Personality refers to a person’s unique manner of thinking, feeling, and acting. Experiences, environment (surroundings, life situations), and inherited characteristics all play a role in shaping an individual’s personality. Over time, a person’s personality tends to remain consist...

Have you seen someone batching or washing hands again and again? Have you seen someone doing a particular movement a specific number of times? For instance, touching the light switch 5 times.  Have you seen someone checking particular things repeatedly? Example: – checking if the gas stov...

Identifying personality disorders: Personality problems typically start in adolescence or early adulthood. A personality disorder is a mental illness in which you have a strict and harmful way of thinking, functioning, and acting. A personality disordered individual has difficulty perceiving and rel...

Drugs have effects on the brain that might be irreversible and cause a lot of damage that can be difficult to fix. Ecstasy or more commonly known as ‘molly’ is one such drug. Ecstasy (MDMA, 3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine) is a psychoactive synthetic drug  that gives you a boost of energy. It...

Have you ever seen someone who doesn’t pay respect to others, who don’t follow social norms or rules, who breaks the law or causes immense physical or emotional harm to the people around them & don’t ever regret it? Then these people might be experiencing antisocial personality disorder. A...

Food has a great impact on an individual’s mind and emotions as different foods are related to different chemicals and hormones in our body. Nutrition is a key to brains development and is very important when it comes to having a better concentration and learning. One way to improve early brain de...

Imagine that a person has gone for an outing with his wife. Suddenly his wife sees her school friend there and starts talking to him. The husband looks at them and thinks that they are talking about him or they must be making a plan to kill him. When this feeling gets intense, we can […]...

Mental health is not widely celebrated and is not given equal importance as physical health. People know very less about mental health illnesses, its types and its treatments. It is even considered taboo by many to get help from a mental health expert and people who get this help are seen as psychop...

It is possible to confuse addiction with habit or just causal liking towards a drug or a substance. There is a very thin line to mark the difference between the two however, addiction is a much severe condition and is classified under chronic dysfunction of the brain system that involves reward, mot...

Addiction is an inability to stop using a substance or engaging in a behavior even though it is causing psychological & physical harm. Addiction is a term that is easy to start and extremely hard to stop. If you are noticing a lack of energy, you have an inability to stop using a substance even ...