pop culture
Representations of mental health in pop culture; dissect and discuss popular psychology, mental illness stigmas, and media depictions.
Little Jimmy Brown
Little Jimmy Brown Dr. Morgenstern motioned his hand toward Jimmy. He had formed a particularly fond relationship with the young man. “Sit down my boy what I have to say isn’t going to hurt a bit.” Jimmy squirted in the door of the doctor’s office.
By Eladio Del Castillo4 years ago in Psyche
Pop Culture has Shaped our Treatment of People with Autism
Pop culture has given us false ideas about what autism is, and it is harmful because it affects the way we deal with and understand the disorder. You can have your glorified feelings about what autism is, but you would truly feel sorry, and at times, impatient if you cared for a victim of ASD firsthand. People need to get it out of their heads that all forms of autism grant you savant syndrome like it seems to in the movies. It is not simply an understated quirk. The raw truth of the matter is that it can be a devastating disorder that causes the affected individual to have a hard time relating to the people around them, damaging their relationships. With social support, these neurodivergent types can develop tools to assess situations and respond in ways that allow them to live a positive life and keep their relationships healthy. However, being able to do that relies on your support in understanding their real disorder rather than gobbling up recycled TV tropes like Sunday dinner.
By Gabrielle Kelley4 years ago in Psyche
Horror & Mental Health
“You're not afraid of the great world, Eddie, but of the small one inside yourself.” (King, Stephen. The Wastelands: The Dark Tower Iii. A Signet Book, 2003.) Perhaps we are all born with a healthy fear of the intrusive thoughts which our tell-tale hearts are capable of? Possibly, we invite personal demons into our tiny worlds by the casual over-exposure of visionaries' fears, personified in the media. Conceivably, the digestion of these horrors actually allows us to purge the dark and struggling sides of ourselves. Or just maybe, asking these ‘deep’ questions shows no justice to the fluidity of a universal audience, each person differing from the last. The conversation’s about the way horror media affects people have been long-lasting and strenuous for several years but the general idea that Horror is bad for you, is the most accepted/popular answer. What becomes of our mental health when we turn the corners of pages or look at the television to find figments of a scared imagination? The true response of this fault-line is that there can be no universal answer. Mental health is a near unfathomable spectrum within each human being. Never the same and always changing. Depending on the person, the horror genre could be a coming vessel of fear or a form of escapism from the vessel which lives in you. By no means am I an expert in the education of mental health, rather, I’m just a twenty-two year old woman who’s learning to cope with OCD, Anxiety and Depression. My personal experience and those close to me (who’ve felt comfortable enough to share) are the background from which I speak.
By Jaime Burbatt4 years ago in Psyche
What do psychologists think of personality tests?
What Is a Personality Test? Personality evaluation is the measurement of one's traits. Assessment is the final result of obtaining information to further psychological theory and study and increase the likelihood that sensible judgments will be made in practical situations.
By william james4 years ago in Psyche
Paranoia in a Postmodern Age of Collective Trauma
We’ve all been there. The guy you went to high school with, now gainfully employed at your local auto body shop, has graffitied a 500-word screed on your Facebook wall about the downfall of society and how, if we don’t “wake up!” the end is nigh. Everyone is entitled to moments of existential dread; the problem is, those who use social media to rage against the system typically have about as much perspective on the given matter as a fish to the ocean it swims in. For some ill-formed reason, this guy seems to actually believe he knows what he's talking about. But more to the point, a curious phenomenon has steadily developed since the postmodern era - regardless of training, race, SES, ethnicity, or class - paranoia seems to be gripping us all.
By Andrew Magers4 years ago in Psyche
Thank You, Jodie Whittaker, for being the Doctor, Who Healed my Mental Health
I don’t like endings, the Doctor doesn’t like endings, no one likes endings; the time has come around once again where the Doctor’s face changes. Regeneration, it’s like a lottery. You don’t know what you’ll end up with. It has been announced that Jodie Whittaker – the Thirteenth Doctor – will be stepping down from the top role in autumn 2022, followed by showrunner, Chris Chibnall.
By Lewis Jefferies4 years ago in Psyche
Virtual games, real drugs
The stakes are high in the final rounds of major Counter-Strike tournaments. The teams face hours of competition, they have to think strategically and show skill. They still have the battles of the last rounds in their bones, not to mention the hours of daily training to prepare. If even one player loses concentration, the glory of victory may be gone - and with it prize money and lucrative sponsorship and advertising contracts. It's no wonder that it's tempting to give your brain a boost. Ritalin gives your gray cells the decisive kick, you hear behind closed doors. Or: Take Adderall instead, it makes you fit.
By AddictiveWritings5 years ago in Psyche
To Be Honest
There are a number of specific phrases that lying persons are said to use when exaggerating the truthfulness of their spoken or written words. One of the most commonly mentioned of these is the phrase “to be honest.” The use of this particular phrase reveals an overemphasis on truthfulness which is often listed as an indicator that someone is lying. Recently a friend called me out during a discussion for using the phrase, and suggested I was likely lying because of it. I am no different than any other human being alive, and cannot claim that I never have, or never do, lie, however in this case I was being perfectly honest (and there I go again overemphasizing my truthfulness, am I lying about not lying? No I am not.) Later I caught myself using the phrase again in an email and again, in that particular case, I was not lying, or dissembling, or misleading in any way.
By Everyday Junglist5 years ago in Psyche
The Psychology Behind A Serial Cheater
Infidelity is such a shitty and difficult thing for everyone involved to understand. If you've ever been cheated on, you know how heartbreaking and confusing that experience can be. You wonder how your partner could do that to you knowing the pain they were going to cause you. You wonder why do people cheat, if it was your fault, if you weren't enough or if it was because of something you did. These questions are not easy to answer and many psychologists have been studying this behavior to find some pattern.
By Mindsmatter.5 years ago in Psyche
What is Our Collective Consciousness Trying to Tell Us About Narcissism
At the turn of the twentieth century, our western society saw a monumental explosion in the field of Psychology. Behind this movement, were the brilliant minds of both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, who, to a certain extent, led the charge. In fact, one of the most significant events of the early 1900’s that was an intrinsic part of this particular field of study, was that of the 1907 meeting, where the two giants got a chance to meet each other face-to-face. For the most part, the two had completely different opinions as far as the human mind was concerned. The one area that two did happen to agree on, was that of the overall importance of the unconscious, and the sentiments that would later manifest in Jungian Psychology as the ideas of the collective unconscious, as well as what is often referred to as collective consciousness.
By Aaron M. Weis5 years ago in Psyche
