Common sense tells us that introverts and empaths have a hard time with social interaction, but is there any scientific basis to this? Both introverts and empaths find social interaction draining at the best of times, and require frequent periods of downtime, where they can be alone and can recharge…
When you are looking to buy a new house and thinking of moving to another state, most of us try to imagine what it would be like living there. Does it feel right, can we picture ourselves living our daily lives in it? When we walk in do we know…
We are all familiar with the term clairvoyance and take it to mean some kind of psychic insight into the future, but have you ever heard of claircognizance? It helps us to understand what claircognizance is if we examine clairvoyance first. The word clairvoyance is taken from the French word…
We have all heard of borderline personality disorder, it features in our daily news, the programmes we watch, and in the fiction we read. But what actually is a borderline personality disorder? Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterised as a disorder of a person’s mood and how this mood affects…
Brainwashing techniques are more common than you think. In fact, you could be subject to brainwashing in your daily life. Most of us associate brainwashing with covert Cold War spy operations and old black and white movies. But brainwashing techniques are used far more commonly than you would think, and…
We are taught from a young age to be nice to people, to treat others as you want to be treated yourself. But there is a downside to being too nice. Can someone be too nice? In a world where all we seem to hear is bad news, it may…
Dealing with guilt is not an easy task, and we all face situations in life where we blame ourselves for something. Guilt is an emotion we experience that is connected to an action in the past whereby we feel remorse or shame. It typically occurs when we have regretted something…
Have you heard about grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism? This distinction is not known by many. We are all familiar with the personality type of the narcissist, but now researchers have defined the narcissism into two very distinct categories: the grandiose narcissism and the vulnerable narcissism. Whilst we might recognise…