A little bit of a blogpost but with some questions/discussion at the end

This last week and for some of next week I'm down at my grandparents house, which means no PS4/Computer games etc and it's a good chance for me to catch up on my reading <.<

A nice quiet house with lots of tea to be made and the biggest worry of the day being 'do we have dinner at 5:45pm or 6:00pm?'
So instead of my day being a routine of 'get up, study, play battlefield, watch TV, go to bed' rinse/repeat, it's a nicer 'get up, have tea, read, have tea, read, have tea, read, have tea, sort out dinner, read, have tea, read and then flick through here before bed'.

It's meant that I've been able to chew through several very long and somewhat dry chapters on neurodevelopmental disorders, personality disorders (Much more interesting for me) and complete the first book in the Dexter series in a few days.

The other plus side to staying with my grandparents is being able to talk to a veteran mental health worker, grandpa spent the best chunk of his life dealing with all manner of mentally ill people and their families and getting his insight and experience on how things tend to be is invaluable <.<

Even if some of the ideals/theories from back in his day are considered politically incorrect nowadays, for example schizophrenogenic mothers (Mothers who cause the onset of schizophrenia in their children through their 'parenting' ) which tends to upset the more sensible definition folks today so they use 'parent' so as to avoid attributing blame to the mother. (Because mothers can never, ever be responsible for mental illness in their children. Totes.) But when it comes right down to it, I'd be inclined to take the thoughts of someone who has worked in the field longer than some of these people have been alive to heart and not just foofoo around the matter. Of course old fashioned doesn't necessarily mean outdated and dinosaur, he had to refrain from spitting on the floor when discussing Nurse Ratcheds that he encountered during his career and the awful way they used to treat inpatients clearly still pissed him off <.<

So that's the end of the blogpost part, now for the questions etc
How have you been spending your easter holidays?
Anyone else enjoy taking a quiet break to read and do light study? >.>

it's easter? oh

Yup, time to celebrate the day that baby jesus hatched out of a chocolate egg and was given a cuddly rabbit toy by the three wise men.

im unfamiliar with "Nurse Ratcheds".
Easter has been good. currently flipping my sleep cycle so i can interact with family on normal time.
in the mean time i finally wiki'd Warhammer 40k to see what all the fuss was about. started and caught up on World Trigger, which i enjoyed surprisingly. adding music to my playlists.
i dont have much for the PS4 and im not willing to torture myself with Destiny until the next DLC. so its been a Netflix machine
T-T

Nurse Ratched is the head nurse in one flew over the cuckoo's nest <.<
If you haven't seen the film/read the book the short summary of 'evil twisted old bat who spends her days tormenting the frailminded' should suffice >.>
In more real terms, my grandpa was referring to controlling and cruel nurses who don't explicitly mistreat their patients but still make their lives a living hell. People who ought to be inpatients rather than staff >.>

Heh sounds fun >.>
Anything in particular you have been watching on netflix?

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on April 04, 2015, 12:50:06 PM

Quote from: Comet on April 04, 2015, 12:05:57 PM

im unfamiliar with "Nurse Ratcheds".
Easter has been good. currently flipping my sleep cycle so i can interact with family on normal time.
in the mean time i finally wiki'd Warhammer 40k to see what all the fuss was about. started and caught up on World Trigger, which i enjoyed surprisingly. adding music to my playlists.
i dont have much for the PS4 and im not willing to torture myself with Destiny until the next DLC. so its been a Netflix machine
T-T

Nurse Ratched is the head nurse in one flew over the cuckoo's nest <.<
If you haven't seen the film/read the book the short summary of 'evil twisted old bat who spends her days tormenting the frailminded' should suffice >.>
In more real terms, my grandpa was referring to controlling and cruel nurses who don't explicitly mistreat their patients but still make their lives a living hell. People who ought to be inpatients rather than staff >.>

Heh sounds fun >.>
Anything in particular you have been watching on netflix?

oh. what a cunt, then.

uh. TURN, Supernatural, Robin Hood, The Office, an assortment of kung fu movies. a couple korean tv shows that i never finish because they're terrible.

Indeed <.<

Nice, any of the kung fu movies John Woo films? >.>
And I haven't heard of TURN, what's that about?

For the last few days I've felt as though I could sleep forever. I'm going to have a big long sleep of at least fifteen hours when I hit the hay. It needs to happen.

Hmm, length of sleep and quality of sleep are not necessarily the same thing <.<

You could try using this thingummyjig http://sleepyti.me/ to calculate your sleeping hours to feel more refreshed when you wake up.

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on April 04, 2015, 01:03:16 PM

Quote from: Elegiac on April 04, 2015, 12:57:18 PM

For the last few days I've felt as though I could sleep forever. I'm going to have a big long sleep of at least fifteen hours when I hit the hay. It needs to happen.

Hmm, length of sleep and quality of sleep are not necessarily the same thing <.<

You could try using this thingummyjig http://sleepyti.me/ to calculate your sleeping hours to feel more refreshed when you wake up.

What's the rationale behind that gizmo

It runs off the idea of sleep cycles, a length of about an hour and a half, where you go through 5 stages of sleep. So deep sleep, REM sleep etc. I can't really remember them all off the top of my head but the point being that completing a full cycle of sleep leaves you feeling more refreshed than an interrupted cycle. So by timing your sleep to X number of cycles rather than X number of hours you can arise in a better state <.<

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on April 04, 2015, 01:01:58 PM

Quote from: Comet on April 04, 2015, 12:54:26 PM

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on April 04, 2015, 12:50:06 PM

Quote from: Comet on April 04, 2015, 12:05:57 PM

im unfamiliar with "Nurse Ratcheds".
Easter has been good. currently flipping my sleep cycle so i can interact with family on normal time.
in the mean time i finally wiki'd Warhammer 40k to see what all the fuss was about. started and caught up on World Trigger, which i enjoyed surprisingly. adding music to my playlists.
i dont have much for the PS4 and im not willing to torture myself with Destiny until the next DLC. so its been a Netflix machine
T-T

Nurse Ratched is the head nurse in one flew over the cuckoo's nest <.<
If you haven't seen the film/read the book the short summary of 'evil twisted old bat who spends her days tormenting the frailminded' should suffice >.>
In more real terms, my grandpa was referring to controlling and cruel nurses who don't explicitly mistreat their patients but still make their lives a living hell. People who ought to be inpatients rather than staff >.>

Heh sounds fun >.>
Anything in particular you have been watching on netflix?

oh. what a cunt, then.

uh. TURN, Supernatural, Robin Hood, The Office, an assortment of kung fu movies. a couple korean tv shows that i never finish because they're terrible.

Indeed <.<

Nice, any of the kung fu movies John Woo films? >.>
And I haven't heard of TURN, what's that about?

yes, actually Red Cliff which i finished... earlier this morning, or last night.
TURN is about 'Murica kickin British ass in the revolution, ofcourse.
USA USA!

Spoiler

British loyalist turns spy for the rebels. its kinda dull so i dont think ill continue. much like Red Road.

Ahh yeah, I'd heard about that one.
A bit too clappy for my tastes I think >.>

Now if there was one about the brave and loyal benedict arnold who chose loyalty over rebellion, I'd be all over that.