Can you explain to me the sypathetic and parasympathetic divisons?
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The nervous system is divided into the central nervous system (which is the brain and spinal cord), and the peripheral nervous system. \n\nThe peripheral nervous system is everything outside the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). This peripheral nervous system is divided into the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system. \n\nThe somatic nervous system controls your voluntary behavior (skeletal muscle), and the autonomic nervous system controls the internal organs (involuntary behavior such as smooth muscle contractions). The autonomic nervous system is further divided into the sympathetic division and the parasympathetic division. The actions of both of these divisions is antagonistic to each other, but they work together.\n\nLet's say you are in the woods and you see a bear coming after you. The sympathetic system increases your heart rate, epinephrine is secreted, constricts blood vessels to organs such as that are involved in the digestive process so that more blood goes to your muscles, dilates your pupils, widen bronchial passages, etc. The parasympathetic system does the opposite. If you are laying down on a couch after a meal, your parasympathetic system is in charge. Your heart rate will decrease (no point in increasing it since there is no major physical activity), more blood going to your digestive organs, pupils are not as dilated, etc. The parasympathetic system is the "rest and digest" system.
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Sadism and Masochism\nPleasure from inflicting pain and pleasure from pain
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It's difficult for me to seperate feelings when dealing with my life and problems. But I try my best to take advice and see for myself which is the best solution or action.\nI try to be as intellectual as possible. Sometimes, it gets hard though. :)
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Hope u will get the idea through this flow diagram.\n\nstimulus-> receptors-> sensory nerves (impulses)-> control center (brain or/and spinal cord)-> motor nerve (impusles)->response (muscle contraction).
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your phychy is your physical self your whole being.  Horror is the worse thing possible could happen to you, your worse fear.  So whenyou pick out apsychic horror film, they want you to feel real uncom,fortabled and disturbed throughout the whole film.  unless its b rated
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I spent like 3 months in grmany for doing an internship , i was feeling the same thing that you may be feeling . Kind of Lonely/depressed/confused.Discombobulated is the word if i may say. Actually this decision is for you to make.Are there other people from your country there ? Do you really like them ? do some introspection.Remember ,your mental health is more important than economic well being. Because ,if you do not ,things may go out of hand too.For me , I just cut short my trip & came back.
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You can approach this from multiple aspects:\nThe light and dark as associated with the two locations.\nThe notions of civility and barbarism, and whether what is seemingly  civilized is in actuality barbaric.\n\nThese are some places to start.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_breakdown
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Anxiety, Trauma, Fear, Chaos, Madness, Disorder
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I have some stuff to say on this: In a closed system some kinds of macro level insanity!  I was in mexican prison for a tad over two years for the offense of 'narcotraficante."  I studied the psychological components of the prisoner population.  A mini society of about 1500 males and 150 females.  Tensions of their particular blends of indidual frustration and impulsive too-long repressed anger fed into some people dying on several ocassions and this was studied from simple gangs killing one of each other's side over some trivial matter.  And another killing for one prisoner having been acused of a misdeed.  Ever more prisoners arriving and the crowding numbers reach for 1800 and on a calm warm day a clinic' drugged prisoner is shot dead between the fifteen-feet high brick wall and its paraelle twelve-foot chain-link fence.  Prisoners began to amass proximal the murder scene and within about twenty to thirty minutes the frustration and anger built to a crensendo.  A gun-tower guard had to be killed for sake of ballance and one was killed, in a most agonizing manner plus other injuries.  There's more on the gore but I'll spare you that data.  Americans know that they suffer immense frustrations with seemingly all implosive data pointing to how fu(ked we are and how we have apathy sublime.  The pot is a ways past warming and we have seen little pockets of social disorder in here and there in various city' riots.  We know that our society is gonna have to cycle a biggy one more time and when it does visit us it will but take the needed spark.  I'm sad we have let our society slip so far into our dung.  Our social-metality is producing few persons of reason.  History is ladden with examoles of these phenomena operant on macro levels.\nTreating the causes and less the symptoms could conceiveably place us into The Age of Reason and oh how a day we'd have.\nIt is taught that if you cannot learn from history then you are bound to repeat it.  After the adrenalin rushes are over, oh so spent and comfy.  The people having had enough blood letting we'd rather the dung would settle but it's all yet there.  It was diagnosed and treated and the causes but build back and entropy is operant once again.  What's the next ditty?
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crtical thinking [reasoning n judgement]\nlymbic system control [control of adrenaline etc.]\nimpulse control\nmemory \nplanning\n\nhope this helped!
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Don't know where Indy T got his information, but in Modern Psychiatry Psychopathy is usually diagnosed according to Robert D. Hare's Psychopathy Checklist:  Intraspecies predators who use charm, manipulation, intimidation, and violence to control others and satisfy their own needs, lacking in conscience and feelings for others, they violate social norms and expectations without the slightest sense of guilt or regret.  The mother of my daughter was such a person, she ran off with another man when our daughter was 5 months old and left her behind.  Then she tried to get our daughter back so I would have to give her money, she even offered to let me keep custody as long as the money came in.  She took me to court and I won, I ended up with a daughter any father could be proud of.  That is how this one person dealt with it.
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There's no connection.  I have some fairly serious psychological problems, mainly depression, and some anxiety and panic attacks, but at work, where you have no choice but to get on with it, I function perfectly normally, and apart from the odd occasion, no-one at work would have any idea!
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http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/anxiety/index.asp
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It's a tough concept to grasp. Here are some good explainations:\n\n\nhttp://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/oct98/909712896.Ph.r.html\nhttp://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar97/859247407.Ev.r.html\nhttp://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/nov99/942797163.Gb.r.html
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I did not take this specific course in college however I have studied it extensively since I have been practicing. I honestly believe it supplies more answers than many of the theorist were able to provide.  It of course is used in conjunction with theories in practice but there is honestly an area you miss out if you don't cover it.  Try reading Molecules of Emotion, I can't think of the author, she writes in a way that is very down to earth and yet really explores the impact of emotion on neurochemistry.  From their it is easier to expand into the concepts of behavior.
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http://www.parapsych.org/faq_file1.html\n\nThis site may be able to help!