Definition
The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a series of questions developed to measure the intensity, severity, and depth of depression in patients with psychiatric diagnoses. Its long form is composed of 21 questions, each designed to assess a specific symptom common among people with depression. A shorter form is composed of seven questions and is [...]

Eric Berne, the founder of Transactional Analysis developed the PAC model, the three ego states, Parent, Adult and Child. These are a mixture of behaviours, thoughts and feelings.
The Parent ego state, or exteropsyche – is a state in which people think and behave like their own parental figures did in their childhood. When in the [...]

A 30 year old adult’s brain is said to weigh on an average about 50 oz. As he grows older, approaching 60, the weight is reported to fall off. On the other hand there are animals with much bigger brains. Those of elephants go up to 264 oz, of blue whales up to 240 oz [...]

Stress, sadness, fear and guilt are day by day ingredients in our life. There is very little chance to get rid of these unpleasant situations, but we can learn how to control them effectively.
Here are some suggestions on what you can do to reduce stress and gain emotional comfort:

Sports – increases the production of endorphins [...]

Maybe you have already observed that whenever you touched your hair during a conversation with your best friend, she/he did the same way right after you. Or that some people changed their way of talking, after spending some time with another person. This things illustrate, what researchers called “the chameleon effect”.
This effect means the automatic [...]

A panic attack means a symptom of a psychological problem, an anxiety, manifested apparently for no particular reason, with a high intensity, being often confused with the symptoms of heart attacks.
It manifests suddenly and unaccountable in the shape of fear, restlessness, palpitation, uncontrollable quivering, excessive sweating, asphyxia, fast breathing, feeling like fainting, terrible fear of [...]

Let me start this article by saying that if you are an addict you already know that. You may reply “How can I say such a thing?”. Well, I am saying it because there are signs and symptoms that makes you aware of this fact. You are the first one who sees and feels this.
Let’s [...]