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Environmental Anxiety: What Is It Exactly?

Clinical PsychologyEnvironmental Anxiety: What Is It Exactly?

Unless you've spent the last five years of your life hiding in a cave, you surely know who Greta Thunberg…

Taijin Kyofusho, The Disorder of Fears

Social PsychologyTaijin Kyofusho, The Disorder of Fears

Taijin kyofusho disorder is a particular social phobia. It's a social phobia that makes people scared of offending others somehow,…

The Best Therapy for Dependent Personality Disorder

ExperimentsThe Best Therapy for Dependent Personality Disorder

In cognitive therapy for dependent personality disorder (DPD), the patient becomes increasingly autonomous and gradually modifies their contradicto...

Learn about Panic Disorder in Children

Clinical PsychologyLearn about Panic Disorder in Children

Basically, panic disorder is an anxiety disorder. Anxiety is a human emotion. It's when your nervous system reacts to a situation…

Trichotillomania in Children

Clinical PsychologyTrichotillomania in Children

Some people feel the urge to pull out their own hair. The physical consequence, which is immediately visible, is hair loss that may lead to bald sp...

The Messiah Complex

Romantic RelationshipsThe Messiah Complex

Helping others is considered a great thing. If you're altruistic, you love improving other people's lives. Society tries to reward these kinds of p...

The Barkley Model to Explain ADHD

PsychologyThe Barkley Model to Explain ADHD

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a childhood-onset disorder. There have been several attempts to explain its origin and developme...

Reactive Attachment Disorder: The Neglected Child

PsychologyReactive Attachment Disorder: The Neglected Child

When a child grows up neglected or not cared enough for, problems may arise. Specifically, the child may develop inadequate…

Can Literature and Poetry Help Us Overcome Depression?

PsychologyCan Literature and Poetry Help Us Overcome Depression?

For the Greek, libraries were places that healed the soul. Literature and poetry are therapeutic tools that can help us…

Internet Gaming Disorder: What's it All About?

PsychologyInternet Gaming Disorder: What's it All About?

Lately, people have been demanding treatment for teenagers with Internet use problems. This is because it's not uncommon to see…

Antisocial Personality Disorder: Hate Toward Others

PsychologyAntisocial Personality Disorder: Hate Toward Others

People with antisocial personality disorder disregard other people's rights. In addition, their contempt usually makes them disrespect those who re...

Alcohol Use Disorder

PsychologyAlcohol Use Disorder

Alcohol is a psychoactive substance that causes dependency and that many cultures have used for centuries. However, the harmful consumption of this...

Self-Defeating Personality Disorder

PsychologySelf-Defeating Personality Disorder

A few psychologists proposed self-defeating personality disorder (also known as masochistic personality disorder) as a new category of personality ...

When Excessive Daydreaming Becomes an Issue

PsychologyWhen Excessive Daydreaming Becomes an Issue

Excessive daydreaming is a disorder where people spend a large part of their lives immersed in complex and varied fantasies.…

Chronic Sadness and Dysthymia: Is There a Cure?

PsychologyChronic Sadness and Dysthymia: Is There a Cure?

Persistent depressive disorder doesn't always respond to a medicine-based approach. The chronic apathy, hopelessness, and depressive moods have a m...

Fantasizing About Someone Else When Having Sex - Is it Normal?

SexFantasizing About Someone Else When Having Sex - Is it Normal?

Have you ever fantasized about someone else whilst having sex? Many people do this to heighten the excitement of the…

What Would Mental Disorders Look Like as Houses?

PsychologyWhat Would Mental Disorders Look Like as Houses?

If mental disorders were houses, depression would be the loneliest one. Anxiety would be a suffocating prison. Insomnia would be…

Have You Heard of White Coat Hypertension?

CultureHave You Heard of White Coat Hypertension?

White coat hypertension is when a person's blood pressure is higher than normal when it's measured in a clinical environment (doctor's…

The 5 Most Common Problems in Adolescence

PsychologyThe 5 Most Common Problems in Adolescence

Adolescence can be complicated. Really complicated. The changes that occur confuse not only the adolescent's environment, but also the adolescent t...

What is Agoraphobia? Symptoms and Treatment

PsychologyWhat is Agoraphobia? Symptoms and Treatment

Agoraphobia is a psychological disorder closely associated with anxiety. Agoraphobia can exist without a prior history of anxiety disorder. Howeve...

Multiple Sclerosis: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

PsychologyMultiple Sclerosis: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system. It exists all over the world. It is…