foolishly optimistic to a point that it’s almost delusional.
8. Emperor’s Clothes Syndrome
    The Emperor’s Clothes Syndrome is more like a mentality than a disorder. It got its name from Hans Christian Andersen’s tale where no one in town—until the kid speaks—is pointing out that the Emperor is naked because no one wants to be called ‘stupid’ or ‘unfit’ for their positions. People who have ECS claim that they know something even if they don’t, in order to avoid being judged as stupid or intellectually inferior to others.
9. Mowgli Syndrome
   This syndrome is named after the beloved main character of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Mowgli. Mowgli is a boy who is raised by animals. Kids with this syndrome are said to have weak mental and/or physical traits, especially those who have suffered tremendous emotional stress due to parental neglect and abuse.
10. Huckleberry Finn Syndrome
    This is named after one of Mark Twain’s boy characters that became darlings to the readers, Huck Finn. It’s a psychodynamic complex in which the obligations and responsibilities avoided as a child, eventuate into frequent job changes and absenteeism as an adult. The HFS may be a defense mechanism linked to parental rejection, low self-esteem and depression in an intelligent person.

psychologystudentplatypus:

[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style colour split with red, orange, and yellow alternating. Foreground: a head-on photo of a platypus’s face. Top text: “I SAT ALONE LAST NIGHT. I’M SUCH AN INTROVERT LOL” Bottom text: “*SAYS NOTHING*”]

astronautssleepinspace:

setfiretoyourfaves:

Toni Morrison Takes White Supremacy To Task

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YES! I totally concur. I don’t understand how White Supremacy isn’t classified as a psychiatric illness. It’s the literal belief that White is better and all else it “contamination.” How is that?… a rational thought on any level? We put people who wash their hands too often on medication and in institutions; but if you shoot a 17 year old Black kid, well… he was wearing a hoodie, after all. If you beat a Muslim woman to death with a tire iron inside of her own home… well it might be a hate crime but we’re not calling it that because White people get upset about it.

Logic? Where art thou?

onlinecounsellingcollege:

At the movies, it’s easy to spot the psychopath. He’s the one with the charm and the smile, the one who’s ready to stab you with a knife. But it’s not so easy when it’s everyday life – and we’re not trained as doctors or as psychiatrists. However, professionals have highlighted a few warning signs that might indicate that this could be a psychopath. They include:

• Playing on our sympathy: Psychopaths will use us, will hurt and rip us off – then heartlessly play to our sympathetic feelings - and we blindly believe them and tend to let them off. But if this happens often, it shows a lack of conscience so don’t be fooled by their cheap and empty words.

• Being manipulative: Psychopaths, in general, love to play with your emotions. They want you to jump, squirm, feel anxious or afraid.

 • Being a parasite: The psychopath will use their charm and persuasion to get you to pay, or to meet their various needs. There’s rarely any benefit or payoff for you. You’re just being exploited – you’re a pawn in their hands. 

• Being deceitful: They’re con men who’ll trick you and lie constantly. Their life is a deception; you can’t trust a word. But if you point to a snag in their tangled web of lies they’ll vehemently deny it, and jump to their defence. 

• Highly charming: Psychopaths are usually charismatic characters. That is, they’re often mesmerizing, can pull in a crowd, and make a person feel like they’re a famous movie star. But it won’t last forever … they drop you and move on.

• Conceited: Psychopaths are caught up with themselves and their importance. They’re boastful, proud, haughty, heartless, arrogant – and like to undermine, criticise and put you down.

• Are never to blame: The psychopath believes that they are never to blame - and they won’t accept any culpability.

• Being highly reactive: Although psychopaths can quickly cover up their anger, they will overreact to perceived slights and offences … or to insufficient deference, recognition and respect.

• Risk-takers: These types of individuals are extreme risk takers who draw in others to their games, schemes and plans. They’re hungry for power and they seek control – regardless of the risks or the danger this entails.

 

Note: Research indicates that psychopaths cannot be treated.  So put up your guard and keep a healthy distance – and don’t ever form a relationship with them.

psychologystudentplatypus:

[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style color split with red, orange, and yellow alternating. Foreground: a head-on photo of a platypus’s face. Top text: “Take exam” Bottom text: “Wonder if confidence with answers is just postdecisional dissonance.”]

psychologystudentplatypus:

[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style colour split with red, orange, and yellow alternating. Foreground: a head-on photo of a platypus’s face. Top text: “ “Psychology makes you go crazy” ” Bottom text: “Correlation does not imply causation”]

My response to everyone who says that to me.  

psychologystudentplatypus:

[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style colour split with red, orange, and yellow alternating. Foreground: a head-on photo of a platypus’s face. Top text: “Sees something delicious” Bottom text: “ “Pavlov would love to collect the secretions of my salivary glands right now””]

psychologystudentplatypus:

[Picture: Background: 6 piece pie style colour split with red, orange, and yellow alternating. Foreground: a head-on photo of a platypus’s face. Top text: “Roses are Red, Violets are Blue” Bottom text: “May all your unconscious desires to sleep with your mother come true”]