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Health

Impostor Syndrome Among First-Generation College Students

College, for first-generation students, means a chance to make a better life for themselves, to be independent and to have a brighter future. For students who are the first in their families to go to college, it can be tough. Instead of

Research

New Study Links Designer Dog Crossbreeding to Increased Anxiety and Behavioural Issues  

A new study was conducted by Gina Bryson of the Royal Veterinary College, U.K., which provides plenty of new information for a cynophilist. The major focus of this research was on designer dogs that are created by intentionally breeding two different

Awareness

How Childhood Trauma Influences Narcissistic Personality Formation

Not all wounds are visible. Some just sit there quietly. They affect the way a child thinks about themselves and how they love and protect themselves. When a child goes through something like being neglected or abused, it does not just

Awareness

Exploring Grief through Attachment Theory: A case study of Lee Eun Jeong from Be melodramatic

Grief is a complex emotional response, deeply influenced by an individual’s attachment style, as outlined in Bowlby’s attachment theory. In this article, I discuss the character Lee Eun Jeong from the drama series Be Melodramatic, whose boyfriend, Hong Dae, leaves

Awareness

Purple Day: Transforming Myths with Facts and Compassion

Purple Day is on March 26, and to most individuals, the meaning of this day is not known. There are approximately 65 million epilepsy patients throughout the globe, with 1 out of 26 Americans being diagnosed with the disease at

Health

When Nothing Feels Good: Understanding Anhedonia in Mood Disorders

Approximately 70% of individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) experience anhedonia, the progressive, pervasive loss of the capacity for pleasure, motivation, and connection that researchers now recognise as one of the most clinically significant and most persistently undertreated features

Health

Fear of Separation: An Anxiety Disorder

When I first started going to pre- primary school, I saw my friends, including me, also crying so much before entering the classroom, hugging their parents tightly with a feeling of fear and did not want to come inside the

Motivation

When Success Defines You: The Hidden Psychology of High Achievement and Existential Anxiety

Consider an example of a senior consultant who has never had a full day off in three years. She wakes up at 5:00 am and checks her mail even before the kettle heats, and goes to sleep with her phone

Health Relationship

The Psychology of Emotional Granularity: Why Naming Your Feelings Changes Everything

As adults, we do not necessarily have the same amount of common ground. In addition to sharing interests or agreeing upon a preference, having an emotional connection and mutual understanding has become more important than ever before. When forming a friendship, we

Health Relationship

Hypervigilance in Post-Relationship Adjustment: Why the Brain Stays on Alert

Leaving a toxic relationship is supposed to feel like freedom. And in many ways it does, but for a significant number of survivors, freedom arrives accompanied by an unwanted passenger: a nervous system that cannot stop scanning for danger. Doors