Friday, January 9, 2009

Last blog thing

What i like about the class was the stories and experiment videos that we saw in class. plus those random psychology things at the beginning of some classes.
the activities or projects i liked the most was...well since we only had one i think, then i guess i have to choose that one.....wait....was there...?
one thing i didn't like about the class was......oh extremely cold.....that's all i got.
a suggestion for next year is to remove all tests and just hand out hundreds....which won't be possible so i don't have any.
oh the IQ tests were also interesting. so basically i had no problem with this class.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Letter

Dear parents,

College is okay, except for the fact that I'm being watched by my classmates. The professor keeps saying that I'm doing good in class, but i know better. He is lying to me so that I won't actually know that I'm failing his class and i won't work hard enough and do good in his class so i will end up failing and living like a bum on the street! They all are waiting for me to relax and not study. If i falter even for a second I will be kicked out because i wasn't working hard enough! Those sly dogs! I'm sending this letter so that if i am found dead in the streets from starvation you will know that I was plotted against by the people here. Wait, but what if i send this and they switch the mailing address to read my letters? This is how they know about me, this is where they learned my secrets! No, I will give this to you by hand when i get the chance so that they won't have the opportunity to pull this off! Oh, but they are expecting that! If i leave then they will know and use that against me by saying i ran away from the school to kick me out! I have been threatened constantly by these people! I was asked not so recently if I was doing anything this weekend. Could you believe that? They were checking if i was doing my work or not! they are out to get me I tell you! Do not worry my parents, i will find a way to send this letter to you.
Remember the secret code i made for you. I have a message using that in this letter, it is of DIRE importance! AHA, if i change my name they will not know who this may be, i could be any kid that is being threatened and persecuted! From now on i shall be known as "The Black Horse"

From,
The Black Horse

Friday, November 21, 2008

Case Study 10: A 36-year-old man and his young son were driving through an intersection when another car ran through a red traffic light and struck them. The two were trapped in the car until a fire department rescue team freed them. The patient was bruised but not seriously hurt. His son had a broken leg. The first few days after the accident the patient was preoccupied with arranging care for his son and getting the car repaired. A few days later he began having recurrent distressing thoughts and images of the accident. Theses symptoms lasted for several weeks. The memory of his son’s screams after the car was struck seemed particularly vivid. The patient became irritable, had difficulty concentrating, and avoided talking about the accident. He went out of his way to avoid driving down the street where the accident occurred. As time went on he could no longer remember whether the traffic light was red or green when he approached it.


From what i have noticed, this patient has a Post traumatic stress disorder. He has "vivid memories of the accident" he is irritable, has difficulty concentrating, and avoids anything to do with the accident.

To treat this patient i would recommend giving him antidepressants such as Imipramine and Phenelzine. I would also recommend a therapist as well.

Monday, November 17, 2008

the manic depression of Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven, a brilliant composer, played music that was amazingly breathtaking, all while beethoven was deaf. It was torture for him to not be able to hear the songs he played and so he became manicly depressed, he would drink himself to death and when he got angry he would throw things at people and become like an "enraged animal". As time went on he withdrew from the world and only kept to himself. Still it was his depression that help enspired some of his songs, he would compose according to how he felt, making his music have so much emotion. still the depression got worse and so did his songs, the had less of the flare the worse he got, he wasn't able compose such good music as before because of his depresssion worsening. Before he could finish his tenth symphony he died of liver failure at the age of 56.