Epilepsy

Epilepsy

Epilepsy in definition is a common chronic neurological condition that is characterized by recurrent unprovoked epileptic seizures.These seizures are symptoms from abnormal activity in the brain.It affects approximately 50 million people worldwide.Epilepsy is usually controlled, but not cured, with medication - surgery can be used in difficult cases.Not all epilepsy syndromes are lifelong, for example some are confined to particular stages of childhood.
Epilepsy is usually treated with medication prescribed by a physician; primary caregivers, neurologists, and neurosurgeons all frequently care for people with epilepsy.This article is beneficial to many people included me because it explains what it is and how you get Epsilepsy.

Resource:http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/e/epilepsy.htm

Insomnia

Insomnia
Frustration and drowsiness consumes you, the moments of realization that tonight is going to be a sleepless night. Upset and grouchy the next day, a real bummer! Now imagine facing that multiple nights at a time. Seems like a menace, doesn’t it? Now on top of it put going over all the negative events of the day and dreading the morning to come but wanting it to happen soon so the night can be done with. That would be insomnia. Insomnia is one of the most commonly diagnosed sleeping disorder, one out of three Americans face this and 10-15% face it chronically. More commonly found in women, people with chronic medical problems, people with psychiatric disorders, older people, and 9 of 10 have it along side with another disorder. This disorder leads to disqualify of life, feeling depressed, fatigue, negative moods, mood disturbance, and irritability. They also have a bigger lost of productivity. It has a tendency to start due to over stress and can continue even after the initial stress is resolved. It’s the case of hyper-arousal. It’s a brain system malfunction and psychiatric conditions. Perhaps even starting in childhood. Poor sleeping habits leading to bad days. Treatment consists of medications that cause you to go to sleep and therapy to get you into the better habits of sleep. Sleep is an important part of our lives, health, and sanity. The lack of sleep can also lead to violence, which is why people with insomnia are more likely to be violent than a person who gets an appropriate amount of sleep. It’s a vital thing, so try and keep stress free so you don’t get to the initial point of sleepless nights and then don’t get into the bad habit that leads to the disorder.


Resources: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sleepless-in-america/200807/insomnia

Relationships

Relationships
I think we all have a part of us that wants to be needed, whether we want to admit it or not. Quoted of Pablo Neruda “Love is a question” and it’s a question we must ask ourselves. What is the ideal concept of things we love and can we find them in another? Sometimes people become to self-centered to love another person and personally, to me, life without a concept of love is meaningless. To those who wish to find someone to have for a lifetime or to call our own, love is our strength. In it we find happiness and a push to go above and beyond ourselves. Love makes us want to try and be the best at something or to be ‘amazing’ because we want a bond with someone, a bond we can always turn to. I like to call that bond a relationship. A good, healthy, happy relationship is beneficial to both parties, much like friendship. Only it can go on to a more intimate level. The closer we become to someone, the more we need them. Being in the right type of relationship with the right person can lead you to a healthier you. I think this is because it makes you want to appear better-so the other is appreciative, become more intelligent-to broaden you conversation options: so you can converse with them longer, be better- so they’ll want to be around you like you want to be around them. It gives you something to always find a way to look forward to it. As well as you’ll have someone to be there for you to brighten your day if things aren’t going right. So you won’t have to fake a smile and you can smile because they’ve given you a reason to. A relationship will leave you wanting more and you will want to grow. Growth is excellent for the mind and the body, psychologically the growth will help you be more well rounded. Showing everyone should want to have someone and to eventually be in a relationship because you can help yourself and be brighter, and you can help them and give them something to look forward to. Personally, when I make someone else happy, I’m happier. That happens a lot in a relationship, so as long as they’re right and beneficial to both parties, it will have a good psychological outcome.


Resources: Prior knowledge from my environment, what I know, what I've read, and my psychological perspective on it.

Friendship

Friendship
Friendship, it just seems to happen. I mean for me, I’ve always been super terrible at making friends that aren’t of the opposite sex. I don’t know what it was, I just could not make friends with another girl. However, I have made a few friends that are girls. I have many acquaintances, I hate no one, but I enjoy very much my tight notch of friends. I am not sure what has drawn me to them or even made me want to stick around, but it happened. Honestly, I do have more guy friends, but the friendships that place the most value with me are the few friends I made that are girls. Perhaps because they’ve been able to relate more to me and we have a lot of common problems. Do not get me wrong, I value all my friendships and appreciate them, I just have more trouble thinking of how to live with out my friends that are girls. I have two best girl friends that have gotten me through more than I could even begin to thank them for. So, what is it that causes a friendship? People like to commonly say “it just happens”, that was my initial thoughts. Well, it’s more complex than we tend to believe. Obviously interaction is key, the more regular it is, the more likely you are to enter the friendship zone, but it’s more than that. There’s also the need to have things in common, that’s a key that gets us talking to one person we see regularly than another we see regularly. The switch from the train of acquaintances to the train of friendship happens at the Self-Disclosure station. The ability to share personal stuff with one another is when you first decide if you want to switch those trains, the more deep it gets, the closer you get to the train of friendship. Reciprocity is the true train jump, can the confide in you as you can them? That’s what distinguished friends from acquaintances. Now that you’ve reached the friendship train, what keeps them on board? Closeness and benefits for both sides of the friendship. Friendship keeps people happy and allows them to vent when they’re not. If we didn’t have someone to confide in, we’d build up everything, and eventually breakdown. Once you’re close enough to be considered ’besties’, the friendship becomes not on a physical interaction level but on a communication level. Friendship does not see distance as a problem but an obstacle. If it’s good enough, it will find ways, because no one wants to lose the person they trust and can find confinement in. We want to keep the things that benefit us and make us happy. It makes us better psychologically and healthier because of our positive psychology found in it. <3


Resources: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200611/friendship-the-laws-attraction?page=3

Underage Drinking

Drinking Underage
People think drugs are just pills you can pop, something you can inject, or something you can smoke, well it’s alcohol too. Alcohol is the top choice for the youth to make a problem out of in our country. It is a public health problem: people are experiencing the consequences of drinking at way too young of an age! The age of when to start has even gotten lower! Just the other month I was babysitting and I met one of their friends in the sixth grade and he had already been exposed and done drugs of all kinds, including alcohol. Our age range and the amount we do it has increased and this is not okay! Younger people are starting in on the use of alcohol and when they do studies show that they do it intensely. Starting off young seems to lead to the use of other dangerous drugs at a young age or in general, risky behaviors, sex with more than six partners, and bad grades. That is not a lifestyle anyone should want to get into or fall into. Alcoholism had killed one of my uncles, a grandmother, and tends to take over my family and is even more dangerous for me to be around, but I have the strength to never want to do it because I have seen what it can do and have seen all the harm growing up at first hand. So listen up, those of you who don’t know, there are some known reasons on why adolescents drink. It’s risk taking, gives you the rush that you want- when I think of that risk taking and the rush people who drink want, I think: drink and you have the RISK of dying. Expectancies, what they expect to get from alcohol, those who drink expect to get the brighter and positive sides of drinking, it calms you and makes everything more at ease- wrong, I think of how it can hook you and make you addicted or how it can lead you to feel drowsy, unstable, and put you in stupid dangerous situations. The fact that younger drinkers have more tolerance and can consume more, I guess it may seem cool because younger drinkers can drink more and have a stronger take on the positive stuff- I think what about the chance of being affected in the negative sense. It’s an escape, self explanatory-still, I think what if it becomes the permanent escape/departure. Some can’t help it, it runs in the family, it‘s hereditary- I warn you to be careful. They were raised around it and only saw the good- they all lead me to think please open your eyes and see all the negative impact it can have. It kills, it isn’t fun, and not only can you take your own life but you could take another. Absolutely no one ever has the right to danger another person. Stay smart and don’t start.

Resources: http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA67/AA67.htm

Pyros

Pyros
Pyromaniacs have developed a nickname of pyros, however, pyromaniacs was developed from Greek’s word pyr: meaning fire. So, obviously a pyromaniac has to do with fire. Yay, fire!(: Pyromaniacs use fire to induce euphoria or happiness often on institutions of fire control. This disorder goes beyond the love of fire and turns into impulsive control disorders, that’s what pyromaniacs have, an impulsive control disorder. It usually occurs and starts between the ages of 7 and 15. However, it is rare to come across someone who has a strong passion to start fires, less than one percent around the world is what studies seem to find. Even a more rare form of the disorder are children who develop it as early as the age of three! Adolescents arrest for arrson, you’d assume pyromaniacs would be the case, wrong! Only a small portion of them actually have it, they just have a love for fire(not to the extremes, like me, I mean I love fire, but I don’t have a super strong obsession for it, it’s just cool) or trouble. The pyromaniacs are 90% male and only 10% female (easy math that I know you could have done in your head, but your getting it anyways :D ). Common causes of pyromania can be broken down to two groups: individual and environmental. Individual as in: personal problems like feeling they need to be drastic to get attention or have past charges of crimes, revenge, or just because of social issues. Now what is meant by environmental is: neglect, physical or sexual abuse in earlier parts of their lives, and seeing adults light fires and be around fires as a relief of stress when they were developing. Something to separate the pyros from those who have no special relation to fire and just happen to do it for a criminal purpose or an emotional motif, symptoms. The first symptom would be they purposely set fires on more than one occasion, and before they do they face an emotional build up. When the spark goes off and a fire ignites a person suffering from pyromania will suddenly grow interest and fascination and may also experience pleasure, gratification, or relief. A build up of stress and emotion is often evident and seen in teens towards family and friends, would also be a symptom. So, if someone’s lifestyle consists of sudden interest in something where fire is found, experience pleasure, and tend to be overall happy except with stress and emotion build up towards family and friends, they may be a pyro themselves. Therapy is usually the treatment for pyromaniacs, but remember, fire is not a toy- it’s just really cool!

Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyromania