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How ADHD Affects Emotional Regulation

ADHD stands for attention, impulse control, and activity regulation problems. ADHD is the most common diagnosis for children, and often, this condition continues into adulthood. Common symptoms include the following:  It is a disorder of impulsivity, which leads to either reactive

Education Health

The Role of Psychoanalysis in Today’s Therapy Rooms

Psychoanalysis is the most enduring and influential theory in explaining human behaviour and the effective treatment of psychological disorders. Founded by Sigmund Freud at the close of the 19th century and the opening of the 20th century, psychoanalysis introduced new

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Chronic Anxiety: Symptoms & Coping Strategies

Anxiety is a normal response to stress or a threat, as it has psychologically prepared the individual to keep vigilant and ready for life’s challenges. However, when chronic anxiety forms, it becomes unbearable, as it leads to a huge impact

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Feeling Empty? Here’s What Science Says About Apathy

You wake up one morning, and everything that once meant something now feels meaningless. It’s not laziness or procrastination – it’s deeper than that. You might find yourself wondering why you can’t seem to muster the energy to care about

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Understanding The Psychology Behind Crime

Crime has been present since time immemorial, upsetting social establishments and pushing the frontiers of morality. What makes a person commit a crime? Is the act done by choice? Or does something innate in the person cause it? Perhaps a

Health Parenting

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) in Children

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is a behavioural condition characterized by patient patterns of recalcitrant, defiant, and hostile actions directed toward authority numbers. Generally diagnosed in childhood, it significantly impacts the child’s social, educational, and family life. Understanding ODD is essential

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Mata Ana-The Trance Dance of the Devis

Culture is the sum of all shared customary beliefs, social forms, and practices, or a set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices, more specifically, an integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behaviour that is dependent on the ability

Life Style

Snapchat Dysmorphia: How Photo Editing impacts Body Image

After multiple attempts at getting the best lighting and angle, you have clicked a selfie, edited out the imperfections, applied the best filter and you’re about to share your picture with the world, but does the flawlessness in your pictures

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How 6 Toxic Self-Care Trends Are Quietly Harming Your Well-Being

Over the past years, self-care has become a topic of once-niche discussion in mainstream culture. Social media is now replete with tips, routines, and products that claim to help make over your life and well-being. The self-care industry has empowered

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The Whitewashed Increase In The Diagnosis of ADHD

It was in seventh grade that I first encountered the term ‘ADHD’. This introduction was not through a textbook but rather through my friend who had recently been diagnosed with the disorder. Her parents had furtively tried to keep the