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I thought it was love – It was emotional abuse

Love is a complex, universal experience that is recognized across cultures. It can be patient, kind. It can be healing. Though, sometimes it may start to feel heavier later. Initially, things seem perfect and flawless; overly affectionate messages, continuous concern,

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Fragile X syndrome Through a Lifetime: Emotional Health Challenges from Childhood Through Adulthood 

Every summer in July, Fragile X Awareness Month shines a light on an illness that profoundly affects thousands of families, without much public awareness. Though Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is widely associated with developmental delay in young children, its influence

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Trauma Exposure and Compassion Fatigue: Why Professional Growth Must Include Emotional Renewal 

The noble professions, such as medical services, social work, mental health services, and caregiving, often reserve a significant portion of their emotional or mental space for their clients to address various issues. Their constant giving nature in professional settings leads

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Masculinity and Emotional Suppression

From a young age, boys are taught to be strong. Not always are they allowed or made to feel safe enough to show emotion. A pressure to fit into society’s designed boxes of masculine expectations. Masculinity has long been associated

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Why Emotionally Intelligent People Succeed More, According to Psychology 

EQ, A Power We Don’t Know About  Success today is not so much about degrees or knowing the right equations. It’s coping with complexity, relationships, managing yourself in high-pressure situations, and people and more importantly, that quiet yet mighty force

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The Neural Basis of Empathy: How the Brain Processes the Emotions of Others

Empathy is defined as the ability to take on another person’s thoughts and perspectives, to understand, feel and share and respond to their experience. It is often confused with sympathy, which entails the feeling of being sorry for someone’s grief

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Anger as a Secondary Emotion 

Anger can seem like the easiest, loudest reaction to a problem; it’s just the surface layer hiding the more sensitive emotions underneath. Understanding anger as a secondary emotion, a response to primary emotions such as hurt, fear, or sadness, can

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The Impact of Porn on Adolescents: Exploring the  Psychological and Emotional Effects 

In today’s digital world, young people have more access to the internet than ever before. While this can be empowering and educational, it also brings real challenges, given how easily adolescents come across porn or pornography. This often occurs during

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The Emotional and Psychological Impact of Losing a Life Partner

Losing a loved one, especially your life partner, can bring about trauma and survivor’s guilt to a person. The fear of not being able to function and exist independently is the major fear and thought pattern in most people who

Parenting

Gifted Children and Emotional Sensitivity: A Guide for Caregivers

Giftedness consists of intellectual depth coupled with emotional depth. Gifted children experience emotions with a greater intensity in comparison to their peers. Intense emotion is much more than “feeling more”; it is to live life in an intensely vivid, absorbing,