We know that there is something mentally wrong and they can't help it, yet we still stare. ... Then there are psychotic illnesses, which is a condition caused by any one of a group of illnesses that are known or thought to affect the brain causing changes in thinking, emotion, and behavior (Mental Health Services). People experiencing an acute stage of a psychotic illness can lose touch with reality and their ability to make sense of thoughts, feelings, also external information is greatly affected. Society has come a long way in how we treat the mentally ill. ... How could anyone a...

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This can be a controversial trait and we have to be very careful with it as to when we should disclose. ... The future can include goals, positiveness, change, and much more. ... These include specific thoughts, specific feelings, and specific examples of actions. ... I like using what, when, where, and how questions and getting the specifics even in daily life when someone is telling me a story of something that happened. ... Even if we may think we consider one trait a strength, we could be wrong when we are in an actual counseling session. ...

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No good thought can produce bad things and no evil thought can produce good things. ... Even acts classified as spontaneous have to have had a thought to begin them. ... We can think of our minds like that of a garden. ... We are placed in these circumstances to learn how to deal with them. ... When something unfortunate happens to the ones we love, we can choose how this will affect our lives. ...

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This book has taught me that the thought process before the action can and will truly change the reaction. Furthermore, I've learned that the way that we think can affect us not only on the outside but the inside as well. ... By digging deep into to our inner selves we realize that our thoughts and actions pave the way for how our lives and life experiences will be. ... I can argue that the author is correct in saying "Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts.... My take on Chapter Four is how we apply the thoughts we've planted into our minds and thei...

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Mental Health has always been a mystery the human brain can not comprehend fully, but yet we understand somehow how we think, talk, feel somehow. ... People will never understand how it is to live when all you think and feel is dying. Doctors think they can help a person cope by taking anti-depressants that hopefully stop the feelings and thoughts people have. ... A person can have thoughts that life is not worth living like Suicide. ... If someone has sudden changes in how they act in everyday life do not be afraid to just talk to them. ...

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This information made me think about my own perceptions of situations and why I think the way that I do. ... Nowadays I think of school as still somewhat boring, but I have learned to appreciate and apply what I learn so I can become successful in life. ... Even though I still have stereotypes of certain people, they have changed over time as well. I always thought of football players as being big dumb jocks because that is how they were shown in the television shows and cartoons I watched. ... Focusing on improving perception is a great thing that people do, but can be difficult. ...

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Prompted by negative signals, we will change our behavior to garner a more favorable outcome. ... And in doing so, our emotions can become based on thoughts that are not our own. ... So the majority of people cannot free themselves from what others think. ... Subconsciously, we constantly look to others for signals on how to act and change the minutia of our lives. ... This position is understandable for hurtful words and thoughts of others can have lasting and damaging effects on our lives. ...

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I thought that in general the movie was awesome and it was a great movie to watch in class. ... People can be very ignorant and naive when talking about mental illnesses. Some people even think it is cool to make fun of people that are suffering from mental illnesses. ... I thought Russell Crowe did an amazing job as John Nash and really helped us to see how his life was. The movie has totally changed my views on schizophrenia and mental illnesses in general. ...

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His thoughts changed from being alone for bliss, and discovering he needed others to achieve that bliss. ... From these two stories readers can take away the importance of change and its effects. ... American education is seeing what they think we need versus what we actually need. ... People learn messages that can apply to their daily lives. ... People learn how others see the world. ...

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He watches her, follows her, thinks about her, and even proceeds to buy her a gift. ... For example, Joyce shows the reader just how preoccupied the mind of the narrator is- "I could not call my wandering thoughts together. ... His thoughts force him to lose interest and sort of manipulate his behavior. ... How can the narrator even begin to realize his folly if he does not see it? ... We must not be blind to these kinds of things. ...

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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly" (pg. 85). ... We must take their attitudes, their wrong perceptions of how to seek the meaning of life, and change that so they may find the truth, that life dictates what questions we answer, that we do not ask the questions of life. ... I can relate my thoughts to his quote because of some events that has happened in my life. ... I even had high expectations of myself and I did not mind at all. ... This continued until I started to realize s...

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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly" (pg. 85). ... We must take their attitudes, their wrong perceptions of how to seek the meaning of life, and change that so they may find the truth, that life dictates what questions we answer, that we do not ask the questions of life. ... I can relate my thoughts to his quote because of some events that has happened in my life. ... I even had high expectations of myself and I did not mind at all. ... This continued until I started to realize s...

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I could not understand why I had to memorize the names of all the cities even if I can know whenever I want. ... Secondly, I must learn how-to-think even though, in school, we learn how to memorize or be taught. Learning how to think frees our dependency on others for knowledge. ... Everyone can get a good grade if they change their mind from lowered standards to higher standards by thinking and self-esteem. ... If we do, we"ll not only produce students who can not think, but also students who do not know what thinking is. ...

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Knowing what to look for and how to manage the challenges that a group may encounter can have a considerable impact on how your group progresses. ... Often time's groups will deteriorate in its early stages if it faces a serve change. ... The concept of group development is interesting to me because throughout are days of schooling or even working, we interact in the five different stages, and half the time we do not stop think about the different stages in which we take part in. Whether it is in the classroom, office, or even playing field, that we compete, each and every one of us has g...

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"...It is that we are likely not only to think ourselves into a way of acting but also to act ourselves into a way of thinking." (137) Divorce is a major change in a persons life, also an exciting time to move toward new goals and make new commitments. ... I had to readjust my frame of thought and learn that I had rights. ... Eventually they became apart of who I am today and a guild to how I allow others to treat me. ... I smiled and played with my children and convinced them that their parents divorce was best for all, even though, at times, I didn't feel like it or believed it. ... I ...

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Dreams play a bigger role and mean more in our life then people may think. ... The last REM we experience can last up to almost and hour (Common Questions about Dreams). ... Sub-conscious is always alert and keeps on working even when we are asleep. ... The thoughts come and then they go. ... How dreams work can be a complicated subject to understand. ...

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For starters, my mother has always been the type of person to say whatever comes to her mind at any given time and from an outsider looking in, I can see how that upsets the people around her. ... My unconscious is dictating me in the direction of being a calmer and more relaxed person without even knowing it. ... I am not going to change who I am because of the fact that I know why I act like this now. ... Our conscious behavior is dictated by our unconscious thoughts and when we think we know why we are acting the way we do we are most likely deceiving ourselves. I can see this now and I can...

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Either way, the more I thought about it over the past week, the more I realized how big a part of my life stress is. ... The things that people find joy in can cause as much, if not more stress than the things we hate. ... Most of these stressors are going to follow all of us even when we leave college. Many of them we experienced before we even got to college. I am glad that I was able to think about stress for a week. ...

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I was obsessed about being thin and how much I tried I couldn't let that thought go away. ... I started experience things that I never thought was even possible and a whole new world opened up for me. ... I began to understand that there is more to life than we think it is and everything didn't seem that tragic anymore. ... There is no need for me to change because I'm doing fine, more than fine, in fact I'm doing great. All I have to do is to relax and breathe and rest with the thought that I am far more beautiful that I think I am. ...

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Even though that is likely the reason a good portion of us work, or at least a reason why we think we work, it isn't mine. ... Yes, I am aware just how lucky I am to have relatives who wouldn't think twice about helping their child/little sister out, but at the same time I also feel extremely dependent on them. ... Seldom do we take the time to just sit down and not think about something we should be cleaning or something that we need to be doing. ... Visually, we can view negativity as a ball-and-chain or a dark cloud forever hanging over our heads. ... How much money do we really...

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Thoughts of her consume him and soon she is all he can think about. ... This we can relate to Clegg's distrust of women and actually refers to woman is if they were butterflies. ... As far as the range of emotion, it could be said that Clegg's emotion didn't really change. ... We have already discussed how he refers to women as if he were speaking of butterflies, but even beyond that he shows this by his thoughts of Miranda. ... Further along in the reading Clegg also stats how happy they were, really how happy he was, and commented on how she must feel as well, "[ ] there w...

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The images that the song "U + UR Hand," by Pink, bring to mind thoughts that aren't exactly "G" rated. ... Ladies we can give men a run for their money. ... Alright lastly we can address the setting. ... That even in a place like that the woman can still prevail. ... Well my thesis tells you that women who are strong(what) can have men at their feet using confidence and independence(how.) ...

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We are all told that if you find something you love to do, you can make a living out of it. ... There may be a wealthy white college boy who is offered a job at an music store even though he is not all that knowledgable in the subject, while there is a master of the jazz guitar sitting on the street corner begging for change enough to pay for his dinner while he pays a tribute to Les Paul that he wrote himself. ... I think that when I imagine the American Dream, I think of something very similar to what we discussed in class, the classic Americana family. ... While both of these are part of...

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So I tried to think of virtues, and they are socially acceptable, so none of them can be considered as flaws either. ... But still he cannot stop, and he thought I have failed and silently agreed with him. ... I believe that we can do more work in quietness than we can by moving the lips and letting the mouth make a continuous noise. ... There is stillness in a thinker's mind; and there is quietness in thinker's presence, where even words are entirely unnecessary. ... See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in s...

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Freud's new research on adult development has provided a great deal of new theorizing, even though many of Freud's theories are disputed. ... According to Erikson, a sense of control can be found when learning to control one's body faction. ... Freud honed in on Erikson's thoughts are the outlining of Imitative vs. Guilt letting kids change to fresh activities, mostly pertaining to education, amusements, and peers. ... When Freud believes that people character traits are shaped, on how we solve problems....

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