Recent content by Callypigia

I started getting on this site around 10 years ago just to watch new episodes of Naruto when they came out. I noticed there were a lot of serious threads about depression and anxiety, so after about a year I made an account to help kids. I never really got into the deep dive Naruto discussions...

It was rooted in predominantly Naruto-base(d) conversations. The shows long gone and kids are long grown up.

No the guy who said he didn’t believe in god, I think his name was Eren.

Animals live in the moment, and their limbic system detects threat. They experience anxiety because of that. In rat studies they have repeatedly initiated trauma response (anxiety without ability to flee, fight, or freeze) and can note PTSD symptoms. We also can interfere with the dopaminergic...

I’ve been back and forth on that throughout my life. At this point even as a Buddhist I believe there probably is a god. I found scripture the other day doing Sanskrit translations that corroborated that. In meditation you realize there’s something bigger than you, people just describe it...

I think I had the moniker NB Psychologist back when we had titles. You have an excellent memory. I'm working as a psychologist in prison system now.

LOL what was my betrayal?

Surge of dopamine and oxytocin followed shortly after.

Being good is too subjective. If you define good as hedonistic discipline; it can be very challenging. It does get easier over time to withhold pleasure seeking activity; dependence on dopamine release can be decreased with cessation and/or moderation. Cravings and need decrease when pleasure...

I've given my tenant slack because she lost her job. She has two years of paying on time though. I have no obligation to do that. The last tenant I had destroyed my house, cost me $12,000 in repairs, and fled in the middle of the night. It took me a month to enter my own home once the eviction...

It depends on the level of impairment that you are experiencing from your issues. Most problems people can take and shrug off through their own coping skills. If something is causing significant impairment, and you aren't able to manage it on your own I would recommend professional care...

Because of the internet most information is readily available. What you find are people who know nothing about a subject, but they Google it to sound knowledgeable over social media. There's something called Dunning-Kruger Effect that you may find interesting. Basically, the less people know...

That made me laugh. Sadly I'm a mere mortal and a flawed one at that. I didn't think my profession would come as a huge surprise after I answered your other thread about therapists. I pursued it out of social interest. Gesellschaft was always a philosophical ideology I was interested in. I...

I have three primary fields of study: Psychology, Philosophy, and History. They are all one in the same. Human history is the study of reoccurring psychological patterns driven by varying philosophies. When I was a young adult I worked as a network administrator. I had no real passion for it...

I almost didn't want to comment because there is so much ignorance prevalent in this thread, and I don't have much confidence that any wisdom would ameliorate that. I believe it's worth trying to explain. I will preface this by saying that I am a psychologist for the Department of Corrections...