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.
Like most mental disorders, social anxiety can alter your perception of reality, yourself and others. As a result, social situations make you feel extremely uncomfortable and sometimes even panicked. Whatever involves the interaction with other people, from making a phone call to saying ‘hi’ to your neighbors, scares you like…
There is a profound yet subtle source of interpersonal conflict in daily life, a root cause or bulb from which so much misunderstanding sprouts. We overestimate the differences between people’s character and our own while underestimating just how much people’s views are informed by experiences we have not had, or stories…
The way you sleep can mean many things, but did you know it can also affect the way in which your brain rids itself of unwanted waste? A recent study carried out by Stony Brook University and published in the Journal of Neuroscience has found that certain sleeping positions may…
What character traits can predict overall well-being? It seems that we, as human beings, aren’t just mental illness cases. We are also built on character. In Characters Strengths and Virtue: A Handbook and Classification, Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman provide a contribution to psychology - an antidote with a focus…
What do the dreams of the deceased mean? Are they actually messages from the spirit world or just a product of our subconsciousness? Two years ago, something terrible happened in our family – my grandfather had a stroke. He fell into a coma and eventually died two days later. This…
Social anxiety is something nearly 15 million people suffer from worldwide, yet, it is still a mental illness that many misunderstand. Social anxiety can be described as a fear of human interaction and not surprisingly, is the third-largest mental health issue in the United States. Alongside feelings of nervousness, panic,…
When we talk about developing effective measures of communication, we generally mean two things. One is the fact that our message goes effectively to the right sender, the people who we wish or want to be listening to the message and second is the fact that the message should be…
Trees are beautiful, and we all know their importance on the overall environment. What we question now is, does proximity to trees affect our health in general and are people who live near trees healthier than those who don't? Maybe, let’s take a closer look. Healthy Trees Researchers report that…
