Before Pixar with Toy Story in 1995, most animated movies follow the convenient pattern with the goal to reach the happy ending and please the children. Inside Out in 2015 is another example by Pixar of not just extending its viewers from children to adults with a profound story, but also engaging in one of the headache topics in society: depression. Although the story has a happy ending, this happiness is the result of the dramatic fight and loss. Furthermore, just flip the story for a moment to see the other side of the spectrum. What if Joy cannot determine and be stuck in the void? Sadly, unlike in the movie, that is what usually happen in real life. Switching the negative moods into the positive ones is not as easy in real life as in the animated movies. According to WHO, there is an estimated 350 million people all ages suffer from depression. This number is more than the population of the U.S. One of the common confusions is the difference between just feeling depressed and having depression. It is normal to feel “blue” from time to time. Having an argument, losing a job, or even a cloudy or rainy day can turn a pink day into a blue day. Sometimes, it just pops up without any trigger, but as easy as it comes, these daily feelings just …show more content…
Along with its focus on business interaction, our conception that while time spent on Facebook and Twitter is wasted compared to when spending on LinkedIn hides its side effect. Although LinkedIn provides job opportunity as well as connection and motivation from the peers’ messages of congratulation, like nonprofessional networking, comparison is evitable. Additionally, searching for jobs offer and waiting for response, building their professional profile are sources of
People push being happy on society as a total must in life; sadness is not an option. However, the research that has conducted to the study of happiness speaks otherwise. In this essay Sharon Begley's article "Happiness: Enough Already" critiques and analyzes societies need to be happy and the motivational affects it has on life. Begley believes that individuals do not always have to be happy, and being sad is okay and even good for us. She brings in the research of other professionals to build her claim that extreme constant happiness is not good for people. I strongly agree that we need to experience sadness to build motivation in life and character all around.
While the Pixar film “Inside Out” is an adorably animated children’s movie, it also speaks to the adult generation and is a brilliant way to introduce psychological ideals and mental illnesses to both children and adults in a fun, innovative way. When the movie is viewed for the first time, it seems like a fun cartoon that explains emotions to kids, but after several viewings, you become more connected with the characters and really begin to understand the human body and emotions on a whole new level. We learn that we cannot just live with one emotion, and happiness is not always the most achievable. Told from a 3rd person point of view, we live the life of Riley through the eyes of Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and disgust. When joy is out of the equation, we are introduced to a world of psychological goodies that can be discussed in depth.
There are slow adoption rates for internal corporate social networks for many reasons. Although management and organization plays a role, the technology factor is the main reasons why employees are refusing to use these internal networks. With the rate at which technology is becoming more and more advanced, social networking systems are constantly updating their software and user interface (Laudon & Laudon, 2013). This mean that employees who are used to traditional forms of networking such as email, have to take the time to learn new systems and keep up with more social networking than they would like. In the eyes of the employee, using traditional forms of networking is simply more efficient. In order to make these internal social networking programs work, companies need to make more user friendly and easily manageable sites (Altman, 2015). Management also plays a part in the slow adoption rates. Managers need to provide more incentive for employees to use these networks aside from basic social interaction. For example, instead of sending memo’s via email, or other traditional forms of communication, slowly veer employees to seek memos on the company’s social networking site. Making strides like this will give employees more incentive to at least use the sites more often and participate in discussions and posts related to the business. This will allow employees to explore the sites and discover other useful features that might help improve productivity within the office. Organization of the sites could also be greatly approved. Many companies try to mimic other popular social networking sites, this however, may not be a viable solution. Instead, IT personnel should format th...
Inside Out, a movie produced by Pixar Animation Studios in 2015, follows the story of Riley Andersen, a young girl experiencing a move to a new city. In the movie, Riley exhibits symptoms of major depressive disorder Riley grew up with her parents in Minnesota, having many joyous childhood memories such as playing hockey and enjoying time with friends. At age 11, Riley’s family moves to San Francisco, California for her father’s new business. Already being skeptical of the move to begin with, Riley beings to have a series of bad first impressions with the move; the house they move into appears old and cramped, the moving van with all of their belongings drives to the wrong place, her father becomes very stressed from his new job, and embarrassing
If we are too focused on ourselves we could miss out on opportunities to help others that are also facing tough situations. In the article Happiness: Enough Already, Sharon Begley quotes Eric Wilson by saying that “the happy man is a hollow man,” meaning that happy people only tend to care about themselves rather than others. This shows that “being happier is not always better” (Begley 455-456) because it is not good to just be happy and not have any other emotions or emotions towards others. When we are happy we are also quicker to jump to conclusions and stereotypes, which can hurt people's’ feelings but we do not care because we only are focused on ourselves and our own happiness.Begley also quotes Ed Diener by writing that “You need negative emotions, including sadness, to direct your thinking,” which shows that if you are just happy all of the time you will not be able to think efficiently. Begley quotes Wilson again by saying that “the blues [,or sadness,] can be a catalyst for a special kind of genius,” (Begley 456). A countless amount of great works have come from sad people such as Vincent Van Gogh, Emily DIckinson, and many other talented, very well respected, artistic geniuses. If they never would have experienced sadness or other emotions rather than just happiness they would not have achieved the great success that they
The prevalence of depression in young children and adolescents today is astounding; one out of thirty three children suffer from depression. Shockingly, until fairly recently deprssion in small children was not established as a real disorder. Consequently, the scientific research needed to comprehend how children experience depression, the causes of their depression, and treatment options have emerged over the past twenty years. (the psychiatry depressed source book) &( Dubuque, S.(1998) . Depression is defined as a serious medical condition where a person is in a constant state of sadness, feels hopeless, and unimportant and often is unable to live in a normal way (merriam- webster.com) children who suffer from depression have constant feelings of sadness while similtaneously experience problems concentrating, have very little motivation, are often irratible, suffer from seperation anxiety and can even experience relentless physical pain like headaches and stomach pain which does not improve with treatment. Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
On socialmedias and in these “depressed” communities the line of depression and everyday negative emotions are often blurred. Teens in these groups begin to confuse their everyday emotions with a clinical disorder. Dr.Stan Kutcher, an adolescent psychiatry expert at Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health, explains how people use the word “depressed” for common troubles, such as a break-up, or failing an exam, “When we use the word ‘depression’ for every negative emotional state, the word loses its meaning.” Adolescents and adults alike often forget that depression is a disease, not a synonym for sadness
Emotions. Everyone experiences them. No matter how old you are, or where you are from we all have emotions; however, we all experience them differently. My happiness is different than your happiness and what you find sad, I might see it as being angry. Emotions are powerful, and sometimes it feels at times that they take control of us. In our culture, there are lot of norms of what is supposed to be expected with our emotions. It is expected in the United States to be in a state of happiness. Going to the opposite side there has been a big rise in Depression, especially among young adults. For one it is normally expected that you feel one way or another way toward something. Emotions are hard to capture, even more so they are very difficult to put into picture. The film Inside Out, however, is able to break down emotion so that even younger kids can better understand them. Parallelism exists a lot between Inside Out and the American idea of how we are supposed to feel. The film, Inside Out, shares parallels to the United States, as it symbolizes the importance of feeling more than one emotion, it shows the effect of depression among the youth, and the sense to always feel happy.
For example, Inside Out shows the importance of emotions. This film teaches it’s young viewers that it is okay to feel emotions other than extreme joy; it is okay to feel sad, angry, or even scared sometimes. it provides a visual idea of the inner workings of the human brain. It teaches children that the terrible feeling of sadness is actually something that you need to accept and give into, in order to avoid reacting with fear, anger, or disgust, or shut down completely. The film provides an easy to understand concept of depression for kids; understanding emotions is an important part of understanding warnings and asking for help, which is a really important lesson for kids. For example, Riley runs away from home after an argument with her parents. After her parents find and bring her back home, her parents are accepting of her feelings and do their best to understand and love her, teaching it’s younger audience that making mistakes is okay. Inside Out is a wonderful, refreshing bit of movie making, which families really can use as a teaching tool, because the lesson is so valuable to parents and children alike. Disney Pixar’s Inside Out wields an innovatively ground breaking narrative style that will without doubt be imitated for years to come. Inside Out seems to be delivering a lesson not only to its young viewers, but to the parents who accompany
At first glance, Pixar’s Inside Out seems to be your standard coming of age film. The film follows an 11-year-old girl, Riley who is forced to make a move from Minnesota to San Francisco with her parents. However, a deeper look at the film reveals how accurate it is to developmental psychology. The center of the story isn’t Riley and her family, but Riley’s primary emotions –Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust. The five emotions are personified as characters that control her mind as she transitions from childhood to adolescence and deals with the challenge of adjusting to a new place. Inside Out uses Riley and her emotions function as a demonstration of the relationship between emotion and cognition. In doing so, the film reveals several important questions about developmental psychology. Such as, how do emotions color our memories of the past and what is
negative emotions can only bring negative effects. As reported by Richard Schoch, people are trying to suppress negative emotions by buying items they believe will make them happy such as selfhelp books or antidepressants (452). These people have the wrong idea of how to cope with their “negative” emotions. On the contrary, suppressing negative emotions does the opposite effect of what those people want to happen. Kristalyn Salters notes that “when a person tries to suppress their negative emotions instead of trying to cope with them, it causes a rebound effect that amplifies the amount of negative emotions being suppressed.” In
Depression is a mood disorder involving disturbances in emotion (excessive sadness), behavior (loss of interest in one’s usual activities), cognition (thoughts of hopelessness), and body function (fatigue and loss of appetite) (Wade, Tavris 567). Most people don’t even know when depression is happening to them. It usually takes friends, family, or even doctors to notice the symptoms of depression within somebody they know. People that are depressed have the tendency to describe their mood as gloomy, miserable, dreary or uneasy. A lot of victims of depression have additional feelings of worthlessness, doubt, emptiness, pointlessness, unreasonable guilt, boredom, despair, and weakness.
The movie Inside Out (USA): Pixar Studios is a beautiful movie for all ages that is worth watching because it has valuable lessons on the struggles of growing up and dealing with different rapidly changing emotions. The movie starts with the main character named Riley being born with her first emotion: Joy, then later Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness show up. All five, work together in what is called, “Headquarters”, the control center inside Riley’s mind. Pixar and Disney did a wonderful job, they made our emotions into a person that drive us, like in our own self. This is an extraordinary movie for various reasons.
Social networks are increasing dramatically every year. Employers are turning to social networks because it is a tool to screen job applicant’s profiles. According to a survey conducted by jobvite.com (2013), 94 % of employers use social media profiles to recruit job applicants. This trend assists the applicants and recruiters. Job applicants should be judged by their social network profiles because social media give positive image about the candidate, prove the information in the resume, and help to identify if the person fits the culture of the company or not.
Thinking positively has been studied and proven to help patients battling diseases, and going through physical therapy. These results are attributed to positive emotions ability to overcome negative emotions (Leading With Positive Emotions 1). By outlasting the effects of negative emotions positivity causes feelings of satisfaction and happiness. It also explains how these positive feelings can lead to a happier person who is content with their decisions, and is therefore successful.