Everyone has their unique behaviors, these are part of our identity and it’s what makes us ‘ME’.  With all the behavioral differences occurring in our culture today:  smoking, gambling, chatting in the internet, working 10 hours a day, we beg the question: when will our uniqueness become an abnormality?  Should […] Read more »

Pills may seem to be the easy way out; every time there’s pain, a pill can easily get rid of it.  Simple, I buy the pill, I consume the pill and the pain is gone.  No crying, no blaming, no recalling of hurtful experiences and the best of all, no […] Read more »

When one goes around looking for training and self-improvement, one may notice that most courses and training programs contain a topic on Self-Awareness.  You see this in Emotional Intelligence workshops, Counselling skills training, leadership seminars and sometimes, even in success workshops. Self awareness is the first weapon in battling denial. […] Read more »

The term brought back to popularity by the media is actually a psychological mood disorder that occurs from the fluctuations or shifts between 2 extreme affective episodes that we know very well: depression (being too sad) and mania (being dangerously happy). Not many people are aware that Manic-Depressive Disorder, a […] Read more »

Gambling addiction is considered an impulse control disorder by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association).  It is the person failing to regulate their impulses and acting on them without much regard to the consequences.  Other such disorders in this category (impulse control disorder) include substance […] Read more »

Technology is advancing at exponential rates and we are getting more and more interested with our cosmic neighbors as the thought of space travel slowly becomes a possibility. Because of this trend, movie makers have been reinforcing and propagandizing the ‘alien industry’. It started with the advancement of cinematics that […] Read more »

Nothing comes for free. With the fast pace of information exchanged and delivered from the internet; communication, entertainment, education, and business rose to unimaginable levels. After all the improvements the internet has done for society, there is one other thing that we cannot deny: that the internet also provided a […] Read more »

Eating disorders are the third most common serious medical disorder in female adolescents, after asthma and depression (Ung, 2003). Abnormalities in eating behaviour can result from eating too much (binge eating/obesity), having unusual eating rituals (bulimia nervosa), or not eating at all (anorexia nervosa). A variation of eating disorder, anorexia […] Read more »