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Is pulling out eye lashes part of a mental disorder?

i cut myself and i pull out my eye lashs is that a mental disorder?

Is this hard to understand, or do you have a reason...?

Other than personal preference to ignore this? Question: Is there an argument for the existence of God? Answer: The question of whether there is a conclusive argument for the existence of God has been debated down through history, with exceedingly intelligent people taking both sides of the dispute. In recent times, arguments against the possibility of God’s existence have taken on a militant spirit that accuses anyone daring to believe in God as being delusional and irrational. Karl Marx asserted that anyone believing in God must have a mental disorder that caused invalid thinking. The psychiatrist Sigmund Freud wrote that a person who believed in a Creator God was delusional and only held their beliefs due to a ‘wish fulfillment’ factor that produced what Freud considered to be their unjustifiable position. The philosopher Frederick Nietzsche bluntly said that faith equates to not wanting to know what is true. The voices of these three figures from history (along with others) are simply now parroted by a new generation of atheists who claim that a belief in God is intellectually unwarranted. Is this truly the case? Is belief in God a rationally unacceptable position to hold? Is there a logical and reasonable argument for the existence of God? Outside of referencing the Bible, can a case for the existence of God be made that refutes the positions of both the old and new atheists and gives sufficient warrant for believing in a Creator? The answer is yes it can. Moreover, in demonstrating the validity of an argument for the existence of God, the case for atheism is shown to be intellectually weak. To make an argument for the existence of God, we must start by asking the right questions. And where to begin is with the most basic metaphysical question: “Why do we have something rather than nothing at all?” This is the basic question of existence—why are we here; why is the earth here; why is the universe here rather than nothing? Commenting on this point, one theologian has said, “In one sense man does not ask the question about God, his very existence raises the question about God.” In considering this question, there are four possible answers to why we have something rather than nothing at all: 1. Reality is an illusion. 2. Reality is/was self-created. 3. Reality is self-existent (eternal). 4. Reality was created by something that is self-existent. So, which is the most plausible solution? Let’s being with reality being simply an illusion, which is what a number of eastern religions believe. This option was ruled out centuries ago by the philosopher Rene Descartes who is famous for the statement, “I think, therefore I am.” Descartes, a mathematician, argued that if he is thinking then he must ‘be.’ In other words, “I think, therefore I am not an illusion.” Illusions require something experiencing the illusion, and moreover, you cannot doubt the existence of yourself without proving your existence; it is a self-defeating argument. So the possibility of reality being an Illusion is eliminated. Next is the option of reality being self-created. When you study philosophy, you learn that there are things called ‘analytically false’ statements, which means they are false by definition. The possibility of reality being self-created is one of those types of statements for the simple reason that something cannot be prior to itself. If you created yourself, then you must have existed prior to you creating yourself, but that simply cannot be. In evolution this is sometimes referred to as ‘spontaneous generation’—something coming from nothing—a position that few, if any, reasonable people hold to anymore simply because you cannot get something from nothing. Even the atheist David Hume said, “I never asserted so absurd a proposition as that anything might arise without a cause.” This being the case, the alternative of reality being self-created is ruled out. Now we are left with only two choices—an eternal reality or reality being created by something that is eternal: an eternal universe or an eternal Creator. The 18th century theologian Jonathan Edwards summed up the crossroads we have now come to this way: • Something exists. • Nothing cannot create something. • Therefore, a necessary and eternal ‘something’ exists. Notice that you must go back to an eternal ‘something.’ The atheist who derides the believer in God for believing in an eternal Creator must turn around and embrace an eternal universe; it is the only other door they can choose. But the question now is: where does the evidence lead? Does the evidence point to matter before mind or Mind before matter? To date, all key scientific and philosophical evidence points away from an eternal universe and toward an eternal Creator. From a scientific standpoint, honest scientists admit the universe had a beginning, and whatever has a beginning is not eternal. In other words, whatever has a beginning has a cause, and if th

I need help defining these psychology terms?

262. social loafing 263. social trap 264. somatoform disorders: major kinds 265. sematosensory cortex: location and used for what sense 266. stages of learning (acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, etc.) 267. standard deviation 268. Stanley Milgram’s experiment with obedience 269. Stanley Schachter’s Two Factor Theory 270. stereotype 271. stimulus generalization 272. stranger anxiety 273. systematic desensitization: a.k.a. a kind of counter conditioning 274. Tay-Sachs disease 275. testable hypothesis 276. thalamus (& what sense doesn’t get routed through here) 277. Thorndike Law of Effect 278. thyroid gland 279. token economy 280. Tourette’s Syndrome 281. tragedy of the commons 282. transduction 283. Turner’s syndrome (X with missing chromosome) 284. validity: different kinds 285. vestibular sense 286. visual cliff 287. water balance (role of hypothalamus) 288. Weber’s law 289. Wernick’s aphasia (receptive) located in left temporal lobe 290. Wilder Penfield’s research on the brain 291. Wilhelm Wundt (structuralism) 292. William James (functionalism) 293.Yerkes/Dodson Arousal Law 294. Zajonc’s “Mere Expose Effect” 295. Zimbardo’s prison experiment 296. androgyny 297. catharsis 298. haptic memory 299. syllogism 300.expectency theory (a.k.a. mental set) 301. algorithm vs. heurustic 302. positive and negative symptoms (in mental disorders) 303. two kinds of deafness: conductive and nerve 304. intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation 305. divergent vs. convergent thinking 306. Flynn effect 307. tip-of-the-tongue effect 308. primary vs. secondary reinforcers 309. Cooper’s research on visual processing (using cats) 310. agonist vs. antagonist chemicals

What should I put on an occupational health questionnaire?

I have just been informally offered a job and will need to fill out an occupational health questionnaire. I have a history of mental illness and have been off work for the past year (although on my CV I said to care for a family member). I was initially diagnosed with bipolar disorder but have subsequently been told I don't have it. However, I have definitely been depressed and do suffer from bad anxiety. I want to say 'NO' to all questions on the health form, however, I am worried that they might for some reason check and if they do I will be found out and lose my job which I desperately need to get my life back on track. If I say 'YES' to questions regarding my mental health, even if I say just depression and anxiety, will this mean they won't give me the job? Can someone withdraw an offer of employment if I have depression and anxiety? I am really not sure what to do. Can anyone advise me?

curious about a mental diagnosis (need professional advice if possible)?

Ok if someone was afraid they might go to hell after they died what diagnosis does this sound like? I was thinking OCD (obcessive compulsive disorder) but could it be something else? What med could treat this? Answers from professionals only please if possible