A healthy mind in a healthy body: mental health problems and solutions, scientific findings, and interesting facts on psychology and mental health. Incredible hypotheses about the human conscious and subconscious mind.
As it seems, unruly children tend to grow up into successful adults. As a parent or parent-to-be, everyone dreams of the perfect child who listens to them, does well in school, and is an all-around little angel. The reality, however, is something completely different. Personally, I was every parent’s worst…
As it seems, child neglect causes irreparable damage to the brain. To a layperson, there is one big difference between the two brains in the image above, and that is size. Without knowing who they belong to we might surmise that they are of different ages, and that accounts for…
Could religious people have a lower IQ than others? In 2013, a meta-analysis study was published that seemed to show a negative correlation between IQ and strong religious belief, or in layman’s terms, seemed to show that the more religious you are, the lower your IQ supposedly falls. The scientists…
Empaths and highly sensitive people detect things in human behavior that others miss. Have you ever met someone that everyone else liked but who made you feel uncomfortable? Did someone ever give you a compliment that made you feel angry and irritable rather than happy? If you are an empath…
There are some pros and cons of having a wandering mind. I have stepped into the ocean. The cool waters lap against my legs and a breeze whips through my hair. I watch the white caps tumble further out in the chaotic churn and this makes me smile. I am…
The four Jungian Archetypes can be a powerful tool for spiritual evolution and can help you reach your full potential in life. The psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung proposed that everyone’s personality contains elements of four major archetypes. These archetypes provide models for our behavior and influence the way we…
What is high-functioning-depression and how to recognize if someone you love is suffering from it? Millions of people suffer from debilitating depression. They sleep for days, forget responsibilities and even entertain suicidal thoughts. Severe depression of this type basically takes away the zeal for life and replaces this feeling with hopelessness…
Intuitive empath is a person who has an unusual capacity for sensing and understanding the feelings of others. Could you be one? Intuitive empaths know what others feel without needing to be told, and they have an unusually sharp sense for whether someone is being truthful or lying. For this reason, many…
