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Antipsychotic drugs like Quetiapine (Seroquel) effectively control mental disorders like Schizophre

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Antipsychotic drugs like Seroquel (Quetiapine) help Schizophrenic & Bipolar disorder patients to lead relatively normal lives.

Antipsychotics

Antipsychotics like generic Seroquel (Quetiapine) are medications prescribed for treating various psychological afflictions. Primarily they treat the accompanying effects of antipsychotics such as irritation, troubled thought processes, imaginary incidents, aggressive behavior and their tendency to interrupt the patients’ normal lives. Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder are two of the most common psychological problems treated by antipsychotics. Therapists usually suggest users to buy Seroquel as the primary medication in most cases. Yet, users should not buy Seroquel until a therapist has properly evaluated the reasons for the patient’s psychological problems.

Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

Before we take a look at antipsychotics, let’s understand the two afflictions treated by these medications. Russell Crowe brilliantly portrayed schizophrenia; in his Oscar nominated performance of Nobel Prize winning mathematician, John Nash, in the movie, -A Beautiful Mind’. This affliction causes the patient to start imagining alternate realities and makes them lose complete touch with their actual surroundings. The patient may become extremely excited and even cause physical harm to themselves or their families, leading to a disturbed family life. Although the actual reason for this affliction is still being studied, hereditary reasons are considered most probable.

Similarly, Bipolar Disorder also seems to have hereditary traits. Affecting nearly five million Americans, it is certainly a significant contributor to the U.S. population’s mental health problem numbers. In patients affected by Bipolar Disorder, the patient will have periodic highs, lows and normal periods. The patient may become very agitated in the high periods and may become subdued and down during the lows. These periods often extend from weeks to months. There would also be intermediate time spans of normalcy. In some cases, the highs and lows may occur at the same time as well. During the low phase, the patient will be depressed, feeling very down about things, have no hope and have an overall feeling of pessimism. On the other hand, during the high phase (mania), the person may look very happy and full of zest in the initial stages, but may later become selfish, confrontational, very excited and low on patience.

Antipsychotics like Generic Seroquel (Quetiapine) – Benefits and Risks

Antipsychotics are a blessing in such mental disorders. The various symptoms of mental disorders are caused by changes in the chemicals (neurotransmitters) present in the patient’s brain. Antipsychotics like Seroquel maintain the balance of these chemicals and thus allow the patients to control these accompanying indicators. The control of an individual indicator may occur at a varying pace but it allows the patient to restore a bit of normalcy to their life. Agitated patients may calm down in a couple of days while the severe problems like hallucinations, may take a few weeks to become better.

Yet, like any other medication, generic Seroquel also has side effects and hence users should not order Seroquel online or purchase it from normal drugstores without assessing its actual benefits. Antipsychotics side effects include: Unusual shaking of hands and legs, eyesight issues, parched mouth, increased perspiration, feeling sleepy, skin irritation, speech problems, etc. In spite of these side effects, the chance offered at normalcy is too good to resist and users buy Seroquel like Antipsychotics in order to lead a proper life.

Order Quetiapine (Seroquel) Online

Users should buy Seroquel (Quetiapine) only after discussing all the benefits and risks with their therapists. Antipsychotics can cause severe side effects and hence users should order Quetiapine from online pharmacy like antipsychotics, only under a doctor’s advice.

Solutions To Discrimination And Stereotyping At Work

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Typecasting and stereotyping individuals is a common human error. Constructive relationship building is reliant on a person’s ability to learn from others differences. Failing to notice diversity in the workplace and not approaching this with an open mind is a fundamental error we all make. It is important for employees to identify ways to remove stereotyping from their work environment.

While you may not be directly involved, if you are in an environment that is conducive to social labeling consider yourself warned. Stereotyping inhibits social development and group learning. Work typecasting will directly hamper an individual’s ability to develop personal relationships and networking skills.

Prejudice is an immediate by-product of social stereotyping. Prejudiced behaviour leads to discrimination in the workplace which is less than favourable. The labelling of people at work is a way in which we categorise chunks of information. The less familiar the information and the more complicated it is to disseminate, the more we are prone to assigning a ‘general’ label to it.

In an attempt to remove workplace stereotyping the best approach to start with is by defining this. Stereotyping or labeling is explained as being the social categorisation we assign to those we meet. It is a human instinct to literally label people as we meet them. In essence stereotyping is a ‘lazy’ social habit we have developed. Consider the disaster stereotyping has in a place such as South Africa, where the diversity in culture is vast and complex.

When human beings are faced with new information we look for the fastest and simplest way to make sense of it. When bombarded with vast differences and hordes of information the easiest way through is to put miscellaneous matter into a stereotype box. When faced with information we don’t understand a kind of mental meltdown ensues. Systems crash and the sheer mystery of such information lead to assumptions.

Prejudice as a Result of Stereotyping at Work

Prejudice behaviour and discrimination is a direct result of stereotyping. Discrimination is an immediate by-product of refusing to accept other for their individuality. Such behaviour is both deconstructive and primitive. As the name explains, to be prejudice is to pre-judge an individual. Instead of awarding people the equal opportunity to prove their personal worth we assign a predefined label to them. Based on assumption, we place individuals into groups of relevancy. Prejudice behaviour in the workplace instills negativity and unfair criticism.

FIVE SOLUTIONS: Remove Stereotyping form the Workplace

1. Learn to interact with people on a more personal level

– Personal relationships are one of the most insightful clues to your own emotional maturity.
– Expand your perceptions and open your mind to diversities.
– Personal relationships are based on your ability to interact with others and harmonise the disclosure of personal information

2. Interact with diverse professional contacts

– Open yourself up to learning about different cultures in business.
– Develop valuable business contacts as a result of mutual sharing and respect.

3. Commit to expanding your knowledge.

– Apply effort to you endeavour to learn from things you don’t understand.
– Exercise commitment and patience in your quest to remove stereotyping from the workplace.

4. Keep an open mind.

– Put your feet in others shoes.
– Consider their experiences based on their situation.
– Conceited behaviour is counter-productive.
– Practice humility

5. Make it your goal to remove type casting from your workplace.

– Display conviction to your cause and you will not fail.
– Setting objectives is the best way to motivate yourself.
– Make it your goal to succeed.

Learning from each other’s differences and having a slice of humble pie is all that is required to eliminate stereotyping. There are so many things that we can learn from each other’s differences. We cannot expect to move forward if we continue to refer back to past stereotyping.

Copyright (c) 2008 Camilla Patten

ALIENATION IN ANITA DESAI`S ` CRY, THE PEACOCK`

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Alienation in Anita Desai’s Cry, the peacock

by RAM SHARMA, LECTURER IN ENGLISH, J.V.P.G COLLEGE, BARAUT, BAGHPAT, U.P. 30-04-2002

Anita Desai is a dominant figure in the twentieth century Indian English fiction. She has given a new direction to Indian English literature. Her novels are considered to be the great contribution to the Indian English literature. She started her literary journey with the publication of her first novel Cry, the Peacock in 1963. The 1960’s scattered a sense of great dejection and gloom all over India. In 1962 china obtain a victory over India and this defeat brought a sense of disgrace and humiliation to the hearts of Indians. During this period of dejection and humiliation, Anita Desai’s novel Cry, the Peacock published. Perhaps she must have had a nag of disillusionment in her subconscious mind, which came before us in the form of the novel Cry, the Peacock. She has measured the individual level of the abondoned self of her characters. Desai has delineated the self-alienation, despair, death, desolation and socio-psychic fragmentation of the protagonist. Through this article I have made a humble attempt to discover the meaning of alienation and inner life of Desai’s protagonist Maya in the novel Cry, the Peacock. I was, being human, borne alone; I am, being woman, hard beset; I live by squeezing from a stone The little nourishment I get1.

Every wife yearns for the intense intimacy with her husband. But in Cry, the Peacock the protogonist Maya receives hostility and indifference rather than delicacy and affection. In this novel Desai presents the silence, solitude, meloncholy and dark world of shadows in Maya’s life. Cry, the Peacock is concerned with its chief protagonist Maya’s Psychological problems. Based on the mythological and archetypal images and symbols, this novel explores the hidden and dormant impulses of Maya’s psyche. As a young sensitive girl, Maya desires to love and to be loved. She marries the friend of her father, Gautama, who is much older than herself. She belongs to a traditional Brahmin family which believes in astrology and other prophetic strains of Brahmanical order. On the other hand, Gautama’s family represents the rational side of life. Thus Maya is haunted constantly by the rationalistic approach of her husband to the affairs of life. Maya loves Gautama passionately and desires to be loved in return; but Gautama’s coldness disappoints her2. They are different with each other in tradition and modernity, trust and distrust in human relationships, brahmanical and non-brahmanical order of the society. The prophecy of albino astrologer creates a fear psychosis in Maya’s mind: The astrologer, that creeping sly magician of my hallucinations-no of course they were not hallucination, Arjuna had proved them to me, and yet-could they be real? had never said anything to suggest that it was I who would die young, unnatural and violently, four years after my marriage, nothing to suggest that he even thought that3. The astrologer’s prophecy proves to be true in the case of Maya’s brother, Arjuna. Gautama as a rationalist, fails to understand Maya’s emotional mental state. In the first part of the novel the death of her pet dog Toto serves as the symbol of an abondoned self doomed to loneliness: All day the body lay rotting in the sun. It could not be moved on to the verandah for, in that April heat, the reek of dead flesh was over powering and would soon have penetrated the rooms. So she moved the little string bed on which it lay under the lime trees, where there was a cool agueous shade, saw its eyes open and staring still, screamed and rushed to the garden tap to wash the vision from her eyes, continued to cry and ran, defeated, into the house4.

Maya feels alianation due to the death of Toto. It was intolerable to her. The death of dog indicates the eternal truth in human life. The idea of death terrifies Maya and she is obsessed with it. She is badly disturbed by the indifference of her husband Gautama to the death of dog and it shows his carelessness towards his wife. Because Maya is a childless lady and Toto was like a child to her. Both of them have different views about death. Gautam thinks death to be a normal event while Maya is disturbed by it. The second part of the novel reveals Maya’s psychic depth and narrates the tragic death of Maya’s husband Gautama. Maya and Gautama have different approaches towards life. Gautama is a lawyer. In his family one did not speak about love and affection and spoke of parliament, cases of bribery and corruption revealed in government while Maya’s family champions human values and rights. She is very sensitive and cannot ignore her feelings. Maya wants her fulfilment as a woman and as a wife. But her father like husband does not soothe her burning heart. She opts for an ideal love. Maya symbolizes the pangs of the peacock mating, narrates the secrets in the following lines: Do you not hear the Peacock call in the wilds? Are they not blood chilling, their shrieks of pain? – Pia, Pia-, they cry -Lover, Lover Mio, mio – I die I die-. ….. They spread-out their splended tails and begin to dance, but, like shiva’s their dance, knowing that they and their lovers are all to die….. when they have exhausted themselves in battle, they will mate. Peacock are wise. The hundred eyes upon their tales have seen the truth of life and death, and know them to be one. Living they are in love with life. – Lover, Lover-, you will hear them cry in the forests when the rain clouds come, – Lover, I die- …….5

The anguished shriek for mating, the crying and the yearning for the male peacock reaches out to Maya but not Gautama. She asks Gautama to hear the call -Pia, Pia-, but Gautama remains listless to the cry. He has no sexual and passionate urge towards her. Maya, the -pea-hen’ fails to have her instincts fulfilled from Gautama, the -peacock’. She feels loneliness, isolation and desertion. Gautama is a self controlled reasonable, dutiful and worldly wise man. He did not try to soothe her. Maya knows about the insensitive and indifferent nature about her husband. She says:

……he knew nothing that concerned me. Giving me an opal ring to wear on my finger, he did not notice the translucent skin beneath, the blue fleshing veins that ran under and out of the bridge of gold and jolted me into smiling with pleasure each time I saw it. Telling me to go to sleep while he worked at his papers, he did not give another thought to me, to either the soft, willing body or the lonely, wanting mind that waited near his bed6.

Maya aspires for human love. She yearns to be loved by Gautama’s family members. But the cold behaviour & indifference of Gautama’s family members disappoints her: And I yearned, yearned for her to hold me to her bosom. I could not remember my own mother at all. My throat began to swell with unbearable self-pity. I would cry, I know it in a while, and dreaded it, in their same presence. -Please, I whispered’7….

In this passage the last word -please- is the expression of Maya’s inner psyche. She is a love-lorn lady. She wishes that her mother-in-law should stay with her. The word -Please- reflects the pangs of a modern sensitive lady and her helplessness in the human world. The constant anxiety and loneliness breed in her delusion. The hallucination born of her isolation and lonely temperament make her a psychic patient. A mental shock produces an injurious effect on her subconscious mind. This trauma leading to an obsession in her psyche. Another shocking effect upon Maya’s psyche is the prophecy of an astrologer about her future that after four years of their marriage one of them would die either husband, or wife. After four years of her marriage she recollects about this prophecy:

…… we had been married four years. It was as though the moon light had withered the shadows in my mnd as well, leaving it all dead-white, or dead-black. When the drums fell silent and the moon began to sink over the trees, I knew the time had come. It was now to be either Gautam, or I8.

The constant sound of prophecy of the astrologer haunts her waking and sleeping hours. She spent many sleepless nights due to regular process of day dreaming, nightmares and constant fear. This anxiety phobia makes an unconscious journey through her dreams to an unknown world: Yet, once I fall asleep, the dream dissolves quickly into a nightmare in which a row of soft, shaggy, frailfooted bear shamble through a dance…….. By a grotesque transformation, the bears are rendered into a lonely, hounded herd of gentle, thoughtful visitors from a forgotten mountain-land and the gibbering, cavorting human beings are seen as monsters from some prehistoric age, gabbling and gesticulating, pointing at their genitals, turning their backs and raising their tails, with stark madness in their faces……9

In this passage, one wonders to see a world of dreams beyond human imagination. It is a bizarre world. The phrase -monsters from prehistoric age- refers to the pre-unconscious level of human mind. Human mind when faced with the worries and anxities of life traces for its recesses of pre conscious level of human psyche. The passge becomes a wonderful example for the repressed desires and obsessions of the unconscious mind. The grotesque figure of the bear is followed by some horrifying sights like -gibbling-, -cavorting- human beings as -monsters-. They are with definitive absured gestures, pointing out their genitals and then showing their behaviour with -stark madness-. This bizarre world of animals world symbolizes sexual obsessions of Maya. The sight of it becomes representative of Maya’s inherent fear for death10. Thus Maya’s loneliness, obsession, seclusion, unfulfilled womanhood, emotional stimuli unrestness, debilitative husband and over-ridden death phobia make her neurotic in her behaviour. He insanity grows more and more. Her growing insanity and neurotic behavour is approaching near some disaster. She whoops and produce a sound -like an antic owl- 11. Before mirror she giggles -at the absurd image- 12.

She finally invites her husband to follow her for fresh air out of the room. She leads him upstairs on the roof. Gautama follows her upstairs on to the roof and she hears the sound of -an owl- for an ill-omen. She in a fit of maddening fury, thrust him down the roof. He falls down to the very bottom and dies13.

In the third part of the novel she also dies, Thus this alienation and solitude between husband-wife relationship brought out their death. The novel Cry, the Peacock describes the reasons and consequences of alienation in the relationship between Gautama and Maya. Maya’s neurotic behaviour is due to her intense alienation. Both husband and wife have different attitudes towards life. This attitude alienates them from each other. Maya’s isolation haunts her no more as she kills her husband in a fit of maddening fury. It is alienation which brings a disastrous end of their life.

Works cited

1-Elinor Wylie, -Let No Charitable Hope-, cited by Polly N. Chenoy in Indian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 13 No.2 (July 1983), p.172. 2-O.P. Budholia’s Anita Desai -Vision and Technique in her novels’ Published by B.R. Publishing Corporation (2001), p. 3. 3-Anita Desai, Cry, the Peacock (New Delhi: Orient Paperbacks, ) p. 4-Ibid p. 5-Ibid p. 6-Ibid p. 7-Ibid p. 8-Ibid p. 9-Ibid p. 10-O.P. Budholia’s Anita Desai -Vision and Technique in her novels’ Published by B.R. Publishing Corporation (2001), p. 138-139. 11-Anita Desai, Cry, the Peacock (New Delhi: Orient Paperbacks, ) p. 12-Ibid p. 13-O.P. Budholia’s Anita Desai -Vision and Technique in her novels’ Published by B.R. Publishing Corporation (2001), p. 140.

30-04-2002

Magnetic Therapy For Painless Treatment

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Are you looking for an alternative solution of medicines for different painful conditions like depression, inflammation in the joints and rheumatoid arthritis? If yes, you have got great options for this and the treatment is magnetic therapy. The best part of the therapy is that its completely painless. This is a proven technology as a large number of people have tried this non-invasive therapy for treatment and are very happy with the results.

Alternative of medicines:

Though there has been a great advancement in medical industry and scientists have come up with a number of effective medicines for different ocular conditions, the fact that these have their own side effects cant be ignored. In this situation different magnetic therapies work best. One of the most famous therapies is rTMS treatment in India. Magnetic therapy makes a safe alternative of medicines and has no unwanted effects.

Magnetic therapy

This treatment is getting more and more popular every day and the reason is effective solution for painful conditions. Affected people get quick and painless relief for muscle and joint pains. Magnetic therapy is an apt solution for treating migraines and depression, which are otherwise treated with electric shocks, a very painful treatment. Some of the major benefits of magnetic therapy are use of simple devices, helpful in post-surgery healing, brings-down stress levels, makes patients more active and improves blood circulation.

Different forms of magnetic devices

Based on different problems and individual needs, several magnetic therapy devices are available in the market.

Spot Magnets: These devices are affixed to affected body parts or to acupuncture points with surgical tapes or wraps.

Shoulder supports: These magnetic devices are used to provide support to shoulders and upper back and provide these areas magnetic healing. These are helpful in treatment of muscle pain, joint pain and arthritic shoulder pain.

PEMF Devices: Pulsed Electromagnetic Therapy (PEMF) machines are used to provide PEMF treatment to get rid of various painful conditions and depression. Major benefits one gets from PEMF therapy are decreased pain, better sleep, nerves regeneration, wound healing and creation of stronger bones.

Knee Braces: Biomagnetic knee braces prove to be helpful for painful and injured knees. Major problems these braces treat are strains, sprains and osteoarthritis knee pain.

Magnetic mattress: If you are missing a good night’s sleep for long time, use mattress pad designed with components of magnet and get a sound sleep. These boost the production of melatonin hormones and help you get a good sleep.

Author bio: Writer of this article is an expert in the field of magnetic therapy and manufacturing of different magnetic therapy devices like rTMS and PEMF machines. Check out the products at PEMF India.

Afraid Of Getting Military Mental Stress Discharge Train Your Mind, Not Just Your Body!

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Several military members get discharged every year because of the mental stress they experience while deployed. Getting discharged may be for their own health and safety in such situations; their stress, anxiety, and depression can put them in trouble and may even worsen if they stay in the field.

Unfortunately, as a military member, you would want to avoid getting discharged, especially if you have not served your full term. When you get discharged due to mental stress before you complete your term, you will not be eligible for Veteran benefits unless the doctors rule it as a medical discharge.

Being in the military is naturally stressful for anyone. You have to let go of the comforts of home and exchange it for an environment you have no control over. You also dont know what to expect. And who knows when war is going to strike? This kind of situation is enough to cause severe mental stress on anyone; some are able to handle it, while some are not. If you are about to get deployed, it would be best if you know what to do to keep the mental stress from overwhelming you.

Train the Mind. As you train your body in the military, make sure to also train the mind. Before you understand how to do that, lets give you a brief overview of how the mind works.

How the Mind Works. The mind has several levels of consciousness, the most prominent of which are the conscious mind and the subconscious. The conscious mind decides what we do, what we think of, and what we are aware of at the present moment. When we are faced with a certain situation or knowledge, the conscious mind filters it and stores it in the subconscious.

The subconscious mind, on the other hand, influences us from underneath the conscious state. Its influences can be very strong and powerful because they just direct our actions and behaviors. Since these influences come from the subconscious, we are not able to filter or evaluate them.

Unfortunately, the subconscious is very sensitive. It can absorb practically anything positive or negative. So when youre out on the field, the subconscious mind is actively absorbing everything you experience. Your subconscious absorbs all the fear, anxiety, restlessness, and negative moods of the people around you. It absorbs the threats in the environment. Slowly, these build up into powerful thought patterns and beliefs, until you stress yourself out because you start to believe in all these negative thoughts.

How to Train the Mind. Training the mind means getting into your own subconscious and conditioning it so that it does not absorb and automatically fends off negative thoughts and beliefs. Instead, you replace these negative thoughts with powerful messages that the subconscious mind can hold on to at all times during deployment.

Some examples are:

I am a survivor.
Survival skills come naturally to me.
I make the best of every situation.

These messages are called subliminal messages, because they pass under or sub the threshold or limens of the conscious mind. They are not recognizable or registered in the conscious mind; they go directly to the subconscious.