Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a term that is used in neurological psychological systems to denote severe disability that impairs the ability to read initially then leading to erratic spelling. This is a cognitive disorder and this condition does not affect or tell anything about the IQ level or other aspects of intelligence level of the affected. It is identified in the early childhood. This condition due does not affect the normal life as it revolves only around the written communication and with the latest language tools others will not even notice such a disability in the affected person.

Depression and IT Professionals

Depression has always found its entry in to the lives of people of all eras, be it Buzz Aldrin who walked on the moon or princess Diana who ended up in a tragic death. With the evolving technology and increasing emphasis to the IT related work culture, depression has found its new avenue to haunt human race of the 21st century. There are statistics that the depression ratio is on the rising scale amongst the IT professionals. One of the reasons being the high work pressure and heavy mental activity that is demanded by this field. Also, it does not allow the required physical activity leading to other health related issues which indirectly lead to depression. Continuous starring at the monitor for 8 hours or more on daily basis strain the eye nerves which lead to fatigue. When it becomes the order of the day then it will eventually show up as depression and lack of interest in the job.

Cortisol Craving - Stress Weight Gain

Beware, if you are too stressed you can be gaining weight. Pschological well being is very essential for physical well being and this fact need cannot be stressed enough. Stress when it is of temporary nature seems to result in weigt loss when it becomes chronic stress it seems to play just the opposite role. Chronic stress increases the production of cortisol a harmone that is responsible for creating hunger. When cortisol secretion is increased it leads to craving for food leading to over eating. For more information on this you can check - Stress and weight loss.

So if your increasing weight puts you to mental stress beware this will pull you into a vicious circle. You need to work on your mind before you can workout. Unlike before today you can find endless amount of information on weight loss and easy weight loss tips available online and most of them are simple and safe to try.

Don't give in to your stress! Cultivate healthy habit to fight your stress.

Peotillomania

Peotillomania!
I came across another funny type of mania; actually heard of this first time while gathering information about different types of manias. Peotillomania refers to condition which is a form of nervous whereby one constantly pulls one's penis. Unlike the other types of mania this can be one of the most embarassing forms of mania. Another term used to refer to this condition is "false masturbation. This is a form of an anxiety disorder.

Compulsive Shopping - Oniomania or Shopoholism

I was surprised to learn that I have been cherishing mild form of oniomania or compulsive shopping. I never knew that it is this manic urge that I have been fighting at least twice a month. Actually, I never knew that there can be such a disorder, I have joked a number of times that I am getting addicted to shopping without really knowing that it is an identified form of manic disorder. Wondering how to deal with it before it gets serious. I am afraid that I may start over using my credit card and land up bankrupt. I am also afraid that I may break the basic rule of thumb - living within one's means. Oniomania is also referred popularly as shopoholism. Oniomania is from the Greek word - 'onios' which means 'for sale'. Another concern here is that I do not want to become financially irresponsible giving in to the compulsive urges. It is time to seek some professional help I guess before it gets out of hand.

Difference between Phobia and Mania

Do you know the difference between phobia and mania? Phobia is a condition where there is an undue and irrational fear of some thing; where as mania an aggressive desire towards something. For example agrophobia is the fear of being in open spaces and agromania is the craving to be in open spaces. Both phobia and mania are manifestations of defense mechanisms we use to handle situations that we are incapable of handling in a healthy way. Fear in general is not a psychological pathology and it is actually a self preservation mechanism which all of us should possess; if we do not fear of flames we would walk into fire and burn ourselves alive. When this fear becomes our preoccupation then it becomes difficult to lead a normal life; our interaction with the external world gets impeded. Similarly, desire in its essence is not a psychological pathology, but when it interferes with our normal day-to-day activities, then it becomes a pathological condition.

Trichotillomania -

Have you heard of trichotillomania; I just came across this interesting forms of mania. Trichotillomania has to be pronounced as tree-ko-tillo-mania - just pronounce as you read it. The word origins are traced back to Greek. "Tricha" is hair in Greek and "tillein" again in Greek means to pull or pluck. Therefore Trichotillomania can be etymologically defined as, hair pulling mania. Many of us have this symptom in varying degrees of seriousness, it is an impulse control disorder which is marked by compulsive urge to pluck or pull hair from scalp, eyebrows, beard, facial hair, eyelashes, nose hair or pubic hair. This disorder in the advanced stages can lead to loss of hair in the scalp leading to self create baldness. Trichotillomania or TTM as commmonly refered sets in at early adoloscence. This is a chronic problem with no known cure. If at all any cure can be achieved it has to be through behavioural changes and through habit reversal training and conditioning. This can lead to depression because the affected individual thinks that he or she is the only one who has been affected by this problem as the reporting rate is much much lower than any other psychological conditions.

Psychological Insights

Psychology is one of my favorite fields; I have fallen in love with this field even as I grew up. I always wanted to know why people acted the way they did. Psychology gave me answers to those questions; even though not complete answers, I at least got indicative answers without psychlogical insight which I otherwise would not have understood.

I started gathering more knowledge in this field because it gave me an edge over the others because people became so predictable, which makes it easy to deal with them. I have launched a site on online resources for psychology Online-Psychology and I try to update this website as frequently as possible. However, I think as lazy as I am I will find it rather easier to share my views on various topic of psychology through this blog as this is just "click-away publishing". Wow! I just coined the term "Click-Away-Publishing". Aint I a genius? :)