There is a lack of understanding when it comes to anxiety. Common stereotypes are enabling mental health stigma. While dealing with a mental disability, which includes the debilitating symptoms of anxiety, I have learned how common stereotypes govern how I'm viewed. It’s not just about calling people “crazy” or labeling…
Many people experience intuitive thinking without realizing. The good news is that you can harness this gift to achieve extraordinary things in your life. Many people are not aware that they are capable of intuitive thinking. This is often because we have grown up in a rational or religious environment. We…
The victim mentality is a malignancy feeding off neglect, criticism, and mistreatment. This feeling can become a way of life. Are you a perpetual victim? At the moment, I’m feeling like a victim. People keep calling me, texting me and I can’t get any work completed. I feel like I’m…
A training programme focused on the phenomenon of synesthesia was found to increase IQ with an average of 12 points. Used to express the intellectual capabilities of an individual, an IQ score is often regarded as the ultimate number that expresses your intellect and creativity. Having this in mind, it's…
People tend to seek consistency in their beliefs and perceptions. Cognitive dissonance is what happens when new information contradicts an existing belief. What is cognitive dissonance? A dictionary definition of cognitive dissonance is ‘anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like, as when…
We talk about deep people and shallow people all the time, but what does it really mean to be deep and how can we cultivate this depth? One of the dictionary definitions of deep is profound. The definition of profound is entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge, or,…
We've all heard of depression and anxiety, but when it comes to obscure mental illnesses, we're not so well-informed. The human mind is relatively unchartered territory, and incredibly complex, but despite this, psychiatrists have managed to catalogue some pretty unusual and unexpected mental illnesses. Here are just twenty of them:…
The INFP personality type, one of the 16 personality types described by the Myers-Briggs personality test, is one of the rarer personality types, found in 4% of the population. This personality is often called ‘the idealist’ or ‘the mediator’ and is characterized by a preference for introversion over extroversion, intuition…
