Categoria: International
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The Neurochemistry of Long-Term Love: Unravelling the Role of Oxytocin and Vasopressin
Reading time: 5 minutes Ever wonder what makes long-term love tick? It turns out there are some chemical wizards at play, and their names are oxytocin and vasopressin. They’re like the behind-the-scenes maestros, making sure our love stories stand the test of time. So, let’s dive into the easy-to-understand version of how these chemicals make…
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Personality and Career Choices: How your personality influences yourprofessional path
Reading time: 5 mins In an era of ambition and achievement, where career success has taken center stage, it is quite intriguing to delve deeper into the question of whether we consciously choose our career paths or if our personality type makes that choice for us “subconsciously’’. We are constantly surrounded by situations that require…
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Stigma and Mental Health: can you distinguish the individual from the illness?
Reading time: 4 minutes “I’m not the illness itself. It’s hard not to feel like that when everyone treats you like one”. – Words on Bathroom Walls (2020) Can you tell apart the difference between illness and individual? Can you see the human being beyond the mental health? Can you go beyond the stigma that…
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Mental Health Stigma in Today’s World
Reading time: 5 minutes Put simply, ‘mental health’ refers to the entirety of well-being, including its social, psychological, emotional, and physical aspects as well as its relationship to our physical health. It includes all of our actions, sentiments, and coping mechanisms that we employ in the face of difficulties. Mental health stigma refers to when…
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Fear of Missing Out
Reading time: 7 minutes Fear of Missing Out, or FOMO, is a syndrome that relates to the fear of missing an interesting event or an opportunity, it is a state of anxiety created by a compulsive worry that a person may miss out on an opportunity for social interaction or a new experience. One of…
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DEFENCE MECHANISMS IN THE DIGITAL AGE: A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
The internet has become an integral part of our everyday life, altering the way in which it is communicated, connected, and presented to the world because of today’s Social Media dominance. But there is an exciting world under the carefully curated digital veneer, in which psychology and defence mechanisms play a role. In this article…
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Let’s connect! The role of psychology and psychologists in today’s society
Reading time: 6 minutes “It is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset about our physical limits.” – Ellen J. Langer This is how American psychologist Ellen J. Langer describes the bond between mind and body in her work “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibilities”. In my opinion,…
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War trauma in Ugandan child soldiers
Reading time: 5 minutes Uganda, a former British colony, became independent within the Commonwealth on 9 October 1962. The Republic was proclaimed exactly one year later. On 15 April 1966, Prime Minister Milton Obote assumed the presidency, until then reserved for the king of Buganda, creating a unitary constitution in 1967. Independence was followed by…
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On the Over Prescription of Drugs for Mental Health Disorders
Reading time: 5 minutes In recent years, there has been significant progress in the acceptance and understanding of mental illness and disorders within the field of psychology. This advancement has led to the development of new medications that can assist in the treatment of mental health disorders, offering individuals additional possibilities for healing. This progress…
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Positive Psychology: Can we learn to be happy?
Reading time: 4 minutes Have you ever wondered why some people tend to constantly look happier than others? Or if money makes us happy? We certainly have wondered at some point how others have better relationships with their parents, friends, or partners. Until recently, psychologists have largely ignored these kinds of questions. Throughout the years,…
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