Bitterness: The Next Mental Disorder? (Extra Credit 1)

By Christopher Lane, Ph.D.

This article talks about how the American Psychaitric Association having floated the idea of
"Apathy Disorder" to see how many fish they could catch. And just to see if it would catch on. This organization has generated large amounts of publicity this week. Now their newest idea is whether or not Bitterness should worm its way into the mental disorder category.

Bitterness is "so common and so deeply destructive," writes Shari Roan at the Los Angeles Times, "that some psychiatrists are urging it be identified as a mental illness under the name post-traumatic embitterment disorder."

I would have to agree with Christopher Lane on this one, because for the rest of this article he pokes fun at the whole idea of having Bitterness jump in with all the other actually Mental Disorders. It would just be another excuse for people to jump on the disorder band wagon. It's and awful idea for them to import random ideas and pawn them off as disorders.

An hour a day makes you more aggressive apparently

According to a 17-year study, adolecents that watch more than an hour a day makes them more likely to commit violent acts as adults. Yes, 17-years of this. What I don't quite understand is how more than 1 hour can really affect someone so deeply. Unless they were straped to a chair and droned to their very core could an hour-and a half of television make for a monsterous adult.
How does this make any sense at all? Sure they can hurl their numbers and their statistics and their percentages at you but what does it all mean? Also what are they trying to gain by telling people that letting your children watch more than an hour a day will lead them down a path of violence? This adolecents aren't sitting around watching slasher films all day, teenagers and children just want to sit down and watch tv. This whole study just seems to me to be anothing thing they're trying to convince parents to put a stricter hold on their children.

Nokomis: Help or Hurt?

My strengths are not very defined to me. Lucky for me our school has the blessed "Career Pathways" program (Gags self). This program tries to draw out the strengths and weaknesses for its unexpecting prey. However taking that multiple intelligence test in Psychology and comparing it to test taken in the past in the beginning of my high school career. It seems to me that my intelligences have actually improved.
So how then could I say that the msad48 district has not helped me in someway to improve my intelligence? In the beginning of this high school experience I was a shy person with an interest in music. (So said my intelligence test) Now, I'm more of an outgoing person and have been able to take advantage of the opportunities the school can provide. However I don't think the school academics is really the thing you should say was the reason for multiple intelligence improvement. It's more of the environments the school makes rather than academics in classes.