The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’ ~ Alfred Brendel Grief, along with other popular terms in psychology such as trauma, personality disorders and mental health have become politicized and pathologized to the point whereby social media channels have decontextualized and misappropriated the complexities inherent in the aforementioned terms. …
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Emotions and Emotional Intelligence
Emotions are crucial to survival, problem solving and communication. More often than not, emotions are disregarded during interactions and viewed as a nuisance. Engaging with emotions has benefits which range from determining whether one’s boundaries are being crossed, can inform actions when someone is not feeling safe and has the ability to enhance learning. In addition to being adaptive, …
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
“It’s not the person refusing to let go of the past, but the past refusing to let go of the person.” – Sonawane Raj Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that frequently occurs in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event. These events may occur at a particular point in time or over a prolonged period in which personal threats, …
Mindfulness Based Practise
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes- Marcel Proust The use of mindfulness meditation and mindfulness- based practises has seeped into Western society, albeit slowly, since the mid-twentieth century. Originating over 2500 years ago and practised by Gautama Buddha, mindfulness was introduced to Western society by …
Depression
Depression is the natural result of avoiding painful life issues, instead of facing them. Depression is something you do, not something you have. It is a signal that your life is out of balance. It’s a call to action, and as such, can help you create a better life. Depression involves a disruption in the ability to control attention and prevents us from taking a nonreactive and nonjudgmental …