Surely you've heard about borderline personality disorder. A borderline refers to a barrier, a frontier, the limit that separates two parts. Usually, this is a sensation that very well identifies this disorder. People who suffer from it in some...
Help is often overvalued. We think it means kindness, solidarity, and hospitality, but the problem is that it's not always a collaboration between human beings who share a common goal. Rather, people usually do it to take care of...
Imagine that you're walking down the street eating oranges, and when you're finished, you have a ton of peels that you want to throw away. You realize that the trash can is far away, so your eyes move to...
Not all countries bother to work out statistics on loneliness and isolation. The United States is one of the few that does, and the latest results are disconcerting: the amount of people who report being lonely has doubled in...
The brain is an organ that's very sensitive to trauma. Brain damage can lead to significant gaps in functioning. Following a blow to the head, various functions can be affected, including language, vision, and memory. It all depends on...
Like Gandhi said, "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." With nonviolence as his maxim, he spoke these words hoping there would be enough ears that were ready to listen to and understand his message. His warning...
It's interesting that a study related to happiness, poverty, depression, and anxiety was done not by psychologists, but by a group of economists who investigated how these variables influence quality of life. These researchers found a link between different mental conditions...
Being near death makes us brave. When our lives are in danger, our fears disappear, our doubts stop tormenting us, and we start to regret not doing the things that we left for a later time. As much as death...
We're all aware of the damage cancer has on physical health. When it's diagnosed, a treatment plan is made to attack it and overcome it, but people don't often think about the importance of psychological well-being throughout the process. Suffering...
Imagine an old man appearing, with a friendly bald face, smoking a pipe, telling you that "cellphones help you stay connected to people who are far away from you. Cellphones allow you to stay connected...by keeping you at a...