Tag: psychology

silvandar:

jiho:

jiho:

can you guys reblog this and tag what job you have in your fantasy life? I’m a singer + actress in mine lol

so many people misunderstand this post, I don’t mean your dream job I mean what job do you have inside your head? like in your imaginary world you’ve created

Writer and artist. Also, what you’re describing is called a paracosm, and is actually relatively rare. It’s quite a long way beyond a fantasy or daydream, and most people will never experience it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracosm

Oh man, depends on which fantasy, but usually I am rich and powerful, so like hell if I need a job lol.

Though, usually, I do live in a castle like mansion that is in a forest or open field far away from civilization, with a crystal fortress in front of it, protecting the mansion. On either side of the mansion are two tall trees. In the front, there is a beautiful garden of wild flowers. The sky is so blue, a few clouds, with a nice breeze. Just a place where I can be free and healthy. I actually drew this in art therapy, I want to try and maybe draw it again, cause why not and add more detail, maybe:

In my other fantasy, pokemon is real and I am a Team Rocket field agent conpleting missions for Giovanni, lmao.

That or I am fighting this crooked world and trying to take over to establish a better kingdom that, of course, I will rule. I have my own crest and family crest.

I have no idea xD

Executive Dysfunction

rosslynpaladin:

thatspooniefeel:

The more I find myself having to explain executive dysfunction to people the more I realise it’s near impossible. There’s a thing. I wanna do that thing, I really do. But no matter how hard I try to tell my brain to do the thing, it won’t do the thing. I can’t tell you the amount of hours I’ve spent scrolling mindlessly through social media wanting more than anything to stop, but I can’t.

This concept is so ridiculously alien to abled/neurotypical people and makes awareness/acceptance for it so hard to achieve. If an abled/nt person wants to, say, have a shower, or get some food, they just up and do it, no second thought. But the amount of mental exhaustion that goes into getting myself to get up and do one of those things can honestly be disabling in itself.

It’s not laziness, or not caring. It’s a total mental block between wanting something and doing something about it. I really wish the concept of this was more widely acknowledged. We are not lazy.

I’ve tried telling people, Look think of it like an engine: the brain has spark plugs to start the fire to the fuel to the engine, and Exec Dysfunction is when your Spark plugs are crappy so the engine won’t turn over no matter how you wrench the keys in the ignition, and you have to research all kinds of ways to get around that and kinda kick the thing into gear, and sometimes even those don’t work but the point is

we’re trying.

the-unlucky-thirteen:

Being raised without stability really fucks with your head, you’re forever trying to figure out a person’s “pattern“ to see how you have to approach them, whether they’re in a good mood and it’s safe, or if they’re in a bad mood and you have to be careful or maybe avoid them altogether, just because those who raised you could never keep a consistent emotional reaction

What Anxiety Feels Like

positive-mh-recovery:

Physical Sensations:

  • Nausea (feeling sick)  
  • Tense muscles and headaches
  • Pins and needles
  • Feeling light headed or dizzy
  • Faster breathing
  • Sweating or hot flushes
  • A fast, thumping or irregular heart beat
  • Raised blood pressure
  • Difficulty sleeping                    
  • Churning in the pit of my stomach
  • Experiencing panic attacks

                                                                                                                         Psychological Sensations:

  • Feeling tense, nervous and on edge
  • Having a sense of dread, or fearing the worst
  • Feeling like the world is speeding up or slowing down
  • Feeling like other people can see I’m anxious and are looking at me
  • Feeling my mind is really busy with thoughts
  • Dwelling on negative experiences, or thinking over a situation again and again (this is called rumination)
  • Feeling restless and not being able to concentrate
  • Feeling numb

Molecule of the Day: Dopamine

moleculeoftheday:

Dopamine (C8H11NO2) is an important neurotransmitter involved in many signalling pathways in the body. At room temperature, it is a white powder that is freely soluble in water.

Dopamine plays a key role in the brain’s reward system and is associated with feelings of euphoria and pleasure. As a result, stimuli that cause greater amounts of dopamine to bind to the corresponding receptors on the post-synaptic membrane induce appetitive behaviour.

For example, drugs such as amphetamine bind to and inhibit dopamine reuptake transporters present on the pre-synaptic membrane, and can also inhibit monoamine oxidase, which normally metabolises dopamine. This causes the concentration of dopamine in the synaptic cleft to increase, and the resultant rise in binding of dopamine receptors leads to feelings of pleasure. However, in combination with the resultant tolerance, this can lead to addiction and dependence on such drugs.

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Dopamine is biosynthesised from tyrosine in the human body, via the intermediacy of L-DOPA:

Low dopamine levels have been linked to Parkinson’s disease; this is because the main symptoms arise from the death of dopamine-producing cells in the brain. Consequently, one of the main methods of treating it is the injection of L-DOPA; while this does not recover the cells’ ability to produce dopamine, it can stimulate the remaining cells, and is also metabolised to form dopamine (see above).