Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is the name for a number of mental illnesses. People with Schizophrenia have a different idea of what is real and what is not. This can cause problems with behaviour, thinking, emotions and motivation. There are different forms of Schizophrenia. Most of them are linked to psychosis. People with schizophrenia are often thought to have 'lost touch with reality'.
Psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was the first person to separate schizophrenia from other types of mental illness. He called it 'dementia praecox', and it was later renamed 'schizophrenia'.

three diagnostic criteria must be met:
Characteristic symptoms:
-Delusions
-Hallucinations
-Grossly disorganized behavior just like, dressing inappropriately, crying frequently or catatonic behavior
-Negative symptoms—affective flattening, or lack or decline in emotional response, lack or decline in speech, or lack or decline in motivation
If the delusions are judged to be bizarre, or hallucinations consist of hearing one voice participating in a running commentary of the patient's actions or of hearing two or more voices conversing with each other, only that symptom is required above. The speech disorganization criterion is only met if it is severe enough to substantially impair communication.

-Social/occupational dysfunction: For a significant portion of the time since the onset of the disturbance, one or more major areas of functioning such as work, interpersonal relations, or self-care, are markedly below the level achieved prior to the onset.
Duration: Continuous signs of the disturbance persist for at least six months. This six-month period must include at least one month of symptoms (or less, if symptoms remitted with treatment).

There are drugs that can be given to treat schizophrenia. These drugs cannot cure schizophrenia, but they can control the symptoms. Drugs called anti-psychotics are good for the positive symptoms, but do not seem to help the negative symptoms go away. In fact, some of the drugs for the positive symptoms may make the negative symptoms worse.

Many people with schizophrenia can live good lives. Taking medicine is important to prevent relapses (symptoms coming back). The majority of people recover fully or learn to live a normal life. A small number of people who have schizophrenia will never fully recover

St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Wall of room in Ward Retreat 1. Reproductions made by a patient, a disturbed case of dementia praecox. Pin or fingernail used to scratch paint from wall, top coat of paint buff color, superimposed upon a brick red coat of paint. Pictures symbolize events in patient's past life and represent a mild state of mental regression. Undated, but likely early 20th century.

Louis Wain was an English artist best known for his drawings, anthropomorphised large-eyed cats and kittens. In his later years he suffered from schizophrenia, which according to some psychologist, can be seen in his work

H. G Wells said of him, "He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves."

click this to see his drawings

Megalomania

Megalomania is a psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence or an obsession with a grandiose or extravagant things or actions. Megalomania is commonly understood as a mental behavior characterized by an excessive desire for power and glory and by illusory feelings of omnipotence. The latter can be expressed in the psychopathological form of delusions of grandeur.

Megalomaniac means self-exaltation, and to be crazy for big things. The song is about power crazed people and their destructive behavior.

one of the bad thing that megalomaniac had is: something that they cannot controlled is a threat that they have to destroy . this thing can be happen if his ego is fragile , unconfident, and cannot hiding their phobia.

I posted this thing when i listen to Megalomaniac by Incubus. The video had lots of images of famous megalomaniacs, including Hitler and George Bush. For a while, MTV refused to show it except late at night.

Brandon Boyd: "Lyrically speaking I know that there were a lot of things going on in and around the world and there were some very specific people in my mind coming dangerously close to having megalomaniacal tendencies and so I did my best to write those thoughts down."

Clip. Incubus. Megalomaniac
by lesia

Ambidextrous

Ambidextrous is using both hands with equal ease

Ambidexterity is the state of being equally adept in the use of both right and left appendages (such as the hands). It is one of the most famous varieties of cross-dominance. People that are born ambidextrous are extremely rare. Some people may be able to teach themselves to be ambidextrous, by practicing equally with both hands. People that are made ambidextrous are called Penwald ambidextrous; they can also stop being both-handed.

Michelangelo (1475-1564) was a multi-faceted genius like Leonardo da Vinci. He often painted with both hands. When one got tired, he switched to the other. British artist, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) could draw with both hands simultaneously -- a horse's head with one hand and a stag's head with the other. He taught drawing and etching to Queen Victoria who was a lefty that became ambidextrous.

Fleming, Einstein and Tesla were all ambidextrous. Benjamin Franklin was also ambidextrous and signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution with his left hand. U.S. 20th president, James Garfield was a well educated backwoodsman born in a log cabin. Although he could write with either hand with equal ease, he could also write Greek with his left hand and Latin with his right hand simultaneously! Harry Kahne demonstrated his mental dexterity in 1922 by performing several mental operations simultaneously. While one hand was writing mirror language, the other hand intermingled upside down and backward letters.

How to Be An Ambidextrous:

1. Practice with everything you do. Hold your glass with your non-dominant hand, open your door, hammer a nail, brush your teeth, shave, etc. Switch your mouse buttons, too. Try to remember to use your opposite hand with the small things.
2. Give yourself the same patience you'd give a child learning how to do open a can of soup, unlock the door, and so on.
3. Start doing things in tandem: Swirl 2 glasses of water with both hands simultaneously. Throw 2 wads of paper at the same time, catch 2 balls, "wax on, wax off." Feel what it's like to use both hands at the same time. Strive towards achieving balance in your arms and hands.
4. Start writing or drawing with both hands. Tack down some paper and start drawing butterflies, vases, symmetrical objects, write words, letters, shapes, or whatnot. Although your writing will be awful at first, write a couple lines every day from the start.
5. Write Zig-Zag/Like a DotMatrix: To take this all to the next level, write from left-to-right (normal direction) with your right hand, and from right-to-left with your left, writing backwards sentences that look correct when held up to a mirror. This is useful because righties are used to writing "from thumb to pinkie", and may write more naturally with their left hand while writing backwards.
6. Learn juggling. Three and four balls. A great way to train your weaker arm.

Maybe being ambidextrous is pretty amazing, you can do anything with your both hands.

All people who ambidextrous since they're born are so lucky.

Because they are all can use their right and left brain on the same time.

Don't you remember?

Left Brain control right hand

Right Brain control left hand

Left Brain for Logic things

Right Brain for abstract things

so, they are genius