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.
Anyone who has woken from a dream in which they murdered someone knows how distressing it can be. It doesn’t matter whether you killed someone or you witnessed a killing in the dream. Either way, it’s traumatic. So what do dreams about killing someone mean? Interpreting Dreams about Killing Someone…
We've likely all heard about codependency and how becoming overly reliant on another person can leave you vulnerable to repeating cycles of behavior. But what about counterdependency? Here we discover what counterdependency means, the impact it can have on your life, and signs that indicate you might be counterdependent. What…
Is there such a thing as the perfect victim or are people picked at random? Is it just bad luck; a case of wrong place wrong time, or do offenders specifically target their victims? Does our body language give away signals to suggest that we are easy targets? Criminals seem…
Dreams about birds can have a whole range of different meanings. It all depends on the type of bird, what the bird was doing, how many of them there were and so on. Generally speaking, dreams about flying birds represent freedom or a longing to be free. Then, there’s the…
The fear of being judged is a tangible, persistent anxiety that affects many people. This sort of distress may grow into a mental health condition known as social anxiety disorder or social phobia. But why do so many of us have a sense of dread that other people will judge…
Understanding sadness vs depression on a surface level is not good enough. Trust me, they are two different things, and we need to learn why. Everyone experiences many sad times in their lives. The experience can even be overwhelming if life is kicking you around. It could come from the…
Have you ever been warned against using certain hand gestures when travelling abroad? Can you recognise where a person comes from simply by their hand gestures? Why do the meanings of hand gestures differ so greatly in different countries? Hand gestures and communication Human beings communicate in a number of…
Some dreams are so vivid and intense that we think surely, they must mean something. Well, Freud certainly thought so. But in order to analyse our dreams, we need to find the hidden meaning, in other words, the latent content. Dream analysis and latent content For us to understand dream…
Of all the hurts accumulated throughout life, family betrayal is the worst. When your own relatives turn against you, it’s almost unbearable. When I was a child, I was abused. When my parents found out, many years later, they turned a blind eye to my pain. Why? because of something…
After years of feeling manipulated by others, I have to ask myself one question, “Am I manipulative?” In some cases, the problem can actually be you. Here’s what I really think about manipulation. There are many reasons why you may be this way. Manipulation usually comes from a personality disorder,…
