I'll just focus on the mental health aspect because broader psychology is a far less clear science.

So the science behind Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a demonstrable biological problem, brought about by variable factors. It could be genetics, life events, trauma or anything but even those 'psychological' events and factors hold a significant biological role through things like Neurotransmitters.

The symptoms do vary, but to expect a patient to display 100% of the symptoms 100% of the time is as flawed as expecting someone with a common cold to always have a sore throat. Some do, some don't, it depends on the situation.

Look at it like a broken leg, you can break it by jumping off a building or being run over. It's still a broken leg and the way in which you fix it might vary somewhat depending on the fracture but you still set the bone and sort it out. Similar approach with Depression, figure out the best way to treat it and go with that. Usually talking therapies combined with anti-depressants has the best chance of successful treatment.

It isn't an exact science, because it's in it's infancy. And because it deals with incredibly complex living things in a less than tangible form >_>
You aren't able to *see* the broken bone in their mind, you have to work out where it is and how to fix it through talking to the patient <.<


More broadly, medical psychology is in it's relative infancy. I'd say it's something like early teens.
If you remember how hamfisted and god-awful physical medicine used to be, and how precise/3spoopy5me it can be now, that's the rough parallel I'd draw.

As we get better at profiling people, mapping brains and understanding what makes people tick - I expect to see some pretty drastic improvements in the scientific precision of mental healthcare <.<
Final loose point, when dealing with meatbags things will never be straightforwards. Which is why the rainmen go to the physics labs and the lunatics go to the psych labs >_>

Spoiler

They have a another brother trapped in Hell.
Bobby dies.

I don't care for the show, but if that was actually spoilers I'm gonna break your fingers with a mallet <_________<

But srsly, I'd just lose.

I might not be as frail as I was, buuut I'm hardly what you would call tough. Then again, I don't have any qualms about biting out throats and gouging out eyes e.e
Bring it flood, I'll see if I can quack any of you before I go down!

Something to the effect of putting more effort into my studies.

Trouble is, it's all such low level dreary work that I did two/three years ago that I get bored and cut corners. So I bought myself a big old advanced clinical psychology textbook so I can have something interesting to study instead of something tiresomely inane.

Oh and to ban more ppls.

Too fuckin' soon is what.

(Few days IIRC)

RIP in pieces OP

As long as you don't actually turn into a weaboo, you'll be fine. And I haven't ever actually seen a genuine weeb outside of the youtube comments section >________>

Thankfully.

With your threads, it's like Russian Roulette.

It's down to luck whether it's trolling/shitposting or - like now - a good thread .-.

Hopefully this comes out making some sense but it's late and I'm tired etc.

It is a disorder, but only relative to statistical normality in other humans. Disorder doesn't imply mental illness though, even though it can be construed that way. The treatment is fairly simple though, figure out what's best for the patient and if they need surgery/HRT to get their mind in balance again then that's how you do it.

Sure the body is important, but imo the mind is what really counts for what makes a human a human.

It is great to see you here

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Quote from: -Foxy- on December 26, 2014, 06:32:42 PM

The joke would be funnier if you could actually get a girlfriend.

Spoiler

That just stole this thread XD

But he had one.

She was giving him head and he pretended she was his daughter. Remember? Remember guys?

I try to repress things like that from my memory.
For once I had succeeded.
Thanks, friend.

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Do you want them to bring in Certain Affinity and Ruffian Games to work on updates too then?

Well, they practically made the games, so eh.

343i stitched them together and created the experience. You really think outsourcing the updates to them is going to get the game fixed any sooner?

It worked with Battlefield 4 IIRC.

DICE Sweden handed over to DICE LA, who promptly set about fixing the damn game and they did an excellent job of it. So it can work, which doesn't mean that it would work to hand it over to other companies though.

but the catch is; BF4 is still broken as fuck and its a shiny copy and pasta BF3.

I'd say it's like 25-30% broken, compared to 70% at launch.

As for being copypasta, yeaaah that's fair enough >_>

Quote from: Assassin 11D7 on December 25, 2014, 09:41:21 PM

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on December 25, 2014, 09:24:37 PM

Do you want them to bring in Certain Affinity and Ruffian Games to work on updates too then?

Well, they practically made the games, so eh.

343i stitched them together and created the experience. You really think outsourcing the updates to them is going to get the game fixed any sooner?

It worked with Battlefield 4 IIRC.

DICE Sweden handed over to DICE LA, who promptly set about fixing the damn game and they did an excellent job of it. So it can work, which doesn't mean that it would work to hand it over to other companies though.

I named my mudkip in Omega Ruby "Full Circle"

I'm gonna attempt to use pokebank so I can trade my original swampart from Ruby to this new remake. He's gone through so many games to get here...the nostalgia is real.

I've got quite a few old friends from Emerald with me, but Leaf Green in particular. So many happy memories and seeing them all again in their full 3d glory instead of just a little sprite made me so happy >.>

Some of you may have noticed that the serious board isn't being kept as... clean... as it normally would be. Chalk that one up to the mods being busy with christmas stuff and family/IRL fun. When things get back to normal, there will be a bit more stringent housekeeping.

This isn't a license to shitpost, it just means that a lot of the 'is this meant to be in serious'/borderline threads aren't given the effort of decision making >_>

I was bracing myself for something like 'I killed a hobo whilst drink-driving' but no... this is worse.

You sick bastard ;_;