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Family Manipulation Tactics and How to Respond to Them
Most family dynamics involve some degree of manipulation. Some manipulative behaviors, like your mother’s yearly guilt trip, are fairly harmless:...
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How to Overcome Erythrophobia, or The Fear of Blushing
When you have erythrophobia, the fear of blushing is uncontrollable and automatic, as it is with all phobias. Experiential erythrophobia may develo...
Read moreYes, Smartphone Addiction Does Harm Your Teen's Mental Health
To evaluate just how serious the participants’ addictions were, the researchers used standardized tests focusing on the extent to which smartphon...
Read moreCave Syndrome: Why Am I Finding it so Hard to Adapt to The End of Covid Restrictions?
The government’s decision to scrap all Covid-19 restrictions, including the compulsory face mask rule and the legal requirement to self-isolate f...
Read moreSugar and Mental Health: a Toxic Combination?
While these studies did not set out to find the biological mechanism by which sugar affects mental health, they add to the body of evidence reporti...
Read morePediophobia: Fear of Dolls
Specific phobias like pediophobia can be unrelenting and frightening, but they are also very treatable. If the phobia becomes severe, a person with...
Read moreWhy Safe Spaces are Important for Mental Health Especially on College Campuses
What unites most anti-safe space stances is that they focus almost exclusively on safe spaces in the context of college campuses and free speech. T...
Read moreWhat is Transference?
Transference occurs when a person redirects some of their feelings or desires for another person to an entirely different person. For example, tran...
Read moreYes, Anxiety Can Affect Your Memory. Here's How to Cope
Anxiety conditions provoke strong, persistent feelings of worry and fear, often about things and situations you can’t change or control. This mig...
Read moreCan You Train Your Brain to Get a Photographic Memory?
Some people use the terms photographic memory and eidetic memory interchangeably, but these two phenomena are different. People who believe they ha...
Read moreMyths About Introverts and Extroverts that Need to Go
Extroverts are energized by socializing in larger groups of people, having many friends, instead of a few intimate ones while introverts are energi...
Read moreOnline Support Groups for Depression in 2022
Online support groups are becoming a more commonplace format for those experiencing mental health conditions. Most online support groups for depres...
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