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Society tends to portray pregnancy as a magical time of good health and happiness. In reality, however, it can have some difficult repercussions. In this article, we&#039;ll talk about one of the most serious mental health issues related to pregnancy and birth: postpartum psychosis.

Postpartum Psychosis: Description, Prevention, and Treatment

Psychological Causes of Absenteeism

A team of neuroscientists seem to have found what could be the happiness zone of the human brain. A tract of neuron fibers, called the cingulum bundle, could act as an access point to various networks that regulate mood.

Does Your Brain Have a "Happiness Zone"?

Vertigo: A Form of Escape

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Intelligence isn&#039;t necessarily linked to academic skills. In fact, history is full of bad students who&#039;ve made great contributions to society as well as outstanding ones who&#039;ve achieved comparatively little.

Some Curious Facts About Intelligence

Nassim Taleb is a Lebanese thinker. He&#039;s worked extensively on ideas associated with chance and uncertainty. This subject is extremely topical in a world in which the unforeseen has become the protagonist of reality.

Nassim Taleb: One of the Most Interesting Thinkers of Our Time

Reading is a sophisticated ability that not only makes us smarter, it also makes us happier. Indeed, no one is the same once they&#039;ve found themselves hooked on a good book.

Three Fascinating Facts About Reading

Marylin Monroe reinvented herself  to achieve success and survive in the hostile environment of Hollywood. However, the real Norma Jeane was always there, reminding her of her childhood wounds and the monsters that had harmed her.

The Traumatic Childhood of Marilyn Monroe

Crime novels let you delve into the darkest side of human nature. In addition, they allow you to develop reflective and deductive skills.

Reading Crime Novels Stimulates Your Brain

All optimal coping strategies begin with acceptance. Without managing an adjusted perspective of what&#039;s happening, it&#039;s difficult to take action. How can this be done?

How to Manage the Impact of a Chronic Illness

I&#039;m facing a diagnosis of a chronic illness. They&#039;re harsh words to hear. There&#039;s no cure, it&#039;s not an injury (I wish it was). However, my diagnosis has made me realize that people with fibromyalgia don&#039;t need pity, they need understanding.

Fibromyalgia: A Sufferer's Account

Environmental health is an important issue on both a collective and an individual scale.

The Importance of Environmental Health

Online consultations with medical professionals have recently become increasingly popular, even more so due to the pandemic.

Psychological Video Consultations: Telemedicine in Mental Health

If you have a relative suffering from Alzheimer&#039;s, here are some tips for caring for them and also for understanding the disease itself. 

Alzheimer's: Advice and Help for Relatives

Accepting that your parents are getting older can be a complicated process of acceptance for you. Now it&#039;s you who must rescue them, solve their problems and, most important of all, take care of them.

How to Cope When Your Parents Grow Old

If you have a happy and positive partner, who makes everything easy for you, your psychological well-being improves. What&#039;s more, according to science, it could even help you live longer.

Having an Optimistic Partner Can Help You Live Longer

Why do you fall in love with one type of person and not another? According to Helen Fisher, our love type defines our patterns of attraction. Discover which one is yours!

The Four Love Types, According to Helen Fisher

If it&#039;s difficult for you to face conflict and you prefer to avoid it, here are six tips to help you deal with it.

Six Tips to Help You Deal With Conflict

Coldness and lack of emotional connection in a partner may be due to their own personal circumstances or the relationship itself. We discuss the reasons why you may feel that your partner isn&#039;t showing you affection and how to address the issue.

Why Doesn't Your Partner Show You Affection?

A meta-analysis carried out by several experts has managed to establish the average ages at which the most common psychological and mental disorders appear. This information is extremely relevant when it comes to preventing, diagnosing, and caring more effectively  for patients with these conditions.

Psychological Disorders: At What Ages Do They Appear?

Instrumental aggression, unlike the reactive kind that&#039;s dictated by emotion, is colder, premeditated, and seeks a means to an end. It&#039;s the kind that&#039;s often used by psychopaths.

Instrumental Aggressiveness: Aggression as a Means to an End

Many people wonder if it&#039;s possible to combine alcohol with alprazolam. We tell you what the experts say about it.

Is it Safe to Mix Alcohol and Alprazolam (Xanax)?

To what extent do dogs understand the death of a loved one? How do they usually behave when this occurs? We explain.

Like Humans, Dogs Grieve After a Death, Claims Recent Research

It&#039;s estimated that, from the age of six, children demonstrate intuitive learning. This means that they&#039;re able to learn and make decisions relying only on their hunches.

Intuitive Learning: Acting on Your Hunches

The most difficult people are rarely aware of the effect they have on others. In fact, they often end up feeling really insecure in the social world because they&#039;re unable to identify their problems.

Five of the Most Difficult Types of People to Deal With

Psychogenic seizures are non-epileptic paroxysmal movements. They constitute quite a challenge to clinical practice. If you want to know more about these crises, read on.

Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES): Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments

Depression alters a series of cortical regions related to our self-concept. This explains why we have such a hard time trusting ourselves or seeing ourselves in a positive light.

The Self in Crisis: How Depression Affects Our Self-Concept

Most people don&#039;t have a problem with religion, whether or not they have faith themselves. However, there&#039;s a group of people who suffer due to the fear that religion produces in them

Theophobia or Fear of Religion: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

Some people are addicted to talking. They&#039;re conversational narcissists who don&#039;t hesitate in maintaining unbridled monologues, sometimes with people they barely know.  Do you know anyone like this?

Conversational Narcissism: People Who Don't Stop Talking

It&#039;s common for your mind to wander and escape from the present moment. However, this habit often interrupts your performance. Here, we teach you some techniques to control it.

Nine Tips to Help You Combat Mental Distractions

Do you want to understand others, but don&#039;t know how to? In this article, we give you five keys to achieving it.

Five Keys to Understanding Others

There&#039;s nothing wrong with preferring solitude, as long as it doesn&#039;t mean you isolate yourself from the world. However, if this happens, your mental health could suffer. That&#039;s why it&#039;s important to look for ways to stop isolating yourself.

Five Tips to Help You Stop Isolating Yourself

As long as you have more good days than bad, everything will be fine. Life isn&#039;t a yellow brick road. It&#039;s full of difficulties to be overcome and right now, you&#039;re doing really well.

As Long as You Have More Good Days Than Bad, You'll Be Okay

What does a good life mean to you? Science tells us that genuine satisfaction lies in possessing &#039;psychological richness&#039;. It means enjoying meaningful experiences   that change us and allow us to make new discoveries.

Psychological Richness: The Key to Happiness?

Brain drain is one of the phenomena that most concerns companies. However, what steps can be taken to avoid it?

Five Keys to Avoiding the Brain Drain

Do you feel that you&#039;re going nowhere? Does it seem that your work always goes wrong despite your best efforts? If so, you may be suffering from apathy in the workplace.

How to Deal With Apathy in the Workplace

How much time do you waste going to and from work? Science claims that the hours we spend commuting are a major source of stress and anxiety.

Commuting Can Be Bad For Our Health

The only way to find a stress-free job is to completely rethink work environments. This is because if an employee perceives their position as a threat or their rights are violated, the psychological impact will always be present.

Is it Possible to Find a Stress-Free Job?

In the United States and some other countries, many people have quit their jobs because they consider that they impoverish their lives, even if they enrich their pockets. It&#039;s called the anti work movement.

The Anti Work Movement: A Growing Trend

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Denying the pandemic costs lives. Many people (and politicians) haven&#039;t yet acted and all of this will come at a cost. What&#039;s the explanation behind pandemic denial?

Pandemic Denial: People Who Don't Accept Reality

When you feel there&#039;s a wound that doesn&#039;t scar in your life, it means you have some pain that hasn&#039;t reached its conclusion. To end it, you&#039;ll have to let that person, situation, or beloved object that&#039;ll never come back go. This way, you&#039;ll be able to build a new life, get along with others, and keep moving forward.

The Impact of a Wound that Doesn't Scar

Denial is very common in situations of addiction or conflict. Although this willful ignorance provides momentary peace of mind, over time it can become highly destructive.

Denial or Willful Ignorance

Without a general state of disorder, a narcissist can&#039;t control others as easily. If there&#039;s order, narcissists have no power at all.