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Category: Mental Health

  • The Real Reason We Stay Silent and What It’s Doing to Our Relationships

    The Real Reason We Stay Silent and What It’s Doing to Our Relationships

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    My toxic trait? I wait too long to tell people how I really feel. It’s not that I don’t feel deeply. I do. But the idea of saying, “Hey, that thing you did made me feel off,” makes me uneasy. I don’t want to stir the pot, make things awkward, or cause tension. So instead,…

  • Do you have a Flight or Fight response to situations?

    Do you have a Flight or Fight response to situations?

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    Do you have a Flight or Fight response to situations? Of a truth, I have only ever had a “flight” response to failing relationships. Sometimes, I ask myself Why I have gotten so used to “running” in the face of challenges. I elope all the time, so much so, I have become too comfortable with…

  • Positive Self-deception.

    Positive Self-deception.

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    Positive self-deception is the act of convincing oneself of truth or lack of truth for the sole purpose of self-fulfilment and positivity. The Oxford Academic Journals defines deception as the deliberate distortion of information in order to deceive others. However, positive self-deception is different from other forms of deception because it aims to produce positive…

  • My Dalliance With Pressure.

    My Dalliance With Pressure.

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      My Dalliance With Pressure. I haven’t been able to write anything lately or should I say I haven’t been able to write from the heart for weeks now. I want to be able to write and express how I truly feel without feeling some kind of way or thinking about how valuable the content…

  • Is Freedom Really the Ultimate Good?

    Is Freedom Really the Ultimate Good?

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    Is freedom the ultimate good? It is believed by some that the ultimate good for man is freedom. To these people, freedom is in the ability to act without constraint as this is the weapon humanity has to fight against all forces that oppose them. These oppositions may include natural disasters, unfavourable laws and policies,…

  • Memoirs from a Repressed Memory.

    Memoirs from a Repressed Memory.

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      I sat down there thinking quietly to myself, trying to understand why I couldn’t understand what My friend Winston was saying to me for the past 30minutes. He was explaining an incident that occurred some years back. I seemed to be a part of this story he was narrating but the only problem I…

  • The rationale behind irrationality.

    The rationale behind irrationality.

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    Whenever I hear people criticize the rationale behind the irrationality of the action of a certain individual it gets me confused. A lot of people like to pride themselves in the fact that they are logical thinkers and by extension, claim that they will never do or act a particular way whether or not they…

  • Is It really bad to be vulnerable?

    Is It really bad to be vulnerable?

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    I was torn between titling this write up as Reasons why being vulnerable isn’t all that bad and Is it truly bad to be vulnerable? In doing proper justice to this article, I would like to present to you two definitions of vulnerability. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word “vulnerable” as the capability of being…