Archive for May, 2006

Stress id another lifestyle factor that can really zap your memory power. Feeling stressed is of course just another part of being human. But devastating stress can take a terrific toll on our overall health, not to mention our memory.

Stress

For most of us stress is a feeling of pressure and lack of control. Yet formally stress is defined as merely the way you react to change. Stress in and of itself is not problematic. In fact, both “good” and “bad” life events are stressful. What distinguishes “good” stress from “bad” stress (distress) is the degree to which we feel we are in control.

For instance, most people would consider losing their job as more stressful than getting married. It is the sense of the former being more out of your control that makes it more distressful.

Don’t Let Stress Zap Your Memory!

You return from a much-needed week’s holiday in the tropics where you didn’t take your laptop. You are relaxed, suntanned, and your wife’s hero for making a hat out of palm fronds and ordering dinner in broken Tahitian.

Are all memories created equal? It is almost certain that different people have different brain capabilities for different things. One of these differences must be in memory. But most of the differences in memory capabilities that we see in everyday life do not seem to be due to differences in the brains we are born with, but to differences in how well we use the brains we are born with.

Our brains are perhaps somewhat like our muscles: everybody is born with different amounts of muscle. And this is perhaps mostly true of the muscle that is your heart. So it is likely that some people have bigger, stronger hearts than others do at birth.

But it is also true that many people can take whatever amount of heart they are born with - large or small—and train themselves up from couch potato to marathon runner. The dissimilarities we find in everyday memory probably are similar.

They are probably still mostly based on how much we exercise what we have, not how much memory we are born with. This is not to diminish the fact that different people may be born with different memory abilities.

Memory - Meaning

Memory is not just remembering what you ate for breakfast or the name of the President. It is remembering your train of thought, where you are going and why, where you are, and what you are doing at any given moment.

It is remembering how to put a sentence together, turn on your computer, spell a word, balance your checkbook, and what someone has just said. But many men and women complain that they are sometimes not capable to do these things.

They are all of a sudden rereading things over and over in order to get the meaning, not finding things that are right in front of them, calling their sons by their husband or wife’s name, stashing their socks in the freezer, and becoming clumsy, awkward, and, for lack of a better word, “ditzy.”

You need memory to hold on to your thoughts and ideas long enough to organize them. But your capability to communicate your thoughts to others breaks down, if they slip away like quicksilver before you have the chance to arrange them in a logical sequence.

Passive Aggressive Personality disorder types will often sabotage all areas of their life in the sense that they often complain about any demands put on them. They may not voice the complaint or may do what is asked of them, but in their mind that is cussing the source that what they believe made them do the work.

Passive Outward And Aggressive Inwards

Passive Aggressive Personality types are just as it sounds. They often are passive outward and aggressive inwards. The Passive aggressive types often anger others around them, yet the other person may feel wrong since they are not clear on the foundation that caused the anger.

These types of people are deceiving since they are often obscure with their tactics in persecuting others. They will often blame everyone around them rather than owning up to their part in conflicts.

Self-Defeating Personality Disorder

Another type of personality disorder that is questionable is the Self-Defeating Personality Disorder. This type will often associate with persons that will cause harm to or persecute the individuality of the self-defeated person.

Schizophrenia has plagued our systems for many years. Today, mental health experts are finding more cases of schizophrenia than they counted in the past. Schizophrenia is nothing to play with, and anyone ignoring this diagnose is only throwing fuel to the fire.

Symptoms Of Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia has several levels of diagnostic symptoms, yet anyone with schizophrenia should be treated immediately. Contact a professional right now, if you know anyone with symptoms including Paranoid, Paranoia, Hallucinations, Voices, and so on.

Do not wait, since the more schizophrenia develops the more others, including the patient are at risk of dangers. These people are subject to danger, pain, suffering, misery, and more.

Not only does this type of patient suffer, anyone around them will undergo tremendous pain and suffering. Common words that schizophrenia’s relate to others is, “they are coming to get me,” or they tell you that the CIA/KGB is out to get them.

Hallucinations

Hallucinations affect the sensory in the sense it conveys messages or else nerve impulses to the sense organs, and singles the message to the nerve centers, thus creating a suspicious force.

Avoidant Personality Disorder Meaning

Avoidant Personality Disorder will often avoid public, since they fear that the people will reject them, disappoint them, humiliate them, or view them as a complete failure. They often are reluctant to ask for help, ask questions, or speak in public.

They also work below their abilities since promotions are often frightening for them. Most times, they suffer inferiority complexes, and suffer severe episodes of loneliness, depression, anxiety attacks, and so forth.

After studying an individual with multiple personality disorder (MPD), and noticing that the individual displayed avoidant behaviors in certain areas of the person’s personality, person is not frightened of social, rather abused and neglect by the father and by the system.

The person was raised by a paranoid schizophrenia that taught her or punished her when she would go in the public, or else visit another home. When the person was able to befriend others the father, moving to another area, instantly swept her away.

The young woman was different in the sense she had multiple personalities, so it was easier to fix the problem by integrating the personality that suffered the symptoms of avoidant.

How does antisocial personality disorder and psychopathic disorders in mental health boil down to one diagnose? Let us examine the symptoms carefully to see where this topic is going.

First, the experts use the diagnose Conduct Control Behaviors or Disorders before they diagnose a patient over the age 18 with Antisocial Personality Disorder. This particular disorder often has other underlying disorders that mimic the symptoms of the actual diagnose.

Antisocial Personality Disorder Symptoms

The symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder include but not limited to fire starters, truancy, theft, harming of people and animals, compulsive-impulsive explosions, crime, hostility toward authority, violent outbursts, dangerous sexual acts, willful or malicious destruction of property, and we cannot go any further than this simply because it will scare you out of your seat.

Psychopathic Disorder Symptoms

Now let us take a look at Psychopathic symptoms, which include, fire starting, bed wetting, harming or killing people and animals, explosive outbursts, sexual deviants, hostility toward authority, conduct control disorders, inability to regard others, destructive, truancy, neglectful, inability to show remorse or express emotions, impulsive-compulsive behaviors, criminal minded, and we can go on and on.

Team leaders are needed in all spheres of organizational life. This includes marketing, R&D, engineering, production, quality assurance, information systems, human resources, accounting and finance, and all the rest. It also includes first-level management, middle-level management, and upper-level management. The need for team leaders is not limited to particular spheres.

We should now address this question: What is meant by “team leadership”? Especially important is the question: How does team leadership differ from heroic leadership?

The concept of team leadership seems to indicate different things to different managers. Thus, a useful point of leaving is to state what team leadership is not.

Team leadership is not pure democratic leadership.

Democratic leadership means putting the various decisions up for vote, and the majority rules. Experience shows that if the group leader typically uses this approach for decision making, it will split the group into subgroups, with each subgroup protecting its own turf.

Team leadership is not management by committee.

The concept of “committee” usually is associated with academic institutions. Committees oftentimes suffer from lack of clear responsibility, authority, and accountability. Consequently, they are hamstrung in their efforts to achieve results. There is little to no relation between management by committee and team leadership.