Many people have heard of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance), and they generally find that these stages could reflect their grieving process, at least to a certain extent.
Date Posted: December 1, 2015
Categories: Grief, Loss, Bereavement
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When we lose someone through death, it is common for grief, sadness, anger or anxiety to appear sometimes. While these mood issues might seem like depression, the experience of grief is quite different. Grief is precipitated by distress over the loss of another e.g. death. Generally people could go ...
Dec 1
Categories: Depression, Grief, Loss, Bereavement
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The metaphor of an iceberg architecture has been widely used across both popular and academic literature, perhaps most dominantly in two areas: to represent the layers of culture (and hence “hidden” culture), as well as in Freudian terms, to describe the conscious and unconscious ...
Nov 12
Categories: Blended Family Issues, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child ...
Written By:
Maryann Wei
Yesterday, I was sharing with a couple that the first stage of trust begins inside the mother's womb. Not after birth, based upon current research in prenatal psychology. Inside the mother's womb, the fetus-child is already sensitive to the love of both mother and father even long before ...
Nov 11
Categories: Abortion, Parenting, Suicide Prevention
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Image Credits: pixabay.com (CC0 Public Domain)As much as people despise the "other woman" or the "other man", they are there for a reason. History suggests that powerful men tend to gather great numbers of women and as we all know, history can repeat itself. Modern times ...
Nov 6
Categories: Ending a relationship issues, Infidelity, Love addiction
Written By:
Miss Psychobabble
For years now I have been taking myself on a little urban pilgrimages within the green pockets that line the city. As always, while I am out there I am in so much awe of how just a small dose of conscious engagement with the natural world can be so uplifting for the mind and body. Sometimes - ...
Nov 4
Categories: Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance, Mindfulness, Self-Care / ...
Written By:
Anoushka Beh
The minute that tiny baby lands in your arms you are only supposed to feel joy, or so you’re told.Having a baby can be difficult and challenging. It’s hard to admit to feeling isolated, overwhelmed, and afraid. These feelings are common — so why is there a code of ...
Nov 3
Categories: Couple Counseling, Depression, Family Problems, Mental Health in ...
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In a recent meeting of SEN professionals I was asked to host one of the six round table discussions. The topic I chose was ADHD in the classroom and how to manage it. I was astounded to see that three quarters of the group joined me to discuss that particular topic, demonstrating that it is ...
Nov 3
Categories: Adult ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Child ...
GOHaving compassion for oneself is really no different than having compassion for others. Think about what the experience of compassion feels like. First, to have compassion for others you must notice that they are suffering. If you ignore that homeless person on the street, you can’t feel compassion for how difficult his or her experience is. ...
Nov 2
Categories: Happiness
Written By:
Anjum Mehmood Siddiqui
Looking for tips on how to be happy may seem tacky at first. But on second thought, why should it be? Many people in the world are actually living in bliss; so we know that happiness is not a myth. For something worth having as the elusive H, it’s best to have up-to-date ...
Oct 31
Categories: Adult psychological development, Life Purpose / Meaning / ...
Written By:
Kay Vardeleon
The process and purpose of Counselling is often misunderstood, and many people have a negative perception of it. There are several myths and stigma attached to the complete process of Counselling. People are often very conflicted about approaching a professional who will be discussing and analyzing ...
Oct 21
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
Written By:
Sailaja Menon
Why does anyone look at porn?Why does anyone look at porn?For tens of millions of American men and women, there’s only one answer: To get more sexually excited. The goal of getting excited, of course, is to enhance the process by which people eventually get not-excited—also called ...
Oct 11
Categories: Couple Counseling, Marital Counseling, Men's Issues, Sexual Problems ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
Anxiety is an extremely common condition. Everyone feels anxious at some point or other especially when faced with a particularly stressful situation. So when does this become a problem? It crosses over from a regular experience to an actual issue when it affects our ...
Oct 9
Categories: Anxiety
Written By:
Deepa Panirselvam/Jeevna Bajaj
The effectiveness and quality of our decision making is of central importance to our lives. This is highlighted by its very definition in the Oxford Dictionary of Psychology, which states that decision making is the "act or process of choosing a preferred option or course of action from ...
Oct 5
Categories: Executive Functions
Written By:
Brian Scott
There are several major types of anxiety disorders, each with its own characteristics.Generalized anxiety disorder is a type of anxiety disorder in which a person is always in a state of fear and has negative thoughts about himself / herself and his / her possessions. He / She is always ruminating about the negative side of things or ...
Oct 1
Categories: Anxiety, Depression, Social Anxiety / Phobia
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In the Dialogues of Plato, we read, "For self-knowledge would certainly be maintained by me to be the very essence of knowledge, and in this I agree with him who dedicated the inscription 'Know Thyself!' at Delphi."What does it take to know your self? It is to see and realize your ...
Sep 30
Categories: Addictions, Depression, Self-Esteem
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
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