Please pay attention to your emotions over this break. At what points do you feel emotionally healthiest?
The break was definatly something i needed. School was too stressful and the bad was piling up. My break felt the most healthy when i spent time with family, especially for the holidays. Family from all over got together and spent the whole week together catching up and just having fun. I also got the chance to sleep in. I would go to sleep really late at night because I would spend time with friends outside enjoying the warm weather. The time that break seemed the least healthy was when i had to spend long hours at work. Since i work at a pharmacy things are very strict and kept together, which means no sitting down, no breaks and every moment spent at work must be spent doing something productive. My emotional health is a lot better I have been going through a lot emotionally but that has all passed and everything seems to be going pretty good. I like to do whatever i can to distract myself from whatever is making me feel a negative way whether its listening to music or talking to someone about it or going outside either to shop or play soccer, doing things that make me happy basically. I don't think being emotionally happy is the same things as being constantly happy because you can be happy physically or spiritually etc. it dosen't all depend on emotions.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Reasearch
5. About how many old people are on antidepressants?
7. How many old people live in poverty?
10. What is the suicide rate for old people?
12. How/on what do they spend their money?
14. Are they sexually active?
Depression is common in elderly people. Old people are at greater risk of developing adverse events while taking any medication. Its symptoms include chronic worry and anxiety and other problems, such as muscle tension, sleep disturbance and fatigue.As many as 7.3 percent of older people suffer from anxiety, and the percent is even higher among those receiving medical care. Social inferiority, isolation, physical weakness and vulnerability, all of which form part of the experience of poverty combine for many older people to make old age itself a form of social exclusion. Instead of achronological definition, old age is defined in many societies as a state of dependence and incapacity.Older people in poverty themselves tend to sharea view of ageing as incapacity. A commondimension of older people's poverty is a sense of uselessness and low self esteem,related to their perceived inability to participate in family and social life. "Between 1997 and 2006, the number of people living in severe poverty – defined as living on less than 40% of median population income – increased by 600,000. The poorest quarter of pensioner households saw their incomes rise by less than 1% last year, well below inflation. The poorest single pensioners saw their real incomes drop by 4%." The highest suicide rates of any age group occur among persons aged 65 years and older. There is an average of one suicide among the elderly every 90 minutes. In 1998, suicide ranked as the sixteenth leading cause of death among those aged 65 years and older and accounted for 5803 deaths among this age group in the U.S. Risk factors for suicide among older persons differ from those among the young. In addition to a higher prevalence of depression, older persons are more socially isolated and more frequently use highly lethal methods. They also make fewer attempts per completed suicide, have a higher-male-to-female ratio than other groups, have often visited a health-care provider before their suicide, and have more physical illnesses. Most old people spend their money on healthcare. They are retired so they are lving off social security, and the money they spend is just used on housing, haathcare such as medicine, insurance, and hospital/doctoral visits. Other than that its just on food,travel and clothing.Most Americans remain sexually active into their 60s, and nearly half continue to have sex regularly into their early 70s, researchers are reporting today as a result of the most comprehensive national survey to date of sexual behavior among older adults. But many older people also report struggling with sexual problems, like reduced desire and erectile difficulties. With more than 3,000 Americans, 57 to 85 years old, who gave detailed descriptions of their sexual activities.The National Institutes of Health, found that 84 percent of men from 57 to 64 reported having had some sexual contact with another person in the last year, compared with 62 percent of women in the same age group. Those figures dwindled to 38 percent and 17 percent, respectively, in people 75 and older. Among those adults who were sexually active, about two-thirds had sex at least twice a month into their 70s, and more than half continued at that pace into their 80s.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/318/7199/1640
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/01/20/antidepressant-eases-anxiety-in-older-adults.html
http://www.thematuremarket.com/50_plus_marketing/millions_elderly_people_live_in_poverty-10451-5.html
http://www.netwellness.org/question.cfm/44637.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/us/23sex.html
7. How many old people live in poverty?
10. What is the suicide rate for old people?
12. How/on what do they spend their money?
14. Are they sexually active?
Depression is common in elderly people. Old people are at greater risk of developing adverse events while taking any medication. Its symptoms include chronic worry and anxiety and other problems, such as muscle tension, sleep disturbance and fatigue.As many as 7.3 percent of older people suffer from anxiety, and the percent is even higher among those receiving medical care. Social inferiority, isolation, physical weakness and vulnerability, all of which form part of the experience of poverty combine for many older people to make old age itself a form of social exclusion. Instead of achronological definition, old age is defined in many societies as a state of dependence and incapacity.Older people in poverty themselves tend to sharea view of ageing as incapacity. A commondimension of older people's poverty is a sense of uselessness and low self esteem,related to their perceived inability to participate in family and social life. "Between 1997 and 2006, the number of people living in severe poverty – defined as living on less than 40% of median population income – increased by 600,000. The poorest quarter of pensioner households saw their incomes rise by less than 1% last year, well below inflation. The poorest single pensioners saw their real incomes drop by 4%." The highest suicide rates of any age group occur among persons aged 65 years and older. There is an average of one suicide among the elderly every 90 minutes. In 1998, suicide ranked as the sixteenth leading cause of death among those aged 65 years and older and accounted for 5803 deaths among this age group in the U.S. Risk factors for suicide among older persons differ from those among the young. In addition to a higher prevalence of depression, older persons are more socially isolated and more frequently use highly lethal methods. They also make fewer attempts per completed suicide, have a higher-male-to-female ratio than other groups, have often visited a health-care provider before their suicide, and have more physical illnesses. Most old people spend their money on healthcare. They are retired so they are lving off social security, and the money they spend is just used on housing, haathcare such as medicine, insurance, and hospital/doctoral visits. Other than that its just on food,travel and clothing.Most Americans remain sexually active into their 60s, and nearly half continue to have sex regularly into their early 70s, researchers are reporting today as a result of the most comprehensive national survey to date of sexual behavior among older adults. But many older people also report struggling with sexual problems, like reduced desire and erectile difficulties. With more than 3,000 Americans, 57 to 85 years old, who gave detailed descriptions of their sexual activities.The National Institutes of Health, found that 84 percent of men from 57 to 64 reported having had some sexual contact with another person in the last year, compared with 62 percent of women in the same age group. Those figures dwindled to 38 percent and 17 percent, respectively, in people 75 and older. Among those adults who were sexually active, about two-thirds had sex at least twice a month into their 70s, and more than half continued at that pace into their 80s.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/318/7199/1640
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/01/20/antidepressant-eases-anxiety-in-older-adults.html
http://www.thematuremarket.com/50_plus_marketing/millions_elderly_people_live_in_poverty-10451-5.html
http://www.netwellness.org/question.cfm/44637.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/us/23sex.html
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
15 (absent)
1. Do they ever think about death?
2. How do they feel being old?
3. Do old people make up most of the world's population?
4. Do they live their lives more spontaneously or planned?
5. About how many old people are on antidepressants?
6. How many are left without families caring/checking up on them?
7. How many old people live in poverty?
8. What is it like living in a nursing home?
9. How many people are actually active in their community?
10. What is the suicide rate for old people?
11. How many old people suffer from life threatening diseases?
12. How/on what do they spend their money?
13. What do they do in their free time?
14. Are they sexually active?
15. Do they have people to speak to?
2. How do they feel being old?
3. Do old people make up most of the world's population?
4. Do they live their lives more spontaneously or planned?
5. About how many old people are on antidepressants?
6. How many are left without families caring/checking up on them?
7. How many old people live in poverty?
8. What is it like living in a nursing home?
9. How many people are actually active in their community?
10. What is the suicide rate for old people?
11. How many old people suffer from life threatening diseases?
12. How/on what do they spend their money?
13. What do they do in their free time?
14. Are they sexually active?
15. Do they have people to speak to?
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Old People
I love old people. I think they are wise and intelligent. The things they say are usually very interesting, thing you don't really hear from anyone else. I work in a Pharmacy in Brooklyn, so i have a lot of interactions with old people. I see them every other day for several hours all speaking either Polish, English or Spanish. When you help them with something they get this joyful look of gratitude on their faces. After picking up their medications and making their way up to the register to check out, all they want to do is talk. They tell you their life story or what happened yesterday or whether or not they are in pain today. I'm not always in the mood to socialize but I feel like they need someone to talk to, so I become their target of torture. When old people walk into the pharmacy they always smile no matter what mood they're in. Even if they are in scorching pain they will still be nice to you and respect you no matter what age you are. I noticed it depends on one thing, if you are nice to them, they are nice to you.
I also see my grandparents quite often. It is said that your grandparents love you more than your actual parents. I don't know if i agree with that but sometimes it seems that way. If I do something bad, they are understanding and they won't yell. They try to teach me a lesson about it. To them, life isn't about punishment and arguments and grief, it's about what you have to do to make it better. I feel like everything my grandparents say is true. It's because they have lived so long and already gone through the problems and situations I have in life. Many times I don't believe what they say or won't take the advice they give me because I feel like my scenario is different and they just don't understand, but I always catch myself going back to what they said and accepting it. Every time I visit them or they visit me there is a sense of ease and relaxation. Everything is good and tensionless. I think they feel the same way about me about it, because it gives them a chance to talk to me and find out what's going on in life and how they can be of help.
I also see my grandparents quite often. It is said that your grandparents love you more than your actual parents. I don't know if i agree with that but sometimes it seems that way. If I do something bad, they are understanding and they won't yell. They try to teach me a lesson about it. To them, life isn't about punishment and arguments and grief, it's about what you have to do to make it better. I feel like everything my grandparents say is true. It's because they have lived so long and already gone through the problems and situations I have in life. Many times I don't believe what they say or won't take the advice they give me because I feel like my scenario is different and they just don't understand, but I always catch myself going back to what they said and accepting it. Every time I visit them or they visit me there is a sense of ease and relaxation. Everything is good and tensionless. I think they feel the same way about me about it, because it gives them a chance to talk to me and find out what's going on in life and how they can be of help.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Big Paper
When people ask themselves what is really the true meaning of life, they usually don't always have an answer. Everyone has a different opinion on how to live a good and meaningful life, and those who have no idea, turn to the people and the society around them for answers. People in today's world are so blinded by corporate messages that they can't even realize the true meaning of they're own lives.
The most common thing people turn toward is happiness. If there's no happiness then life isn't really meaningful. Many would say living a good life is being able to enjoy it in whatever way makes one happy. These thoughts are influenced by both folk and corpoate culture. They both control people in a way that people tend to lose the idea of what life is really about and leaves them uncertain of what the real meaning truly is. This uncertainty has people wondering and it can all be blamed on corporate messages.
Dominant Messages:
The dominant corporate culture is created by people working for companies that always fill poeple's heads with things they would "like" to hear in order to bring forth happiness, fit in, and be accepted by society. Over time, being exposed to more and more of these corporate messages brainwashes people's real views on how to live a good and meaningful life. These people begin to relay on these messages so much that it shapes and dominates they're lives into living there lives based on what corporate companies say you should. Media as always had a big impact on people. Media always makes if sound like they have an asnwer for everyting, that they have a resoulation to any problem one may have.
The companies create advertisements everywhere. If its online, they appear in every corner of the screen, and if they're not on the page, they're popping up in your face. Almsot every website attemps to tell people how to live a good and meaningful life. The internet isn't not the only way the media tries to take control of peoples heads. There's t.v shoes,commercials, newspaper ads/articles, magazines,flyers that people hand out in the street, posters you see on the train, streets, buses etc. Where ever one will go there will always be something or someone telling them how to live a good life, and what they need to do to make that happen. People see these celebrities on television driving hot new cars, flaunting their diamonds, giving tours of their cribs etc. and it puts a idea in their head that that's whats cool. Living in a big mansions with being rich, going on multi million dollar shopping sprees is what many people would say is a good life. They think having all that will bring happiness because they wouldn't have any problems. The dominant corporate perspective on living a good meaningful life are basically trying to teach people how to upgrade themselves and to be better in some way. For example being good looking even though you mayb already be beautiful but they will always find a way to make you think otherwise and find the smallest flaws just to make you change the way you are. In school children learn "always be yourself" "don't change who you are" but as these kids grow older they are having all this media that they can now understand and be influenced by thrown at them.
Support #1
There are so many contradictory messages. People saying money and fame doesn't always bring happiness, but by listening to songs by world known artists such as Kanye West and Rihanna, that's not quite the message. In Kanye's song "The Good Life" he mentions:
"So I roll through good
Y'all pop the trunk, I pop the hood, Ferrari
And if they hate then let 'em hate...and watch the money pile up, the good life"..."having' money's the everything that having' it is I was splurging' on trizz
But when I get my card back activated I'm back to Vegas cause I always had a passion for flashing' before I had it I close my eyes and imagine, the good life".
What Kanye is telling us here is that in order to have a good life, it is necessary to have materialistic things,being rich, having a expensive car, having a credit card with tons of money on it to go to Vegas and spend it. At the end when he says " before I had it i close my eyes and imagine, the good life." So basically he didn't have what he has now, tons of fans, and being loaded with money and he is telling us that the good life is to be famous, and hes livin' the life. Another artist that people adore, Rihanna. Her top of the charts single: "Live Your Life" Rihanna says:
"You're gonna be a shining star, and fancy cars, fancy car-ars and then you'll see, you're gonna go far cause everyone knows, who you are-are"..."Cause I'm a paper chaser. Just living my life."..."Come walk in my shoes and see the way I'm living if you really want to got my mind on my money"...'So keep on getting your paper and keep on climbing look in the mirror and keep on shining." Rihanna is basically saying being famous is a good thing and then when you have money and extravagent cars and you go after the money and look good are the same time is what a good life is.
Support #2
Another way that corpoarte messages brainwash people into thinking that what they say and do for you can make you a happier person, is by adversiting. You go to the local store and pick up the most recent magazine. People enjoy reading these magazines because they give people the advice they want to hear. For example, of someone has acne, there will always be something in the magazine or something on televsion what is promoting Proactive. It's not ordinary people advertising this product. It is always a celebrity, for some reason the media thinks that people will buy the product because Jessica Simpson is talking about how the cream made her face all better and how amazing her life is now and how happy she is to have beautiful skin. What is stupid about that is that she a actress. She has professional make up artists that take care of her skin for her. But everyone is supposed to buy the product because Jessica Simpson is pretty female that everyone wants to look like. All those television commercials about losing weight how it will make you look more attractive by taking a certain diet pill or getting lypo suction, will make you happy. They say it in a way that pulls you into wanting it, if one knows he or she is over weight the commercial gives them hope and motivation "how that women went from a size 14 to a size 8 it really works".
The most common thing people turn toward is happiness. If there's no happiness then life isn't really meaningful. Many would say living a good life is being able to enjoy it in whatever way makes one happy. These thoughts are influenced by both folk and corpoate culture. They both control people in a way that people tend to lose the idea of what life is really about and leaves them uncertain of what the real meaning truly is. This uncertainty has people wondering and it can all be blamed on corporate messages.
Dominant Messages:
The dominant corporate culture is created by people working for companies that always fill poeple's heads with things they would "like" to hear in order to bring forth happiness, fit in, and be accepted by society. Over time, being exposed to more and more of these corporate messages brainwashes people's real views on how to live a good and meaningful life. These people begin to relay on these messages so much that it shapes and dominates they're lives into living there lives based on what corporate companies say you should. Media as always had a big impact on people. Media always makes if sound like they have an asnwer for everyting, that they have a resoulation to any problem one may have.
The companies create advertisements everywhere. If its online, they appear in every corner of the screen, and if they're not on the page, they're popping up in your face. Almsot every website attemps to tell people how to live a good and meaningful life. The internet isn't not the only way the media tries to take control of peoples heads. There's t.v shoes,commercials, newspaper ads/articles, magazines,flyers that people hand out in the street, posters you see on the train, streets, buses etc. Where ever one will go there will always be something or someone telling them how to live a good life, and what they need to do to make that happen. People see these celebrities on television driving hot new cars, flaunting their diamonds, giving tours of their cribs etc. and it puts a idea in their head that that's whats cool. Living in a big mansions with being rich, going on multi million dollar shopping sprees is what many people would say is a good life. They think having all that will bring happiness because they wouldn't have any problems. The dominant corporate perspective on living a good meaningful life are basically trying to teach people how to upgrade themselves and to be better in some way. For example being good looking even though you mayb already be beautiful but they will always find a way to make you think otherwise and find the smallest flaws just to make you change the way you are. In school children learn "always be yourself" "don't change who you are" but as these kids grow older they are having all this media that they can now understand and be influenced by thrown at them.
Support #1
There are so many contradictory messages. People saying money and fame doesn't always bring happiness, but by listening to songs by world known artists such as Kanye West and Rihanna, that's not quite the message. In Kanye's song "The Good Life" he mentions:
"So I roll through good
Y'all pop the trunk, I pop the hood, Ferrari
And if they hate then let 'em hate...and watch the money pile up, the good life"..."having' money's the everything that having' it is I was splurging' on trizz
But when I get my card back activated I'm back to Vegas cause I always had a passion for flashing' before I had it I close my eyes and imagine, the good life".
What Kanye is telling us here is that in order to have a good life, it is necessary to have materialistic things,being rich, having a expensive car, having a credit card with tons of money on it to go to Vegas and spend it. At the end when he says " before I had it i close my eyes and imagine, the good life." So basically he didn't have what he has now, tons of fans, and being loaded with money and he is telling us that the good life is to be famous, and hes livin' the life. Another artist that people adore, Rihanna. Her top of the charts single: "Live Your Life" Rihanna says:
"You're gonna be a shining star, and fancy cars, fancy car-ars and then you'll see, you're gonna go far cause everyone knows, who you are-are"..."Cause I'm a paper chaser. Just living my life."..."Come walk in my shoes and see the way I'm living if you really want to got my mind on my money"...'So keep on getting your paper and keep on climbing look in the mirror and keep on shining." Rihanna is basically saying being famous is a good thing and then when you have money and extravagent cars and you go after the money and look good are the same time is what a good life is.
Support #2
Another way that corpoarte messages brainwash people into thinking that what they say and do for you can make you a happier person, is by adversiting. You go to the local store and pick up the most recent magazine. People enjoy reading these magazines because they give people the advice they want to hear. For example, of someone has acne, there will always be something in the magazine or something on televsion what is promoting Proactive. It's not ordinary people advertising this product. It is always a celebrity, for some reason the media thinks that people will buy the product because Jessica Simpson is talking about how the cream made her face all better and how amazing her life is now and how happy she is to have beautiful skin. What is stupid about that is that she a actress. She has professional make up artists that take care of her skin for her. But everyone is supposed to buy the product because Jessica Simpson is pretty female that everyone wants to look like. All those television commercials about losing weight how it will make you look more attractive by taking a certain diet pill or getting lypo suction, will make you happy. They say it in a way that pulls you into wanting it, if one knows he or she is over weight the commercial gives them hope and motivation "how that women went from a size 14 to a size 8 it really works".
Saturday, January 24, 2009
MLK
For Martin Luther King Day I didn't really hear anything about the holiday. I don't recall the t.v even being on that day. Watching things comemorating him is a bit repetative to me. We already know what happend to him and we know about his famous "I have a dream speech". I feel like if the media found different ways of celebrating the life if MlK then they should be a bit more creative then to just run shows and biographical movies about him because people have already seen it several time and they just aren't as interested in it. I feel like it's a important holiday in America since it's they day celebrating the life of a African American that put an end to segregation and fought for equality amoung blacks and whites so I think it's a positive thing that his Birthday was made into a holiday.
In class what had grabbed my attention is when Andy talked about how people don't really know MLK for what he really was, a socialist and the fact that he had assosiations with prostitutes. I felt like that was an interesting point that maybe people are covering parts of his life up to make him a good figure for people. MLK is acknowledged as "postage stamp saint" he today is treated like a saint to all people that he put in end to racial inequality and that he risked his life for black ansd whites to be able to drink from the same water fountains, but really he is just an ordinary man who just did a good deed for what he believed him he fought for what he wanted to change, basically just going after his dream. There are many people like that in the world today who try to make changes, some are successful some aren't but people tend to over do it a little bit. People know MLK for all the good things that he has done for people, but if someone were to take a survey, more than half of the people wouldn't really know the true events of MLK's life. If those who didn't know found out, they would deny it because everything is made so that these people are presented as such good images that they couldn't possibly have done anyting bad in they're lives. No one really knows who to believe anymore and whether or not something is true because everything in America has frosting
In class what had grabbed my attention is when Andy talked about how people don't really know MLK for what he really was, a socialist and the fact that he had assosiations with prostitutes. I felt like that was an interesting point that maybe people are covering parts of his life up to make him a good figure for people. MLK is acknowledged as "postage stamp saint" he today is treated like a saint to all people that he put in end to racial inequality and that he risked his life for black ansd whites to be able to drink from the same water fountains, but really he is just an ordinary man who just did a good deed for what he believed him he fought for what he wanted to change, basically just going after his dream. There are many people like that in the world today who try to make changes, some are successful some aren't but people tend to over do it a little bit. People know MLK for all the good things that he has done for people, but if someone were to take a survey, more than half of the people wouldn't really know the true events of MLK's life. If those who didn't know found out, they would deny it because everything is made so that these people are presented as such good images that they couldn't possibly have done anyting bad in they're lives. No one really knows who to believe anymore and whether or not something is true because everything in America has frosting
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Inaguration Day
Having watched the inaguration in school gave me a different feel about the whole event. I think that if i had watched it at home by myself, it wouldn't have been as exciting. Seeing everyone's anxcious faces made everything more significant. There was a sense of unity and happiness between everybody,people throwing they're hands up in the air and clapping brought forward the emotional part of the occasion. I felt that Obama's speech was alright. He had thanked Bush for his time serving the country, and then he basically told everyone the deal, where America is at right now and what we will have to do to bring change to get America back on it's feet. He sounded very confident, and caught many people's attention. The stands where packed with people, although it was freezing fans in the crowds were bundled up. The ceremony was very nice, flags all around;big and small, everything color cordinated red white and blue. It was a specfically historic moment for African Amercians because it shows how far they have come to finally have a Black President. This day had shown the message that in order to live a good and meaningful life everyone must unite, respect each other. It shows how being intelligent and successful will get you anywhere in life as long as you give it your best. It seems like a lot of people are counting on the new president to make this change. In the other hand, Obama gives people hope, another chance to be better, to improve things, make people feel safe, and have higher expectations. All about changing. Thus, everybody have a good meaningful life, mostly-happiness.
As for what Obama planning what to do as the 44th president of the United States is good, but I think it makes a lot of people to have high expectations on him. Obama promised changed and gave people hope to count on him that he can make everything better and overcome this crisis that's taking place in America. Whether or not he will be successful enough to fix everything is doubted but but whatever he can do is good enough. Personally, I don really think him being president will change much. He is only human, that gives us things we want to hear, therefore we think highly of him because we believe in what he says. I don't think that he will be able to change America significantly, there are just too many problems going on at once.
As for what Obama planning what to do as the 44th president of the United States is good, but I think it makes a lot of people to have high expectations on him. Obama promised changed and gave people hope to count on him that he can make everything better and overcome this crisis that's taking place in America. Whether or not he will be successful enough to fix everything is doubted but but whatever he can do is good enough. Personally, I don really think him being president will change much. He is only human, that gives us things we want to hear, therefore we think highly of him because we believe in what he says. I don't think that he will be able to change America significantly, there are just too many problems going on at once.
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