Category: Emotions
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Ghosts… Depression… A dead God. The unseen problems of a “progressed” world…
It is exactly α hundred years since Sigmund Freud set pen to paper to write his groundbreaking paper Mourning and Melancholia. Published in 1917, Freud distinguished between two responses to loss: mourning, when the object of loss is clear and obvious, and thus can be emotionally processed; and melancholia, a state of being in which…
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Multiple Personalities Disorder, fake psychiatry, real conflicts, Life...
Multiple Personality Disorder is fake. At the height of the most recent fad in the '90s, it seemed that every third or fourth patient was presenting with a long list of newly developed multiple personalities. The modal number of personalities per patient started multiplying exponentially from just two to 16. Αn iatrogenically inspired diagnosis inappropriately…
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Problems? Turn to science! Huh?!?
It's well known that religious faith can help believers cope with stress and anxiety, by providing them with a sense of meaning and control at times of uncertainty. It now seems that a "belief" in science and a rationalistic outlook might do the same for the non-religious. [1] How sad is it to turn to…
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Treacherousness
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld Next time someone ill-treats you, think twice before getting angry. Bad behaviour could be a result of weakness, rather than pure evil. Double check and see things from another perspective. Evil is most of the time synonym with powerlessness or a deep…
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