KatherineY2023's Psychology Blog

Hi everyone! Today, I wanted to share a cool fact about one of our senses—sight! Your sight can actually reveal many health problems, and it is actually possible to detect diabetes through an eye exam. This is because diabetes can lead to diabetic retinopathy, where the blood vessels in the retina leak fluid or blood into the eye. In fact, this condition typically develops before diagnosis of diabetes, making it a key indicator. Eye exams such as ophthalmoscopies (magnification of the back of the eye to examine the optic nerve & retina) and optical coherence tomography (detects fluid and damage to retina that may indicate diabetic retinopathy) can uncover irregularities pointing to diabetes, which is actually one of the leading causes of blindness. Perhaps this would be more obvious to someone more familiar with diabetes, but as someone with only basic knowledge of the condition from school, I was surprised to learn of this. We typically only think of diabetes involving blood sugar...

Athena was a cheerleader and track competitor all throughout high school. However, right before her last cheer competition at Nationals, she tore her ACL in her knee while running a relay. There was swelling and it was an almost full tear, causing Athena immense pain, and she was unable to move her leg. In fact, she found moving at all very difficult. Athena was placed in physical therapy and given painkillers, but soon found herself relying too much on her medication. It was unhealthy and one day, Athena's arm began moving of its own accord (without conscious effort from Athena) and wrote her a message on her nightstand with a dry erase marker. "Recovering from this will help more than just yourself." Athena was quite afraid of what happened and tried countless times to see if her arm would move again, but to no avail. However, always a believer in a higher power and in community service, and seeing the damage her dependency was causing herself, Athena was determined to ...

Hi everyone! Today I'll be writing a bit more on my life story. I was born on April 23, 2005, in Houston, Texas. I've never lived anywhere else, so it's been many years of bluebonnets for me.  I took my first steps at around a year old, my first word was "mama," and I frequently switched between speaking English & Chinese. As a kid, I participated in countless activities. From ballet to Chinese school to watercolor and sketch classes to piano and Asian dance, I kept pretty busy, but none of these really stuck. When I was five, my brother, Owen, was born, subjecting me to a constant state of annoyance, but he can be nice sometimes.  Most of my elementary school days are a blur, but I attended Quail Valley Middle School and still believe it was a few of the best years of my life. I met many of the friends I'm still close to today, began participating in choir, and overall just had a lot of fun as I think those were the years I was most true to myself.  Durin...