General posts on psychology, typically covering depression, and OCD
Paranoia is a funny thing… Ever wonder if Blizzard employs psychologists to work out how best to screw with your minds and, while laughing at your stupidity and gullibility, then happily take all the money they can from you, and then wait for you to gushingly thank them for every least scrap? Ever heard of […]
Cognitive Dissonance: Is Blizzard playing psychological mind games? Read More »
Autism and the Turing Test At the start of the (sci-fi) film The Machine a panel sat before an array of computers, each relating to an A.I. with voice synthesisers. (Similar, I guess, to existing tournaments). The problem posed in the film wasn’t which was an AI (as all were), but which was the most
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How sensitive is your OCD radar? It will probably not come as a surprise to some people that I scored 100% on the Playbuzz test (linked at the bottom of the page). However, you could argue as to whether the short quiz demeans people genuinely suffering from crippling OCD, as opposed to simply being a
Playbuzz: How sensitive is your OCD radar? Read More »
Gaming addiction is a major issue Warcraft and games like it can be addictive, addictive beyond the point of obsession and off into the scary realms and genuine risks of destroying your health, schooling, job, career, relationships, marriage…. I know how bad I am, but that’s me, I understand if it wasn’t this it would
Gaming addictions: Warcraft or Warcrack? How on-line gaming destroys lives Read More »
How well do you know yourself? Update 2020 All the links to visualDNA below were either broken, or the pages fail to load properly. The site appears to have changed hands too, and while it still offers tests, I note that the © is 2020, make of it what you will. for this reason, and
visualDNA – Have you taken the test lately? Read More »
Intro I’ve flagged this as psychological rather than general mutterings but I’ll soon start work on my sites again so perhaps it will be in a ‘personal’ category. We’ll see. My wife and children think I’m having a mid-life crisis, my mum and aunty are just glad I don’t look like I’m at death’s door
Depression and finding myself again Read More »
Trying to refind yourself These notes have been in a box for I don’t know how many years and are perhaps a measure of the person I was or maybe could have been, had I not lost my path and let life and depression wear me down. I am trying to fight back now, hence
More positive affirmation notes from my past Read More »
Shoot the damn dog : a memoir of depression ~ by Sally Brampton If you have long-term depression yourself, or know someone close suffering from it, this is recommended reading. There are many different types of depression and it can take people in different ways, but whatever form it takes you’ll recognise many of the
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