Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia has to be at the top of my list for the worst mental disorder. Data shows that in a life time 1 out of every 100 will be afflicted by this decease, they represent 40% of all mental patience in public mental hospitals. Only 1 third ever recovers and the decease has a genetic component.

It hard to image living a rather normal life and the suddenly be afflicted with such a devastating mental disorder. With other disorders that happen at birth like autism the patent has never had the experience of a normal or healthy mental state as a Schizophrenia patent must have.

Changing topic, I have given great thought to becoming an addiction counselor, and it was a choice I dismissed for the career I have chosen now. The burn out factor was the biggest reason I choose against the addiction counselor, most counselors in this field have 5 year life span do to work load, under paid, and the large percentage of failed recovery. I know I would make a good counselor; I live the program daily and have become an auto-response to me with techniques I have learned from good counseling. I understand the discovery stage, healing stage, and the recovery stage of this disease. I have been taught family systems as well as un-healthy relationships. I have learned many principles that work against obsessive compulsive disorder, and depression. It would be a great career to pursue and I know that I would love it, because I have grown and extracted so much from this class.

About Psychology

I believe that psychological thinking is our natural default; it takes much practice to learn pure logic and algorithms.  For example computers process information through logic and algorithms routines, they have no psychological problem solving skills.  I was a computer programmer and analyst for a short time in my life and it was hard to think in pure logic terms, but until I was able to think in this way I was not able to solve a program problem.  Logic deals in absolutes formulas and the end result is always correct. When writing a program and your logic was not correct your program will crash or the end result will not be what you attended it to be.  You then must go back through the coding to see where your logic went astray to achieve the end result you were after.  Often it was a one word statement changing the word from and to or will result in a different outcome.

Matter of fact I left the programming field do to this.  Everyday I had to discipline myself to think on logical terms just to do my job.  Everyday I got off work I was mentally fatigued from doing algorithms and logic routines all day.

I believe psychological thinking pulls from your senses, emotions, and memory.  Enabling you to create and manipulate mental representations, such as concepts, images, schemas, and scripts. In this type of thinking one is able to solve a problem in more than just one way.  It introduces creativity in problem solving.  This type of thinking also allows us to bring in new concepts and better ways of doing things, i.e. inventions.

Psychological thinking encompasses values and ethical issues needed for the greater good.  Logic alone does not address these values. However working in tandem with both logical and psychological thinking will give you the ability to learn and solve problems faster and with more accuracy.

I believe logic is more taught while psychological thinking is more innate.  Innate in the sense that we are continually building sense, emotions, and memory, which in turn allow us the ability to make good judgments or think logically.

Psychology Works

I have found that my personality has changed through out the years and so has my behavior. I was an adopted child, and this makes my point of view different then most. I have some biological traits and observational traits. I am so much like my father who adopted me. He was humorous, hard working, aggressive business man and self made millionaire. It is a long story, but it is suffice to say I was the black sheep, finely disowned, and cut out of the will. I was raised with strict rules and principles and was taught at an early age that I was never good enough.

Now my biological mother was a sever alcoholic, and later in years had an alcoholic death. There goes mom so goes her son. I was and am a sever alcoholic as well. Know that after the adoption I never had any contact with my biological mother, but became just like her from the history I have uncovered about her.

After ruining two marriages and destroying my health I reached my bottom and have not had a drink in almost 2 years. I have had great success through those years in my career, at one time I was making 120,000 per year which I extract from my observational learning from my father. Know that alcohol destroyed they career as well.

With all this loss in my life and checking into a rehab center I had time to reflect, reassess, and begin to learn about me. I have addressed my character defects and addressed them by promoting my assets. Through this process I found who I am and some long term conditioning were removed. No longer do I fell less then; I am no better or less then anyone. I find my character to be strong and solid for once in my life. I set goals and achieve them. I am happy with me.

I took the temperament sorter and found my personality was “Guardian” and I found it to be most accurate for me.