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Brief strategic therapy for panic attacks is highly effective. This psychological intervention helps you put concrete and innovative solutions into…

Anyone who suffers from a phobia knows that being exposed to what they’re afraid of is an awful experience. Consequently,…

Systematic desensitization and exposure are two tools psychologists use a lot. Usually, people consider them useful for putting someone in contact with the stimulus they feel fear or anxiety toward. This should reduce the fear or anxiety. Thus, they can…

Validating emotions or people’s stories is such an important and valuable resource that many therapists make it the focus of their therapy sessions. Many of the people who go to therapy do so feeling strange and out of place. They’re…

Understanding your basic and secondary emotions will allow you to develop on a personal and relational level. Those who have…

The absence of problems doesn’t automatically lead to happiness. More important is the willingness to change and tolerate the uncertainty…

There are all kinds of phobias. However, one of the most striking and surprising is androphobia, the fear of men. Those who suffer from androphobia experience feelings of intense panic when they see a man or a group of men…

We might all feel attracted to the unknown once in a while. Who doesn’t want to learn and discover new…

Eduardo Punset is a rather popular politician who left us a wonderful legacy of human wisdom. Today, we’re going to…

On a social level, self-confidence is like a prized treasure. We have lots of information at our disposal about how to increase it and enjoy greater personal growth. In contrast to self-confidence, we have a very basic idea of social…

Many experts define an emotion as a subjective state that has an overwhelming or intense affective load. While it’s difficult to explicitly describe emotions, everyone can describe these subjective states in a clear way. For example, you can describe a…

Klüver-Bucy syndrome is one of the most extreme examples of how a nervous system alteration can completely change an individual’s…

Today, we bring you three amazing short stories to think about. They’re all anonymous. However, people have been talking about…

People who live with anticipatory anxiety deal with uncertainty and worry that make it hard to breathe. They’re victims of their harried minds, always imagining the worst. There are few experiences worse than feeling trapped by permanent angst, your body and…

Humans are the only species that understand that there’s a finite end to life. Humans even created an entire discipline to study the finite nature of man, called philosophy. We spend a lot of time reflecting on death. It seems…

Has anyone ever accused you of being too trusting? Many people are under the impression that trusting other people is a bad thing. However, are others allowed to call you “naive” for placing your trust in people? The answer is…

The fear of taking the first step is the main thing that sabotages your dreams, both big and small. It’s precisely in that first step where most people get stuck because fear takes a hold of you. However, if you…

Do you have a room of secrets in your life? What exactly is it? In today’s article, we’ll be talking about this important topic and showing you how to retain your own identity. When two people decide to live together,…

You’ve probably wished it were possible to live without fear. However, fear is a basic human emotion that keeps you safe from danger. Unfortunately, it’s also an emotion that likes to take control. This makes it hard sometimes to tell whether…

Why do people lie? You’ve probably asked yourself this question at some point in your life. In general, people lie because they’re afraid of what’ll happen if the truth comes out. They don’t want people to know what they did,…