Category: Psychology and Relationships
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Is DMDD Causing Your Child’s Anger?
All children have their moments of irritability and anger from time to time; that’s a normal part of life. If your child has extreme outbursts in which they cannot control their anger, this is more than just a “normal” thing. There is a clinical diagnosis for your child, in this case, and there is help…
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How to Control Your Emotions in a Relationship
Relationships take a lot of mental and emotional work. When things go well, emotions run high, but when they go poorly, emotions can become negative and erratic. You might end up feeling emotionally drained after a while and even want to throw in the towel. Trying to find that crucial balance between the two polarities…
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Four Tips for Fighting Feelings of Resentment
The easiest way to describe resentful feelings is that start with the resentment definition, which is a feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or anger toward someone else (or something else) that you feel wronged you or caused you hurt. It’s a persistent feeling and isn’t always easy to get over. What is Resentment? Dictionary definitions, no…
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Why Opioid Addiction Should Scare You
There is an epidemic in the United States that is killing people; It’s opioid addiction. The most frightening thing about this crisis is the number of people it is killing. All the statistics you need to understand how terrible this epidemic is are online, but the fact is that opioids killed five times more people…
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How to Be Okay with Yourself
For many of us, the truth is that we are our own worst critics. We only get to live in our own heads and, therefore, tend to overthink and over-analyze things that happen to us and go on within us. That makes it difficult for us to accept ourselves for who we are, especially with…
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How to Overcome Abandonment Issues from Childhood
The experiences we face in childhood tend to shape who we are and, therefore, become parts of us that we carry over into adulthood. While many of these experiences mold us in positive ways, there are some issues that can arise during childhood that make adulthood more difficult. One such issue is abandonment. When you…
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How to Get Over a Toxic Relationship
Getting out of a toxic relationship isn’t easy, nor is getting over it. As with the end of any relationship, there is a grieving process involved. Grieving the loss of a relationship, even with a toxic person, looks a little different for everybody, and there is no time limit or “right” way to do it.…
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How Play Therapy Can Enable Healthy Thoughts for Children
Child play therapy is supposed to improve intelligence, speech, and social behaviors, reduce aggression, conduct disorder, anxiety, or fear and help children recover from trauma. It is widely used as a self-help way to overcome obstacles for traumatized or disabled children and is based on a fundamental activity for overall development. By definition, we play…
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How to Fake ADHD
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental condition that most people do not want to experience. Those who have ADHD find themselves struggling to pay attention when they know they need to and might even catch themselves interrupting others without truly intending to do so. ADHD is an invasive condition that impacts a person’s quality of…
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Mental Illness: How to Improve Sense through Therapy?
The ways of the human mind are limitless and beyond typical scientific understanding. Mental illness has been the subject of countless research papers throughout history. The road to our current understanding of it has taken us through valleys wrought with unethical practices, cays of erring thoughts, and finally, psychoanalytical processes that ultimately brought upon some…
