Do mood stabilizers help with depression
Mood Stabilizing Medications | CAMHOverview Mood stabilizers are medications used in the treatment of bipolar disorder, where a person’s mood changes from a depressed feeling to a high “manic” feeli...
Alone during the holidays
13 Coping Ideas for Those Who Will Be Alone for the HolidaysMedically reviewed by Nathan Greene, PsyD — By Sarah Fielding on October 28, 2020Let’s get this out of the way first: Being alone over the h...
Using beta blockers for anxiety
Benefits, Side Effects, and Risks What are beta-blockers?Beta-blockers are a class of medication that helps control your body’s fight-or-flight response and reduce its effects on your heart. Many peop...
Ruin the relationship
8 Ways to Ruin Your RelationshipWhile most of the time we try and stay positive here on World of Psychology, every now and again reality sucker-punches us back to our senses (although not personally a...
How do you effect change
Affect Change or Effect Change – Which is Correct? When you contact your state representative and convince him or her to vote against a piece of regressive legislation, are you effecting change or aff...
Respecting your self
What It Is, How to Achieve It, and Why It's ImportantSelf-respect is knowing you are worthy and treating yourself accordingly.Respecting yourself is the first step toward understanding you deserve lov...
Dating someone with the same personality type
What Happens When You Share A Personality Type With Your Spouse?When it comes to marriage, you have to be on the same page. You and your spouse have to have the same outlook on life...
Ocd without compulsion
Pure O: An Exploration into a Lesser-known Form of OCDPure Obsessional OCD (Pure-O) is a type of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in which an individual reports experiencing obsessions without outw...
Jealous father syndrome
Parental Alienation Syndrome: An Explanation When parents separate, it is important for both the mother and the father to maintain a relationship with the children. Yet in many cases, children side wi...
Overcoming childhood shame
How I Healed Myself of Shame APR. 18, 2018 By Beverly Engel, LMFT I can’t remember a time when I didn’t feel shame. But I do have evidence that there was once a time when I was shame free. I have a ph...
