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Zeigarnik Effect: Understanding Unfinished Tasks and Mental Persistence

How many times have you found yourself laying half-awake in bed, your subconscious criticizing you for an incomplete task? Anxiety and stress grappling up your head? However, it is doubtful that if you have felt this sense of urgency with

Technology

The Role of Cybersecurity in Mental Well-being

In today’s era where we are surrounded by various electronic gadgets and technological advances, these tools and accessibilities have become an essential part of our lives. These tools range from surveillance cameras at public places like parks and streets to

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10 Meditation Techniques Everyone can (and should) Explore

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati This quote represents the core of meditation. What is this core? Well, according to the ancient texts from which meditation was born, it is a practice employed to

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Cataplexy: Diagnosis, Causes and Treatment

Cataplexy happens when solid emotions (like laughter, excitement, or anger) trigger sudden, brief strong weakness when you’re awake. It’s one of the main indications of narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is a persistent (long-lasting) sleep disorder that causes an urge to fall asleep

Positive Self Help

Strategies for Finding Joy in Solo Holidays Moments

Who doesn’t like to go on a vacation with family and friends? but at times one needs to make a hard choice. Whether it’s your decision or you’re emotionally or physically separated from family and friends, there are a few

Life Style

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 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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Childhood Insomnia Can Create Problems in Adulthood: Study

According to the result of a new study, conducted with participants from the Penn State Child Cohort, the symptoms of persistent insomnia start to arise in childhood and continue through young adulthood. This one is the first study to find

Health

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,

Therapy

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