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Social Anxiety Disorder is a fear of social situations that involve interaction with other people. People who have social anxiety often fear that they are being watched, judged, and evaluated by other people. It is often mistaken for shyness or low self-esteem. There are many different causes of social anxiety, however, the cause of …
The fear of injections is called trypanophobia. This is not too uncommon. This fear can be related to needle phobia which is actually the fear of needles, only it involves actual penetration through the skin. This was officially recognized as a specific phobia in 1994 in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 4th edition. Types …
Most of us dream of acquiring wealth. For many people, wealth is something that would earn you the respect of the people around you. When you hear the word wealth, you naturally think of material things. You wish to enjoy the many comforts of life that can be only achieved if you are wealthy. …
Have you ever wondered why the head of a company is paid so much more than for example, specialists in the company such as an engineer? Is it because he knows every job in the company? No I don’t think so. He may have a general idea about what is going on in every …
What do you think of Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Tiger Woods and hundreds of others who have made it to the top, sometimes against all the odds? You probably think they are smart, intelligent, great, masterful and I agree. I believe they probably are all those things you think of them and …
Joni Mitchell has a song, “Happiness is the best facelift,” but curiosity is an equally effective anti-aging device. If you want to stay youthful and energetic, consider the role of curiosity in your life. As kids, many of us were not encouraged to be curious: “Remember, curiosity killed the cat,” my grandma told me …
Emotional Intelligence or commonly known as EQ is a relatively new field of psychology. Emotional intelligence means the ability for a person to access, influence and conclude our emotions and also the emotions of other people around us. The term emotional intelligence was first made popular by Daniel Goldman with his book Emotional Intelligence …
One topic that is coming up more than ever now is the condition called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Some were aware of it before this became the common name and remember it as “shell shock.” Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a disorder suffered by rising numbers of people today. It starts with events …
Compulsive activities are addictive habits that can extremely affect your life. It can create a huge problem that can damage your lifestyle, status and moral character as a whole. You may not think you are doing anything to hurt anyone, but in the end, you really are hurting yourself and your loved ones. This …
What is stress? Although we tend to think of stress as caused by external issues, issue in themselves are not stressful. It is the way in which we interpret and react to them that makes them stressful. People differ enormously in the type of events they interpret as stressful and the way in which …