wine of happiness

Hello reader! Today I would like to show you a very “funny” new.  That new comes from a Chilean newspaper called “La Tercera”.

To drink a glass of wine everyday reduces the probabilities to get depression. With this weird sentence that new starts.

The “BMC Medicine” magazine reports a PREDIMED study. The result says that drink wine with moderation will be associated with depression. The alcohol has protectors effects on depression just like with heart disease.

Drink alcohol actually is a popular and massive behavior. In that context other studies say that the excessive consume of this drink it was related with health problems and mental problems like depression. But there are not very studies about the exclusive relation between mental disorders and consume of alcohol.

That new study analyze the relation of moderated consume of alcohol (using wine like the principal alcoholic drink) and depression. With annual visits, medical exams, questionnaires and interviews hey follow (for 7 years) around 5500 drinkers between 55 and 80 years old and study his consume of alcohol, mental health and lifestyle. The results finally say that the person who drink alcohol with moderation have less possibilities to get depression.  

In my personal opinion I think that this study is very stupid.  The variables “drink wine” and “to develop” depression doesn’t have any significant correlation to validate their hypothesis. I think the result of this study was hilarious.

“La Tercera” have a daily print version.  And also they have a web site with all this news. If you want to see the “wine new”, check the website and laugh with me. See you next week!   

  http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2013/08/659-540441-9-una-copa-de-vino-al-dia-reduciria-el-riesgo-de-depresion.shtml

happiness :D

Hello reader! This time I´m going to talk about a video, “The surprising science of happiness”. In this video Dan Gilbert talks about happiness studies and his conclusions.

Starts talking about the brain and his “history”. How the brain become more complex and unique if you make a compare with the brain of other species. Mention the apparition of the pre-frontal cortex. All this changes on the human brain helps to the creation of synthetic happiness.  

Synthetic happiness is a construction created in our minds because natural happiness is too hard to get in a limited-freedom context. Dan Gilbert says that the synthetic happiness is equally important that the natural happiness. The big difference between these two concepts is the freedom. More freedom is more natural happiness and less synthetic happiness and less freedom is more synthetic happiness and less natural happiness.

I think that the concept “happiness” is very important to each person. A lot of people spends all his life searching that happiness and sometimes they really don´t know about the meaning of this word. Is important don´t forget that the actual society can take away our freedom (is the way to live with others without problems).

With these ideas you can think that the synthetic happiness is good sometimes but the natural happiness is necessary because that shows our real freedom.                   

One chapter and I go to bed…

Welcome back reader! This time I`m going to talk about guilty pleasures. UF! Some people can think that a “guilty pleasure” is a bad thing but I don´t think that. I think that a guilty pleasure is a way to escape, is YOUR place, you can feel comfortable and safe. The problem is when the person abused that way because a pleasure can be an addiction.

 Personally I have two guilty pleasures and I proud of them:

The first pleasure is new. My mom give me a new mobile phone and a friend installed me an awesome game “pokemon ruby”. I can play it wherever I go. I think that’s the reason why I can´t stop playing.

The second pleasure is watch series and anime (Japanese animations). Internet is a great way to get that series and keep your money safe (series and movies are too expensive in this days). I can watch hours and hours, day and night, I think that is better during the night. The problem is the next morning because I look like a zombie.

Finally I need to say that my two pleasures takes a lot (A LOT!) of time, but they don´t makes serious problems in my life, so I want to keep them with me.                 

places and dreams

Hello dear reader! Now I´m going to talk about places and travel. Just like a lot of people, I love travel but I can´t have the possibilities to do it frequently (especially for money reasons). I visited a lot of Chilean places for example La Serena, Chiloe, Coyaique and Puerto Varas. Also I visited two Argentina´s places, Chubut and Bariloche. But my travelling dream is going to Isla de Pascua (Easter island in other words). That magical place is my dream come true…. I hear a lot of histories of that beautiful piece of haven. The stories said that the island can clean the people soul and can make you feel light and peaceful. Other reason because I want to go there is his singular culture and the beautiful people. I hear in the news that they health system is very bad, that event makes me think “I want to go to the island and work there helping people”. Now I don´t know how, maybe in schools or like a clinical psychologist, perhaps with old people or in the lower area… anyway the plan is still there, incomplete but there.         

Let me sleep...

Hello reader! Today I´m going to talk about dreams….

The word “dream” has two different meanings. One of them is the images that you see while you are asleep; the second meaning is an idea or a very far wish (for example dream with a world in peace).

In psychology, specifically in psychoanalysis, the interpretation of the dreams are very important because dreams can show things like memories or emotions that the dreamer repress for different reasons (that can be conscious or unconscious).

I believe in the power of dreams. A person can´t use all of his brain so is impossible say with security that the brain can´t do something mystic when we are sleeping. For some persons maybe this is a stupid thing. But I have experiences that make me question for the real meaning of dreams.

Anyway, the dreams are an important thing for everybody. In the world of painting exist the “surrealism” is an art current (my favorite) that transform the dreams in piece of art. My favorite artist in this current is the wild Salvador Dali. Now I let you some images of his paintings.   

Personality

Wellcome again dear reader! This time I am going to talk about subjects.

On this career I study many subjects, but one of my favorites is “Psychology of personality”. I like this subject because I learned a lot of interesting theories of psychoanalysis and humanist theories too.

When I was at the school I studied this topics and I thing that consider the unconscious like a important part of the human mind is a revolutionary idea (in case of psychoanalisis), because on this time the people thought that the only way to understand the human actions is by the body, not the mind. So, Sigmund Freud (father of psychoanalisis) changed this conception with his theories.

Also I studied the humanist theories. They gave more relevance to the patient. Before these news ideas, the patient is only the guy with a mental ill and the therapist is who does all the work to back him to a “normal” state. But they gave to the patient an active role, so now he work with the therapist hand by hand.    

On “Psychology of personality” I can study properly all of this themes and more, I like it a lot               

My little boy

This is my favorite photograph. Everyone can see a common mouse with red eyes but I see my little angel. He is Roquefort, my little pet, my little fighter, my partner.

My mother took this photo on 2011 in an ordinary day when he was in my hands. This photograph is my profile photo on facebook (an important thing for me) all my friends can see it on this web site.

Roquefort lived in a laboratory, I don´t know anything about the experiments makes on this place. The pro-animals people rescued 9 mice. I saw Roquefort on internet and I adopted him.

I put him this name, is a kind of cheese, I think it was very funny that a mouse have a cheese name. He lives with me 2 happy years. He died on January and I miss him so much.

This photo can make me remember him but not the time when he was sick. I can remember when he ran all over my house. When he was happy and healthy. 

I have a lot of photographs about Roquefort but this is definitely my favorite.