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Psychology is known as the science of mind and behaviour. Essentially, a psychologist’s job is to study the conscious and unconscious mind to delve into feelings and thoughts, looking for how they manifest in expressions. It is a very stringent academic discipline, and people who work in psychological fields are highly-trained professionals with many years of education and practice under the belts. The roots of psychology date back to ancient civilizations like Egypt, China, Greece...

Understanding mental illness can be a difficult process, especially in our modern society. The type of diagnoses and the frequency with which they are made continues to increase due to several factors, including a growing population of individuals who accept that mental illness is a treatable condition rather than an uncouth dinner subject. Another major factor psychologists and their ilk have to contend with is the ongoing pandemic. Lockdown orders, political inflammation in the West...

It’s a sad reality, but it’s true: a lot of employers and businesses don’t care about their employees’ mental health. The reason for this is the fact that businesses tend to focus on that which affects the business, and they often don’t think that that includes employee mental health. But in fact, the opposite is true: an employee’s mental state can have a big impact on their work as well as the business overall. One...

Stress and anxiety can hit you at any point of the day and at any age. These days, it is quite common to see even the ever-carefree teenagers suffer from conditions like stress, depression, and a lot of other dark emotions. You might have felt your heart getting heavy or filled up with emotions that might suffocate you and make you feel congested. You must be looking for a way to get out of that...

Every now and then, all of us fall on hard times. Life is rarely a walk in the park all of the time, and it is not uncommon to have to ask for extra help from others. Sure, our friends and family are there for us most of the time and ready to offer support when needed, but often that’s not enough. Although professional counseling and therapy are getting increasingly normalized, there is still a...

By Ora Nadrich On this Valentine’s Day, go beyond exchanging the usual gifts and calling it good. Instead, make an effort to mindfully celebrate all the love in your life. Bring your full presence and awareness to recognizing the love around you and feel gratitude for the love that you are able to give and receive. Honor love in all of its forms — both romantic and platonic love. With mindfulness, be a conduit for...

Have you ever experienced that you can’t find a particular word, or remember someone’s name, or concentrate on a task that you’re doing? Have you ever stared blankly on a black piece of paper or an empty word document? Have you tried juicing out ideas from your brain but nothing comes out no matter how hard you push yourself to think? If the answer is yes, then you might have experienced having mental blocks. A...

Of all the mental ailments, anxiety may be the most innocuous on the surface. It can hide as minor fear, but can affect all of your reasoning, can seriously impact your total mental health, and can even have a detrimental effect on your physical health. But, because anxiety is such a common trait among humans, we have developed methods to deal with this deep-seated killer. Online anxiety treatment is one recent tool we’ve developed that...