Psychology

I remember at a previous job I had where all the employees had to take the Myers-Briggs test to find out what our personality types were and if we were introverts, extroverts, etc. And I didn’t really find the exercise to be all that useful…it just seemed kind of pointless, to be honest with you....

Our society is getting better and better about losing the stigma that’s long been attached to talking about mental illness. We have a long way to go, but in the meantime, talking about our experiences with depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders can make it seem more normal – and less like a reason...

Chances are, you realize by now that depression is something so many people struggle with on a daily basis. If you’re lucky enough to be one of the unaffected, you probably want to be as helpful and sympathetic to those who suffer as you can – and that means educating yourself on all of the...

It’s always terribly sad when you hear about someone suffering from any form of mental illness that impacts their life in a major way. And it’s even worse when it actually happens to someone you are close to. But, unfortunately, sometimes these things happen to our loved ones…and it can even be the people we...

It’s one of the more ironic things about our society, I think, that now that we all have phones in our hands pretty much 24/7, we’ve developed an intense dislike of actually speaking on them. We’d rather text or DM or PM or Snapchat or heck, even email before actually picking it up and talking to...

If you were the “smart” kid growing up, there’s a good chance you heard your parents say “I don’t know how someone as smart as you could do something like that” at least once in your life. Aside from making you feel badly for upsetting your parents, the statement also makes you feel something new...

I know I’m probably not telling you something you don’t already know, but a lot of men out there aren’t exactly good at letting their emotions out. Well, we’re about to change that right now, even if it is anonymously. Men on AskReddit were nice enough to open up about their emotions. Let’s take a...

We all have semi-interesting things that we deal with at our jobs on a daily basis, but therapists really see and hear some wild things. And us non-therapists never really get a peek into that world…until now! Therapists got real on AskReddit about the unusual things they’ve seen and heard on the job. Let’s take...