The quality of life 2023, March

Should I start psychotherapy? 9 reasons for doubt. There is nothing unusual about your fears. It's perfectly okay to have doubts

Survive after. Post-New Year's syndrome - a whim or a problem? Fireworks outside the window interfere with sleep less and less, New Year's movies are no longer happy even as a background. With the feeling “it's over” we are inevitably approaching the first working week of the new year and this fact does not bring any enthusiasm. Fatigue, apathy, anxiety and irritation are what we experience the last few days before the end of the vacation

Vacation is not a luxury. I wonder what you are looking for under this article title? What kind of rest do you have a fantasy and what exactly in this topic worries you? if we are with

Is there a special antidepressant diet? When it comes to treatments for depression, we see very few options available

Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you how you will be in a year. We do not choose the family we were born into. We do not choose kindergarten and school

Can depression recur?

The body, in a sense, is in opposition to our consciousness. When it comes to illusions about appearance and health, it quickly brings us back to reality

Give yourself a break. 4 breathing exercises to relieve stress and reduce anxiety. In the hustle and bustle of our life, there is no time for relaxation. To complete the task, finish urgent work, settle the problem that has arisen - our emotions go off scale, and breathing becomes shallow, quickened, chest, to match the rhythm of life: tense, hurried, stressful. The result is a feeling of shortness of breath, painful tightness in the chest, heaviness and tension in the shoulders

Feels like forty is the first age when you finally grow up to not only start asking yourself “eternal” questions, but also try to answer them. That is, for the first time in your life, you have everything in order to look back and evaluate what you have lived

Chronic fatigue syndrome: 5 steps to get out of the twilight. Increased fatigue, constant feeling of tiredness, bad mood, lack of

How to restore healthy sleep: advice from a psychologist. May your night be calm! According to statistics, more than 40 million Russians experience regular problems with

Emotional Imaging Therapy: 12 Pitfalls of Therapist-Client Alliance. No joint work will be successful "when there is no agreement in the comrades." But a therapeutic session in EOT is precisely a partnership in which both participants have the same interest - by joint efforts to solve the client's psychological problem

“Managing your mood”, “relaxing easily”, “becoming alert and energetic when needed” sounds tempting, doesn't it? All this is possible with the use of techniques of psychic self-regulation. Self-regulation also helps to save money: both on the services of a psychologist and on medications. After all, our somatic health is very closely related to mental state

“I don’t want sex!” Or How your partner is cheating on you. In no field of medicine does the patient deceive the doctor so much and ingeniously as in

"I began to forget the most ordinary words"

Superfood hormone. What is Melatonin? There is something softly musical and pacifying in this word. This hormone is called "superhormone" - it plays

Agoraphobia. An example of therapy. After the traumatic memories have been discovered, it is necessary to correct the values that were assigned to

Edge by color. Art therapy workshop for getting rid of fear and going beyond. How wonderful it is to be an arrow shot at the target! Fly

Causes of agoraphobia. Agoraphobia is often a consequence of long-term panic or social anxiety disorder

Is it always overweight? Where does it come from? By learning to build healthier boundaries, the body doesn't need to literally build them

Fitness addiction: admit and conquer. When we talk about addiction, we immediately think of something harmful. And fitness is a healthy, useful thing. But “good” things can be addictive too

“By age, menopause is coming soon. How to prepare, what to do in advance? " It is best to start preparing for menopause early. As a rule, with this natural for

One of my colleagues, a psychiatrist, having completed courses in Gestalt therapy as part of advanced training, admitted: "What is Gestalt therapy, I still do not understand … But I remembered only one thing: Gestalts must be completed!"

The man in the case. Why is it difficult for us to express feelings. Recently, it has become increasingly popular to believe that hiding and suppressing feelings is harmful to

Just fatigue or asthenia? How to learn to distinguish between symptoms and help yourself in time. As in the mad rhythm of cities, among work and household chores

Is Forgetfulness a Sign of Coming Dementia? When is it time to sound the alarm? Forgetfulness is considered one of the first signs of senile dementia

Erotic dreams are constantly dreamed, although there is normal regular sex. Let's start with the fact that erotic dreams should be dreamed by all healthy and sexually mature

Coping with agoraphobia. I cannot calmly be in an open place where there are many people, for example, in a square. I immediately start

Emotional Imaging Therapy: It is better to live with a butterfly in your heart than to wear a heavy stone on it. Clients can go to a psychologist for years, work with their thoughts, train behavioral reactions, take apart their childhood traumas by the bones, and this even changes their lives to some extent, however, in times of stress, people still return to their original positions, despite his full awareness and psychological literacy acquired during long-term therapy

What is phototherapy? How can she help? We live in a world where visual imagery matters. And it would be strange if

The pros and cons of online consultation. Online consulting is more like a game than something serious. First of all, we are talking about the format

Are you the scapegoat for your family? 10-item questionnaire. It would be very cool if children, growing up, somehow magically

5 easy steps to stop procrastination Everyone is familiar with the situation when the deadlines for the planned case have already expired, and the start is all

All about happiness at once. Metanavigator. The main goals and ideas of my collection of materials can be summarized as follows: to show all the sides, aspects that influence the subjective perception of happiness and unhappiness

Three simple but powerful tips for insomnia. The main rule is that the place to sleep should be comfortable. You need to sleep on a soft or semi-soft

I am a shopaholic. Illness or vocation? You like buying new, you are aware of all the fashion collections and seasonal discounts. Sincerely believe that it is impossible

"Fake toys": when the New Year is not a joy. On New Year's holidays, the anecdote about fake Christmas tree toys, which shine just like real ones, is more relevant than ever, but, unlike them, are not at all pleasing. Why, with age, the holidays are increasingly causing not fun, but melancholy and headaches?

How positive is body positivity? Where is the line between accepting your body and a pathological habit that leads to illness? Is it measurable in body mass index? The topic is being discussed by the experts of Our Psychology

Buried alive. Stay alive in pursuit of health. Around us, more and more immersed in virtual reality, a beautiful picture - happy faces, green salad, a shining dumbbell. Snow white smile and deadlift at the same time. Ideal people who don't sweat spend 8 months of the year traveling and the other 4 at the gym

"My child is a drug addict!" How to save and be saved yourself? You have always thought it was happening to someone else. They believed that you were already insured against such a nightmare. And when something terrible happened, you are seized with utter confusion, mixed with a sense of guilt and shame. Bitterness and helplessness from the fact that they could not, did not see, did not have time