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Mental disorders are typically interesting and I think researching on some of them was rather fun. However, psychotic disorders are slightly more interesting such as Windigo Psychosis where the person afflicted thinks that they are possessed by a human-flesh-hungry ice demon so they go on a slaughtering rampage to try and satisfy the insane hunger. No complaints though, Synesthesia is definitely odd and so is Congenital Analgia. I don't really think that it would be an awesome thing to not feel pain. But a few of the diseases such as Alzheimer's, Epilepsy, or Dementia I already knew quite a bit about so hearing about them again wasn't very captivating only because it wasn't anything new to learn.

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The concepts during the past week that were covered were quite simple. However, the defence mechanisms are easily confusable with each other. But otherwise, not a difficult concept to grasp after I got down the distinct differences between some of them (like with denial and rationalization and deciding whether or not there was an excuse made). Speaking of theories, Sigmund Freud doesn't necessarily have the most normal ones. The Id, Ego, & Superego concept makes the most sense out of all the theories of his that we have learned to date mainly because there isn't many facts or even a solid base for them like the psycho-sexual stage theory. Honestly, how could anyone, especially a coke-head, discover the correlation between any of behaviors and developmental conditions that the theory mentions?