Psychological Disoder: is the spelling right?

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I hope everyone is having a great life out there. But still, some of us will have problems every once in a while. Me too, having all sorts of problem...one of them is going to be described in this article. You see, I'm 'suffering' from some psychological problems that need me to see a doctor. (Really? No thanks, I'm fine.)

Read this and wonder for yourself: am I having the same 'problem'? Am I suffering? (these questions and answers are taken from Reader's Digest)

Q: I hate choosing things. When I grab a spoon out of the drawer, I have a hard time picking one, even though they're all the same. Then, when I finally choose a spoon, I feel bad for all the others. I even sort of apologise to them: ''Sorry, guys. Next time!'' Is this weird?

Hooo-eeee! Our experts made a smorgasbord out of you, and they each picked a different spoon. While Perman sees a wounded soul and ''a great sensitivity that has arisen out of being hurt, omitted or neglected,'' Wymes thinks you're awfully self-involved: ''It's narcissistic to think the spoons would want to be exposed to your cuisine.''(Narcissism: the habit of admiring yourself too much, narcissistic: adj)

Joshua Coleman, PhD, a San Francisco psychologist and author, on the other hand, doubts that you're standing up for yourself in arenas more vital than the silverware drawer. ''To be successful, you have to be decisive about what you want in your life and career. You need to know when to prioritise your own needs,'' he says.

And Beresin wonders, ''Is this a joke? Do you apologise to tools in the box? Pencils on the desk? Products that you don't buy at the store? Magical thinking – that is, believing that inanimate objects have feelings – is normal for a four-year-old. But it's definitely not normal for an adult.'' Since you're such a feast for the psychological mind, you might consider talking to a professional. You won't have to apologise to him.

[My personal experience]: I don't know. Sometimes when I go buying something, lets say pencil, i feel pity to other pencil that I didn't choose. Is that so weird, feeling sorry for something?

Q: Why am I incapable of throwing things out? I still have my full wardrobe from the 1970s. It'd be a movie costumer's dream if it weren't all moth-eaten. And I never throw out a computer – our attic houses four of them now. My family makes me throw out the newspapers, but I hate it. I always think, We might need that! Am I nuts?

Well, Freud would call you anal-retentive. You may well have pack-rat syndrome, or pathological hoarding. Pack rats feel the world is out of whack if they don't have all their things, often meaning anything that's ever passed into their possession. Pathological hoarding is related to OCD, and in both, it's a futile attempt to control something in an unstable world.

At the extreme, says Gitlin, ''people who are truly pathological hoarders can't get into their house, they're crippled by it, not able to find things, making their dwellings into major fire hazards.'' Your problem sounds less severe than that, but it's all a question of degree. Your family may well have a better perspective, and if they say you need help, listen to them.

For this behaviour, as for most of the others here, ''there are no absolute criteria,'' says Nando Pelusi, PhD, a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Manhattan. Psychological problems are contextual, ''so we have to look at the whole picture. Something might be just an emotional quirk, or it might be truly unhelpful.'' Since there are no hard-and-fast rules, you and your family have to decide for yourselves. ''When people decide it's dangerous or disturbing,'' says Pelusi, ''that's when they give therapists like me a call.''

[My personal experience]: I once felt very sad when I have to throw away a toy-box that have a picture of a cute girl playing the toy imprinted on it. Feels like I'm throwing a girl away. And for the record, I always keep big plastic bags that I got when I went shopping. It's useful -in my way of thinking- as thrash bin plastic, but most of them just got too many and messy, yet I'm still hate to throw them away. Membazir.

Hmm, seems like I do have problems afterall, don't I? Well, h ow about you?

Makan ikut jenis darah?

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Aku terbaca kat majalah Astroview keluaran Mei, ada satu artikel berkenaan dengan pemakanan...tajuknya 'Diet mengikut kumpulan darah'. Menarik, aku pun teruskanlah membaca (sebenarnya baca nak tengok ada citer apa hari ni kat Starworld..huhu)

Disebabkan ada info yang berguna untuk kita semua, di sini aku lampirkan ringkasan dari apa yang tertulis kat artikel tu. Siapa2 yang ada langgan Astroview (edisi BM), boleh baca sendiri keluaran Mei di muka surat 36. Or you can follow this link to the author's page. Em, not the author of that article, but yang empunya idea...hehehe.

Menurut Dr Peter D'Adamo dalam bukunya yang berjudul 'Eat Right for Your Type', makanan yang kita makan akan mengalami tindak balas kimia yang menghasilkan satu faktor yang dikenali sebagai lectin, iaitu kesan gumpalan kandungan protein tinggi dalam makanan itu dengan faktor lain yang boleh memberi kesan kepada darah.

Walau bagaimanapun, kebanyakan protein jenis ini tidak merbahaya kerana sistem imunisasi manusia mampu melindungi badan daripadanya. 95% lectin dinyah segera dari tubuh badan, sementara 5% lagi akan dirembes ke aliran darah, lalu menghasilkan pelbagai kesan pada organ2 tertentu bergantung pada jenis darah yang ditemuinya.

Dr D'Adamo membahagikan makanan kepada 3 kategori: 1) makanan yang sangat digalakkan kerana boleh bertindak sebagai ubat @ penawar, 2) makanan yang dibenarkan kerana tidak membahayakan kesihatan, dan 3) makanan yang seharusnya dielakkan kerana boleh menjadi 'racun' kepada organ dalam badan.

Di sini dinyatakan, bagi mereka yang berdarah O (sama macam aku), mereka digalakkan makan makanan laut, daging, hati, garam, bayam dan brokoli. Dan antara makanan yang dilarang termasuklah gandum (isk..takleh makan cekodok lagi pasni...), jagung, pepucuk (yang tumbuh secara bercambah), kubis bunga dan biji sawi.

Bagi darah A (dikenali sebagai penggemar sayuran), mereka digalakkan makan sayuran hijau, nanas, minyak sayuran dan kacang soya. Mereka perlu elakkan antaranya makan daging (betul ke ni...?), hasil tenusu, dan gandum.

Bagi yang berdarah B, mereka boleh makan kebanyakan daging dan sayuran. Cuma yang perlu dielakkan jagung, kekacang, bijan dan gandum (dari tadi asyik takleh makan gandum..macam tak logik la pulak). Bagi kumpulan darah AB, profil diet sama seperti yang berdarah B, tapi mereka perlu elakkan satu lagi, daging merah.

Well, that's all about it. Anda perlu penjelasan lebih lengkap, boleh dapatkan buku Dr D'Adamo di pasaran (ada kot, agaknya...hehe). Aku pun rasanya kena lebih berhati2 dalam pemakanan...dan sama2 la kita menjaga kesihatan. Jangan lupa bersyukur atas pemberian Allah yang menjadikan kita sihat. Mafhum hadith yang pernah aku belajar dulu; 2 nikmat yang mana manusia sering lalai dengannya, sihat dan masa lapang.

Have a nice life!