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Men, Women, & Communication

The differences between men & women when it comes to communication are that men are apt to resolve problems quickly and women are more prone to solutions through direct concessions. These concessions are done through compromise. It might take a while to come to a compromise with women.

This is because some men cannot be trusted. Men tend to evade the truth by looking directly away from women when they are confronted. When women look at men directly inside of their eyes, this is an indication that a woman is looking for a man to tell her the truth.

This is direct communication and it is face to face. I am the type of man who will look directly inside of anyone’s face while I am talking to them. A woman of any type does not have to worry about me hiding anything from her. I am the type of person who will reveal anything to anyone at any time.

 Some people who refuse to acknowledge the truth will become quarrel minded, and become confrontational. This is because they are afraid of being confronted about their own active issues. In a relationship, it is very important to reveal the truth to your spouse or significant other in a relationship of any type.

If your relationship is one that pertains to cohabitation or a traditional marriage, then communication is very important. Men and women are supposed to learn how to listen and listen with the fullest intent of understanding the other person. I am a person who will take time out of my busy day to listen to the concerns of others.

No matter what I am doing in my life, when it comes to a relationship, I know that good communication is the key to a successful relationship. Men must learn how to listen to women. Women must learn how to listen to men as well. Therefore, it is important to understand the other person.

Men and women are totally different when it comes to communication. This is because women are more social than men in the first place. Women are more inclined to communicate for the sole purpose of establishing relationships and gaining a sense of a common ground.

When this is established, then a woman will be content in her social awareness and she will gain a sense of trust with others as long as trust and understanding has been complete and established with that person that she is in contact with. Men on the other hand establish relationships differently.

 Men tend to establish relationships through communication with a specified purpose. This is not a competitive thing; it is about establishing contacts with the opposite sex to the point that it becomes a mission for him.

Perhaps in some cases men just wanted to have a relationship without boundaries. A relationship without boundaries and limitations when it pertains to women is so shallow minded. I mean that men just want to try to do something to the point that it is like a lion searching for food.

I am not saying that all men are like this. Their intentions and expectations change according to time. Women are intellectual beings!!!!

Women who are intellectual beings will see right through a man’s plot to try to conquer her quickly that a man’s skin will curl up like a potato bug.

This is because some men become target minded. What I mean by this is that men will only fulfill a quest to conquer women without establishing a commitment. Women want a sense of commitment with a man in the first place.

 I can understand this because this is what I want for myself with a real woman. I want to establish a commitment, but a legitimate friendship first. By establishing a friendship with a real woman, you are trying to understand her from the inside out.

You are becoming honest in your efforts to have a relationship without violating her privacy. Women deserve respect to the utmost.

Remember men of the world, a woman is not a piece of meat or a spoonful of sugar. They deserve love, honesty, dignity, respect, and they also need to be treated like decent human beings. They are our auxiliaries’ men okay!!! Remember it is a woman who brings life into the world but only through your assistance okay.

 You must learn how to treat them with respect. If you love and respect your own mother, then you will learn how to treat a real woman with respect.

It is about love, truth, honesty, and respect when it comes to having a successful relationship. Always remember that good communication is the key to having a successful relationship. I am an advocate when it comes to the truth.

The older you get the wiser and intelligent you become. This comes with maturity and experience. Experience is the best teacher!!!!!!!!!!! Learning how to listen to another person and respect that person as a member of the human race is very important. If you are a living soul, then you are blessed each day as a child of God.

 As a child of God, you must learn how to love, honor, cherish, respect and tell the truth to others.  I know that my life up to this point has changed for the better.  I know that I have to make amends with both men and women.  I have to learn how to stay out of trouble just to stay out of jail or the institution of some sort.

Men and Women communicate differently.  Men and Women will have to learn how to relate well with each other.  I know that my family members and I are different.  I am saying this because I have to learn how to listen and tell the truth to everyone.  There are times when I do not even argue with anyone.

 I usually take a long walk just to clear my mind over the chaos that I have caused other people to become angry with me.  Women tend to communicate all of the time.  Men; on the other hand, are usually trying to resolve the conflict itself.  I remember when my ex wife told me in my face that she did not love me in the first place.

 I remember on that particular day because it was raining outside, and my ex wife ran outside with only a gown on during that time.  When she stated that she did not love me, I felt used and betrayed by the person who is supposed to love me.  There are times when I do not trust anyone because I feel misunderstood by members of the opposite sex.

My mother told me in my face that I will go though a great deal of pain and conflict with both men and women.  My family members and I are different.  This means that we had different fathers.  My mother told me that my father did not listen to her in the first place. 

Finally, I would like to end this essay by saying that my life itself had been complicated.  I supposed that my father was not a part of my life for selfish reasons.  There are times when men tend to only want sex from a woman only.  I guess when I was growing up, women used to avoid me all together.  I am not saying that I am not an ugly person, I supposed that women had other options. 

My life right now is complicated.  I had complicated my own life at that time.  God Bless You All!! God Loves You, and The Lord God is the one who knows me.  I really do not know what is going on with my family members right now.  I used to resolve things very quickly.  I love all of you.  Thank You for Reading my essay.

Expectations & Human Relationships

This is a report concerning the expectations when it pertains to human relationships. First, we must ask ourselves a question. What are expectations when it pertains to human relationships? Human Relationships consists of communication both direct and indirect. This means nonverbal and verbal communication as well as association. When we are in close contact with each other, we are learning what the other person is like. We are learning their habits, personality, as well as the way they conduct themselves around others. It does not matter whether these people are in our family or on the street. The best ways to communicate with anyone is by introducing yourself to another person and see what kind of response you will receive. Second, another way of communicating to others is by letter or online. Although this is classified as maintaining a false relationship or a pen-pal, but sometimes this leads into a relationship that is direct eventually, if things turn out positive. However, in most cases, people get hurt because the other person’s expectations are different than yours.

What do we mean by expectations? Let’s look at what is the definition of an expectation. An expectation is a goal or a set standard that is derived from the behavior of people. Our expectations when it pertains to human relationships are to make sure that we are honest and truthful to the best of our ability. When we are honest and truthful to another person, we are doing God’s work. If we are content with our own actions, why worry. I am a person who does not worry what others think about me. It is God who has the final word. Man can make an opinion and this is it. Man cannot tell me what to do when I am an adult. I am supposed to love and respect my parents as well as my elders.
When it comes to people, I am supposed to love them as well. I am also supposed to exercise and use discretion at all times. My expectations when it comes to human relationships are to do my very best to assist the other person. This is by showing them that I can love them for the person that they are without hurting them in any way. I try my very best each day not to damage others no matter where they come from. No matter what their socio-economic background consists of, I am supposed to respect you. Life itself is really what you make of it. Learning how to respect others instead of hurting them because of what they have or do not have. It is not all about what possessions that you have as a person. It is all about how others receive you as a member of the human race.
You know that another person can disrespect you by calling you names that can damage you, but as long as you are breathing and living, you must still stand strong. Never allow the shallow expectations of others to cause you to crumble. Standing up for yourself and making a direct stand in your own life, makes you strong as a person. We all have rights as United States Citizens and we must use these rights to stand up for ourselves in a very positive way. We must learn to be proactive rather than reactive. Your expectations are just yours.

They cannot be transferred to another person unless they are your children. Your children alone are supposed to listen to their parents. Adults on the other hand have choices. This comes when we are selecting a significant other or a spouse in our lives. I cannot tell you to marry me and demand it. I can only persuade you. I can make a statement and ask you in a very nice way about marriage. This is your choice alone. I have made numerous of good and bad choices in my life. I cannot allow the choices that I have made in my own past to slow down my progress. My goals and expectations as a member of the human race are to become successful as a God Fearing Man.

I know that I must make good choices and my expectations when it comes to human relationships are to become spouse or significant other for that special female in my life. God will bless me with that special female who is a God Fearing Woman who has special qualities. She is that diamond that shines as soon as it has emerged from the ground. This diamond I will cherish forever. I will do everything in my power to keep this diamond in my possession for the rest of my entire existence. A solid Gold Bouillon is the same exact way. The way I personally feel from the inside out, is that I want a female who shares the same ideas just like me.

I like to converse with her on a daily basis and share about my entire day. There are player hating men out there who just do not want the next man to have a good African American woman. I am telling you the truth. Men are so jealous of each other that they need to mind their own business. This is a big problem in the African American Community, this is called jealousy. Men have always been jealous of the other and this is causing an outrage in our community when it comes to women.

Life and Communication

Life and Communication is very simple. What are we talking about here? Let’s start off by asking ourselves a very important question. What is life and how it relates to communication? Life is what you really make of things while you are living in the present. Life is your existence that you possess. The air that you breathe as well as flesh that you have. Communication is the language that you speak consisting of dialects as well as methods of words that one use to speak. Your voice that comes from your mouth is used as a means of communication itself.

Life and Communication are intertwined. They are go hand in hand. A communication and human relationship is used when men, women, and children share experiences about their lives to each other that make sense. Men, women, and children speak to each other as a means of sending and delivering messages to one another. When it pertains to this subject, our lives are shaped by the way we conduct ourselves others. It is our personality, disposition, and characteristics that we have that makes others either like or dislike you as a person. Life and Communication is not always easy. It is how you live your life that makes you successful inside of your environment or more apt towards failures. It is not always easy to think that you can obtain everything all in one day.

You will not obtain all that you need in one day. These things take time. All of these things that people who are possessive tend to hold onto their possessions and past will slowly lose it quickly. When one is possessive, they tend to become selfish in their own way. Men have a tendency to become this way especially when they want control and they are afraid of losing something that was already obtained. Men and women share these characteristics when it comes to possessiveness. Women on the other hand, tend to become possessive when it pertains to resources and finances. When it comes to material things, at least some of them, women are apprehensive of losing them very suddenly.

There are some who are reluctant to change their names when they are married. Marriage is not the end of the world ladies. It is a lifetime commitment between your spouse and significant other. Cohabitation on the other hand is a trial period in a relationship between a man and a woman. It is a feeling out process and an evaluation of one another in a relationship. This is done by direct and indirect observation. This is also a decision making process to determine if a man or a woman will be willing to share the rest of their lives with the person that they are living with.
Are you willing to spend the rest of your life with the person that you are cohabitating with? This is a very good question for men and women to ask each other while they are involved in their relationships. Traditional marriage is very serious. This is a lifelong decision that sometimes leads to hardship if a person makes a bad decision while they are cohabitating with their spouse or significant other. All couples will have some good and bad times. It is how you make the best of things through those good and bad times.

Life and Communication is splendid if you have the basis already established beforehand. You will have to examine all of your own resources first before you are able to get involved in any relationship with another person. It also starts off by being honest with each other from the onset. Telling the truth about yourself to another person is a good way of establishing better communication skills with that person that you are willing to share your life with. Always remember that deception inside of a relationship leads to failure. A relationship without trust and honesty from the very beginning leads to trouble.

Men and women must always share the truth to each other no matter what happens in their relationships with each other. Life and Communication also pertains to complete families. This is also shared with children so that they will have a basis to follow in their adult life. When children understand certain concepts about telling the truth and not hiding from others, this will help them to improve in their communication skills with others. Children who are productive and honest have successful lives. This comes from being involved in a healthy family who has healthy relationships.
This comes from learning how to speak to each other in pleasant ways. This also comes from learning how to become honest and truthful. Conflict of Interest comes from those who tend to deny or refuse the existence of others. This comes from anyone who has children or relationships with others and denies it from the very start. A conflict of interest can also come from an interest that is taken out of context. This pertains to businesses and partnerships that are established by others who make agreements and do not keep them. A technicality is something that is meaningful and relevant only in principle.

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Spirituality as a Coping Skill for Mental Illness

                                                            

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                        Anthony Joseph Hopkins Mental illness alone is very challenging for more than 40 million people living in the United States. People who struggle with the diagnosis of a mental illness find themselves struggling to make it. Frankly, there are people, who turn to their faith in God just to make it. Personally, I suffer from schizoid affective disorder. I have been suffering from a mental illness for almost 23 years now. Why having a serious mental illness would is so difficult?  For me, I hear voices that are not the Holy Spirit. In my report, I have found that spirituality is an often-overlooked resource in mental illness recovery. My assessment of religious or spiritual beliefs are under researched, and in most cases, it is laughed at by the Mental Health Community.  Honestly, most psychiatrist refuse to actually listen to their patients. Many psychiatrist and therapist that I have consulted with during the past 22 years, feel that my spirituality is pointless. I will admit that I have benefitted from pastoral counseling more than consulting with a psychiatrist and therapist. There are three main reasons how people with a mental illness cope with their problem. First, through spirituality, as well as relying on a power that is greater than the person themselves. As for me, I attend Fort McKinley United Methodist Church. The address to the church is 3721 West Siebenthaler Avenue Dayton, Ohio 45406. I have attended Fort McKinley Church for 7 years now.  It helps me to cope much better with a mental illness by attending church as well as Bible study during the week. I feel a whole lot better when I am at church. Second, there are over 50 million people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness and a substance abuse problem.

This statistic comes from the National Institute of Mental Health. People who suffer from a mental illness, at least some of them drink alcohol or self-medicate themselves just to cope with their problem. Third, another coping mechanism that some people have used is suicide. I remember on February 13, 2010; I tried to kill myself because I was responding to internal stimuli.   The voices that I was hearing told me to kill myself. Smolak, Gearing, Alonzo, Baldwin, Harmon, and McHugh (2013) reflected and reviewed 43 original research studies over the past 30 years. These people have discovered that patterns that were related or pertaining to religious beliefs and a patient’s recovery from a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia.  This observation found that religion and spirituality have a mostly positive association with mental illness recovery. However, the intensive observation indicated that spiritual perceptions of family, caregivers, the community at large, and professionals affiliated to the mental illness saw tremendous progress.    The results pointed out that religious themes were often evident in the perception of disease etiology, that family members and caregivers used religion as well as religious based professionals over mental health professionals. I would admit that working with a Pastor each week is much more feasible than dealing with a psychiatrist on a monthly basis. However, this report has better reflections of the patient.  It also has a better understanding of a patient’s spiritual and religious beliefs as it assists in improving coping with a mental illness better than relying on medication. Religion and spirituality in conjunction with mental illness recovery remained historically under emphasized and minimized by mental health professionals. This means that spirituality will have to be emphasized by the patient themselves as a means to better cope with their mental illness. The report finished with the idea of how enhancing the treatment provider’s awareness of a patient’s religious and spiritual interaction may improve treatment outcomes. I would like to say that religion and spirituality is not emphasized during an average consultation or therapy session. The majority of professionals prefer the use of medication to eradicate mental illness. Corrigan, McCorkle, Schell, and Kidder (2003) studied a total of 1,824 patients living with serious mental illness, who also had significant functional disability, but did not engage in substance abuse. The information pointed out that the self-reporting of spirituality and religion as well as measured outcomes in psychological well-being, psychiatric symptoms, and life goal achievement such as employment and housing. This study determined whether religion and spirituality yielded similar benefits in the lives of people challenged and suffering from a serious mental illness, but also determined if those same people benefitted differently from religion. The patient’s themselves participated in community activities and common ways of worshipping versus spirituality defined as thinking about one’s self as part of a larger spiritual force. (P. 488).     This study found that patients who self-identified as religious or spiritual has a much greater sense of well-being, better coping skills, and diminished psychiatric symptoms.  There was also no difference in quality of life as far as employment and/or housing. People who suffer from a serious mental illness usually advocate and assert that religion and spirituality serve essential recovery roles in that they may provide useful coping skills to help with stressors.  Also, as previously noted, mental health professionals tend not to be very religious; therefore, the differences between professionals and patients may lead to a gap in treatment as professionals fail to ask about beliefs.   This could lead to a failure to explore religion or spirituality as a means towards a therapeutic end.  There are conclusions from this study.  The raw facts suggest there may be a need for faith-based programs to be integrated into recovery programs for people with serious mental illness.     In the future, more research is needed to determine the role of faith-based programs and to more thoroughly examine the causes and effects of spirituality in the lives of people who suffer from mental illness.       In all cases, this study and examination serves to remind mental health professionals of the central role religion or spirituality often play in the lives of patients and to the fact that sensitivity to the patient’s needs in this area lead professionals to helping the patient find appropriate services and resources. Women and minorities struggle with mental illness are much more intense than other races.  These patients were more likely to be religious and more likely to turn to their faith as a means of coping, getting better, and staying healthy.  These patient’s length of stay in a psychiatric ward was significantly shorter for patients who attend worship services or used religious thoughts and activities as one of the most important strategies to deal with their mental illness. An initial spiritual assessment should focus on determining how patient’s spiritual beliefs and practices influences their functioning and recovery.  By doing so, mental health professionals will likely uncover strengths and resources that can be utilized to foster recovery.  Mental Health Professionals can also help patients focus on their capabilities and resilience as well as accessing and using other positive recovery-oriented narratives drawn from the patient’s spiritual worldview in order to address their problems more efficiently. Spiritual Assessment within the mental health area is under researched and given that spirituality and/or religion is identifiably a magnificent and positive part of serious mental illness recovery.   This needs to be a more widely researched and utilized avenues of social science.  In a society where, mental illness can be isolating and stigmatizing label; spirituality can be a core identity to which almost everyone can find a community or ways to help make life with serious mental illness worth living.                  

References

1.  Corrigan, P., McCorkle, B., & Kidder, K. (2003). Religion and Spirituality in the lives of people with serious mental illness.  Community Mental Health Journal, 39(6) 487-99 2.  Smolak, A., Gearing, R. E., Alonzo, D., Baldwin, S., Harmon, S., & McHugh, K. (2013). Social Support and Religion: Mental health service use and treatment of schizophrenia. Community Mental Health Journal 49(4) 444-50