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I wanna hold your hand
June 26th, 2007 by OsmanThis is perhaps the best song of Beatles. It can make you feel the peace and the will to peace the world needs right now.
Below are two videos from YouTube. Both of them are videos of “I wanna hold your hand”. The first one has a better sound quality and a monotonous Beatles singing (ok, kidding). The latter one has a relatively less quality in sound but the video is funnier.
Things that elders have learned
June 26th, 2007 by OsmanIn the last hour, I came across a couple of wonderful blogs. On one of them, there was a list of things that the elderly have learned. Here are my picks among the 21 items from the list. All of the items are really worth reading anyway.
- 2. Don’t worry about what people think; they don’t do it very often.
- 6. A person, who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
- 11. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
- 12. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
- 16. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.
- 17. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
Loren Feldman talks about Sicko the movie
June 24th, 2007 by OsmanAs usual, he didn’t like the movie. He thinks that Michael Moore sucks.
Second life in real life
June 23rd, 2007 by OsmanI came across this on YouTube:
Debate on antidepressants
June 23rd, 2007 by OsmanI am interested in this primarily because I am on Lustral (it is known as Zoloft in U.S.) for more than a year right now. Since this is about clinical psychology, I would be interested in it anyway.
Antidepressants are promoted with the idea that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. What not balanced is serotonin.
Through any discussion I’ve read, nobody disagree with the fact that a more balanced flow of serotonin is helpful for depressed people. What people don’t agree upon is the fact whether depression really is caused by that imbalance or not.
Counter arguments say that the fact S.S.R.I’s help depressed people feel better does not necessarily mean that the cause lies in serotonin.
The same debate is not heated for endorphine or dopamine.
I have never been against medication. I usually take pain-killers when I have a headache.
I have always been an advocate of psychotic drugs because I have seen many people suffering from illnesses such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, etc. These are conditions that would hardly give up unless you take proper medication under supervision.
However, it is really annoying that recently such medication is subject to heavy discussion. I wonder what would people that have a long enough history of antidepressant drugs say.
Emotional survival
June 19th, 2007 by OsmanI’ve got a phone call just a couple of minutes ago (it is 6:05am here in Istanbul). A friend of mine is having a panic attack.
That reminded me (free association) of a whole population on earth that got stuck into many types of emotions. It seems to me that some emotions are like totems we build up for ourselves and then become myriads of them.
Cognitive behavioral therapy says that emotions are caused by thoughts. It then aims to positively influencing emotions by modifying everyday thoughts and behaviors (wikipedia).
That sounds harsh for many people. This is against the idea of that people’s lives are determined by outside forces and people are not capable of changing them or fighting with them.
Some people find it not harsh but naive. This view is more pitiful in my humble opinion. It is more of an escape in comparison to learned helplessness.
After tens of thousands of years trying to cope with nature’s difficulties, our era became the story of a different kind of survival. Instead of trying to save ourselves from dinosaurs, we are trying to save ourselves from emotions. Furthermore, only a few people accept that they can have a certain control of their emotions and that they have the choice about what surrounds them.
I have been reading blogs on WordPress.com about emotions for some time now. There is a considerable amount of different perspectives, all of them are worthy of reading. Since it is very early morning here, I can’t overcome the sleepiness and give some links of those but I’ll mention them later on.
Anyway, I wish all of humanity a very nice and reasonable Wednesday.
p.s.: I’ve uploaded an erotic melon to Ipernity. It is quiet erotic but still safe for work, have a look at it and comment if you feel like so.
I’ve quit caffeine
June 18th, 2007 by Osman
At least I think so. It has been three days and counting. I was addicted to Turkish coffee, which is only a little lighter than espresso. I usually have two to four times in a day and I drink it in an instant coffee mug.
I don’t ever think that a small daily dose of caffeine is unhealthy. I believe caffeine is a natural source of energy. Mine was too much though.
I believe that there are black and white sources of energies for us, humans. For instance, in the last 10 years, my biggest source of energy for day have been coffee and cigarettes. I still smoke about 1 pack (20 cigarettes) a day. Now that I no longer drink coffee, I may think about quitting smoking too. Not now, of course. To quit caffeine and nicotine at the same time would be equal to murder 
.
So, coffee and cigarettes together make the dark energy. The opposite of this would be jogging (fresh air) and orange juice.
I have always dreamed about them. I dream that they are fighting each other on someone’s mind. We usually opt for one of them. How nice would it be if we could be able to create a balance between them.
A brief history of my blogging
June 14th, 2007 by OsmanI started blogging in 2005. I’ve bought a new domain name and hosting service just for this reason. My first blog was in turkish. It is still up and running. Then I decided to try the adsense goodness. There wasn’t much income until the birdflu cases in Turkey began. Me and a friend of mine from high school who is a doctor started a blog about birdflu in turkish. That was my first professional attempt on problogging.
Then I started Psychology Blog along with Sex and Relationships blog. People liked them but I was posting infrequently so it wasn’t sufficient to establish a user community and a continous traffic.
In the meantime, I designed several blogs for my friends and also done some professional WordPress installations.
Blogging isn’t harder than life itself. It requires experience. It stemmed from the non-stop evolving communication technology and like every new step through an easier mean of broadcasting our feelings and opinions, learning to blog is a path.
Change is always slower than people expected to be.
To keep a long story short, I am now here. This is going to be my personal blog in English now.
It’s my birthday
June 14th, 2007 by Osman15th of June is my birthday. So today is my birthday according to local time in Istanbul. That motivated me to start posting to my new blog.
I don’t like birthdays much. I don’t find them very specific. I don’t dislike them either.
Anyway, it is a good day to start posting to moodr.org.
Hi There!
June 6th, 2007 by OsmanThis is my new blog, this is my new domain. I am not new to blogging, I blog since mid 2005 but hey, it’s time to make some change. So I bought this domain name and worked on a very simple design, and here it is. There are lots of things to post but I am a little tired now, I’ll continue posting tomorrow after a good sleep.
Hi!
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