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Does Personal Change Bring About Political Change? by Meg A. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 07 Aug 2009 10:17pm retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”? uncompromise.wordpress.com, Forget Shorter Showers – why personal change does not equal political change I have to say I agree... up and become big things. It would seem that Derrick Jensen doesn't necessarily share this opinion: WOULD ANY SANE PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler Read on »

Taking Shorter Showers Doesn’t Cut It: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change by Chelsea Green Patient Expert

Posted Sun 19 Jul 2009 10:22pm Is it true that individual action simply isn’t enough? Derrick Jensen believes that taking on the system—the corporations, military, and politicians—and either tearing it down or replacing it with something sustainable is the only way to enact meaningful change. If we want to stop climate change and the rampant pillaging, waste, and destruction Read on »

Personal Changes = Weight Loss Success by MariasLastDiet.com Doctor of Philosophy

Posted Thu 22 Oct 2009 10:03pm associated with the change you want to make maintaining the changes once you make them. What prompts a person to first think of making a change in weight is discomfort with her... you should be or want to be, get ready for a process of personal change. Read on »

Percocet and personality changes by Jan Posted Sat 28 Feb 2009 5:41am I joined this site in the attempt of getting some information on what prolonged use of Percocet does to the mental state of a person. I am hoping to achieve that by writing here, as I have a friend who has been taking this medication for over 3 years. She becomes hysterical and cries at the least little thing. She has begun to make up stories, em ... Read on »

Personality Changes by Life With Shaky Patient Expert

Posted Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:54pm One of the things that stood out to me this weekend, during our little tiff about memory, is how Keith's personality is changing. Namely, his temper. I can count on one hand the number of times Keith and I have fought, so this change in temper is really throwing me for a loop. In my last post I didn't go into too much detail about exactly what Read on »

"Escaping Gravity" to Create Personal Change by Dr. Karen S. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted Sat 13 Sep 2008 1:05am pressure (how would tuning forks feel social pressure??) -- it's an actual energy phenomenon. So if we put this together with trying to create personal change, maybe you can see... for change may be encouraged to avoid others who are of the old mind set. Someone trying to change a drug habit, for instance, is counselled to avoid other drug users, drug haunts Read on »

Safety v. Personality Change by Ginger T. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 01 Oct 2008 8:03pm A few weeks ago in the comments section of my blog, the question was raised, is it worth treating autism if it changes the personality of the autistic child. I argued..., both now, and when their parents are no longer around to protect them. If “curing” my son’s autism changes his personality, I believe it is worth it, if only because Read on »

Happiness Myth #2 – Nothing Changes a Person’s Happiness Level Much. by Gretchen R. Patient Expert

Posted Tue 03 Mar 2009 2:20pm You Change It?” in Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener’s Happiness and Richard E. Lucas’s “Personality and Subjective Well-Being” in The Science of Subjective Well-Being... happier is futile. People have a genetic set-point that doesn’t change. I heard about a study of people who became paralyzed, and after a few months, they were back to their old Read on »

Have meds changed your personality? by Susan .. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 03 May 2009 10:48pm I know a lot has been said about side effects from meds ruining people's life, such as weight gain, ED, etc. But I cannot help but wonder, if anyone has noticed personality changes with the meds they are on? Were you once a happy go lucky person, and now you are a worry wart? Do you suffer from OCD, something you never had before? Have you suffered Read on »

Antidepressants change personality, study suggests - Article by Untreatable .. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 09 Dec 2009 9:05am symptoms. "Medication can definitely change people's personalities, and change them quite substantially," says the lead author of the study, Tony Z. Tang, Ph.D., a professor... -- can cause personality changes is not new. But many researchers have attributed these changes to a patient's improved mood, and have been skeptical that SSRIs had independent Read on »