Von Claudia Shannon

Family Manipulation Tactics and How to Respond to Them

Most family dynamics involve some degree of manipulation. Some manipulative behaviors, like your motherâ€™s yearly guilt trip, are fairly harmless:...

How to Overcome Erythrophobia, or The Fear of Blushing

When you have erythrophobia, the fear of blushing is uncontrollable and automatic, as it is with all phobias. Experiential erythrophobia may develo...

Yes, Smartphone Addiction Does Harm Your Teen's Mental Health

To evaluate just how serious the participantsâ€™ addictions were, the researchers used standardized tests focusing on the extent to which smartphon...

Cave Syndrome: Why Am I Finding it so Hard to Adapt to The End of Covid Restrictions?

The governmentâ€™s decision to scrap all Covid-19 restrictions, including the compulsory face mask rule and the legal requirement to self-isolate f...

Sugar and Mental Health: a Toxic Combination?

While these studies did not set out to find the biological mechanism by which sugar affects mental health, they add to the body of evidence reporti...

Pediophobia: Fear of Dolls

Specific phobias like pediophobia can be unrelenting and frightening, but they are also very treatable. If the phobia becomes severe, a person with...

Why Safe Spaces are Important for Mental Health Especially on College Campuses

What unites most anti-safe space stances is that they focus almost exclusively on safe spaces in the context of college campuses and free speech. T...

What is Transference?

Transference occurs when a person redirects some of their feelings or desires for another person to an entirely different person. For example, tran...

Yes, Anxiety Can Affect Your Memory. Here's How to Cope

Anxiety conditions provoke strong, persistent feelings of worry and fear, often about things and situations you canâ€™t change or control. This mig...

Can You Train Your Brain to Get a Photographic Memory?

Some people use the terms photographic memory and eidetic memory interchangeably, but these two phenomena are different. People who believe they ha...

Myths About Introverts and Extroverts that Need to Go

Extroverts are energized by socializing in larger groups of people, having many friends, instead of a few intimate ones while introverts are energi...

Online Support Groups for Depression in 2022

Online support groups are becoming a more commonplace format for those experiencing mental health conditions. Most online support groups for depres...