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Table of ContentsView AllTable of ContentsDevelopmentImpactCommon ExamplesUsing Metaphors Table of ContentsView All View All Table of Contents Development Impact Common Examples Using Metaphors Close Metaphors about life are figures of speech that state that one thing is actually another thing. They are a way of creating a comparison that while not literally true, provides a figurative meaning. This can help youthink about your life and problems in a different way, also serving as a source of encouragement, motivation, or gratitude....

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Table of ContentsView AllTable of ContentsHistorySubstancesEffectsBenefitsFull-Dose vs. MicrodoseSafety and RisksLegalityConsiderations Table of ContentsView All View All Table of Contents History Substances Effects Benefits Full-Dose vs. Microdose Safety and Risks Legality Considerations Close Microdosing involves taking very low doses of a substance, usually apsychedelic drug. The amount of the substance that is used is significantly below a hallucinogenic dose, yet proponents believe that the practice can produce a range of positive health effects....

Table of ContentsView AllTable of ContentsWhat Is Microsleep?Impact of Microsleep on Specific PopulationsCauses and Triggers of MicrosleepWhat Does Microsleep Look and Feel Like?How To Prevent Microsleep Table of ContentsView All View All Table of Contents What Is Microsleep? Impact of Microsleep on Specific Populations Causes and Triggers of Microsleep What Does Microsleep Look and Feel Like? How To Prevent Microsleep Close You didn’t get good sleep last night. You’ve been struggling all day to stay focused....

Table of ContentsView AllTable of ContentsWhat Is a Midlife Crisis?Are Midlife Crises Real?SignsCausesThe Happiness SlumpMidlife Crisis vs. DepressionPositive AspectsWhen to Get HelpHow to Help Someone Experiencing a Midlife Crisis Table of ContentsView All View All Table of Contents What Is a Midlife Crisis? Are Midlife Crises Real? Signs Causes The Happiness Slump Midlife Crisis vs. Depression Positive Aspects When to Get Help How to Help Someone Experiencing a Midlife Crisis...

Table of ContentsView All View All Table of Contents Csikszentmihalyi’s Early Life Csikszentmihalyi’s Career Contributions to Psychology Close Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a psychologist who created the concept of flow. He is particularly known for flow psychology and positive psychology. Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding."—MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI FROM CREATIVITY: FLOW AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DISCOVERY & INVENTION, 1996....

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Close My Mind and Meoffers insight into the past few years of the life of superstar singer and actor Gomez, a time during which she dealt with the autoimmune disease lupus, received a kidney transplant, and confronted overwhelming mental health challenges, including a diagnosis ofbipolar disorder. Meanwhile,Stutzis an ode to Hill’s psychiatrist Phil Stutz, in which many of the therapeutic techniques that Dr. Stutz used to help Hill are shared, even as Hill provides a peek at thebody image issuesand other difficulties, including the untimely death of his brother, that led him to seek out Dr....

Close Mind in the Mediais an ongoing series discussing mental health and psychological topics in popular movies and television. Spoiler alert! This article contains major spoilers for the first season of the series “Beef,” now streaming on Netflix. Things escalate from there. As a contractor, Danny pretends to be interested in repairs for her house so he can gain entrance and pee on her pristine floor. Amy scrawls painful graffiti that reads, ‘I am poor’ and ‘I can’t drive’ all over his truck....

Close Mind in the Mediais an ongoing series discussing mental health and psychology topics in popular movies and television. After falling from a boat and suffering a terrible injury that left her without any memory of her past, Sophie is trying to figure out who she was and whether her fall was really a suicide attempt like her husband James (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) and therapist Hannah (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) insist. When the series starts, it’s been approximately five months since Sophie’s accident....

Close Joe Goldberg wantsyou. Joe wants to know you, to protect you, to loveyou. And he’s not willing to leave your romance to chance, so even though you don’t know it, he follows you, he manipulates you, he controls you. Over time, the you Joe obsesses over changes but his belief in true love—and what he has to do to ensure it happens—never does. One in six American women and one in 17 American men are victims of stalking in their lifetimes, making this an important question, especially since Joe’s stalking goes far beyond the man in a trench coat lurking in the bushes we often imagine....

Close Mind in the Mediais an ongoing series discussing mental health and psychological topics in popular movies and television In its first three seasons, Netflix’sStranger Thingsintroduced us to terrifying monsters like the Demogorgon and the Mind Flayer, and now in the recently released first part of the fourth season, the series unveiled its scariest monster yet: Vecna. Unlike the Demagorgon or Mind Flayer, which slay anyone who gets in their way, the humanoid Vecna is more discerning about its victims....

Close Mind in the Mediais an ongoing series discussing mental health and psychological topics in popular movies and television The show, which boasts Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney as one of its executive producers, presents psychedelics as a potential game changer in thetreatment of mental illnessessuch as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. This may come as a surprise for those who mostly know about these drugs from America’s drug wars of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, in which psychedelics were criminalized and characterized as dangerous and devoid of medical benefit....

Close Spoiler alert! This article contains major spoilers for the first five episodes of the first season of the AMC series “Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire.” Yet, while we historically think of vampires as creatures of horror, all these shows have one thing in common: the vampires they focus on are sympathetic, not monstrous. Moreover, in the case ofInterview With the Vampire, in particular, the main vampire characters Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Lestat (Sam Reid) are romantic figures, even as they hanker for human blood and engage in terrible acts of violence....

Close Mind in the Mediais an ongoing series discussing mental health and psychological topics in popular movies and television. Spoiler alert! This article contains spoilers for the first season of the Netflix series “The Sandman.” Morpheus is responsible for creating and controlling the dreams that people experience when they sleep, an essential function of humanity. However, the dreams and nightmares he creates can also go rogue in the waking world, as the personification of a nightmare, with teeth where his eyes should be called The Corinthian (Boyd Holbrook), does in “The Sandman....