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 Hey team, As you know I've been reading more on psychology recently. I have focused more on eastern themes of understanding but recently I have been also interested in Carl G Jung, a classic swiss psychologist from late 1800's and early 1900s. A lovely man with fascinating insight inspired by many concepts from the east along with others (of course). Now I can read all I want on these messages of knowledge and understanding but what is any of that without practice and true understanding of the concepts? I would like to share a collection of quotes I have written down recently that come from my own inner understanding of the concepts along with words written by others that I felt were very true and powerful to me.  "Low self worth manifests as needing external validation and obliviousness" "When  feelings of inferiority arise we devalue others" "Narcissistic people spend a majority of their time thinking about how they are perceived" "Manipula...

 When tuberculosis patients started the first MAOI's 

Hey team, Today I will be building upon one of my previous blogs on ego and the mind. After reading "Understanding our Mind," watching various videos on eastern schools of psychological thought, and taking time to reflect on life, I have arrived at some profound realizations about the nature of self and ego. When asked "who are you," our usual responses often involve identity markers such as "I am a man," "I am a student," or "I am a son." While these labels are not incorrect as points of reference, they fail to fully encapsulate the essence of the self. Let me expand. Would I cease to exist if I were not a man? Certainly not. Gender identity is important, but it is just one facet of who I am. If I were no longer a student, would I cease to be me? Absolutely not. My identity extends beyond educational roles. Let's consider two students; although they may share similar academic pursuits, they remain distinct individuals. Thus, identi...

 Hey team, Today I will draw out all the drugs I've learned and memorized this summer. After taking organic chemistry, both 1 and 2, this past year at university I learned how to use skeletal structures as a way to understand the structure of different organic (carbon based) chemicals. Though we didn't have to learn any specific compounds in this class, I started to dive more into the specific drugs I found interesting around me. These are drugs for common health conditions, psychiatric conditions, recreational purposes, plant derived and so on. There isn't a need to know the structure of these drugs unless you are an organic chemist synthesizing them, so for me it's kynda just for fun and a fun challenge that happens to align well with my education and career path. Over this summer I have lots of books of psychiatry and pharmacology and have also read many papers and looked up individuals drugs as well to learn and indulge in that which I find interesting and learn new...

 Hey team, Yesterday, 8/11, I had the opportunity to talk with the Co-Executive Director of the Thomas M. Ryan Professor of Neuroscience PhD John Robinson at the university of rhode island (the school I go to for pharmacy). Despite not being the most involved in directly related pharmacy teachings, I felt very interested to talk with Dr. Robinson due to his focus in behavioral neuroscience and his background in psychology. I figured I could learn a thing or two about his studies and also the man behind his studies. I could not have been more satisfied with our talk.  He is a very friendly and engaging individual who instilled a feeling of mutual respect within myself (something that is often lacking with upper level professionals). I learned of his background in studying rats with a focus in dementia related diseases. Despite not being human models, rats do serve a very helpful role in understanding mechanisms of drug, environmental and social effects. I learned that, though l...

 Hey team, I recently obtained a copy of "Basic Concepts in Pharmacology: A Student's Survival Guide". This is to prepare for my up coming semester as a P1 at my university and to entertain my own curiosity with pharmacology and drugs. Pharmacokinetics is the study of how your body breaks down and removes them from your body.  To start when a patient takes a drug we want it to be lipid, AKA fat, soluble. We don't want the drug to have a charge or be too polar from different functional groups. The drug will either be in it's protonated or deprotonated form. Depending on the acidity of not only the climate of the body (pH) and the pK of the drug the drug will be in one of the two forms. If the pK of the drug is greater than that of the pH, the drug will stay in its protonated and uncharged form (lipid soluble, probably). If the pK is less than the pH the drug will be de protonated giving an H+ and the weak conjugate base so that it can neutralize the more acidic env...

 Since working at Java Junction seabright location over summer I have collected a brief collection of fast facts on the fellow people who work here. Java J, as I like to call it, is a cute and warm coffee shop located just a few blocks from seabright beach with so-so coffee but all the spirit you could ask for, and one hell of mocha! Java J fasts facts! Serving since 1993 Allison the manager is from Austin, Texas Mike, the roaster, lives in the mountains and has a kid Isabel is THE gay one Sierra is 18 We have two asexuals baristas The monkey business smoothie is 100% monkey free  We give all dogs that want a treat a slice of turkey You must tip first, or not, before you pay on the credit machine  Karen is the owner and is still married to the Micheal Karen hates Billy Joel  We get about 10 spam calls a day

 Hi all, Second blog. Recently I read  "Understanding Our Mind" .This book explored how our mind works from a traditionally eastern/ buddhist perspective as written by Thích Nhất Hạnh, a Vietnamese buddhist monk. I found myself drawn to these teaching after understanding to a degree that ego is pervasive voice in our heads that does much harm. Throughout my life I have heard comments about certain people having "big egos" often associated with perceptions of arrogance with a very much negative connotation. I have also heard to a degree that ego is rooted in insecurity, a take that was once hard to understand with people who are overt about how successful they are. Without fully understanding what ego is and isn't I knew for certain that it existed and I probably was referring to it wrong. From watching various videos teaching on eastern psychology schools of thought I learned that ego can manifest itself in more than one way and that even more concealed (covert)...

  Hi all!      My name is J.T. Berard-Moore, I am an up-and-coming pharmacist to be going into my first year of pharmacy school come fall (as of august 2023). But that doesn't even scratch the surface. I am passionate about learning above all. I have my more nieche/ special interests associated with what I'm pursuing my degree after, that being psychopharmacology a specialty of pharmacy/ pharmacology as a whole, but a greater interest of really applying all that I'm able to grasp and understand. This hopefully entails a career in which I'm able to work directly with patients to help them understand themselves better and get proper treatment. In going through my own struggles with mental health and psychotropic treatment alike, I found a deep realization that I am far from powerless from not only understanding what's going on but how to help myself (along with a lovely support system of friends, family and professionals). This has involved really understandi...