As a psychotherapist in private practice for over a decade, I certainly have seen it all: watching my clients suffer through anxiety and stress, watching them go from medication to medication looking for "the right pill", and rarely finding it, spending inordinate amounts of money desperately trying to find the correct method to make their stress go away.

Can Anxiety Be Cured By A Pill or through Mental Health Counseling?

Anxiety is a complex issue...not just...

Pictures of great leaders get plastered over the newspaper everyday, and it is just impossible to use these pictures as inspirational pictures. However, if you are really serious about using leadership pictures to make you be a good leader, then you can try using pictures that are from online photo books like photo bucket and image share. It might sound impossible to you that such random pictures might spur you to be one of them. If you are still having doubts about the capability and...

In order to develop a lively personality, an important aspect is attractiveness and the most important would be quality that is known as inner charisma or charm. Charm is the personality that comes from within. This is most often known as 'Personal Magnetism' and what the movie makers and big companies look for is personal magnetism or the inner charm. This is not a defined property but is far more imperative than physical beauty. But when both the personalities are combined the blend...

If you are like me, you probably have wondered at some point in time what motivation really was? The textbook definition of motivation would state it as being an inner process that moves you unerringly toward the attainment of your goal. That definition should also include the mental concepts of purpose and vision. These concepts will play an important role when you are determining your goal in the first place. The real glue to building lasting motivation are the cultivation of the...

There are times when people encounter fearful thoughts that can be difficult to manage. For some people, the more they try to get rid of the thoughts, the more difficult they become to manage. As a result, here is a brief list of techniques that a person can use to help manage their fearful and obsessive thoughts.

The first thing a person must do is not to dwell or focus on the fear provoking thought when it comes. The more a person tries to reason out the thought or focus on the...

No matter what time we get up in the morning, what our day consisted of, or how late we decided to call it a night, getting a good night's sleep is something we all want and need, but all do differently. Some of us are naturally "restless" sleepers. Despite our exhaustion an efforts, we toss and turn, finding it almost impossible to get comfortable and (perhaps just when we get settled in and comfortable) are awakened by just about any little noise, movement, or glimpse of...

Being able to de-escalate one's own and the anger of others is an important skill to have in business. Hopefully, this is not something the reader deals with on a regular basis but unfortunately most people in business encounter either their own anger or the anger of others more frequently than they would like.

In order to be successful at de-escalating anger, a person must understand and become skillful in the following areas.

Prevention Steps:

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In order for an individual to detect that a person is telling a lie, the person needs to understand the psychology of lying to know the reason behind the act.

In fact, having knowledge on the psychology of lying can help you become more observant to the different signs of lying, as well as the mentality that comes with it. This is useful in order to avoid being put in a sense of doubt or under emotional stress when you are confronted with it.

Fear

One of...

There are seven male personality types. All seven are within each male, however each has a dominant or even two or three dominant personality types. The only child has to be everything to his parents so he may be a mixture of all of them.

Mummy's Boy
Reared by a domineering, over-protective parent (usually his mother), he is soft, gentle, understanding, compliant and eager to please – although he is capable of rebellion under certain circumstances and may even resort to...

1. Embarrassment

It's almost impossible to avoid flushing or blushing when we feel embarrassed. Either when we least expect it or even worse when we do expect it. When you next feel embarrassment try to remember that your face turning red is 99.9% common and the only discomfort you will feel is the embarrassment itself and not the so called shame of a red face.

2. Exercise

How many people do you know who don't turn a different shade of pink from a...