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Halloween is the best holiday ever. You get to dress up and go around knocking/ringing doorbells and you literally get candy. Free candy to be more exact which just makes it 10 times better. The only downside is when its cold outside and you literally freeze to death in your costume, not very fun. I hate when Halloween is on a Sunday or on a weekday (besides Friday) because the next day you must go to school unless you get sick from shoving candy into your mouth… which will probably happen to a lot of people anyways. But if it’s on a Monday like this year people probably can’t stay out as late because of school being so early in the morning. I mean that probably won’t stop Tessa and I from staying out as late as we possibly can though.

Yesterday at 6:53 I was getting out of bed, and I banged my face off my sharp bed frame and cut my lip open. That’s not even the worst part of my bed frame though… You see there’s a very small path beside my bed to get to the rest of my room and there is a sharp part of my bed frame right at knee level, so if you don’t pay attention, you will literally break your knee and cry. It is the most painful thing in the world. I get like 6 bruises a month because of the bed, and it honestly hurts so bad I go out to my living room and cry to my mom about it. Mother if you are reading this PLEASE get me a new bed frame I am begging you..

Costco is the best store in the entire world, mainly because of the free samples but also the food place is bomb. They have the BEST hotdogs and poutine ever. Costco literally sells everything, tires, food, litter, electronics and toilet paper. They have variety of supplies, and they never fail my expectations. The only bad thing about Costco is that the food place is so slow, it takes like 2 years to get your food

Queen Cheryl is some like 4000-year-old woman who is dating a 24-year-old I know… Scary. Girly was probably born in 500 BC. She literally looks like a decaying corpse that walks around or even somebody who just popped out of hell…They’re trying to have a baby and you know… That is not physically possible at her dinosaur age. I feel bad for Quran’s family because they must support him in his marriage with that lovely lady.. 

I absolutely despise babies because they constantly cry and when they are born, they cry which is stupid because like you were just born so why cry?? For example, your baby will cry because they feel hungry, unsettled, wet or uncomfortable, or they just need a pathetic little cuddle from their mommy and daddy. Plus, they get all the attention from any surrounding adult with their ‘adorable’ faces, like girly that baby looks like big bird… People get all worked up over their first steps like how is that an accomplishment. Just stand up and walk, it is not that hard. Plus, babies just remind me of queen Cheryl and Quran, and you know that is not something incredibly fun to remember. Babies are mid to be honest.. 

Kris Jenner is so much better than all of your favs because she is awesome and cool and she is the Kris Jenner. She is the CEO of #krissed. Plus she birthed Kylie Jenner and that is epic gamer move. She is 66 years old and still slays everyone with her gorgeous looks. 

 

Okay so this weekend my mom and I went to the states because we wanted to get food we couldn’t get here and clothes. When we were on the bridge to get to the boarder, I saw some weird seed factory or whatever and I swear it was a jail not a factory but whatever. So, then we went to this REALLY good fast-food place called sonic (they have amazing mints) and we got that for dinner. After we ate, we went to Walmart (so much better than Canadian Walmart) we got a bunch of junk food AND WE GOT DUNKAROOS!!! After we finished up at Walmart, we went to our motel which was really creepy 0/10 would not recommend, but there was a creepy little bug that crawled under the toilet and it made me cry so I did not want to go to the washroom ever again. Not only that they gave us an extra bed and said we couldn’t use it which was really stupid and made me want to sue them but I didn’t because I’m very generous. Also, the stupid water at the motel tasted like literal chemicals so we had to go to the gas station and get a big jug of Poland spring water 10/10 would recommend. The shower was the only good part about the whole motel to be honest. So as soon as we woke up, we skedaddled out of there and went to iHop and got the best breakfast food I think I’ve ever had. We went to the Watertown mall and like none of the stores were open??? Anyways I got some clothes from the mall and then we went to target and got even more clothes. After target we scurried our way to Price Chopper and on our way there a freaking deer got hit by a car and I literally cried like a baby. Once we were there, we got like 40 yogurts and 10 cheese bag things (the cashier disrespected the amazing KeyLime pie yogurt infront of me…) After we paid, we went to the car to put all our yogurt in bags and I was going to put the cart away when BOOM this lady in a truck slams into another car and scratches it really bad and makes the car shake, I thought it was going to flip but it didn’t and after all of that nonsense we left for Canada again. I will never ever go to America again after this trip. 

Why peanut butter literally SUCKS. It is so grainy and dry it just makes my mouth completely dry and it makes me want to chug an entire gallon of water. It is also very bland and flavourless until you make a peanut butter sandwich, and it completely takes over the taste of whatever else you put on that sandwich. LIKE TONE DOWN OMG. Nobody likes you peanut butter just stop existing before I punt you off a roof you bland, flavourless sandwich topping. Like the only thing you can put peanut butter on is sandwiches and sandwiches are not even that good… If you like peanut butter never ever interact with me again or I will start bawling my eyes out. 

Cheese strings are the absolute best type of cheese out there. I personally do not like cheese that much, but cheese strings are just a different breed of cheese. They’re so tasty and fun to peel. My favourite part is when you peel them into tiny pieces, and they look like tiny strands of hair. I mean sure it might be full of chemicals and may not be real cheese but that doesn’t take away the fact that they are literally the best snack in the entire universe. They literally slayed all the other cheeses. NO ARGUING WITH ME BECAUSE I’M NEVER EVER WRONG!!! 

Schizophrenia

Picture this; you’ve been seeing and hearing things lately, to be more specific for the past month. You don’t think anything of it because there’s little to no chance of these hallucinations actually meaning anything. But you’re wrong, because suddenly the paranoia, the hallucinations and the delusions become unbearable. You finally decide to get a checkup and figure out the true meaning behind all of this. This is the reality of tens of thousands of schizophrenic patients all over the world.

 

Schizophrenia is one of many severe mental disorders. The following are common symptoms found in patients; hallucinations are false perceptions such as seeing or hearing things that aren’t real. Delusions are false beliefs, thinking or talking to something that is not actually there is one form of delusion. Blunted emotion is very similar to having mood swings. Withdrawal from reality means you distance yourself from the real world. Although there is no cure for schizophrenia, there are many ways to treat its symptoms.

 

Some of these treatments are; an antipsychotic drug, which is typically used for patients who suffer with any type of psychosis. Some patients decide to do psycho or hormone therapy instead of taking a type of medication or drug. During hormone therapy the main focus is to work with one’s hormones to decrease the craziness of symptoms. In psychotherapy the main focus is the brain, as the brain is a main factor to schizophrenia. Another option of treatments is estrogen. Though, these treatments may not work for some schizophrenic patients.

 

Although these treatments help with symptoms, they do not help with any damage schizophrenia has already caused to the body. Most damage occurs in the patients brain. Schizophrenia causes changes to the prefrontal cortex, medial and superior temporal lobes, which are key parts to one’s memory. Schizophrenia can cause early onset dementia, depression, anxiety and anorexia. Those are all severely affective to an individuals mental and physical health. Psychiatrists typically diagnose these mental illnesses and disorders during early years of schizophrenia. There’s more to schizophrenia though. Psychotic episodes happen a lot. If a patient begins having a psychotic episode, doctors will order a CT or and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging.) The acute schizophrenic phase may lead to hospitalization. Men are normally diagnosed through early-mid 20s, while women are typically diagnosed through early-mid 30s. Schizophrenia affects races and genders equally, though men may develop earlier.

 

Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that is not generally given as much attention as other mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, etc. Because of that reason many, many people do not realize how severe schizophrenia actually is. Over years it has developed more and more making it even more stressful and hard on people who struggle from this mental illness. Its not something that can be controlled or cured, making it a lot worse than some may think.

 

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Collins, Julie, and Addison Fay. “Addressing Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia.” Children’s Voice Magazine, vol. 25, no. 1, Jan. 2016, pp. 22+. Gale OneFile: Psychology, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A654815611/PPPC?u=ko_k12pr_d65&sid=bookmark-PPPC&xid=4e465b76. Accessed 16 Feb. 2022.

 

Perina, Kaja. “A theory of everything: could fatty acids explain schizophrenia–and civilization? (Health).” Psychology Today, vol. 35, no. 4, July-Aug. 2002, p. 19. Gale OneFile: Psychology, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A91752192/PPPC?u=ko_k12pr_d65&sid=bookmark-PPPC&xid=b153092b. Accessed 16 Feb. 2022.

 

“Schizophrenia.” Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior, edited by Pamela Korsmeyer and Henry R. Kranzler, 3rd ed., vol. 4, Macmillan Reference USA, 2009, pp. 1-2. Gale Health and Wellness, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2699700407/HWRC?u=ko_k12pr_d65&sid=bookmark-HWRC&xid=ac7b862a. Accessed 16 Feb. 2022.

 

Gulli, Laith Farid, et al. “Schizophrenia.” The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, edited by Brigham Narins, 5th ed., vol. 3, Gale, 2022, pp. 1669-1674. Gale Health and Wellness, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX8289300497/HWRC?u=ko_k12pr_d65&sid=bookmark-HWRC&xid=2b887f29. Accessed 9 Mar. 2022.