What if I told you that mental illness is not what we think it is? I’m sick. At least that’s what they tell me. My psychiatrist gives me the same speech while writing out a new prescription for a stronger medication. The pills I took the previous month just didn’t…
Do you feel angry all the time? There may be some hidden reasons for that. Is your anger getting out of control? Is it getting harder and harder to stop flaring up at people? Do you wonder why you always tend to use anger instead of other emotions in stressful…
Have you ever thought that feeling bad might, in fact, benefit you in some ways? Positive thinking is currently one of the most popular concepts in psychology, as it seems to promote a number of different effects, such as elevating some of the symptoms of mental illness. However, in a…
Self-absorption may be responsible for most mental health issues, psychological research suggests. My heart was never wounded so badly, as by the words of my enemy. Of course, I had no idea that she was my enemy until months later, hence the sudden hurt. It seems I was self-absorbed, and…
You might think that happiness is the opposite of depression, but it is not. It's emotional resilience and here is why. In hindsight, I have to say, it is rather obvious that they can’t be opposites. After all, opposites can’t follow that closely upon one another, can they? I mean,…
The mainstream mass media are constantly manipulating us into having irrational fears. Statistically speaking, you are more likely to die from eating a biscuit than from terrorism or an epidemic. Yet, very few people have a morbid fear of biscuits. So why do we have so irrational fears? Why do…
Many times people who were in a relationship with manipulative people did not realise it until they left it. Only then, when they looked back objectively, did it become clear the extent of how much they had been degraded. This is because we try to make sense of manipulative people,…
Are people with paranoia and schizophrenia more prevalent in some places than in others? I bet you never thought about this before, and it really doesn’t add to or take away from treating this disorder. What it does provide, however, is a glimpse into the environment that could play a…
