Fear can be a healthy thing. Since the beginning of time it has spurred humans away from danger, preserved our health and well being, and helped keep the clown population from overtaking the earth and installing their preferred system of cannibalistic feudalism.
Adventure therapy is a form of treatment that is used to help people deal with issues such as low self-esteem, social phobia, and similar conditions. This kind of therapy is relatively new, having been practiced only in the last 40 years or so. Adventure therapy is based on the idea of experiential...
nbsp;Do you have any idea how many strange phobias are out there? Have you ever heard of Friggatriskaidekaphobia? Yes, it sounds quite naughty but Friggatriskaidekaphobia actually refers to the fear of Friday the 13th which was also popularly called as the “black Friday”.People who...
Exposure therapy is a particular kind of behavior therapy that encourages the patient to face a situation, object, memory, or thought that he fears. One of the techniques of exposure therapy could include the patient reliving a particularly traumatic event in his life within a controlled environment....
The amygdala is part of the brain. The brain has two amygdalas. Both are found in the middle of the brain, somewhere near the hypothalamus. Each measure around an inch. The amygdala is shaped like an almond (hence its name) and is composed of several nuclei. These include the basolateral complex,...
The world is out to get you. That's how I ended up feeling after compiling this list of horrifying, permanently scarring, eternally terrifying rare diseases. Genetic, infectious, parasitic and everything in-between, these 15 diseases scar their victims for life and scar us mentally having looked...
Different kinds of discrimination or stereotyping exist. Such prejudice may be based on ethnicity, language, income, or even age. Discrimination based on age is referred to as ageism, and anyone is subject to ageism. A set of values and beliefs that place bias against aging is the foundation of...
A mental disorder or a mental illness is a pattern of behavior or a psychological pattern in a person which isn't considered to be normal when compared to a healthy human being. There are various forms of mental disorders which could be related to personality, mood, eating habits, anxiety and...
