Understand the roots of problematic personality traits.
Have you ever caught yourself wondering if the people you call friends are really your friends? Do you know who your real friends are? How do you identify fake friends vs real friends? Have you ever complained: “He only talks to me when he needs me” or “I only exist when you need something”? Apparently, …
Have you ever wondered why people keep repeating the same thing in conversations over and over? If you’re anything like me, you can’t ignore the content of conversations because you know that language can be a window to the mind. People repeat what they say for a number of reasons in a variety of contexts. …
Passive-aggressive behavior is subtle and so can be difficult to detect, understand, and change. Let’s look at how a typical passive-aggressive person behaves, and then we can attempt to understand it. Jane had a troubled relationship with almost everyone in her life. She never really got along with her parents, always disliked her younger sister, …
This article will explore the psychology behind clumsiness and why people fall or drop things when they’re clumsy. Of course, there can be purely physical reasons behind why a person falls or drops things. For instance, tripping over something. In this article, my focus will be on the purely psychological reasons behind such behavior. As …
Personality tests are found almost everywhere on the internet these days but do they really work? While some of them may be a bit credible, others that tell you that your fingernails can tell a lot about you are just plain stupid. People with a decent level of self-understanding rarely go for such tests. Although, sometimes …
Laziness is an unwillingness to spend energy. It is an unwillingness to do a task we perceive to be difficult or uncomfortable. This article will attempt to explain what laziness is and try to penetrate the mystery of its origins. You’ve probably heard hundreds of times that people are lazy by nature, and it’s true to quite …
This article will discuss what causes a person to be shy and how to overcome shyness the right way. Shyness is a personality disorder because a shy person has problems dealing with the people they want to interact with. Shyness makes a person uncomfortable around others. Shy people find it difficult to express themselves freely …
In this article, we’ll explore the potential dangers of perfectionism and its root cause. We’ll also go over some ideas on how to overcome perfectionism and the downside of not caring about perfection. A perfectionist is a person who strives for flawlessness. They set excessively high and unrealistic performance standards for themselves. A perfectionist wants …
Before we can talk about overcoming inferiority complex, it’s important that we understand how and why the feelings of inferiority arise in the first place. In short, inferiority feelings motivate us to compete with members of our social group. Feelings of inferiority make a person feel bad because they find themselves in a disadvantaged position …
Before we try to understand what causes insecurity, I want to introduce you to a girl named Lisa: Lisa never liked to take photos of her whenever she hung out with friends. Even if it was a picnic, a vacation or a party, she stayed away from getting clicked and reasonably enough all her friends found …