How can you provoke a miscarriage

How can you provoke a miscarriage

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An abnormal fetus causes almost all miscarriages during the first three months of pregnancy.

Can sex during pregnancy provoke miscarriage?

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Oh God no! Sex during pregnancy is encouraged. It’s good for you and the fetus. Unless it’s a high risk pregnancy and the doctor have said otherwise.

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ttc and exercise, should I or shouldn’t?

Q: I want to get back in shape but I’m afraid, since it can mess up my TTC efforts. I know brisk walk or jog is okay, but is it okay to run (2 miles – 3 times a week, and don’t forget I’m completely out of shape)? I know extensive exercise can provoke early miscarriage.Do you exercise and how much?For those who was pregnant, when you got pregnant did you exercise extensively (or how much)?Maybe running is good cuz it will increase blood circulation?

A: Yes it is very ok to exercise while you are pregnant. My dr suggested when I got pregnant that if I was not currently exercising then I need to start to right away. The better shape you are in at birth the better off you will be. 3-4xs a week is a good amount. If you get pregnant try not to get your heart rate too high. If you feel it getting really high while you are running just slow it down and walk until it comes down. Also make sure you are eating healthy as well!

Is this irrelevant to Collins Class project ?

Q: <<The Narcissist as Liar and Con-manJudging Honesty by Words, Not Fidgets By BENEDICT CAREYPublished: May 11, 2009 Before any interrogation, before the two-way mirrors or bargaining or good-cop, bad-coproutines, police officers investigating a crime have to make a very tricky determination: Isthe person I�m interviewing being honest, or spinning fairy tales?The answer is crucial, not only for identifying potential suspects and credible witnessesbut also for the fate of the person being questioned. Those who come across poorly maybecome potential suspects and spend hours on the business end of a confrontational,life-changing interrogation � whether or not they are guilty. Until recently, police departments have had little solid research to guide their instincts.But now forensic scientists have begun testing techniques they hope will give officers,interrogators and others a kind of honesty screen, an improved method of sorting doctoredstories from truthful ones. The new work focuses on what people say, not how they act. It has already changed policework in other countries, and some new techniques are making their way into interrogations inthe United States. In part, the work grows out of a frustration with other methods. Liars do not avert theireyes in an interview on average any more than people telling the truth do, researchersreport; they do not fidget, sweat or slump in a chair any more often. They may producedistinct, fleeting changes in expression, experts say, but it is not clear yet how useful itis to analyze those.Nor have technological advances proved very helpful. No brain-imaging machine can reliablydistinguish a doctored story from the truthful one, for instance; ditto for polygraphs,which track changes in physiology as an indirect measure of lying. �Focusing on content is a very good idea,� given the limitations of what is currently beingdone, said Saul Kassin, a professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.One broad, straightforward principle has changed police work in Britain: seek information,not a confession. In the mid-1980s, following cases of false confessions, British courtsprohibited officers from using some aggressive techniques, like lying about evidence toprovoke suspects, and required that interrogations be taped. Officers now work to gather asmuch evidence as possible before interviewing a suspect, and they make no real distinctionbetween this so-called investigative interview and an interrogation, said Ray Bull, aprofessor of forensic psychology at the University of Leicester. �These interviews sound much more like a chat in a bar,� said Dr. Bull, who, with colleagueslike Aldert Vrij at the University of Portsmouth, has pioneered much of the research in thisarea. �It�s a lot like the old �Columbo� show, you know, where he pretends to be an idiotbut he�s gathered a lot of evidence.� Dr. Bull, who has analyzed scores of interrogation tapes, said the police had reported nodrop-off in the number of confessions, nor major miscarriages of justice arising from falseconfessions. In one 2002 survey, researchers in Sweden found that less-confrontationalinterrogations were associated with a higher likelihood of confession. Still, forensic researchers have not abandoned the search for verbal clues ininterrogations. In analyses of what people say when they are lying and when they are tellingthe truth, they have found tantalizing differences. Kevin Colwell, a psychologist at Southern Connecticut State University, has advised policedepartments, Pentagon officials and child protection workers, who need to check the veracityof conflicting accounts from parents and children. He says that people concocting a storyprepare a script that is tight and lacking in detail. �It�s like when your mom busted you as a kid, and you made really obvious mistakes,� Dr.Colwell said. �Well, now you�re working to avoid those.�By contrast, people telling the truth have no script, and tend to recall more extraneousdetails and may even make mistakes. They are sloppier.Psychologists have long studied methods for amplifying this contrast. Drawing on work by Dr.Vrij and Dr. Marcia K. Johnson of Yale, among others, Dr. Colwell and Dr. CherylHiscock-Anisman of National University in La Jolla, Calif., have developed an interviewtechnique that appears to help distinguish a tall tale from a true one. The interview is low-key but demanding. First, the person recalls a vivid memory, like thefirst day at college, so researchers have a baseline reading for how the personcommunicates. The person then freely recounts the event being investigated, recalling allthat happened. After several pointed questions (�Would a police officer say a crime wascommitted?� for example), the interviewee describes the event in question again, addingsounds, smells and other details. Several more stages follow, including one in which theperson is asked to recall what happened in reverse. In several studies, Dr. Colwell and Dr. Hiscock-Anisman have reported one consistentdifference: People telling the truth tend to add 20 to 30 percent more external detail thando those who are lying. �This is how memory works, by association,� Dr. Hiscock-Anismansaid. �If you�re telling the truth, this mental reinstatement of contexts triggers more andmore external details.�.� Not so if you�ve got a concocted story and you�re sticking to it. �It�s the differencebetween a tree in full flower in the summer and a barren stick in winter,� said Dr. CharlesMorgan, a psychiatrist at the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, who hastested it for trauma claims and among special-operations soldiers.In one recent study, the psychologists had 38 undergraduates enter a professor�s office andeither steal an exam or replace one that had beenstolen. A week later, half told the truthin this structured interview, and the other half tried not to incriminate themselves bylying in the interview. A prize of $20 was offered to the most believable liars. The researchers had four trained raters who did not know which students were lying analyzethe transcripts for response length and richness of added detail, among other things. Theycorrectly categorized 33 of the 38 stories are truthful or deceitful. The study, whose co-authors were Amina Memon, Laura Taylor and Jessica Prewett, is one ofseveral showing positive results of about 75 percent correct or higher. This summer, Dr. Colwell and Dr. Hiscock-Anisman are scheduled to teach the technique at theSan Diego Police Department, which has a force of some 2,000 officers. �You really developyour own antenna when interviewing people over the years,� said Chris Ellis, a lieutenant onthe force who invited the researchers to give training.. �But we�re very open to anythingthat will make our jobs easier and make us more accurate.�This approach, as promising as it is, has limitations. It applies only to a person talkingabout what happened during a specific time � not to individual facts, like, �Did you see ared suitcase on the floor?� It may be poorly suited, too, for someone who has beentraumatized and is not interested in talking, Dr. Morgan said. And it is not likely to flagthe person who changes one small but crucial detail in a story � �Sure, I was there, I threwsome punches, but I know nothing about no knife� � or, for that matter, the expert orpathological liar. But the science is evolving fast. Dr. Bull, Dr. Vrij and Par-Anders Granhag at GoteborgUniversity in Sweden are finding that challenging people with pieces of previously gatheredevidence, gradually introduced throughout an investigative interview, increases the strainon liars. And it all can be done without threats or abuse,which is easier on officers and suspects.Detective Columbo, it turns out, was not just made for TV.In “Streetcar Named Desire”, Blanche, the sister in law of Marlon Brando, isaccused by him of inventing a false biography, replete with exciting events and desperatewealthy suitors. She responds that it is preferable to lead an imaginary but enchanted life- then a real but dreary one. This is where the narcissist differs from others (from “normal” people). His very self is a piece of fiction concocted to fend off hurt and to nurture thenarcissist’s grandiosity. He fails in his “reality test” – the ability todistinguish the actual from the imagined. The narcissist fervently believes in his owninfallibility, brilliance, omnipotence, heroism, and perfection. He doesn’t dareconfront the truth and admit it even to himself. I lie to your face, without a twitch or a twitter, and there is absolutely nothing you cando about it. In fact, my lies are not liesat all. They are the truth, my truth. And youbelieve them, because you do, because they do not sound or feel like lies, because to dootherwise would make you question your own sanity, which you have a tendency to do anyway,because from the very beginning of our relationship you placed your trust and hopes in me,derived your energy, direction, stability, and confidence from me and from your associationwith me. So what’s the problem if the safe haven I provide comes with a price? Surely Iam worth it and then some. How can I expose the lies of the narcissist in a court of law? He acts so convincing! The dissolution of the abuser’s marriage or other meaningful (romantic, business, orother) relationships constitutes a major life crisis and a scathing narcissistic injury. Tosoothe and salve the pain of disillusionment, he administers to his aching soul a mixture oflies, distortions, half-truths and outlandish interpretations of events around him.But these lies- both outright and borderline – are known to me as such. I can tell thedifference between reality and fantasy. I choose fantasy knowingly and consciously – but itdoesn’t render me oblivious to my true condition. The narcissist claims to be infallible, superior, talented, skilful, omnipotent, andomniscient. He often lies and confabulates to support these unfounded claims. Within hiscult, he expects awe, admiration, adulation, and constant attention commensurate with hisoutlandish stories and assertions. He reinterprets reality to fit his fantasies. The narcissist often pretends to know everything, in every field of human knowledge andendeavour. He lies and prevaricates to avoid the exposure of his ignorance. He resorts tonumerous subterfuges to support his God-like omniscience. The abuser’s biography sounds unusually rich and complex. His achievements �incommensurate with his age, education, or renown. Yet, his actual condition is evidentlyand demonstrablyincompatible with his claims. Very often, the abuser’s lies orfantasies are easily discernible. He always name-drops and appropriates other people’sexperiences and accomplishments as his own. Yet, deep inside, the narcissist is aware that his life is an artifact, a confabulated sham,a vulnerable cocoon. The world inexorably and repeatedly intrudes upon these ramshacklebattlements, reminding the narcissist of the fantastic and feeble nature of his grandiosity.This is the much-dreaded Grandiosity Gap. The False Self is nothing but a concoction, a figment of the narcissist’s disorder, areflection in the narcissist’s hall of mirrors. It is incapable of feeling, orexperiencing. Yet, it is fully the master of the psychodynamic processes which rage withinthe narcissist’s psyche. One of the most important symptoms of pathological narcissism (the Narcissistic PersonalityDisorder) is grandiosity. Grandiose fantasies (megalomaniac delusions of grandeur) permeateevery aspect of the narcissist’s personality. They are the reason that the narcissistfeels entitled to special treatment which is typically incommensurate with his realaccomplishments. The Grandiosity Gap is the abyss between the narcissist’s self-image(as reified by his False Self) and reality. The narcissist then resorts to self-delusion. Unable to completely ignore contrarian opinionand data – he transmutes them. Unable to face the dismal failure that he is, the narcissistpartially withdraws from reality. To soothe and salve the pain of disillusionment, headministers to his aching soul a mixture of lies, distortions, half-truths and outlandishinterpretations of events around him. A Grandiosity Bubble is an imagined, self-aggrandising, narrative involving the narcissistand elements from his real life � people around him, places he frequents, or conversationshe is having. The narcissist weaves a story incorporating these facts, inflating them in theprocessand endowing them with bogus internal meaning and consistency. In other words: heconfabulates � but, this time, his confabulation is loosely based on reality. Why does the narcissist conjure up another Self? Why not simply transform his True Self intoa False one? The irony is that narcissists, who consider themselves worldly, discerning, knowledgeable,shrewd, erudite, and astute – are actually more gullible than the average person. This isbecause they are fake. Their self is false, their life a confabulation, their reality testgone. They live in a fantasy land all their own in which they are the center of theuniverse, admired, feared, held in awe, and respected for their omnipotence and omniscience. The disparity between the accomplishments of the narcissist and his grandiose fantasies andinflated self-image – the Grandiosity Gap – is staggering and, in the long run,insupportable. It imposes onerous exigencies on the narcissist’s grasp of reality andsocial skills. It pushes him either to seclusion or to a frenzy of “acquisitions”- cars, women, wealth, power.The narcissist rarely admits to a weakness, ignorance, or deficiency. He filters outinformation to the contrary – a cognitive impairment with serious consequences. Narcissistsare likely to unflinchingly make inflated and inane claims about their sexual prowess,wealth, connections, history, or achievements. All this is mighty embarrassing to the narcissist’s nearest, dearest, colleagues,friends, neighbours, even on-lookers. The narcissist’s tales are so patently absurd thathe often catches people off-guard. Unbeknownst to him, the narcissist is derided andmockingly imitated. He fast makes a nuisance and an imposition of himself in every company. The “modesty” displayed by narcissists is false. It is mostly and merely verbal.It is couched in flourishing phrases, emphasised to absurdity, repeated unnecessarily �usually to the point of causing grossinconvenience to the listener. The real aim of suchbehaviour and its subtext are exactly the opposite of common modesty. Why is there no connection between the behaviour of the narcissist and his emotions?A better way of putting it would be that there is a weak correlation between thenarcissist’s behaviour and his professed or proclaimed emotions. The reason is that hisemotions are merely professed or proclaimed � but not felt. Narcissists have magical thinking. They feel omnipotent. They feel thatthere is nothing they couldn’t do or achieve had they only really wanted to and appliedthemselves to it. The signs are here, the gestures, the infinitesimal movements that you cannot control. Ilurk. I know that definite look, that imperceptible twitch, the inevitability of yoursurrender.>>

A: Um, excuse me? Can I have a turn? C’mon! Share the mic!Okay, here’s my take: Yet another form of profiling!