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Confrontive Coping

Individuals are said to be in the state of coping when they try to reduce the impact of a loss or suffering. They might be taking action, facing responsibilities and dealing with difficulties and problems calmly and effectively. Coping is also like dealing with a problem as if you are fixing the hurt. As part […]

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Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Progressive muscle relaxation is a particular technique that teaches individuals to control and monitor muscular tension state. This was developed in 1920 by Edmund Jacobson, an American physician who also wrote several books about progressive muscle relaxation. This technique also includes monitoring tension in every specific group of muscle in the human body. This is […]

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How to Overcome OCD Intrusive Thoughts

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD is a type of disorder resulting from stressful and intrusive behavior patterns. The root cause must be fully understood and though this results from combinations of learned habits and biochemical factors. There is no definite cure for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but the condition remains treatable. With the right approach and […]

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Overcoming Caffeine Addiction

In these modern world where 9:00 am to 5:00 pm jobs become prominent, many individuals resort to instant fixes of energy to start the day. They usually turn to caffeinated drinks such as coffee first thing early in the morning. Caffeinated products entail several benefits such as boosting energy. However, consuming too much might deliver […]

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Overcoming Emetophobia

Emetophobia pertains to the phobia of vomiting. Most individuals have probably come across this term but not all completely familiar on what this phobia is really all about as well as the many aspects related to it. This particular type of phobia can really be a disabling and bothering condition, and this somehow limits the […]

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Overcoming Limerence

Limerence pertains to involuntary emotional and cognitive state described by intrusive thinking and longing for sensitivity and reciprocation to external events that signify hope or uncertainty in relation to a desire or person. This also pertains to obsessed or infatuated state towards another person. The intense desire for the reciprocation of individual’s feelings but not […]

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Overcoming White Coat Syndrome

If seeing a doctor sends an individual to panic, he may be suffering a certain condition called white coat syndrome. This is also known as white coat hypertension, term describing a condition that triggers patients’ blood pressure to rise especially in clinical settings. Anxiety and stress also play vital role in the development of this […]

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Overcoming Arachnophobia

Arachnophobia is an extreme and irrational fear of spiders. The level of fear varies from slight increase of heart rate up to panic-induced immobilization. Some individuals who are suffering from this type of phobia even refuse to enter a given area unless this is properly checked to make sure that spiders are not present. Arachnophobia […]

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Overcoming Acrophobia

Every person has his or her own fear in life. This fear is sometimes caused by some of the factors that lead into phobia. When you have the intense fear with something and you are feeling stress when you are near on the object because you’re afraid, you are experiencing phobia. This kind of situation […]

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Learned Helplessness Experiments

Learned helplessness is one of the mental state conditions wherein an organism is subjected into aversive stimuli that it cannot able to escape. The theory of learned helplessness was developed by US psychologist Martin Seligman in 1967 at the University of Pennsylvania. Because of his interest in depression he was able to conduct a painful […]

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