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We’ve made it to the end of 2020! From polarizing politics to raging fires to COVID-19, it’s been a real doozy. And now the holidays… Do we celebrate with loved... The post Podcast: Celebrating a COVID Christmas first appeared on World of Psychology.

What’s it like growing up with a sibling with mental illness? In today’s show, we hear it straight from Gabe’s little sister Debbie, who shares what it was like living... The post Podcast: Family Perspective on Mental Illness first appeared on World of Psychology.

What is your life story? Do you feel like a victim of your circumstances? And if so, how does this affect your future? In today’s show, our guest James Sweigert,... The post Podcast: Reframing Past Traumas first appeared on World of Psychology.

“My average UCLA student who’s been successful wrote at least six complete, polished screenplays before finally selling one.”
~William Froug (Twilight Zone, tv show) “I wrote maybe 10 screenplays before I was able to sell one.”
~Nicolas Kazan (At Close Range) “We wrote six scripts before

Self-awareness is a necessary part of healing. Without awareness, we’d live a life perpetuating the patterns that can work against us in various ways emotionally, relationally, behaviorally, or otherwise. Being able to reflect on ourselves emotionally,...

Facing unknowns is very difficult. Facing an ever growing list of unknowns ups the challenge.  The most looming unknown is COVID-19. It is a matter of life and death. As we continue to face this pandemic we are hit with the news of over 207,000 deaths,...

The term “imposter syndrome” was coined by psychologists Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes in 1978 to describe an “internal experience of intellectual phoniness in people who believe that they are not intelligent,...

Do you feel that you are able to change ingrained patterns of behavior that you have had for a long time? If not, you’re not alone! Most people feel that behaviors (as well as thoughts) are difficult to change....

Everyone talks about having a hard time trusting another person after a betrayal and so few discuss how difficult it is to trust ourselves as a result. We focus on what the other person did to us and try to find ways to

After 10 years & about 1,322 Mental Health Humor Cartoon posts for Psych Central…experiencing some brain freeze?…normal!:) Thank You Dear Readers &...

To truly understand why women do not leave, the reasons are better understood in light of seeing first and foremost the human reasons, as human beings, women have hardwired emotion-drives to matter and create meaningful connections to self and others,...

  This will be my last blog post for PsychCentral website. It has been a great journey to have the Practical Psychoanalysis Blog here and I am saddened to say that it will no

NBC Nightly News featured Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler—the first Black female physician in the United States....

You have ADHD? Me too. I’m a writer, so my default is to write about it. And so I have, right here at Psych Central, three times a week for nine years now....

Today I love my new life now that I do not have to create new blog posts for one place any more, at least not for the next little while,...