Going crazy and knowing it

    I´m not crazy! seriously, do you find people start reacting differently to you when you tell them youre studying psychology? also, does the fact that you are now aware that you´re assessing people and situations in light of what you´re learning mean that you react differently to them, ie you modify your behaviour in the light of what you´ve learnt? i found that after doing my design degree (in which i had to study art theory and philosophy) I could never look at anything manufactured and just see it for what it appeared to be. i found I deconstructed everything, paintings, films, tv adverts - nothing can be taken at face value anymore, and i now think that´s a bit of a shame.

    "for once, i`ll actually tell you what i was thinking; but maybe i won`t have anything to say.."

    You have no idea how many times I go through this conversation: So What are you studying? &quot;I´m a psychology major.&quot; Oh...Uh, you´re not diagnosing me are you? *Sigh* &quot;Don´t worry I´m not&quot; Whether they´re joking or not, it´s old. VERY old. Sometimes I tell people I´m a business major just so I don´t have to go through the same motions. I noticed that strangers when they find I´m studying psychology start acting a little strange. A little &quot;Leave it to Beaver-ish&quot; if you know what I mean. My friends pretty much act the same, but sometimes I take little notes on scratch paper and peer at them just to be a **** <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> With psychology I too pick apart media. Specifically advertisements. They´re so much psychology that goes into those things it´s not even funny. And car salesmen when you´re out on a lot...ESPECIALLY car salesmen. I´ve honestly thought about using my powers for evil as well and joining the media in selling useless junk to the masses because I´m saying the right things and showing them what I know will get them to buy. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_evil.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> EDIT: Yeah the magic is kinda gone for me too, especially love. Psychology tries to explain it, but all it does is make it seem less special <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> EDIT 2: Woah, since when is &quot;krej&quot; censored? <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - Sylverfysh on 9/26/2005 3:01:56 PM

    since always. it´s been commented upon many times before that you can´t write *beef j e r k y* or *the brakes j e r k e d*

    "for once, i`ll actually tell you what i was thinking; but maybe i won`t have anything to say.."

    sylerfysh, shame about your friend, hopefully it didnt stop him from doing something constructive with his life that he enjoys... I seriously doubt oyu are bi-polar, we all go through our up and downs, if you were bi-polar the changes would be extreme and irratic, you´re probably just over-analysing it and scaring yourself (I do that all the time) If it helps get screened, but you´re probably just being over-critical. I dot want to play it down, Bi-polar is a serious disease, with potentially dangerous impications, as I´m sure you know from your studies. I know with the limited phycology I´ve studied that afterwards I found that I was analysing myself and seeing if I fell into anything, perhaps you´re doing the same...

    Sorry about the censor, I never use them normally, and I figured it wasn´t on the list <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> @ Fallen Angel: I am over-thinking it <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> And you´re right, bi-polar is definitely not something to take lightly, but as they say: the more you know, the more you worry <img src=smilies/icon_smile_blush.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - Sylverfysh on 9/26/2005 3:39:13 PM

    Sorry guys, I know nothing about psychology, but I´ve been to some parties hosted by psychology students, and most female psychology students are pretty darn hot <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> So much for my humorous/annoying/nothing-worthwhile-to-contribute-to-the- topic <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - Wizard on 9/26/2005 4:12:20 PM

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    sylverfysh, your right about the more you know..., which is why some people are so good at ignoring facts... =P sorry, but stearing away from that tangent. it all goes back to how much information is too much information? canyou have too much information? obviously with anything if yo dive too deep into things like this, analyze too much, it can drive you crazy. oh man, that reminded me of a joke, shame it isnt pg... this woman is talking about her previous marrages, first I was married to a psychologist, he just wanted to talk about it, then I was married to a gynochologist, he just wanted to look at it, Now that I´m marrying a lawyer I´m guarunteed to get..... you get the idea =P

    @ Wizard: Your observations are correct. Psychology has a very large female-to-male ratio here at my university and yes, many of them are hot <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_to

    I must tell you, I am observant. And I have obsevered people who research abnormalities constansly, begin to wonder if they have them. This sometimes leads to constand diagnosis of one´s self, and the person usually become obbsessed with it. They begin to wonder that if they have an abnormality, that they are diagonsing themselves wrong, or don´t know how to anymore. They begin to constantly test themselves to see if they´re sane, however because of this odd obsession, many people fall into states of hypocondria (if I spelled it right) and lonleyness. My advice is take it easy, and stop worrying.

    Wow. This is hilariously typical: the psychology student who thinks he´s insane. My history teacher (director of cognitive science at U of T) has hordes of stories like this about colleagues and their students. Truly, all insanity is is the emphasis of specific mental traits to the unhealthy exclusion of all others. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, for example, is merely a few steps farther than perfectionism. Even psychosis is only an emphasis: the &quot;beast&quot; instincts exist in the mind to the exclusion of all instincts of compassion. So the fact that you have these traits doesn´t signify insanity in the least. Edited by - Wilde on 9/27/2005 4:54:14 PM

    ...which isn´t saying much. I seriously doubt anyone on this site can claim to possess all sanity.

    Sylverfish:- most of those symptoms of ADHD describe me.... However, I must qualify it. My handwriting is bad because my eyesight is terrible, until the age of 13 I could (quite seriously) not see past the end of my nose (clearly at least). Also, due to my eyesight problems, I was very fidgety, and over-active (my doctors, family and friends of the time believe that it was because I was perceiving myself as misunderstod.) However, the symptom you describe that I cannt account for is my self esteem - any suggestions? On a more humourous note.. I used to live with three psychology students, and I never once consciously thought they were judging me. Hwever as a Management student myself (which invlves more psychology than people realise) I can understand the psychology students predicament in that regard. On an even less serious note, I claim to peple that I am voluntarily insane, which raises a few eyebrows and the response of &quot;Why?&quot; to which reply &quot;Why not? It makes life more interesting!!!!&quot;

    @BH2001..... Maybe it isn´t quite the same thing as watching yourself going *insane* but those who are afflicted with Alzheimers Disease go through a phase in which they are conscious of the fact that they are losing their minds.

    Vektrix The most I can say that if you have the inkling that you might have some sort of ADHD or major self-esteem problems (not stuff like &quot;My team lost the game, I´m so depressed), there´s definitely no harm in getting screened. But, like you sa

    Thanks Sylverfish. BTW: I failed Psychology at A-Level (I got hung up abut that most insane Dr. Freud - and that Swiss madman Piaget). Off to put my train to bed, it has an exam in the morning! <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>)

    Alziemers (can´t spell XD) is not going CRAZY , its losing your MEMORY. There is a difference, people. Insane is the point of which you can no longer act sensibly, or rather, utilize common sense <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>. If you know your going crazy, then obviously theres still a shred of common sense in you or you wouldn´t reconize that fact. This keeps you sane. For the time being <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> I never said it STOPS it, but as long as you are aware your &quot;insane&quot;, you really aren´t. You can´t be insane and know it. Its impossible. at least in my opinion <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> And i, personally, am about 10% sane. As is the rest of my mod team. Like i said, you want to make something revolutionary? you gotta be insane <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - Blackhole2001 on 9/28/2005 9:13:32 PM

    So what you mean, is that you will never be able to recognise yourself as insane if you are 100% insane. Trouble is, there is no empirical method of measuring insanity so your entire argument kind of falls flat on its face <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

    Urgh, another one of these topics where people fantasise they are slightly insane or insane is it? &quot;I´m 10%, well I´m 11.35%, well I´m 18.2094%&quot;. As someone else said - since you cannot define what 100% sane actually <i>is </i> then how can you say you are/aren´t! That is rheotorical by the way... This topic sucks, lets rewind to Wizards contribution - about the hot ladies!!!