Some bad habits can irritate the people around you. These habits can grate on peoples' nerves until they feel like physically stopping you themselves. Some of them are nervous habits and others are thoughtless behaviors.

Some bad habits have to do with shopping. You can really irritate someone if you have the bad habit of following their car to a parking space and waiting with your car close behind. This makes them feel rushed, and it may make it hard for them to get out. By...

Overcoming pornography addiction is no less difficult than any other type of addiction. It may as well be even more difficult since pornographic satisfaction is achieved simply by turning on the computer and browsing the internet. With easy access in front of you, the temptation is much harder to resist. However, the ability to resist your cravings is ever present. It simply needs a good boost. To start you off on your way to overcome your addiction to porn, here are a few things...

Here are some proven mind control techniques you can use and take control of your own mind and become a better person. The first thing you need to do is to learn how to relax and take some breathing exercises. One of the things you need to do is to be able to learn how to get into your own zone as a person and make sure that you can relax. One thing about the mind is that it is full of clutter, and this comes from our daily lives and the stresses of our work and our personal...

So you’re addicted to caffeine and want to quit?

Or at the very least think you may be addicted?

Caffeine is by far the world’s most widely used psychoactive drug.  More than 90% of us are habitual users.  The drug occurs naturally in coffee and tea and can be found in many soft drinks e.g. cola.  Taken in sufficiently large quantities it can induce a psychosis or an overdose.  Caffeine evolved in the plant kingdom as a natural pesticide to...

As a writer and also a sort of addiction-ologist I cannot help but observe and reflect on the division of our nation as it pertains to Michael Jackson. The overarching question seems to be should we revere him or should we condemn him? Was he a Demi-God, or was a monster? And the whole climate of confusion, as well as the depth of mourning, harks me back to the age of 9 and the death of Elvis Presley. I can remember foggily asking in those sad days…How could this be?

And I...

He is addicted to facebooking, he is addicted to tweeting, he is addicted to blogging, he is addicted to gaming- he is addicted to everything. The story of his life mayn't be interesting but he is rising with each passing day, he is just not dreaming. Soft addicts can be extremely passionate at times. They aren't geeks, they aren't writers, they aren't perverts – they are just you and me.

How can you stay behind when the world is moving so fast? How can you be so vulnerable...

The DSM-5, the updated version of  the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will be out in 2013. This is the bible of mental health professionals for making official medical diagnoses of mental illness in its various forms. It has huge ramifications for all mental health patients since health insurance companies base  coverage allowances and policies on the DSM. Whether an individual qualifies for disability are answered...

Drug use is a very common reality in all cultures worldwide. Rave parties, dinner parties, birthdays, New Year, office parties: often we celebrate these occasions with social drug use and alcohol abuse. Many people use drugs such as cocaine and marijuana without considering that they could become addicted.

It is true that not everyone who uses drugs is an addict or will progress to horrendous levels of dependence on narcotics. Popular belief has labelled an addict as a heroin...

First things first, is that we need to know just what kind of mind is the subconscious mind, and at the end of the day, it is a mind that is hidden behind the logical mind, or the aware mind that is within us, and this is something that we need to pay attention to. One thing about us is that the subconscious mind seems to be just a term to us, and there is really no way that we are going to truly understand about it if we do not read on it. At the adult stage of life, the subconscious...

This week I officially started my book tour. For many years I have done radio interviews promoting what I thought was going to be the soon release of my bookThe LifeQuake Phenomenonand then a sudden upheaval in my own LifeQuake journey would force me to put the book aside and deal with the health crisis du jour that was presenting itself at the moment. What each illness I encountered had in common was that they were incurable by modern medicine. Each time I went on a search to be...