How To Overcome Negativity Bias
What Is Negativity Bias? Do you often fixate on a negative piece of feedback? Perhaps you can’t stop beating yourself up about a mistake you made. Maybe you tend to expect the worst-case scenario to happen. If yes, you are not alone. All humans have this tendency to...
Dissociative Disorders Symptoms and Treatment
Dissociative Disorders According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), dissociative disorders are characterized by an involuntary escape from reality manifested by a disconnection between thoughts, identity, consciousness, and memory. People from all age...
How Mindfulness Can Help Mental Health?
What Is Mindfulness? So often, we move through our days in a hurry, focused on all the urgent tasks and responsibilities to fulfill. Our minds are either stuck in the past or worried about the future. As a result, we live on autopilot, disconnected from the present...
Personality Disorders – What are they and how can they be treated?
According to Jack Drescher, M.D., at the American Psychiatric Association (APA), personality is the way of thinking, feeling, and behaving that makes a person different from other people. An individual’s personality is influenced by experiences, environment...
Sport psychologists and Mental Health
What is Sport Psychology? According to Irene Lopez at WebMD, in simple terms, sport psychology studies how psychological factors affect athletic performance. Sport psychologists also look at how taking part in sports, exercise, and other physical activities affects...
Understanding Impulse-Control Disorders
Impulsivity refers to a tendency to respond hastily to internal or external cues. For instance, impulsive people tend to speak as soon as a thought occurs to them. Or to purchase an item immediately and spontaneously, with little internal debate about the quality,...
Dual Diagnosis: Mental Health and Addiction
According to Luna Greenstein at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), as intuitive as the term “dual diagnosis” may seem, it actually doesn’t mean having two mental health conditions. Dual diagnosis (also referred to as a co-occurring disorder) is a term...Contact us
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