var title = 'Psychology and Mental Health Forum Psychology Feed';
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		var site_desc = 'Psychology and Mental Health Forum';
		var time = 'Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:03:30 -0400';

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		data[0]['title'] = 'Urge to bite....';
		data[0]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/urge_to_bite...._c-3_u-269745_b-7695.html';
		data[0]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/urge_to_bite...._c-3_u-269745_b-7695.html';
		data[0]['username'] = 'hiding_the_broken';
		data[0]['blog_id'] = '7695';
		data[0]['blog_message'] = 'I'm a 16 year old girl. I never bit anyone as a kid or anything like that. I have been diagnosed with OCD, Severe Clinical Depression, and a Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I am on medication for those things. But I have been having the urge to bite things lately. It doesn't matter what mood I'm in. I just randomly have the urge to bite things. I mostly bite myself; I could never bite another person. Yes, I have been self-harming for a little over 4 years, so maybe it's just another form of self-harm, but it's getting pretty bad. The bite marks last about a half hour. I've only broken through skin once. What is going on with me..why am I biting all of a sudden...';
		data[0]['blog_time'] = 'Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:28:08 -0500';
		

		data[1] = new Array();
		data[1]['title'] = 'What Now?';
		data[1]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/what_now%CA%94_c-3_u-258910_b-6958.html';
		data[1]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/what_now%CA%94_c-3_u-258910_b-6958.html';
		data[1]['username'] = 'shortsnorts';
		data[1]['blog_id'] = '6958';
		data[1]['blog_message'] = 'So, my step brother took the plea. What now? What happens next? I have been preparing for the worst, and now I'm suppose to be happy? I don't understand.';
		data[1]['blog_time'] = 'Mon, 19 May 2014 19:19:31 -0400';
		

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		data[2]['title'] = 'Old self harm scars, military, psychology-- question.';
		data[2]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/old_self_harm_scars_military_psychology_question._c-3_u-259312_b-6926.html';
		data[2]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/old_self_harm_scars_military_psychology_question._c-3_u-259312_b-6926.html';
		data[2]['username'] = 'AriMcGuire';
		data[2]['blog_id'] = '6926';
		data[2]['blog_message'] = 'Hi! <br /><br />Well I&#039;m 24 years old, my scars are a decade old, literally. When I was younger, I grew up in a war called &quot;home&quot; and I suppressed my emotions, I always had a smile on, was always making others laugh, pretending pain was not reality. It was reality alright, I broke at the tender age of 14, but I never wanted to die. I had harmed myself in order to understand the feelings others would get from cutting, but I could never seem to find the pleasure through it, it hurt! I did this a few times until I said &quot;enough is enough there must be another way!&quot;-- And truthfully the only way was simply getting my life together, it all starts from within. I learned to deal with pain on my own, no help. I&#039;ve been through a lot and have made plenty of mistakes, but I believe and KNOW my past does NOT define the strong woman I am today. <br /><br />I&#039;ve always wanted to serve my country, I&#039;ve been a protector since a child, the fuel to the fire actually started at home protecting my mother and sister from my father, then I proceeded behind the doors of my homes, such as protecting ones from bullies. I want to enlist with the Air Force in a year, do a bit more college before hand, and I want to major in psychology. I&#039;d love to help anyone in general, from my personal experiences I have helped many, and I will not stop being there for others, guiding them, showing them there is a way. I feel there&#039;s too many people that go into professions that give service onto others simply for the money, instead of doing it because it comes from the heart, because they genuinely care, and want to help. <br /><br />I&#039;ve seen positive and negative thoughts over my past and how it can disqualify me, I will still try my best and give it my all, but what is your thoughts on this? And even if I do get disqualified, I&#039;m gonna continue my studies towards becoming a psychologist. I can still become one, right? It would be a shame to know all years I&#039;d put into something I love I&#039;d be denied from because of my past mistakes. <br /><br />Thank you!';
		data[2]['blog_time'] = 'Wed, 14 May 2014 22:51:20 -0400';
		

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		data[3]['title'] = 'Am i getting over my OCD or is it getting worse?';
		data[3]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/am_i_getting_over_my_ocd_or_is_it_getting_worse%CA%94_c-3_u-157601_b-4356.html';
		data[3]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/am_i_getting_over_my_ocd_or_is_it_getting_worse%CA%94_c-3_u-157601_b-4356.html';
		data[3]['username'] = 'Archer808';
		data[3]['blog_id'] = '4356';
		data[3]['blog_message'] = 'Im really looking for help, just insight from people who have been through this tough and stressful road... (Cant afford, to see a therapist at the moment, insurance doesn&#039;t cover lol) <br />21, young.. <br />I love people... I would give my last dollar to someone who says they need it. <br />Have trouble keeping a job, but getting one is easy as cake, I just get bored real quick..<br /><br />Now that we&#039;ve been introduced, <img src="https://www.psychforums.com/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><br /><br />For a few years now I&#039;ve been struggling with panic attacks and high stress...at first it was just that id get dizzy and start panicking, and my heart would feel like I was just lifting a fridge. ha<br /><br />But as the years progressed I started looking up things like schizophrenia, and ADD and OCD, and for about a year and a half now my obsession with being scizo has consumed me... what sucks is that I developed a mean phobia of people doing things to my food.. I was afraid someone had done something to things prepared for me if it be in a dinner or already packaged food.. I would come home and think, what if someone broke in and tampered with the food my mom made.. Or if the delivery guy was late, did he do something to the food... I stopped eating mushrooms (because of the fear that I may eat a magic shroom lol ) I lost alot of weight because of this...lol Which would bring me to the conclusion ( and i know self diagnosing myself is bad) but that i may be scizo...<br /><br />Well I started attacking my fears head on, and began eating again, anything, and everything... Things got better.. and worse. I still get the occasional panic attack but my mind is now consumed by other thoughts regarding me being scizo for other reasons now...<br /><br />My mind is stuck on the what if idea that one day I snap and kill someone, or hurt someone i love.. My attention has been targeted to one person, (for a small period of time) then sometimes just anyone.. i started to push myself away from sharp objects and such.. STOPPED that early. ( i knew that once i went down that road id be screwed with more weight to carry.)<br /><br />I also read that if you loose emotion towards these ideas, and instead of fearing them you become excited, or question what if you might just enjoy murder, that you may be deranged. So I (being the hypochondriac that I am) started to question this as well.. I get these weird and obsessive thoughts but now I try to laugh bout it and keep moving but i cant tell if im just getting better or tricking myself and just getting worse....<br /><br />I also adopt symptoms as i read them, like i read that someone with scizo will have difficulty speaking or writing, or doing certain things, or they may hear noises or see things, so I began finding myself watching myself, (and almost forcibly) started having difficulty with speaking, or seeing things out the corners of my eyes, or hearing things around my house... I feel great when i write or talk about it, i just want to know if anyone is on the same boat as me. Am i crazy, is this normal OCD, or am I wierder than i think lol. I can get a job, I have no difficulty getting woman, Im kind of a metro sexual so i take a little to much care of myself, I like to talk, i can get along with anyone..Im just so lost rite about now, I want out of this fear, and what feels like limbo!!!<br /><br />What scares me the most out of all of this is that i know how to write well, and speak well, maybe my grammar is horrific on this little yahoo answers piece, but when i really want to throw down i can... And thats what scares me, am i sane, and just obsessing over being crazy or just crazy pretending to sane...?<br /><br />please leave a line, much love <br />Richie';
		data[3]['blog_time'] = 'Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:34:21 -0400';
		

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		data[4]['title'] = 'AvPD, SAD, lack of eye contact, and fear of being touched?';
		data[4]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/avpd_sad_lack_of_eye_contact_and_fear_of_being_touched%CA%94_c-3_u-235406_b-5338.html';
		data[4]['url'] = 'https://www.psychforums.com/blog/Psychology/avpd_sad_lack_of_eye_contact_and_fear_of_being_touched%CA%94_c-3_u-235406_b-5338.html';
		data[4]['username'] = 'Ashley_kate23';
		data[4]['blog_id'] = '5338';
		data[4]['blog_message'] = 'I was diagnosed with AvPD and SAD and I was wondering if anyone has a horrible problem with eye contact and being touched?<br />I have never been able to make eye contact unless I absolutely felt like it was necessary so that I didn&#039;t seem rude. <br />I can&#039;t make eye contact with my dad no matter what and I can barely make eye contact with my mom. <br /><br />I also have a hard time dealing with being touched. When someone accidentally touches me, I literally cringe. I then feel like I need to go wash whatever part they touched me. I can&#039;t be touched by my dad because it just feels horrible! If he touches me, I feel like I&#039;m going to cry. I&#039;m okay with my mom touching me SOMETIMES, but she doesn&#039;t want to touch me because she has issues of her own. <br />I just hate being touched so much. Hugs and hand shaking are horrifying for me. <br />I want to get over this, but at the same time I just really don&#039;t want to ever be touched.';
		data[4]['blog_time'] = 'Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:23:31 -0400';