Social phobia — also known as social anxiety disorder — is an intense fear of becoming humiliated in social situations, specifically of embarrassing yourself in front of other people. It often runs in families and may be accompanied by depression or alcoholism. Social phobia often begins around early adolescence or even younger.” Read the rest of this entry »
Psychological disorders don't have to ruin lives or relationships. Antipsychotic mediation, psychosocial therapy and even surgery can treat people with schizoprenia.Treating people with schizophrenia involves reducing the chances of relapse ...
What is schizophrenia? It's a poorly understood, complex psychological disorder characterized by psychotic episodes. Nobody knows for sure who gets schizophrenia or why.Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder or mental illness ...
Materialism is a dirty word. It also gets a bad rap in psychology. Studies consistently show that people who agree with statements like "You will buy things just because you ...
A lot of people cannot handle confrontation and start to shake, they lose control of their voice pitch, and they want to hit out and cannot control their thoughts properly. It ...
Your dreams can be amazing for communicating with you. Sometimes dream are just dreams and is the process of making sense to what has happened to you. However dreams can also ...
It has been shown that an average sleep cycle lasts for around 90 minutes. The 90 minutes consist of 2 distinct states rapid Eye Movement, REM, sleep and nonREM (nREM) ...
I have met a lot of people in my lifetime and the one thing that every single one of those people have wanted is for someone to listen to them. Listening to ...
here have been so many times I have been overwhelmed with the amount of clutter that has gathered in my home and my workspace. Sometimes it gets so much I just can’t ...
I am trying to stop eating as much rubbish as I can just now. My downfall is biscuits and cakes. If I see a pack of cookies you can be ...
Do you ever feel you do the same things over and over again and it feels like Groundhog Day? Why not take a leaf out of the Dice Man’s book and ...
One of his techniques which I have used in the past and recently discovered again is called ‘Noise removal breathing’ Win hypothesised that for every situation in our lives there is ...
Accessing our own higher mental processes is often difficult. Psychologists have found it easy to manipulate the reasons we give for decisions, judgements or actions. Worse than this, ...
"The worst is yet to come." -- Schopenhauer German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer was such an extreme pessimist that he thought we live in the worst of all possible worlds ...