Archive for the 'Psychology' Category

Bad Mood: Just a Bad Mood or a Harbinger for a Mood Disorder? - Part II

What can cause the mood disorders? Biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors can trigger the mood disorders.
Biological factors get involved from four perspectives; heredity, neurobiological abnormalities, neurotransmitter deregulation, and hormones. Mood disorders tend to run in families, and the greatest risk of inheriting and developing the disorder is having a biological parent who is suffering from [...]

Bad Mood: Just a Bad Mood or a Harbinger for a Mood Disorder? - Part I

According to a medical dictionary, mood is the persistent feeling and internal emotional state of an individual, which can noticeably affect all aspects of the individual’s behaviors or opinions when impaired. In contrast to emotions, moods are less specific, sometimes less intense and there are no specific stimulus or event triggering it, but they can [...]

Are You Vulnerable to Stress?

Stress is one thing that can’t be avoided in human lives, giving the conflicts between our desires and needs and the realities of our environments and events. Sometimes stress can help us improve or know what is wrong and useful in the sense but extreme stress can often lead to physcial illness, lower immune system, [...]

Id, Ego and Superego Explained

Id is the Freudian structure of personality which consists of instincts that are individual’s reservoir of psychic energy. It is unconscious and has no contact with the reality, and what it mainly does is working according to the pleasure principle. Id always produce pleasure and avoids pain and unpleasant moments at all cost.
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Is Phobia an Anxiety Disorder? - Part III Ending (Specific Phobia)

Based on National Phobics Society (NPS), specific phobia results in an unreasonable fear of specific objects or situations. The fear can be either from the presence of the specific object and being presence at a specific situation or from the visualizing and thinking about the presence, and anxiety triggered from such fear can also lead [...]


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