Blog post #12

I believe that psychological disorders are mainly in your unconscious mind that interferes with one's everyday life. In the book, psychological disorders are ongoing patterns of thought, feelings, and actions that are deviant, distressful, and /or dysfunctional. Abnormal is not always dealing with psychological disorders. I think that men that use women deoderant and other products is abnormal but I think that when women use mens deoderant and products it's completely normal. I react differently to other peoples actions, therefore I may be seen abnormaly. Not everyone reacts the same way in certain situations. There is such a high stander in society that it seems that everyone could have a disorder but everyone reacts and thinks differently. In order to have a disorder one needs to really not have control on their reactions in situations that make them sometimes destructive to others. Everyone has an abnormal habit to others some how in some way.

 

I believe that I have a disorder call Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. This disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/ or actions. These senseless or offensive thoughts never go way and "haunt" you. I believe I have OCD because when it comes to making my bed, everything has to be perfectly aligned, the blankets can't be touching the floor, and they have to be folded the same amount. If something was wrong, or someone messed it up I will start all over. My parents make me buy my own shampoo and conditioner because I have to have a certain amount of each and it has to be in a perfect circle or I will start over. My room is not always clean, but when it comes to cleaning it, not one thing falls out of place, if it does, I usually freak out, cry and then leave. I can't stand having dry hands, I will constanly apply lotion to my hands until I feal that they are not dry.

The most interesting thing I learned is the diagnoses of schizophrenia is 1 in 100. I didn't expect the ratio to be that high. It is interesting that so many have the disorder and I wonder, how many of these disorders are actually genetic.

Blog post #13

I thought the experiments really showed how people react in different situations. It is interesting that all of the experiments show how people follow others. For example: if someone is given a job they will do that job even if they know that they will eventually hurt someone else. Human nature only needs to think that they are doing something important in order to follow someone without any thought to themselves about what they are doing is wrong.



Social influence is the way people act when even a job or the way they are treated. When someone is given a job that they don’t normally have then they act completely different then any other time. When I am partnered up with someone on a project, I tend to follow them unless I feel that something has to be different. I show my ideas and I do as much as I can to help out or do most of the work I can without problems. I procrastinate a lot. Also when I have to speak to people that I don’t know I can do it but when someone doesn’t tell me to or if I am by myself it is very hard for me to come up with the courage to talk to the stranger.


The most interesting thing I learned in this class is the mind is a very powerful thing. The mind controls the actions you take in situations that you normally would not think of. Your unconscious mind is where your disorders come from and you wonder about all the things that happen to yourself. There are different reactions that people you normally thought wouldn’t do, actually will do in order to obey what someone has told them to do. I also enjoyed learning about Psychological Disorders. There was a lot of thing that I learned about many of them, that I had no clue existed in parts of certain disorders. I have problems with OCD and knowing more about it helped me, it also helped me prove to my parents that I wasn't just going crazy thinking I had OCD.