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Schizophrenia: Signs | Symptoms | Diagnosis | Five Types

Schizophrenia is a chronic mental problem characterized by an alteration in the perception of real world, affecting the emotions, behavior, and thought process. The term schizophrenia comes from the Greek word schizo meaning “division” and...

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How to Tell if You Are Psychotic - - What Does Psychotic Mean?

You may be wondering if you are psychotic if you found this page. If you are reading this, chances are you are not psychotic because only about 3% of all people experience psychosis. Psychosis is characterized by loss of reality in some way,...

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A Youth's First Mark

A lyrical poem about a youth in trouble, clinging to fear and lost hope for a future. It expresses the need to embrace life and have faith in both life and oneself.

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Schizophrenia Depth into Symptoms

 Life in general brings forth situations or task that causes confusion, frustration, and even the inability to understand, but for most of us the obstacles are easily overcome, worked through, or even...

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Unidentified Male in Avatar Costume robs bank

Avatar Mask used in conjunction with armed robbery. Suspect still unidentified. Mental illness and the newly categorized "Avatar addiction" are suspected culprits. Sales of Avatar Costumes increasing , authorities are wary

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The Box of "Just How Things Are"

When forced on children, religion can permanently damage that young person's perception of the world. This is one woman's story about her how religion kept her alienated from others and nearly drove her to suicide.

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PARANOID DELUSIONS: HOW COMMON ARE THEY?

Valerie Belew, M. Div., ICADC, CADC, has over 25 years of experience counseling emotionally disturbed individuals. If most of us answered honestly, we would say, "Yes, at times I am." Most diagnosed mental illness is merely an exaggerated state of...

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Health and Disease - Morgellons Disease - New, Strange, and Scary

Morgellons Disease has fairly recently become a medical journal and newspaper feature. Recently cropping up in South Texas, it is a strange collection of symptoms about which the medical community is greatly divided as to its status, its causes, and its treatments.

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Jesus Spoke In Parables

In Matthew 13:10-15 “The disciples came and said to Him, ‘Why do You speak to them in parables?’ Jesus answered them, ‘To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted…

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Self Delusion and Deception: Maybe We're Not So Smart

David McRaney, a journalist with interests in psychology and blogging learned about cognitive distortions and used narrative journalism to explore these distortions on his blog. His blog posts became part of his book, "You are Not so Smart" that is considered one of the best psychology books of 2011. In it, he shows us how we deceive ourselves using cognitive distortions, and how to correct the distortions in order to perceive reality more logically and rationally.

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