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Through the lens of affect psychology, underlying emotions that motivate addiction behaviors can be explored. Shame responses often form the core of pathology, yet shame is often hidden or remains unacknowledged. Coping responses to shame include attacking others, attacking the self, withdrawal, and avoidance. The voluntary exposure of shame-based vulnerabilities...

The Hidden Struggle: Understanding Shame in Addiction

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Sharon Brangman, MD, explains that 1 in 5 U.S. adults live with a mental illness. However, Black American adults are 20 percent more likely to experience serious mental health problems. Brangman is a brain health and cognitive aging expert at the McKnight Brain Research Foundation. She talks about steps people can take to help maintain brain health as they age.

Sharon Brangman explains how to maintain cognitive health as we age

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Medically reviewed by Elle Markman, PsyDMedically reviewed by Elle Markman, PsyDAthazagoraphobia is the fear of being forgotten or of forgetting. Remembering or being remembered is a major part of being human, and the idea of losing one's memories is distressing to many people. However, people with athazagoraphobia experience intense worry about being forgotten or not being able to remember others.Because athazagoraphobia is rare, there is less research about it than there is about other common phobias, such as claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces) or acrophobia (fear of heights). However, researchers do know that athazagoraphobia is a specific phobia, which is...

How Living With Athazagoraphobia Affects Your Health

Three levels of social needs must be met to feel fulfilled in life. It’s better to focus on quality rather than quantity of social relations. Escaping the loneliness trap is especially difficult for seniors. The specter of loneliness looms large over our aging population. As we get old, loved...

How to Avoid Feeling Lonely in Later Life

Mood and emotion affect both what and how we learn and how we adapt to the environment. Disrupted neural activity in reward (striatum) and mood (insula) centers characterize bipolar disorder. Further exploration of the link between mood momentum shifts and RPEs might lead to new targets for therapy. How would...

Mood Momentum in Bipolar Disorder

Living with depression can be an incredibly challenging and overwhelming experience. It affects the person suffering from it and their loved ones. While most individuals are familiar with depression as a mental illness, not many are aware of depressive personality disorder (DPD). DPD is characterized by a chronic pattern of negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that impair one’s ability to function in daily life. In this guest post, we will explore 11 key signs that might indicate the presence of this disorder.

11 Signs You Might Have Depressive Personality Disorder

How do we create a healthy mirroring relationship?. Do we allow our mirror reflection to direct our behavior?. At what point does the mirror become more than the first experience and develop into something unhealthy?. The importance of positive mirroring in infant development is well established. Most therapists are introduced...

Mirror, Mirror: The Danger of Empty Reflections

POTS and anxiety have many overlapping symptoms, including a racing heart, sweating, and lightheadedness. POTS is a result of issues with the autonomic nervous system and anxiety is a result of stress or trauma. Consulting with the necessary medical professionals is essential for the correct diagnosis and treatment. Diagnosing medical...

POTS or Anxiety?: Avoiding Misdiagnosis

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Ask anyone what the symptoms of depression are, and they are likely to ramble off the same list. Sadness. Hopelessness. A loss of enjoyment. Emotional numbness. Isolation. These basics have been drummed into our memory and created an exhaustive picture of how the symptoms of depression manifest.

Researchers Discover A Surprising New Symptom of Depression

Whether or not we want to, women can do it all. We're excelling in our careers, overtaking higher education, and acting as caregivers, chauffeurs, and chefs for loved ones. But this endless cycle often leads to stress, limited time for self-care, and poor sleep, which can take a toll on mental health by impacting your brain chemistry.

GABA Helps Women Sleep & Decreases Signs Of Depression

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This article uses AI writing tools to improve quality. Healing from emotional trauma is a deeply personal and often challenging journey. It requires patience, self-compassion, and a willingness to confront and process painful emotions.

How To Heal from Emotional Trauma

Perfectionists tend to be preoccupied with feeling important. Perfectionists struggle to meet others' needs because they don't match theirs. Humility entails accepting how limited our ability to fix and solve problems actually is. Self-love, silencing the inner critic, and eliminating negative emotions together constitute the pursuit of any perfectionist. On...

The Shame of Perfectionism

Understanding why your adult child might be so angry can be a difficult and painful process. An adult child's anger is often not just a random emotion but a response to deeper issues. To address this anger, use empathy and have a willingness to empathize with the child. Understanding why...

The Hidden Triggers: 3 Reasons Your Adult Child Is So Angry

Loneliness is when we feel our separateness as human beings and feel uneasy in our mental space. Some people experience less separation and so feel more comfortable with solitude. Healthy psychological development involves developing a positive relationship to solitude. Some people are reluctant to spend time alone. Solitude makes them...

Solitude and Loneliness

As those of us with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) know all too well, people with disabilities often face a slew of assumptions and misconceptions. To improve awareness and understanding, I want to address five of the most prevalent myths I’ve encountered, especially as I’ve become more visible and engaged in my community in recent years. In discussing the following misunderstandings, I aim to offer a clearer perspective on the realities of living with a disability.

Addressing 5 common misconceptions about disabilities

Rituals can enhance your connection with your partner. These rituals need not be designed from scratch, but may involve activities that you already engaged in. Rituals are significant predictors of commitment. Couple rituals can range from daily actions such as brushing your teeth together or always hugging one another before...

Couple Rituals Can Strengthen a Relationship

Dementia is a silent, yet devastating condition that slowly steals the essence of our loved ones. Watching my elderly parents grapple with dementia has been one of the most challenging experiences of my life. It’s not just about memory loss; it’s about losing pieces of who they are. This article delves into how dementia affects my elderly parents, providing a personal perspective on the emotional, physical, and psychological toll it takes on them and our family.

How dementia affects the elderly

Whether a patient has a diagnosis of cPTSD, BPD, or some combination of both, treatment should be considered multifaceted and overlapping. Learn more in this Special Report article. SPECIAL REPORT: ANXIETY & STRESS DISORDERS. Although not outlined in the DSM-5-TR, complex posttraumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) has been identified as a...

What Is Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and How Does It Relate to Borderline Personality Disorder?

Hurried Child Syndrome, a term proposed by Dr. David Elkind, is characterized by a child’s exposure to pressures and demands that exceed their natural developmental stages. Children with this syndrome are often pushed to behave and perform like mini-adults. This rushing can manifest in various forms, such as accelerated academic programs, over-scheduling of extracurricular activities and early exposure to adult issues and media content leading to unrealistic expectations and pressure to mature quickly.

3 Ways to Protect Your Kids From "Hurried Child Syndrome"

How many times have you walked into a room and noticed that your child, teen, young adult, or partner with ADHD has left a trail of things around the kitchen where the sandwich was made, the ice cream was scooped, or the coffee was made? The drawers and cabinet doors are open and none of the things or drawers or cabinets have been returned to their original placement.

"Closing the Loop" With Our Kids and Teens With ADHD

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How to Feel Less Alone in Your Mental Health Struggles

Cultural and societal messages can impact our comfort level with discussing mental health issues. Normalizing and validating one's own emotions will help with acceptance and healing....

How to Feel Less Alone in Your Mental Health Struggles

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