How to Reduce Social Anxiety

The fear of the experience of fear can bring about the very panic the person is seeking to avoid. Not everyone who has panic attacks has panic disorder. To help, a clinician must employ a series of interventions that can redirect the person's conscious attention during the feared situations. The...

The impacts of narcissistic parenting can be unique to the individual who lives through it. An adult child of a narcissist may believe their worthiness depends on how they act and what they do, not on who they are. Learning what healthy boundaries are and how to set them with...

Jean-Guy Beauvoir is a thirty-something Inspector in the Sûreté du Québec, once married, loyal to his boss Armand Gamache, shot in the line of duty, and addicted to OxyContin. Most importantly, Beauvoir is a fictional character in Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache mystery series. His character sounds initially like a cliché: the wounded police officer, heroically refusing therapy, becoming an addict. Except that Penny explores the cliché in a multi-novel story arc, through all her characters' thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and interactions. She creates a seemingly stable character in Beauvoir and then, through novel after novel, unravels him. Through Beauvoir, I enter the mind of an arrogant, paranoid, traumatized addict with a severe case of literal self-centeredness, beloved by Gamache.

Suicide has always been part of the human experience. Although suicide is believed to be a matter of pure choice, social and psychological factors suggest this might not always be the case. Motivations to suicide are typically lost to the ether. Of the eight billion people on our tiny blue...

Moving into the next stage of the pandemic requires taking stock of your personal tolerance for risk. Adjusting to heightened risk is nothing new. Budgeting for risk is a personal, ever-changing choice. In the early days of the pandemic, as the world was adjusting to a rapidly changing viral landscape,...

It’s a story many have heard before. COVID-19 enters a household whether through a spouse, parent, sibling or caretaker – but despite extensive exposure, not everyone gets sick. [. SEE:. Latest Coronavirus and Vaccine News ]. And it could be a more common occurrence than some think. The...

Walking at a brisk pace for just 75 minutes every week could cut your risk of depression, a new study finds. The World Health Organization recommends everyone should exercise for at least two-and-a-half hours every seven days. But researchers at Cambridge University, England, found adults who got half as much...

Fellow parents and teachers were disturbed by the man's behavior and praised the mom for stepping in to protect her daughter.

Taking care of our dead in the home is a longstanding tradition in many parts of the world. When a baby dies, parents can benefit enormously from taking their baby home until burial or cremation. It is legally permitted to care for our dead loved ones at home until disposition;...

To manage stress and difficult emotions, children use a mix of active and avoidant coping strategies. New research examined the amount of active and avoidant coping skills that children of divorced parents used and their mental health concerns.. A higher ratio of active to avoidant coping was associated with fewer...

Many people with chronic and difficult-to-treat medical conditions often feel invalidated by the medical community. Due to the high numbers of people with long COVID, it is now starting to be taken seriously. Regardless of what kind of physical condition you have, psychological and behavioral interventions can improve quality of...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is considered the fourth most common mental illness in many Western countries. Patients or medics regularly fail to recognise the disorder's symptoms, especially in its very early stages. Individuals with OCD may often realise that their thinking and behaviour are not logical, but they still may find it...

Gardening has a positive effect on well-being, and the results seem to be enhanced when the gardening is communal. Gardening may also be a therapeutic intervention for disorders such as cognitive impairment. Repetitive tasks like watering and weeding may help prevent people from focusing on their problems or sources of...

Self-actualization is not a one-time event, but goes on throughout life as one is faced with opportunities. Intention, intuition, and action are all required to move toward an actualized life, and that process is not linear. While navigating toward actualizing an intention, one needs to continuously do a gut check.

A new study published in The Journal of Psychology explains that social media "likes" on platforms like Instagram might hold significant social relevance for adolescents with high social comparison and feedback-seeking motivations. The research suggests that such adolescents may be more emotionally susceptible to the feedback received. “Instagram is configured...

Being aware of the emotion your face is communicating, known as "transparency estimation," is an important relationship skill. For people with borderline personality disorder, new research suggests two reasons that transparency estimation is so difficult for them. Some simple steps can help people with transparency estimation problems bring their emotions...

Antone Martinho-Truswell's analysis of birds' behaviors shows that, in many ways, a human is "the bird without feathers." Four key traits that are essential to what it is to be human are shared with parrots and other birds. When a species, even one totally different from us, falls into one...

A study used machine learning to compare social, health, functional, and cognitive variables as risk or protective factors for depression. The strongest risk factors were self-reported social isolation and poor health. It may be valuable to screen for depression among older adults with those two risk factors. Depression is a...

Technologies can worsen your work motivation. Psychology expertise should be used when designing and implementing technologies in work environments. Motivation that stems from meaning and enjoyment will be increasingly important in the future of work. Have you ever conducted a job interview through video?. Do you work remotely and mostly...

The benefits of self-control are legion, easily laudable: high credibility and trustworthiness, strong relationships and broad satisfaction, and enhanced productivity and success. Self-control is part of the brain’s executive function (e.g., important in ADHD and meditation response), the cornerstone of effectiveness, because self-control allows optimized allocation of mental resources, the ability to say “no” to temptations and to focus on the task at hand (“inhibitory self-control”), the ability to regulate aversion to work to diminish procrastination, and the capacity to manage desires and to regulate emotions—remaining “calm, cool and collected”.