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Day Thirty Nine
February 10, 2011
A-Z through the DSM IVr
C: Conduct Disorder
Conduct disorder is a psychiatric category marked by a pattern of repetitive behavior wherein the rights of others or social norms are violated. Symptoms include verbal and physical aggression, cruel behavior toward people and pets, destructive behavior, lying, truancy, vandalism, and stealing. Conduct disorder is a major public health problem because youth with conduct disorder not only inflict serious physical and psychological harm on others, but they are at greatly increased risk for incarceration, injury, depression, substance abuse, and death by homicide and suicide. The syndrome is not a single medical entity but encompasses various forms of "major misbehaviour". After the age of 18, a conduct disorder may develop into antisocial personality disorder, which is related to psychopathy. Depressive conduct disorder is a combination of Conduct disorder with persistent and marked depression of mood with symptoms such as loss of interest, hopelessness, disturbances in sleep patterns and altered appetite
Conduct disorder is closely linked to psychopathy, a personality disorder characterized by an abnormal lack of empathy combined with strongly amoral conduct but masked by an ability to appear outwardly normal. Some scholars have proposed that lack of empathy and empathic concern (callous disregard for the welfare of others) is an important risk factor for conduct disorder.
When youth with aggressive conduct disorder watch an individual intentionally hurting another (like closing a piano lid), regions of the brain that process painful information are activated, as are the amygdala and ventral striatum (part of the neural circuit involved in reward processing (Decety, Michalska, Akitsuki & Lahey, 2009). Developmental psychologists and social neuroscientists have hypothesized that empathy and sympathetic concern for others are essential factors inhibiting aggression toward others.
The propensity for aggressive behavior has been hypothesized to reflect a blunted empathic response to the suffering of others. Such lack of empathy in aggressive individuals may be a consequence of failure to be aroused by the distress of others. Similarly, it has been suggested that aggressive behavior arises from abnormal processing of affective information, resulting in a deficiency in experiencing fear, empathy, and guilt, which in normally developing individuals inhibits the acting out of violent impulses.
So I have to admit I felt kinda bad about tying a scarf around my poor teddy bears necks and hanging them on the wall but it was for the sake of art...only this time I personally didn't have to suffer lol my poor stuffed animals did :(
Again, not what I originally planned but it works and I actually like it better. Though I kinda scare myself in this picture...it's surreal seeing yourself glaring and holding a huge knife lol
I've also found myself in a DOF phase...I dunno, I'm really attracted to dof and their artistic capabilities :) so you'll be seeing a lot of dof play in this project for sure
I'm hoping tomorrow or Saturday I'll do two or three pics so I can get back on schedule. It's just too late tonight and I have to shower and finish an email I was writing to this woman I know whose looking into buying a nice point and shoot camera and comparing different cameras she asked me about and trying to explain different components and what they mean. It makes me feel kinda smart and useful :) I also just got back from going to the gym with Danita...it was a good work out and some nice bonding time
Only bad news is my difficulty getting to CA at this time...last night I found out that Sacramento State University was no longer accepting applications for Fall 2011...I had to have applied by November 30, 2010...I know, it's ridiculous. There's this other college in Folsom with a branch where Garry lives now that looks nice but there's no on campus housing...so in order for that to work I'd have to get an apartment with Garry and go to school there..and even then, I dunno if they accept transfer students outside of certain community colleges in the area...you'd think there'd be more options in fricken Sacramento but there's really not...it's mostly graduate universities :( so i dunno...I might just have to take online classes for a semester and apply to Sac State for Spring 2012...but this is all assuming Garry and I can get an apartment by August...all i know is I don't wanna be here in Aurora much longer....so yeah, I had a mini break down last night and am feeling like hope is gradually fading....I just don't understand why it's so fricken hard for me to get the things I want out of life...why does it come so fricken easy for everyone else?
Anyway....end rant.
Today's meme:
Day 27 - A picture of yourself and a family member.
Day Thirty Nine
February 10, 2011
A-Z through the DSM IVr
C: Conduct Disorder
Conduct disorder is a psychiatric category marked by a pattern of repetitive behavior wherein the rights of others or social norms are violated. Symptoms include verbal and physical aggression, cruel behavior toward people and pets, destructive behavior, lying, truancy, vandalism, and stealing. Conduct disorder is a major public health problem because youth with conduct disorder not only inflict serious physical and psychological harm on others, but they are at greatly increased risk for incarceration, injury, depression, substance abuse, and death by homicide and suicide. The syndrome is not a single medical entity but encompasses various forms of "major misbehaviour". After the age of 18, a conduct disorder may develop into antisocial personality disorder, which is related to psychopathy. Depressive conduct disorder is a combination of Conduct disorder with persistent and marked depression of mood with symptoms such as loss of interest, hopelessness, disturbances in sleep patterns and altered appetite
Conduct disorder is closely linked to psychopathy, a personality disorder characterized by an abnormal lack of empathy combined with strongly amoral conduct but masked by an ability to appear outwardly normal. Some scholars have proposed that lack of empathy and empathic concern (callous disregard for the welfare of others) is an important risk factor for conduct disorder.
When youth with aggressive conduct disorder watch an individual intentionally hurting another (like closing a piano lid), regions of the brain that process painful information are activated, as are the amygdala and ventral striatum (part of the neural circuit involved in reward processing (Decety, Michalska, Akitsuki & Lahey, 2009). Developmental psychologists and social neuroscientists have hypothesized that empathy and sympathetic concern for others are essential factors inhibiting aggression toward others.
The propensity for aggressive behavior has been hypothesized to reflect a blunted empathic response to the suffering of others. Such lack of empathy in aggressive individuals may be a consequence of failure to be aroused by the distress of others. Similarly, it has been suggested that aggressive behavior arises from abnormal processing of affective information, resulting in a deficiency in experiencing fear, empathy, and guilt, which in normally developing individuals inhibits the acting out of violent impulses.
So I have to admit I felt kinda bad about tying a scarf around my poor teddy bears necks and hanging them on the wall but it was for the sake of art...only this time I personally didn't have to suffer lol my poor stuffed animals did :(
Again, not what I originally planned but it works and I actually like it better. Though I kinda scare myself in this picture...it's surreal seeing yourself glaring and holding a huge knife lol
I've also found myself in a DOF phase...I dunno, I'm really attracted to dof and their artistic capabilities :) so you'll be seeing a lot of dof play in this project for sure
I'm hoping tomorrow or Saturday I'll do two or three pics so I can get back on schedule. It's just too late tonight and I have to shower and finish an email I was writing to this woman I know whose looking into buying a nice point and shoot camera and comparing different cameras she asked me about and trying to explain different components and what they mean. It makes me feel kinda smart and useful :) I also just got back from going to the gym with Danita...it was a good work out and some nice bonding time
Only bad news is my difficulty getting to CA at this time...last night I found out that Sacramento State University was no longer accepting applications for Fall 2011...I had to have applied by November 30, 2010...I know, it's ridiculous. There's this other college in Folsom with a branch where Garry lives now that looks nice but there's no on campus housing...so in order for that to work I'd have to get an apartment with Garry and go to school there..and even then, I dunno if they accept transfer students outside of certain community colleges in the area...you'd think there'd be more options in fricken Sacramento but there's really not...it's mostly graduate universities :( so i dunno...I might just have to take online classes for a semester and apply to Sac State for Spring 2012...but this is all assuming Garry and I can get an apartment by August...all i know is I don't wanna be here in Aurora much longer....so yeah, I had a mini break down last night and am feeling like hope is gradually fading....I just don't understand why it's so fricken hard for me to get the things I want out of life...why does it come so fricken easy for everyone else?
Anyway....end rant.
Today's meme:
Day 27 - A picture of yourself and a family member.