Salvador Gutierrez P7 Mar.14 - Mar. 18

This week in AP Psychology: we learned about psychological disorders.  What I found fascinating was that poets, authors, artists, and musicians have a high rate of having a psychology disorder.  I already have noticed that many legendary poets, authors, artists, and musicians had psychological disorders.  For example: Joey Ramone, Johnny Cash, Ernest Hemingway, Vincent Van Gogh, Ian Curtis, Jackson Pollock, and Michael Jackson.  Some already had the disorder and found a way to express themselves and what they are going through while others, in a way, gave themselves a disorder.  For example, a struggling artist takes some marijuana and ends up painting something amazing.  So he decides to smoke more and more marijuana and take other drugs to come up with another good painting.  Eventually destroying himself because of all the marijuana and any other drugs consumed.  I am still not sure why material from people with some sort of disorder tends to be good.  Is it because we don’t know what they are going through?  That they live in another world, and so the things they write/sing/draw about is something new to us.  It is human nature to like new things.  Or is it because of their disorder, they are able to see the world differently, in a certain manner that fascinates us.  I am not saying you need to have a psychological disorder to be a good poet, author, musician, or artist.  But it just so happens that some of the legendary poets, authors, musicians, and artists happened to have some sort of psychological disorder.  Then again, what does it mean to have a disorder?  What does it mean to be sane?

Salvador Gutierrez P7 Mar. 07 - Mar. 12

This week in AP Psychology: we learned about the different kinds of societies and their sexual attitudes; restrictive, semi-restrictive, and permissive.  I live in both restrictive and semi-restrictive societies.  My Mom’s family are semi-restrictive and my Dad’s family are restrictive.  And it is all due to their culture.  My Dad’s family are Christians, devote Christians.  And any sign or thought of premarital sex or extramarital sex is shunned upon and they will stop talking to you, for years and perhaps forever.  They are the kind of Mexicans that live and breathe telenovelas.  On the other hand, my Mom’s family live and breathe Mexican game shows.  They are Catholic, (and I know this is a stereotype but it has some truth to it) so they are not truly devoted to the ten commandments.  They do not mind premarital sex as long as no one gets pregnant, if there is a pregnancy they get angry but then they forgive and move on.  When they find out if you have committed extramarital sex, they are also angry at first but then forgive and move on.  From my experience, semi-restrictive is the way to go.  Because there is more happiness, love, and family togetherness.  Unlike my Dad’s family where sisters stop talking to each other and are never in the same building together.  Also, a restrictive society just increases the chances of premarital and extramarital sex, because it is a form of rebellion.  Oh, I forgot about the third society.  A permissive society just sounds too disorganized.  It reminds me of the hippies during the 1960s.  I will raise my kids in a semi-restrictive society, like my Mom’s family.  I will still tell them the consequences of premarital and extramarital sex and tell them that it is wrong, but if they still happen to do it then they will have to live with the consequences of their actions and I wont stop loving them.