Personality, it seems, is about as much who we are as it is who we want to be, and perhaps it's even more the dissonance between these. Compensation is the word ( Read more... )

Look at this profession I've chosen. Forever will I pour into other people my own life energy and watch where they soar off to while I remain grounded in selfish self-defeat. Where are they now, and where have I always been ( Read more... )

"A tendency to melancholy....let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault ( Read more... )

Show of hands. Who is sick and tired of hearing about attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder(ADHD ( Read more... )

I can feel it as soon as I wake up. My brain sleeps in, sleeps all day. I only eat half of my breakfast because it's just not good, not enough. I don't want to go to work, or class, and I don't want to stay home ( Read more... )

I'm, like, way into developmental psychology, and being a student of forensic psychology, the question of why an individual becomes a criminal from a psychological perspective is by far the most fascinating ( Read more... )

I've always enjoyed media. You know, music, movies, art. You don't have to be any sort of aficionado to know that much of media is an attempt to either capture or escape reality. Obviously television does that. I mean, they exaggerate and dramaticize and all but they try to stay rooted in reality because they don't want people to get ( Read more... )

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Detective Vincent Hanna said it best when he explained to his wife why he deals with the world in the
way that he does:

"I gotta hold on to my angst. I preserve it because I need it. It keeps me sharp, on the edge, where I gotta be."I have a somewhat depressed attitude toward life in general. I'm not likely to see the sunny side of most double- ( Read more... )

In past ages, the world of the scholars used to revolve around philosophy. Lengthy debates between great minds would involve topics like the universe and its principles, the nature of man, ethics, etc. The common thread among all laboriously discussed concepts was that they were (and still are) unknowable; either they were simply unknowable or ( Read more... )