What is hydrocephaly?

Hydrocephaly or hydrocephalus -also known as ‘water on the brain’is a brain disease that affects 1 in every 500 births, making it one of the most common developmental disabilities - more common than Down syndrome or deafness.  It was first described by Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician. It wasn’t until the 20th century that effective treatments were developed for it, and there is still no known...

Here at Mental Toughness HQ we like to go after the “big fish” and ask the difficult questions. So along with the usual questions about their health and circumstances I will often ask clients “what and where is the meaning in your life?” In short, what I am getting at here is:

What’s your purpose in living and being? - What’s the point of you?

It’s an easy and straightforward question…isn’t it? Maybe not, but for mental...

Recently, I have been interviewing people to work on a nightshift, for company in London. In addition to the candidates’ skills and experience I am keen to find out what thinking, beliefs and attitudes they hold and get some insight into what makes them tick. As you might expect I have my own style in order to get the right people and talent for the positions on offer.

Interviews are tough; we only have a very short time to make an impression and sell ourselves. We all...

Do you sometimes think that you are too shy?  Shyness is very common in children, teens and adults.  All the people feel shy at sometime in their lives, but being shy most of the time can cause difficulties with day-to-day activities and relationships.  Sometimes, it is normal to feel shy, such as when facing a new kind of situation, meeting new people etc.  But people who are extremely shy feel nervous even more often.  They avoid or cancel social events, have...

Many people suffer from anxiety and or panic attacks on a regular basis. You should know that the anxiety you may be experiencing now, feeds off of that previous panic attack, sending your emotions into stressful worry and doubt, promoting that apparent hopeless cycle of fear. Fear of losing control again, fear of embarrassment associated with some panic attacks. Even in some cases, the fear of death.

The mere thought or anticipation of a panic attack starts the wave cycle of...

The basics of persuasion show how easy it can be to manipulate people's mind. With enough knowledge about how the mind works and sufficient skills on making the most out of this knowledge, one can make another person act according to the first person's whims and desires. There are various persuasion techniques that exist in everyday life, but most people do not know that these are actually effective in influencing the way one thinks and acts.

A very common persuasion technique is...

People usually mean well. Although sometimes they’re just tired of putting up with someone else’s problem. And it’s not as if you’re not trying. You’d love to just get over it, after all. It’s no fun holding on to all this negative emotion.

The good news is that it’s not because you have a weak character or there’s something wrong with you that you haven’t been able to get over it until now.

Honestly though, it feels like...

A couple of years before, I wanted to have the newest items from a luxurious supply in the uptown area. My hubby was hesitant to splurge that much since the holidays were fast approaching, and extra expenses were predictable. However, a little amount of the silent treatment was all it desired to make him realize how seriously I wanted them. And, I did make them at the last. This is indeed one of the most successful mind control techniques on the face of the Earth. ~ Mariz

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Before going to start the discussion and discuss its techniques that how to control the anger, first of all it is very important to understand the anger because there are so many people in the world who don’t have control over there anger and this thing destroy their lives as well as their family’s life. The thing that makes this topic difficult is that mostly people don’t want to accept this reality that they have some kind of problem and they feel that they...

But in some cases it become very difficult to resolve their issues by themselves and these kinds of couples need a Marriage Counseling NY because they listen their point of view attentively and try to help them. But these are some people who don’t think so and time to time arise the question is whether marriage counseling is effective or not but fact is that there are so many couples who approaches to the Marriage Counseling NY when they think they cant resolve their issues by...