We may not feel it ourselves, but what we think often influences how we say it. The content might be perfectly normal, but it could come off as a totally different meaning compared to what was intended.
Date Posted: February 8, 2018
Categories: Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
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Neuroscience has long since been a part of psyvhology, and for this study it is no different. New understanding on how the brain formulates memories can significantly facilitate new treatments in psychotherapy. A better understanding of how memories ...
Feb 2
Categories: Cognitive Problems Amnesia / Dementia
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The discovery of anxiety cells in mice may shed new light on new and improved treatment methods for anxiety disorders. This is especially relevant as more suffer from anxiety, most commonly social anxiety.
Feb 2
Categories: Anxiety
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Those with low self-esteem often engage in self-destructive, self-sabotaging behavior that he or she may not even be aware of. In this article, we attempt to dissociate self-sabotaging from having low self-esteem, and in so doing, hope to make that ...
Feb 1
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Self-Esteem
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New research has surfaced expanding our understanding of the potential of the human brain. Losing one's memory due to old age was once presumed to be unavoidable, but scientists have hope that we could regain a younger-working brain even as we ...
Jan 31
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues
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Overthinking can be a heavy burden for many of us to bear. Without asking the person in question what he or she might be thinking, we form our own views on the matter and often these are biased and untrue. In this article, we explore some reasons ...
Jan 27
Categories: Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
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It is often hard to put ourselves in others' shoes to feel their pain if we have not experienced it before, even more so for mental illnesses. The pain that someone with schizophrenia goes through is even harder to comprehend, much less imagine. In ...
Jan 25
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Everyone is well-aware that being punctual to meetings is something that should be adhered to, but what if things weren't so straightforward? In this article, we explore some reasons why being punctual may not be as good as it seems.
Jan 23
Categories: Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
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You always hear the phrase "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" being thrown around, but what does it actually refer to? In this article, we explore the meaning of resilience and the steps we could take to become more resilient.
Jan 18
Categories: Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
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We've all had moments where we wait expectantly for some important news to arrive, but sometimes it never does. When all we can do is sit and wait, we tend to look at the world around us, and this could birth some potential problems. In this ...
Jan 16
Categories: Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
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For many busy families, getting everyone to sit down at the table together for dinner can seem like an impossible task. However, family dinners can have a substantial impact on positive communication and increase bonds between family members of all ...
Jan 12
Categories: Family Problems
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Sleeping less than the recommended eight hours a night is associated with intrusive, repetitive thoughts like those seen in anxiety or depression, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Jan 11
Categories: Anxiety, Depression, Sleep Disorders
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It's a question that goes to the heart of human nature - do our personalities change through life or stay essentially the same? You might think psychology would have a definitive answer, but this remains an active research question. This is partly ...
Jan 10
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues, Personality problems
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A fortunate knock of luck is always welcomed by scientists and researchers, yet any treatment modalities should be novel by design rather than by serendipity. Antidepressants were discovered by chance in the 1950s, and it seems that they suffer from ...
Jan 9
Categories: Depression
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Video games do not enjoy the best of reputations. Violent games in particular have been linked with aggression, antisocial behaviour and alienation among teens. For example, one study found that playing a mere 10 minutes of a violent video game was ...
Jan 5
Categories: Empathy
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The actual cause of Alzheimer's does not lie just in the brain, according to new research.
Dec 27
Categories: Adult psychological development, Other, Parenting
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