Category Archives: Coping mechanisms

Emotions are partly derived from feelings. To explain how this derivation occurs I use a model of consciousness that is a traditional one: consciousness has three modes, those of will, mind, and feeling. Past variations on this model substituted action … Continue reading →

Why do people and animals experience emotions, and what makes us experience different types of emotions. Ian Heath looks at emotional states, the link between the sub-conscious and our feelings. The analysis of emotions has been ineffectual up till now … Continue reading →

How does our memory function? Find out the stages of remembering. An explanation of how we remember One popular theory of how we remember was proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin in 1968. It proposed that the human memory is … Continue reading →

Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud theorised that our personality development is based on childhood events and labelled personality types such as analy retentive and oral. Discover your Freudian personality type with this test. PermalinkPrint  |   Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud theorised that our personality development … Continue reading →

Psychotherapy involves talking with a trained mental health professional, such as a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, or counselor to learn how to deal with problems like anxiety disorders. Cognitive-Behavioral and Behavioral Therapy Research has shown that a form of psychotherapy … Continue reading →

By Judith Orloff, MD, Special to Everyday Health There’s a telling detail in the latest “Stress in America” survey from the American Psychological Association. About half of the respondents (48 percent) reported being regularly stressed out because they are “unable to control … Continue reading →

It is wonderful to have a dream. It can also be wonderful to have a goal. True, there is a school of thought that maintains we should not need goals. We looked at this view a few months ago. My … Continue reading →

Learning to follow the breath is one of the most basic mindfulness exercises for stress, and for good reason: Mindful breathing has the power to reduce stress on a physical level, and can actually retrain the stress response in the … Continue reading →

By Michael Weinberger *This post originally appeared on A Plan for Living’s blog. If you define stress as that crazy out-of- control feeling you get when you’re overwhelmed and under pressure, you’ve got it partially right. Stress is your body’s reaction to … Continue reading →