Posts Tagged ‘Psychology’
Why do athletes have poor mental health
Interesting. I just realized that elite athletes have a poor mental health. This is at first seems a contradictions. How come a person doing things that they like, being paid a lot, get a poor mental health. The answer is simply: pressure, too much pressure. Any competitive job, which of course is inherently full of uncertainty is unhealthy. Competitive means pressure, means uncertainty, mean it needs constant practice, exercise, maintaining high standard of characters and virtue.
This also goes to the musician. I think everybody at some point one to be either athlete or musician/actor. They just doing simple things, something fun, its only for a short of time e.g sing is only 3 minutes. However it come with consequences. The creative process itself is very stressful. Sing is easy, however write a music is even more difficult. It is interesting that industry that has the lowest mental health: creative industries. UK studies have shown that artists, musicians, actors, entertainers and media presenters of both genders have a higher risk of suicide than the general population
Some interesting concept:
- Mental health is a scam, mental health therapy, treatment and industry is a scam and fraud.
- Dailymail: Humans have turned into a horrible species that is obsessed with money, sex, being selfish and stupid.
- CBT is a scam and a waste of money: Popular talking therapy is not a long-term solution, says leading psychologist
- No such thing as mental illness? Critical reflections on the major ideas and legacy of Thomas Szasz. The non-existence of mental illness. Arguing in The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct that they are merely ‘indirect forms of communication’, Thomas Szasz posited that so-called mental illnesses cannot legitimately be categorised as diseases. Pathologisation of everyday life. A further area examined by Szasz concerns the proliferation of new psychiatric disorders. Szasz decried ‘fictitious mental diseases’9 such as body dysmorphic disorder, multiple personality disorder and frotteurism.
- Anti-psychiatry is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment is often more damaging than helpful to patients, highlighting controversies about psychiatry.
Anxious? Well that’s good
Anxious (cemas, nervous/khawatir) that’s good, it means that the body is ready. The body is well prepared. Scared (takut) is good. Trust the body. Anxious usually on a short plan, scared usually on long plans.
Inside our head, our mind, our mental, we feel the emotion every day, we have complex feeling, what we feel everyday. That kind of feeling is just temporary and it is normal.
1.happy
2.sad
3.anger: (fight)
4.scared: (flight) anxious, stressed
5.disgust/trust
6.surprise/anticipate
And it is normal. Its mean that we are healthy -unhealthy person can not feel. Its also means that the body is well prepared. We can not changed the emotion from sad into happy.
Everything that comes in our mind is not important, we can not control, but we can control our action -which called virtue (sikap):
1.sabar
2.syukur
Sabr / Patience (literally ‘endurance’ or more accurately ‘perseverance’ and ‘persistence’) is one of the two parts of faith (the other being shukr) in Islam. Patience with steadfast belief in Allah is called sabr, one of the best virtues of life in Islam
The VIA Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS), formerly known as the “Values in Action Inventory,” is a proprietary psychological assessment measure designed to identify an individual’s profile of character strengths. Character Strengths and Virtues (CSV)
Virtue, bahasa Indonesia sepertinya Character
1.Wisdom: creativity, curiosity, judgment, love of learning, perspective (kreatif, senang belajar)
2.Courage: bravery, perseverance, honesty, zest (berani, jujur, tekun)
3.Humanity: love, kindness, social intelligence (baik, penyayang, pengasih)
4.Justice: teamwork, fairness, leadership (adil, kerjasama, respect)
5.Temperance: forgiveness, humility, prudence, self-regulation (sabar)
6.Transcendence: appreciation of beauty and excellence, gratitude, hope, humor, spirituality (santai, tenang, sabar, spritualis)
Bahaya Sibuk
Sibuk ini berbahaya sekali. Ketika sibuk maka banyak hal menjadi kontra produktif, semakin sibuk justru performance semakin menurun, begitu juga dengan semakin letih. Karena sudah semakin tua maka harus semakin pintar untuk memilah milah. Harus tahu bagaimana mengendalikan diri. Kuncinya disiplin.
Thought disorder
A thought disorder (TD) is a disturbance in cognition which affects language, thought and communication. Disorganized speech
Defence Mechanism
Istilah yang sering didenger itu “coping” mechanism, tapi belakangan yang sering saya denger itu “channelling”, “penyaluran, pelampiasan”, “catharsis”
Defence mechanism is an unconscious psychological operation that functions to protect a person from anxiety-producing thoughts and feelings related to internal conflicts and outer stressors
Defence mechanisms are psychological strategies brought into play by the unconscious mind to manipulate, deny, or distort reality in order to defend against feelings of anxiety and unacceptable impulses and to maintain one’s self-schema or other schemas. In psychoanalytic theory, repression is considered the basis for other defence mechanisms
Freud’s concept of displacement and substitution are linguistic processes
Signal anxiety: Nnot directly a conflicted instinctual tension but a signal occurring in the ego of an anticipated instinctual tension
Talk therapy: language as route to unconscious, where repressed material can attain expression.
Symptoms: signs of unconscious conflict; ofteen seen in repetition (OCD)
George Eman Vaillant introduced a four-level classification of defence mechanisms
Level I – pathological defences (psychotic denial, delusional projection)
Level II – immature defences (fantasy, projection, passive aggression, acting out)
Level III – neurotic defences (intellectualization, reaction formation, dissociation, displacement, repression)
Level IV – mature defences (humour, sublimation, suppression, altruism, anticipation)
Sensation Seeking Scale – Alternative Five Model Personality
The alternative five model of personality is based on the claim that the structure of human personality traits is best explained by five broad factors called impulsive sensation seeking (ImpSS), neuroticism–anxiety (N-Anx), aggression–hostility (Agg-Host), sociability (Sy), and activity (Act). The model was developed by Marvin Zuckerman and colleagues as a rival to the well-known five factor model of personality traits and is based on the assumption that “basic” personality traits are those with a strong biological-evolutionary basis
Alternative Five Model
- Neuroticism–anxiety: measures anxiety, fear, general emotionality, psychasthenia, and inhibition of aggression. The factor is also associated with obsessive indecisiveness, lack of self-confidence, and sensitivity to criticism.
- Aggression–hostility vs. social desirability: measures aggression, hostility, anger, lack of inhibitory control, and low social desirability. The factor is associated with rudeness, thoughtless and antisocial behaviour, vengefulness, quick temper and impatience.
- Impulsive sensation-seeking: measures low socialisation, and high psychoticism, impulsivity, and sensation-seeking. The impulsivity items assess lack of planfulness and a tendency to act without thinking. The sensation seeking items describe a liking for thrills and excitement, novelty and variety, and unpredictable situations and friends.
- Sociability: measures affiliation, social participation, extraversion. Assesses liking for big parties and interactions with many people, as well as a dislike of isolation in sociable people versus a liking for the same in unsociable people.
- Activity: measures energetic behavior and persistence. This factor is associated with need to keep active and feelings of restlessness when there is nothing to do.
The Sensation Seeking Scale is one of the most common psychological instruments for measuring sensation seeking. Sensation seeking is a personality trait defined by the search for experiences and feelings, that are “varied, novel, complex and intense”, and by the readiness to “take physical, social, legal, and financial risks for the sake of such experiences.
- Thrill and Adventure seeking (SSS-TAS): also known as ‘stimulus seeking’ or ‘fearlessness’. Individuals tend to participate in high stimulus activities such as sky diving, mountain climbing, bungee jumping, etc. Studied anywhere from those with psychopath tendencies to antisocial behaviors
- Disinhibition (SSS-DIS): Participating in drug use, alcohol use, vandalism, and/or unsafe sex. Seen more in adolescence compared to adulthood, and more in males than in females.
- Experience seeking (SSS-ES): Individuals who participate in travel, psychedelic drugs, art, music, and other less risky sensations.
- Boredom Susceptibility (SSS-BS): Individual who is prone to boredom and has a need for a constant, new external stimuli, such as social interaction or activities, such as movies.
Indonesian version
- Cari Bahaya (Thrill and Adventure seeking): opposite play safe (cari aman)
- Antisocial (Disinhibition): drug use
- Cari pengalaman (Experience Seeking)
- Bosenan (Boredom Susceptibility)
Freud’s Defense Mechanism
Sigmund Freud defence mechanism: repression, regression, reaction formation, isolation, undoing, projection, introjection, turning against one’s own person, reversal into the opposite, and sublimation or displacement.
Holmes-Rahe Inventory
Indeks seperti ini ada banyak versinya. Salah satu versi yang sering didengar adalah pindah rumah, termasuk didalamnya pindah kota atau negara. Ada juga yang bilang rating paling tinggi adalah kesehatan. Ada juga yang melihat anglenya dari sisi keuangan, dimana financial stability is the highest. Kalau yang anglenya happiness is relationship, maka relationship menjadi highest index. Tapi kalau anglenya ke state of changes, maka moving is the highest, karena everything change. Kalau viewnya relatif material, maka kesehatan atau keuangan menjadi faktor yang paling penting. Menarik
Psychoanalysis
Linguist Noam Chomsky has criticized psychoanalysis for lacking a scientific basis. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould considered psychoanalysis influenced by pseudoscientific theories such as recapitulation theory. Psychologists Hans Eysenck, John F. Kihlstrom and others have also criticized the field as pseudoscience
Freud War
Anjar Priandoyo 