Before I explain whether introversion is a disorder or not, it’s important to understand what’s considered a mental disorder first. A mental disorder isn’t necessary something like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia but its any psychological condition that prevents a person from living his normal life. For example when depression is preventing a person from socialising, …
Before you know how to raise healthy children when your partner is a narcissist, you need to understand how personality develops. One of the false believes about personality development that can prevent you from raising healthy children is; believing that personality is inherited. You might have noticed how two children can have totally different personalities …
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I’m not good enough for my partner; he will just leave me for someone else. I will probably lose my job in the upcoming retrenchment. I don’t think my children will have a good future. Do these phrases sound familiar? If your answer is yes, then you might have developed insecurities. Insecurity is a feeling …
Are you tired of being disrespected by a narcissist? Are you losing your self-esteem because the narcissist disrespects you? Before you try to make a narcissist respect you, it’s important to understand why he doesn’t respect you in the first place. Malignant narcissists are narcissists who try to hurt others intentionally, and disrespect is one …
Have you ever met someone who: Believes and behave like he is not like other people Feels that he is destined for a glorious life Feels entitled to a special treatment Those are some of the characteristics of a person who has entitlement complex (an unhealthy sense of entitlement). At first you may think that …
In the initial stages of a relationship, couples are usually intensely attracted to each other and madly in love. But after sometime, these intense feelings of love usually fade away, and in a healthy relationship love is felt through intimacy, mutual respect and connectedness. People who don’t understand how love works may start thinking that …
Why do we obsess over people who ignore us? Why do we think a lot about people who do not seem to be interested in us? Logically, we should obsess over those who love us, after all, we all want to be loved, and ignore those who ignore us because no one likes to be …
Since people are different, when two people come together in a relationship, there can be a lot of conflicts, fights and disagreements but those problems are usually solved as time passes and the relationship stabilises gradually as those people gets used to each other. However some relationships never seem to be going in the direction …
A submissive woman who does not respond assertively to her abusive partner, a man who drinks in order to escape bad moods for a moment, a person who tries to keep himself busy in order to forget his problems, are examples of people who suppress their emotions. Many people suppress their emotions thinking that by …
Codependency is a behaviour where a person tries to make his relationship partner or other people depend on him by taking care of them and pleasing them while ignoring his own personal needs and rights. Codependent people usually feel good about themselves when they find that they are needed by others especially their relationship partner …