Monday, November 8, 2010

Could I be?

My idea for my topic for our final web essay came from our class discussion about psychological disorders and how there are so many of them and what are the implications of that. I started thinking about the weird things that I do. I've never been clinically diagnosed with a disorder, but i bet that myself and lots of other people probably could. I want to know what separates the people who don't seek medical attention from those who do. You know like when does it actually become a problem or when does something actually become "wrong" with you. So I want to create a fictional character who has various symptoms that could or could not classify her as as having a psychological disorder. After going to class today I'm pretty sure I want to do it in a book style, because I like how you can flip the pages. Maybe I could do something like if you have these symptoms you go to this page and if some disorders are similar or interrelated then they can link to each other as well. I also cam across a quiz that might be kind of cool to include. But I will have to do a lot of research because i no very little about psychological disorders. Although a lot of medical site are pretty annoying to look at, take this one as an example http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/p/psychological_disorders/intro.htm. I'm not really sure if all this information is super reliable b/c so many people can post about medical issues. It might be cool to include blogs of people who have some type of disorder though. Does this sound interesting to anyone else? Let me know what you guys think.

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