ADHD

Another interesting class today... ADHD, biological clocks gone haywire, hair pulling, nail biting, teeth grinding, and a girl who ate her hair and had a hair ball!

On the topic of ADHD, I think some doctors are just eager beavers when it comes to handing out medications. Which is a shame, because some people do not truely need the medication and it no longer lets them feel like themselves. ADHD is something that I personally would not want to get medications for, unless it interfered with my quality of life.

But that brings up a whole other discussion about who gets to judge what is the best quality of life for anyone. Some people would walk into my room and think that something exploded. I have papers every where and it looks just like a mess, but I like to call it an "organized mess". If you were to ask me where something was I could find it immeditaly or tell you where to look. Some people just can't stand that and would have to have everything put away and labeled. That would drived me nuts!

Now as for the hairball incident... you may not believe me, but after doing some research I found many occurances of hair balls in humans. Most happened when the person had a complusive disorder that drove them to eating the ends of their hair!

If you don't believe me look at this link, it is one of many that I found... you just have to scroll down a little ways
Girl died after giant hairball was removed
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The, Aug 21, 1999

New Hampshire

Class was started today with a discussion about a gentleman who discovered sheep may be gay. The gentleman observed that 8% or something like that, were not interested in mating with a female sheep. Now the problem is once Larry gave us the background, he asked who was from New Hampshire.. I being from this lovely state raised my hand. He then asked us if we knew the mating habits of sheep or anything about them. Sorry but just because I live in New Hampshire does not mean that I farm or know anything about sheep!

On a better note, after ready some of the requirements for conditions like OCD and ADHD, I have learned most people I know, including myself fit into some of the requirements. Since it does not interfere with my "quality of life" I'm not to worried. I just don't plan on telling any doctors that I fit some of the criteria, because popping pills is not my idea of a fun time.

Well that is all for now!

Opps

I am not quite used to blogging yet. I had written out my lil section on class yesterday and instead of hitting the publish button, I hit the save as drafts. The only problem with that was I some how managed to delete the draft.... so here we go again!

Class is really fun, I never thought I would actually say that about a psychology course! The group things we have been doing is a really nice way to break up a lecture. Even the lectures don't seem like lectures because of how entertaining the class is.

Having Abnormal Psych in the middle of my day is very nice because of the break I get. Laughing in class is such a relief from the rigid structure of my other classes!
Well that is it for now!
See you all on Monday :)

First Attempt

hmmm... so this blogging stuff is all new to me. I don't normally say much so this is going to be interesting. Class today was alright... most of what was said was review but I'm looking forward to the new material... Larry seems like a cool guy, so I know I wont be taking any naps in class!!!
So long for now.