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The Hidden Gift of Anxiety: How Worry Helps Us Plan, Prepare, and Thrive

Whenever we hear the word “worry” or “anxiety”, we tend to imagine sleepless nights, racing thoughts and a mind trapped in a perpetual cycle of “what ifs”. It is the feeling we associate with stress, avoidance and unease, something to manage,

Education Positive

Interventions for Helping Students with Academic Stress in Schools

Academic Stress is defined as mental distress related to examinations, assignments, study, classroom environment, failure, and reduced academic performance, which in turn contributes to the major reason for general stress in students. A normal amount of stress is good for

Health

Side Effects of Dopamine Agonists

Mitchell is an 80-year-old male resident of a nursing home who is well-mannered and friendly with the nursing home staff. Lately, though, he has begun to say and do things out of character. While delivering care to him, he touched

Awareness

The Psychology of Emotional Triangulation: How Family Conflict Causes Stress

Most people think of home as an emotional haven, but many individuals experience home as a source of distress. One potential reason for this tension is emotional triangulation, which is, in a broad way, a relationship phase, where one third

Awareness

Memory Distortion and the Paranormal Beliefs: How the Mind Rewrites Reality

“Trust me, I saw it was moving right here”, or “Last night I saw someone calling me, and he was without a head”. People make many paranormal claims with these kinds of unshakable beliefs. Decades of psychological research suggested that

Research

New Research Study: Psilocybin and Postpartum Depression 

Psilocybin, which is commonly used for interventions related to mental health disorders, has been found to have a more negative impact. According to a research study, Psilocybin worsen the postpartum depression symptoms in mice. Mothers who were injected with the

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When Nostalgia Hurts: Understanding Childhood Trauma and Neglect

Nostalgia is a sweet, sentimental feeling, but the idea that everyone remembers and longs for their childhood is a comforting myth, not universally true. We often assume everyone looks back on their childhood fondly, but in reality, experiences vary widely,

Awareness Education Parenting

Special Educator vs Counsellor: Know the Difference

Sometimes schools post jobs like “Counsellor-cum-Special Educator needed” with the expectation that the same person will handle both academic learning and emotional guidance. If you look back to our childhood, we remember a lot of difficulties we faced in making friends,

Research

Research found Abnormal O-glycan Triggers Depression 

A new pathway has been discovered by scientists in which they have found an association between depression and abnormal sugar modification on proteins in the brain. Depressive symptoms are triggered by chronic stress, impacting neural circuit stability. Chronic stress disrupts

Self Help

The Psychology Behind Forecasting Failure: Why We Imagine the Worst

Uncertainty is present everywhere in human existence. Whether we’re waiting for a medical diagnosis or waiting for the outcome of an interview, we are often faced with situations in which we just don’t know what’s ahead of us. In those