I didn't know me

I'm enjoying my Psychology class more and more... but it's also a little unnerving.

With the "I'm learning a lot about people and why they work the way they do," I'm also learning a lot about myself and what makes me tick and why I have my personality flaws, etc.

Every class it seems I have an AH-HA! moment where I realize that something I did or thought or felt or a way in which I acted was because it's more-or-less normal psychology. It's bizaar!

Today I found out that:
- I'm more like a Type A personality even though I'd like to be a Type B with the motivation of a Type A
- I have too much stress. I'm anxious and tense now and If I keep going like this, I'll end up with long-term problems. Whoopie!
- When I had my car accident over two years ago, I took me over a month to finally get upset about it. Yup, that would have been an example of posttraumatic stress disorder. I definitely experienced the Five Stages:

• Psychic Numbness - shutting down of mind and emotion
• Automatic Action - calling 911, calling insurence, calling Mum
• Communal Effort - Wes' dad lent me his car until I got a new one
• Letdown - Phsycially/Emotionall worn out. This is when I finally got upset, a month later.
• Recovery - I had my new car and it drove fine. I just had to get used to not seeing my little red escort.

- Change can be hazardous to your health!!!!! That's why people are happy with things never really changing. Example: My job. I just changed jobs and even though I'm less sleepy and therefore less irritable, but I'm more stressed therefore more irritable. So really, it all balanced out.

I have to go birthday shopping for my Wesley now... yay! something fun today!