Hasan A. Yahya, Ph.D

Personality disorder: A disorder characterized by the chronic use of mechanisms of coping in an inappropriate, stereotyped, and maladaptive manner. Personality disorders are enduring and persistent styles of behavior and thought, not atypical episodes. The personality disorders encompass a group of behavioral disorders that are different and distinct from the psychotic and neurotic disorders. The official psychiatric manual, the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and...

Stress in the workplace can be both beneficial and detrimental. In a beneficial way, it keeps us motivated and productive. This type of stress can make our jobs more rewarding by allowing us to rise to new challenges. It normally follows a pattern of heightened activity, followed by a return to a natural and relaxed state.

Detrimental stress, however, can negatively impact our mental and physical health. It is one of the main reasons employees miss work, and costs the UK around...

Everyone needs a spiritual retreat now and then. A spiritual retreat is more than just a vacation.

A typical vacation may leave you feeling more burned out than when you left - often from rushing back and forth while trying to squeeze as many sites of interest as possible into a short timeframe.

A true spiritual vacation on the other hand is a retreat from all the hustle and bustle. A time for renewal and regeneration of spirit, mind and body.

With the goal in mind of...

The first thing we do in life is take a breath; the last thing we do in life is take a breath; one of the worst things we do in life is take a breath.

How can that be?  We all breathe.  Continually and non-stop, we average between 12 – 18 breaths per minute.  And yet, most people are not breathing with the support of the diaphragm, a muscular partition separating the chest from the abdomen.  [To find that muscle, place your hands under your...

The ability to smile is a gift to humans. It not only fills a mood of happiness and positive energy into one's own soul, but also spreads a feeling of good will, friendship, love, and care for the others to perceive, who happens to be facing you or to whom you are smiling at.

Further, a heartening smile is a non-verbal symbol of acceptance, which is very crucial in our social lives, and a gesture that personifies your confidence, eagerness, aptitude, and willingness to perform...

Stress- A Part of Daily Life

Existence is a gradually becoming a very complicated process. In the olden days, life was much simpler. People were bothered with the day to day proceedings. They did not have much complicated life styles. Their unhappiness was much more basic. Maybe it stemmed from lack of money or resources, or the illness of relatives etc. The word ‘stress’was virtually unknown at that time. These days, every few sentence includes the word stress in it....

“Martha, Martha”, He said. How many times have we Stress Junkies been a Martha?

To set the scene, and for those who may not know the story, Martha and Mary were sisters. They had a brother named Lazarus. Now Martha and Mary have a house in Bethany near Jerusalem, and their brother has invited some friends over for dinner. One of the friends is an important guy, a real man of the hour back then – his name is Jesus. He comes from a small town, his father was...

In stressful situations, it is natural that we exhibit a behavior that is different from our norm anger, depression, fear, anxiety but there is also one sure way to deal with certain levels of stress, without the expense of visiting doctors and having to purchase expensive prescriptions. The remedy is simply having a sense of humour.

Humour has been proven effective in fighting stress. Experts have been able to show that laughter relaxes muscles and relieves tension, speeds...

Stress can mean different things to different people. People have different feelings about it. Stress is something that is in every ones day to day life but people handle it in different ways. What can be stressful to one person may not be stressful to another.

Various different factors in our life can produce stress. You may be worrying about your job, finances, moving house or a relationship. Perhaps you are about to sit your exams and need to get good grades for that...

Light at the end of the tunnel, a famous saying denotes that auspicious happenings are waiting for you. Life is usually a struggle, in which people are trying to overcome the bad happenings. Obviously, good things will succeed bad things. But, a strong remembrance is enough for that since impact of bad things will be certainly devastating.

The saying, there is light is at the end of the tunnel, play its role in this context. The belief that makes them motivated to come across...