F2F Class Notes 27th March (Joseph)

Vocabulary

Annoying (v) – when something disturbs you or makes you stressed (e.g. Today was an annoying day because my landlord kept on annoying me.)

Hoarder – someone who doesn’t like to throw things away. (e.g. Some people call me a hoarder because I never like to throw things away.)

OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) – (e.g. I think I have OCD because I can never use the number 23.)

Odd numbers – 1,3,5,7

Even number – 2,4,6,8

Loan – to borrow money from the bank (e.g. I had to take a student loan in order to pay for my school tuition.)

Avoid – to try and not do something (e.g. I always try to avoid my boss when I know I have done something wrong.)

Edited:

It is difficult to understand how our brain works and why people have some behaviours that are not common in our society.
I personally think that every mental disorder appears for a specific reason. These disorders develop in order to give to the person a way to disconnect from their real problems.
Sometimes it seems easier to concentrate all your efforts on avoiding the real issue and instead focus on short term benefits. For example addiction, eating disorders or OCD?
The people who suffer from these kind of disorders always prefer the benefits of their bad habits instead of staying mentally healthy. I’m sure sometimes it is more difficult to face life’s problems than to change their unhealthy behaviours.

Original:

It is difficult to understand how our brain works and why the people have some behaviors that are not common in our society.
I personally think that every mental disorder appears for a specific reason. This disorders appears in order to give to the person a way to disconnect from their real problems.
Sometimes it seems easier to concentrate all your effort in having an adicction, an eating disorder or to be horder compulsive blabla?
The people who suffer from this kind of disorders have always a bennefit to do this behavior instead to stay mental healthy. I’m sure sometimes is more difficult to face some life problems? than to get used this unhealthy behavior.