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Eating Disorders: Causes and Treatment

In 1997, 22 year old Heidi Gunther died of a heart attack during a vacation trip with her family. She was at the time a ballet dancer for the Boston Ballet. Heidi suffered from an eating disorder called Anorexia Nervosa.

Anorexia is a life threatening psychological condition where a person believes he or she is too obese, never thin enough, resulting in self starvation and excessive exercising to the point of malnutrition. This condition seems to be more prevalent among teenage girls and young women but not exclusively. Cases have also been found among men, young children, and even some women as old as sixty. It is characterized by extremely low body weight, and a distorted sense of self perception.
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Astrology - Magic or Myth

Astrology Magic or Myth ImageAstrology has been practiced across the world in various forms for centuries despite there being much debate over its legitimacy, or more to the point accuracy. As without doubt the most popular of the pseudo-sciences, astrology has origins dating as far back as 2600 BC in China and has gained increasing popularity over the centuries.

Despite its complexity, astrology is said to be an important tool we can use in our day-to-day lives by understanding and acknowledging the celestial forces that influence each moment. Given some practice and familiarization, many people find astrology to be easier to understand than first thought and liken it to a symbolic clock which can be read once thoroughly understood.
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Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality DisorderRecognizing Emerging Borderline Personality Disorder.

By definition, a person suffering from borderline personality disorder, fears being abandoned and will do just about anything to prevent this. For example, self-manipulation, by slashing arms or legs, repeated overdosing, delinquency, sexual promiscuity, addictions and other self-destructive acts.
They will experience feelings known as “splitting”. They will see a person as being only “good” one day and only “bad” the next, as they are unable to distinguish that there is both bad and good in everyone. Read more!

Bipolar Syndrome On Debra Lafave

Bipolar SyndromeBipolar syndrome certainly inexcusable when it comes to sexual deviance such as statutory rape, just like what Debra Lafave case. Debra and this 14 year old boy have had a history and constantly having sex, which is strange, because that just proves to me that Debra is playing the role of a maverick and breaking the taboo. It proves to me that she was just wanting someone to give her attention. It’s apparent that her family wasn’t doing it, and it’s apparent that her ex-husband wasn’t doing it; therefore, she decided to get “froggy” and jump on a 14 year old.

Bipolar Syndrome works like this, usually when someone has bipolar syndrome that person has manic depression or in some cases a fission of personality; in other words, one minute the person is happy, and then in an instantaneous fashion the person is sad, lonely, angry, or confused. Read more!

Understanding Your Body Languange

body languangeBody language is the secret, quiet and most powerful mental language of all.
As what experts researched that this non-verbal language communicates about 50% of what we really mean and voice tonality contributes 38% while words themselves contribute a mere 7%.

The messages that sent out constantly by our body and often we don’t recognize that we’re communicating a lot more than we realize.

The understanding and use of this non-verbal cues in facial expression are familiar to us nearly from birth. We can improve our ability to understand what people are really communicating aware of what we are broadcasting to the world with the non-verbal cues by familiarizing ourselves with a few basic nonverbal signals. Read more!