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posted by southern-belle
okay so i'm writing a paper on schizotypal personality disorder, this is my rough draft, i'd like some sugestions on things i may have missed? i know my grammer sucks but i'm going to clean that up later on, like i کہا this is just the rough draft. oh and i copied and pasted from word so sorry if the paragraphs are messed up. please تبصرہ with sugestions! thanks (:

Schizotypal Personality Disorder.

Schizotypal Personality Disorder is a serious mental condition which typically presents in early adulthood or, in some cases, adolescence. People with Schizotypal Personality Disorder generally...
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It is commonly believed myth that personality testing instruments can measure your personality and predict your future behaviors. The pre-employment testing mechanism has been following this creed without any solid evidence. The testing industry claims all out validity. The educational institutions and employer organizations use them for screening purposes. Their transparency and equity has even convinced the courts of law.

But it is still an unresolved riddle; what do they test?

Do they test personality? What is personality then? What is its nature? How does it come into existence? Is it outcome...
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Daniel J. Levitin, 2008, 354 pages

Could موسیقی unlock the mystery of who we are and how we think?

An unprecedented blend of science and art, Daniel Levitin’s bestselling debut, This Is Your Brain on Music, changed the way we understand how موسیقی gets in our heads. Now, in what is being called a tour de force سے طرف کی leading scientists, he presents his audacious theory of ‘six songs,’ the key to how موسیقی shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history.

Preserving the emotional heritage of our lives and of our species, موسیقی from its very beginning, was allied to dance, as the structure...
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posted by arj1981
Indoctrination is simply misconstrued Subjectivity..... Therefore, this is an Anti-Dogmatic, NonDualistic, Spiritual Community. As the عنوان states, this is the dawn of a new era. A new day...A New Eve. We, here, do not adhere to the belief of Karma, any "perilous missions" to rescue humanity on behalf of a particular deity, soul mates/twin flames, superstitions, dogma, Law of Attraction, Ego, Satan, Christ, یا God; yet, we do believe in the existence of an After Life, reincarnation, and spirit beings (as in, those who have already passed away). All the drama, chaos, and violence in the world...
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posted by guiltygoth
Secret information? Okay, probably not much remains truly hidden یا forbidden anymore, but there are little secrets about how things work. Salesmen, politicians, and others learn and use subtle techniques to influence you. "Lucky people" use little-known tricks to get that way. Here are some examples.

Controling Through Words

There is a classic joke, "Have آپ stopped beating your wife?" It is difficult to answer without incriminating yourself. This technique of the implicit premise is used سے طرف کی politicians for مزید than jokes. Get everyone to argue about how to do something, for example, like...
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Have آپ ever wondered why your spouse, coworkers, یا children seem to think so differently from you? آپ may not understand why they make the decisions they do, یا why they place such importance on things that seem inconsequential to you. It is possible to understand the جوابات to all these questions. The secret lies in the theory of Myers-Briggs personality type.

In the 1960's a psychological theorist named Katharine Briggs had many of the same سوالات آپ do. She wondered why some of her family members had such logical, linear thinking processes, when she herself was مزید likely to take...
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posted by GypsyMarionette
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Ablutophobia- Fear of washing یا bathing.
Acarophobia- Fear of itching یا of the insects that cause itching.
Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, یا airbourne noxious substances.
Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces یا of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a محفوظ place.
Agraphobia- Fear of sexual...
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Americans spend مزید on gambling than all other recreation combined. For most, it's a fun diversion but for a few, gambling can become a serious, life-altering problem.

Problem gambling is behavior that causes disruptions in any major area of a person's life. It affects as many as six to nine million Americans.

Would آپ recognize a gambling problem in someone آپ know? It may be easier if آپ know the signs. Here are some سوالات from the National Council on Problem Gambling. If آپ یا someone آپ know جوابات yes to any of the following questions, it is likely that gambling has become problematic....
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We all know how smoking can be a hard to quit habit for thousands, if not millions, of people across the globe. Yeah, smoking sucks and آپ may be in the situation when smoking is مزید like a drug for you. Unfortunately for you, smoking can kill you, so it is best to quit as soon as possible. But... is NLP the answer?

According to studies, NLP has proven to be an effective method to quit smoking forever. However is not as simple as going through a session and Voila!! Problem solved.

Certains conditions must be met in order to NLP treatment to work. Let's go over this conditions:

1.A true desire...
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posted by guiltygoth
حالیہ studies buttress the unpalatable truth that falling in love is, in some ways, indistinguishable from a severe pathology. Behavior changes are reminiscent of psychosis and, biochemically speaking, passionate love closely imitates substance abuse. Appearing in the BBC series Body Hits on December 4, Dr. John Marsden, the head of the British National Addiction Center, کہا that love is addictive, akin to cocaine and speed. Sex is a "booby trap", intended to bind the partners long enough to bond.

Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki of University...
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posted by guiltygoth
New Research Indicates that Antidepressants May Not Be Significantly مزید Effective Than Placebo.
During the past couple of decades, drugs from the class of antidepressants called SSRIs, as well as newer drugs with novel modes of action, have been دیا credit for helping many people reclaim their lives from the devastating grips of depression. These drugs have also been responsible for making their manufacturers very wealthy. But, what if these drugs don't really provide significant relief for depression at all? What if the placebo effect is responsible for most of their effectiveness?

Surprising...
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posted by guiltygoth
If you've ever been around someone who is persistently miserable you'll find that they have a working strategy for making their experience unpleasant for themselves.

This مضمون will give a few explanations why they use a strategy that makes them miserable, how that process works, and if this describes you, why آپ might want to change. It will also describe what you'll have to sacrifice if آپ no longer want to be miserable.

Also, if the benefits of being miserable are enough you'll learn how to continue to make choices and decisions that contribute to your misery.

The Benefits of Misery....
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posted by guiltygoth
I. Exposition

In the movie "Shattered" (1991), Dan Merrick survives an accident and develops total amnesia regarding his past. His battered face is reconstructed سے طرف کی plastic surgeons and, with the help of his loving wife, he gradually recovers his will to live. But he never develops a proper sense of identity. It is as though he is constantly ill at ease in his own body. As the plot unravels, Dan is led to believe that he may have murdered his wife's lover, Jack. This thriller offers additional twists and turns but, throughout it all, we face this question:

Dan has no recollection of being Dan....
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Norman Doidge, m.d.
2007 – 427 pages


The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains – even into old age – is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries. In this revolutionary look at the brain, bestselling author, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., introduces both the brilliant scientists championing this new science of neuroplasticity and the astonishing progress of the people whose lives they’ve transformed

Introducing principles we canal use as well as a riveting collection of case histories – stroke patients...
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With the end of the Cold War, the threat of a world nuclear war has diminished considerably. It may be hard to imagine that in the end, comedians may be exploiting the humor in the fact that it wasn't nuclear warheads, but "French fries" that annihilated the human race, when considering that food addictions and their related diseases now afflict مزید people globally than malnutrition. The behavioral addiction disorders (e.g., food addictions, pathological gambling, and other obsessively-compulsive behavioral-patterns to religion, and/ یا sex / pornography, etc.) are just as damaging, psychologically...
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posted by guiltygoth
This is a very strange but true story. Not everyone believes in ghosts but I do and I have had several experiences with the super natural, this is only one of my encounters.

This happened when I was only (8) eight years old.

My bus driver's wife had a kitten and she wanted to get rid of it so she offered it to me first and of course I took the female kitten from her. Now this was the first cat that I can remember owning, she was a black and white cat and for some reason I gave her the name Dozier. She was a very sweet cat and she truly was mine because she was every where that I was.

Now we had...
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posted by guiltygoth
Hospice patients come to our care after being cut, burned, and poisoned. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment are the normative methods of care for most of the patients who enter a life-threatening disease. Hospital staff members are trained to be aggressive about curative care.

Hospice care is a phase of care whereby aggressive treatment is no longer appropriate. Palliative care becomes the norm. Patients have been probed physically, mentally, and emotionally. In many ways, patients may be reluctant to any type of care beyond the experiences that led to his/her doctor sharing that...
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(original title: Essere Gentile) سے طرف کی Piero Ferrucci, Vivien Reid Ferrucci (Translator)
2008, 306 pages

A book to read as a soul provider – if آپ are in a state of confusion, conflict, in quest of wisdom یا in reach for soul comfort – یا all…

A leading transpersonal psychologist reveals the unexpected secret to a happy life: behaving with kindness.

Piero Ferrucci calls it "global cooling," a phenomenon of chilly human relations. Communications are hurried and impersonal. The drive for profit and wealth has become a cherished value. And warmth and genuine presence have all but dissolved into...
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Daniel Goleman –1996

A penetrating analysis of the dark corners of human deception, enlivened سے طرف کی intriguing case histories and experiments – It was written for the professional, yet is understandable سے طرف کی the layman as well because it is so well and clearly written. This is a great book for coaches, counsellors, and therapists working with individuals that are grieving یا dealing with past issues. I found the book to be helpful in explaining why so many of the people I coach seem to have denied یا repressed very emotionally traumatic incidents. The human mind is amazing and complex. This book...
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