Parkinsonism is a disease that occurs when a person has symptoms and brain dysfunction commonly associated with Parkinson’s disease but also has other symptoms.A person with Parkinsonism will usually have another disorder causing additional neurological symptoms.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Parkinson's disease - Dysfunction and cell death of the portion of the brain that produces dopamine. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Dopamine - Neurotransmitter that transmits signals between brain and nerve. It is partially responsible for making controlled movements in the body.</li></ul>

Parkinsonism: Introduction

A person with Parkinsonism usually starts developing symptoms at anywhere from <a href="http://www.utswmedicine.org/brain-spine/programs/parkinsonism/">50 to 80</a> years.<ul><li>difficulty showing facial expressions</li><li>muscle stiffness</li><li>slowed, affected movements</li><li>speech changes</li><li>tremor, especially of one hand</li></ul>* A person with Parkinsonism may have some, but not all of the above. Since they also have an additional disorder that affects the brain’s functioning.* For example, people with Parkinsonism often do not have the hand tremors that affect many people with Parkinson’s disease.

Parkinsonism: Symptoms

<ul><li>dementia.</li><li>issues with the autonomic nervous system, such as problems with controlled movements or spasms.</li><li>early problems in maintaining balance.</li><li>rapid onset and progression of symptoms.</li></ul>

Parkinsonism: Other Symptoms

<ol><li>Can be caused by Parkinson’s disease</li><li>Other-</li></ol><ul><li>Corticobasal degeneration :Causes dementia & affected movements,on one side. No controlled muscle movement</li><li>Dementia with Lewy bodies :Causes poor alertness,visual hallucinations</li><li>Multiple system atrophy :Affects coordination & autonomic dysfunction(bowel-bladder incontinence)</li><li>Progressive supranuclear palsy :Causes dementia, frequent backward fall</li></ul>3. Vascular Parkinsonism causes multiple, small strokes<a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/7624.php"> </a>affecting person’s balance &memory4. Drug-induced Parkinsonism by Aripiprazole/Abilify, Haloperidol/Haldol & metoclopramide/Reglan

Parkinsonism: Causes

Being a medical field student, I feel it's necessary to make people aware of various problems.

Parkinsonism is a condition that causes some symptoms of Parkinson’s disease alongside those of another disorder. We also look at diagnosis and treatment.

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Parkinsonism: Symptoms, treatment, and diagnosis

<ul><li>Talkative girls and silent boys make the best couples.</li><li>Being loved back by a person you love exactly feels like having butterflies in the stomach.</li><li>Most of the time boys make the first move. But, if a girl does it then, believe me, no one can love you more than that girl.</li><li>Men love faster than Women.</li><li>Seeing a loved one automatically can raise your heart beat faster.</li><li>Most of the people can't make eye contact with their crush.</li></ul>

Some psychological facts about love are: 

<ul><li>Some people can't bear the loss of beloved ones and eventually die after a few months and years due to mental or physical illness.</li><li>The more you ignore the one you like the more you will fall for them.</li><li>Heartbreak after true love is equally painful as physical pain.</li></ul>

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Some psychological facts about love: 

Be intentional at the start of each day Spend the first few hours of each day (mornings) to plan your day. All that is essential to making your day productive should be high on the list of your day's activities.

4 Ways to make the most of your 24 hours 

Don't shoot for doing more, do what matters While planning aim for high productive activities and not just populate your to-do list with a bunch of irrelevant activities. Ensure the best of what would improve your self-esteem and self-improvement.

Create moments of transcendenceTranscendence simply means "extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience". Making each activity an elevated experience, a sacred moment, something special, eliminates the tendency of making that activity feel mundane and dull. This is achievable through practice in your everyday life.

End with a gratitude heart reflection Making it a point to round off your day with a grateful moment of having the opportunity to go through the whole 24 hours achieving all or some of your activities brings a sense of accomplishment and looking forward to repeating it the next day.

Never waste time on irrelevant things and miss the beauty of life, invariably improving the quality of time spent.

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In psychoanalytic theory, ego defenses are unconscious processes that we deploy to diffuse the fear and anxiety that arise when who we think we are or who we think we should be (our conscious ‘superego’) comes into conflict with who we really are (our unconscious ‘id’).There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which one uses them reflect on one's personality. One could go so far as to argue that the self is nothing but the sum of its ego defenses. While people cannot entirely escape from ego defenses, they can gain some insight into how they use them.

Self Deception Or, Ego Defences

Repression can be thought of as "motivated forgetting:" the active but <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/unconscious">unconscious </a>forgetting of unacceptable drives, emotions, ideas, or memories. Unsurprisingly, repression is often confused with denial. Whereas denial relates to external stimuli, repression relates to internal, that is, mental, stimuli. Nonetheless, denial and repression often work together and may be difficult to disentangle.

Repression: Motivated Forgeting

<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/freudian-psychology">Freud </a>thought of repression as the basic ego defense, since it is only when repression is fragile or failing that other ego defenses come into play to reinforce and rescue it. Put differently, repression is an essential component or building block of the other ego defenses. To understand this, let’s look at an example of the ego defense of distortion, which is the reshaping of reality to suit one’s inner needs. A <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/adolescence">teenager </a>who has been dumped by her boyfriend no longer recalls this episode (repression) and instead believes that it is she who dumped him (distortion).

Repression: The Basic Ego Defence

Repressed material, though unconscious, is no less present, and can (and usually does) resurface in disturbing forms. As well as a lack of insight and understanding, the inability to process and come to terms with repressed material is associated with a range of psychological problems such as poor <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/attention">concentration</a>, irritability, <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/anxiety">anxiety</a>, <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/insomnia">insomnia</a>, nightmares, and <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/depression">depression </a>; maladaptive and destructive patterns of behaviour such as anger and <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/anger">aggression </a>in the face of reminders of the repressed material; and any number of superimposed ego defenses.

The Repressed Material Resurfaces - With A Vengeance

"<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/neuroticism">Neurosis </a>” is an old-fashioned term that essentially describes the various forms in which repressed material can resurface (poor concentration, irritability, anxiety, and so on). In Studies on Hysteria (1895), Sigmund Freud and his colleague Josef Breuer first formulated the theory that neuroses have their origins in deeply <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/trauma">traumatic </a>and consequently repressed experiences.

Repression - Trauma - Neurosis

Treatment, argued Freud and Breuerrequires the patient to recall these repressed experiences into consciousness and confront them once and for all, leading to a sudden and dramatic outpouring of emotion ("catharsis") and the attainment of insight. In the course of treatment, the patient is likely to display "resistance" in the form of changing the topic, blanking out, falling asleep, arriving late, or missing appointments. In fact, such behavior merely suggests that he/ she is close to recalling repressed material but, for the moment, still afraid of doing so.

Repression - Catharsis - Insight

The mental operation of suppression is similar to repression but with one crucial difference, namely, the "forgetting" is conscious rather than unconscious. Thus, suppression is the conscious and often rational decision to put an uncomfortable (although not totally unacceptable) stimulus to one side, either to deal with it at a later time or to abandon it altogether on the grounds that it is not worth dealing with. As it is a conscious operation, suppression is not, strictly speaking, a form of self-deception, but rather the conscious analog of repression.

Repression VS Suppression

A couple of friends who are holidaying with a number of other people start arguing and completely lose their tempers. The next day, they put their differences to one side and behave as though nothing had happened so as not to cast a cloud over the group and ruin the holiday. That day, they share some good times and special moments, and by the evening it has become safe enough to bring up the argument and put it behind them. By dealing with their argument like this, they have deepened rather than undermined their <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/friends">friendship </a>.

An Example Of Suppression

We deceive ourselves to protect ourselves, but the fact remains: we deceive ourselves; and, so, we harm ourselves. We can’t do a lot about it, but maybe we can do a little, if we know what it is that we do. A 10-part series.

The second installment in a new 10-part series on ego defenses.

The Psychology of Self-Deception - Ego Defence 2 of 10: Repression

The Kleptomaniac has failure to resist impulses to steal items though the objects are not particularly needed by the Self.He or She cannot resist temptation and quite literally is shown as the ability to lack resistance to engage in taboo behaviours.

The Rationale Of A Kleptomaniac

The individual experiences a rise in tension before the theft. This tension is characterised by restlessness, anxiety, excitement and a general diffuse preparedness to act. It must fulfill a need be it a physical, emotional or intellectual type. It is not “nervous tension” per se.The perpetrator feels pleasure, gratification or relief when theiving. The pleasure a perpetrator feels psychologically reinforces the state of mind as a reward. He or She receives a rush of dopamine, in mind achieving a goal and completing a task, therefore receiving happiness from this.

The Responses Of A Kleptomaniac

Categorically, the theft is not because of anger, vengeance nor Mental Illness.There is not a Psychological statement that relates to Greed, despite many studies. “Accumulating Wealth” can be seen as an OCD. Disregarding the rights of Others whilst doing so can be seen as an Antisocial Personality Disorder, but it is best not to Self-diagnose Others and leave that to a Professional.

Kleptomania Is NOT INSANITY!

Occasionally the perpetrator may hoard the objects, or surreptitiously return them. Some People hoard objects because They are “Stimulation Seekers”, this Person may enjoy loud music, flashing lights, junk food, good times and talking loudly in public. This Person’s House may be cluttered and loudly decorated to achieve maximum stimulation at all times. To deal with putting off a Stimulation Seeker, manipulate the environment with sound and lights whilst things are unguarded.

Stimulation Seekers

Individuals with Kleptomania experience the impulse to steal as repulsive and against Their values. They are aware it is senseless and wrong. The Person frequently fears being caught and often feels guilty or depressed about the behaviour. The disorder may cause legal, family, career and personal difficulties. As We all know, being caught would be publicly embarrassing and usually these People are wealthy, They pick on People or Organisations with less resources than Them.

Fear Of Being Caught Stealing

Being caught could mean Court-time and/or Gaol-time. This can be inconvenient and embarrassing. People with Famous Names still act out as Kleptomaniacs and run the risk. Risk-taking is part of the game, referring to any pattern of social interaction with well defined rules. They are looking for a response from the Person They offend against, as stimulus. The response They seek determines the attempt at manipulation of the Other Person and what They steal from Them. This delves into Dark Psychology which is another topic.

Stimulus For Risk-taking Behaviour Of Stealing

Kleptomania is a rare condition and is more common in females. No cure exists, but treatment with talk therapy, behavioural therapy, systematic desensitisation and medication such as antidepressants may help end the cycle of compulsive stealing.

Commonality And Treatment Of Kleptomania 

This is some information on the mysterious sickness of Kleptomania. I hope You find understanding with it if You are a Kleptomaniac or have One in Your Life.

The Kleptomaniac has failure to resist impulses to steal items though the objects are not particularly needed by the Self. He or She cannot resist temptation and quite literally is shown as the ability to lack resistance to engage in taboo behaviours. The individual experiences a rise in tension before the theft. This tension is…

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The Psychology of Kleptomania

Projection is a psychological term for how we tend to put our own issues onto other people.Often the thing that frustrates us the most about other people is indicative of a part of us we haven't accepted yet.

Work on Your Projections

First, find your projections by making a list of how you judge someone else. Don't sugarcoat or overexplain: "I judge [person] as [judgement]."

Find your projections

Take a deep look at how that judgement applies to you. Say to yourself: "I can see and accept that I can be [judgement] too, and that's okay."

Transfer the judgement to yourself

Set intentions going forward that you will accept this part of yourself but also take steps to make healthier choices that are grounded in self-compassion and respect.

Set new intentions

You Don't Owe Anyone is for perfectionists, workaholics, people pleasers, and strivers who feel stuck in the try-hard cycle. Sharing her experiences as a life coach and recovering perfectionist, Caroline Garnet McGraw shows us how we can free ourselves from the weight of expectations and encourages us to move our lives forward without apology. Inspired by the author's viral essay "You Don't Owe Anyone an Interaction," this book invites us to make surprising choices that can help us get unstuck. Rather than offering more ways to effect change through sheer effort, these personal stories serve as a compassionate witness, a reflection of our own perfectionistic tendencies. They also are a wakeup call jolting us out of our martyr mentality and inspiring us to move in new, positive directions. Through simple, accessible coaching practices, You Don't Owe Anyone shows us what it looks like to refuse to over-function in the old ways. It invites us to make the same surprising choices that have helped McGraw and her clients move past perfectionism, empowering us to quiet our fears and heal our hearts.

You Don't Owe Anyone is for perfectionists, workaholics, people pleasers, and strivers who feel stuck in the try-hard cycle. Sharing her experiences as a life coach and recovering perfectionist, Caroline Garnet McGraw shows us how we can free ourselves from the weight of expectations and encourages us to move our lives forward without apology. Inspired by the author's viral essay &quot;You Don't Owe Anyone an Interaction,&quot; this book invites us to make surprising choices that can help us get unstuck. Rather than offering more ways to effect change through sheer effort, these personal stories serve as a compassionate witness, a reflection of our own perfectionistic tendencies. They also are a wakeup call jolting us out of our martyr mentality and inspiring us to move in new, positive directions. Through simple, accessible coaching practices, You Don't Owe Anyone shows us what it looks like to refuse to over-function in the old ways. It invites us to make the same surprising choices that have helped McGraw and her clients move past perfectionism, empowering us to quiet our fears and heal our hearts.

Caroline Garnet McGraw

You Don't Owe Anyone

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength

Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy

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Denial, probably the most basic of ego defences, is the simple refusal to admit to certain unacceptable or unmanageable aspects of reality, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. An example of denial is a middle-aged physician who ignores the classic signs and symptoms of a heart attack—crushing central chest pain radiating into the left arm, associated with sweating, shortness of breath, and nausea—and casually carries on with his game of golf.

Denial: The Simple (?) Refusal To Admit

In her classic of 1969, On Death and Dying, the psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross introduced a model of <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/grief">bereavement </a>that is commonly referred to as the Five Stages of Grief. This model describes, in five discrete stages, a process by which people react to grief and tragedy, especially terminal illness or catastrophic loss. The five stages are denial, <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/anger">anger</a>, bargaining, <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/depression">depression </a>(or grieving), and acceptance.

“On Death And Dying” Or, The 5 Stages Of Grief

People might move back and forth between the stages, often several times and at great speed, or they might get stuck in one of the earlier stages, failing to come to terms with their loss or fate. The model has been criticized on a number of grounds, but Kübler-Ross did emphasize that not all five stages need occur, or occur in the given order, and that reactions to illness, death, and loss are as diverse as the people experiencing them.

The Model: Criticism And Disclaimer

Sigmund <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/freudian-psychology">Freud </a>first formulated the concept of denial. His daughter Anna thought of it as an immature ego defence, first, because it is especially used in <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/child-development">childhood </a>and <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/adolescence">adolescence</a> and, second, because its continued use into adulthood leads to unhealthy and unhelpful behaviours and a complete failure to engage or come to terms with reality.

Denial: An Immature Ego Defence

It is often difficult to verify the existence of an ego defence, but a person’s denial in the face of hard evidence to the contrary can easily be spotted by almost anyone else. Problems arise in the absence of hard evidence, not only because the denial can no longer be spotted, but also because it can be imagined or invented by others. Indeed, the charge of denial can be levied at anything and everything that a person can say or do that runs contrary to some pet theory about her, such that the pet theory can only ever be supported but never refuted.

Denial: An Easily Spotted Ego Defence, But An Easily Ascribed To

For example, if a patient undergoing <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/psychoanalysis">psychoanalysis </a>is regarded by her analyst as being in denial about her <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/homosexuality">sexual orientation</a>, then both disagreeing with the analyst and having a string of heterosexual relationships can be taken to confirm her supposed homosexuality: “You’re only saying this because you’re in denial … You only did that because you’re in denial.” As a result, the patient cannot possibly prove her heterosexuality to the analyst and might even come to believe that the analyst is correct.

Be Careful Where You Levy The Charge Of Denial

An ego defence closely related to denial is negative hallucination, which is the <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/unconscious">unconscious </a>failure to perceive uncomfortable sensory stimuli, for instance, the failure to see something that should clearly be seen, hear something that should clearly be heard, or feel something—such as crushing chest pain—that should clearly be felt. Thus, a common experience in conversation or in a social setting is for a person to ‘edit out’ a challenging or contradictory remark. The person momentarily goes blank, and then carries on as though nothing significant had been said.

Denial VS Negative Hallucination

The first installment in a 10-part series on ego defences.

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Mindfulness

The Psychology of Self-Deception - Ego Defence 1 of 10: Denial

From when we were young, we learned that helping others is a virtue. But when we entered the business world, we soon discovered that being a helper at the office comes at a cost.  High performers are often drawn away from their own work to help other employees and are asked to carry more weight. It's vital that organisations empower their workers to protect their time and sanity, so their desire to help doesn't cause more harm than good.

Protecting high performers from "collaboration overload"

Collaborative work is the time we spend working with and helping others. This includes email, phone calls and video chats. According to McKinsey, collaboration activities consume 42% of a knowledge worker's time, leaving less time for uninterrupted deeper work. As we spend time on collaborative work, the tasks that require our focused work take longer to complete, causing our workdays to extend into the evening hours. This increase the burnout risk, especially of the helpful.

Collaborative work consumes most of our week

We could blame Zoom and Slack for our difficulty finding time to focus, but the story is more complex. Studies show that 20% - 35% of value-added collaboration comes from 3% - 5% of employees.  Helpful employees build a reputation for being capable and willing and are continually drawn into collaborative efforts and requests, resulting in a lack of performance. Unfortunately, this teamwork often happens under the radar and go unrecognised by management.

A self-inflicted problem

Top performers know that saying "yes" to collaboration requests means saying "no" to other things. <ul><li>Identify the areas where you are best equipped to really add value.</li><li>Boundaries. Be clear with managers and team members about your working hours and stick to them.</li><li>Time blocking. Block off time on your calendar for focused work and resist responding to non-urgent messages during those hours.</li><li>Agenda setting: Ensure you have a clear agenda for every meeting and that you have a hard stop at the end.</li><li>Schedule regular standing meetings and encourage everyone to keep their questions for this time.</li></ul>

How to prevent collaboration overload

You can still be the go-to colleague at work but, at minimum, set up boundaries to stave off  “collaboration overload.” 


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<ul><li>Find the Origins of Anxiety and Procrastination</li><li>Find how Anxiety and Procrastination Work Together</li><li>Find how You Can Get The Best Out Of Yourself</li><li>Recognize Stress and Anxiety and Their Symptoms</li><li>Take Steps to Overcome Anxiety</li></ul>

How To Overcome Anxiety Before It Happens


Stop worrying, getting anxiety is not the end. 

how to Overcome Anxiety Before It Happens Many people with anxiety tend to put off important tasks. Some may not even know they are doing it.

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