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Sedentary Straits

Ever since the dawn of the pandemic and the lockdowns, people have been looking inward, figuratively, and quite literally. While the sudden hurdles that have knocked down billions of people around the globe need hardly be recounted, the toll that

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The Hoodie Culture: Fighting insecurities and vulnerabilities one hoodie at a time

In nearly a decade of working in schools, I’ve consistently observed how each year introduces new generational shifts in children of all ages. It’s intriguing to witness how every new generation brings forth its unique trends, behaviors, and values. While

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The Hidden Effects of Vaping Addiction on Mental Health

The definition of addiction is a chronic, recurrent condition marked by obsessive drug seeking and usage despite negative outcomes. Because it causes functional alterations to the brain circuits responsible for reward, stress, and self-control, it is regarded as a brain

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Erotomania: The Delusion of Being Loved by Everyone

Erotomania is an uncommon mental illness defined by the enduring hallucination (fixed, erroneous belief) that someone else loves them from a distance. In psychiatry, the illness has a lengthy history and is referred to the de Clérambault’s syndrome. More recently,

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How Meditation Changes Your Brain

“He who is mentally concentrated, sees things according to reality.” as the great Gautama Buddha has said. In the hustle bustle of daily life, our mind screams a thousand chants and sings a hundred sonnets. It gets difficult to centre

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The Correlation Between Hair Loss and Mental Illness

Scalp hair is more important socially and psychologically than it is biologically to humans. Hair serves no purpose in humans other than providing cranial cushioning and protection from the sun’s rays. Beyond its socioeconomic significance, hair can become an important

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9 Foods that Boost Serotonin

Have you ever heard of “happy” hormones? Serotonin is frequently referred to as the “satisfied” or “sense-appropriate” neurotransmitter. It performs an important position in regulating mood, urge for food, sleep and overall health. Low serotonin stages are related to depression,

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What Is EMDR Therapy?

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy (Shapiro, 2001) was created in 1987 to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and is based on the adaptive information processing concept (Shapiro 2007). EMDR is an individual therapy that is normally administered once

Education

Understanding Terror Management Theory

The one who has come to life has to go one day, it is the truth of life. Death is inevitable. And this truth sometimes causes a kind of existential anxiety in people. These thoughts of impending doom might be

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Helpful Breathing Techniques for Meditation

“Fight or flight” is often referred to as the stress reaction. It is what the body does when it prepares to face or avoid danger. When used correctly, the stress response may help us overcome a variety of obstacles. However,

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