So, you've started to notice some patterns in your life, and you're wondering why you react the way you do. Emotional habits can feel like second nature, but sometimes they're more than just quirks.

When someone’s gone through emotional neglect, chronic stress, or unprocessed trauma, it often shows up in ways that look like laziness from the outside. But dig deeper, and what looks like apathy, ...

What’s the big idea? People-pleasing is not a personality trait. It is part of the trauma response known as fawning. Although it can be a useful mechanism at times, existing in a state of fawning ...

Emotional wounds from past experiences might seem confined to your mental landscape, but medical research increasingly confirms what many health practitioners have long suspected: the burden of ...

Many of us will have heard of the “flight, fright, freeze” response when we are confronted with a threatening situation. In ...

A new study has found that even if survivors’ physical and psychological scars have healed after experiencing trauma, their bodies can still carry a biological “imprint” of the event years into the ...

Most people know the fight-or-flight response, a survival mechanism related to threatening situations and events. In recent years, in no small part due to high-profile legal cases involving sexual ...

Overthinking is not just a habit or personality quirk — it’s often your brain trying to protect you. Psychology suggests it ...

About one-third of people admit to experiencing stress and frustration while driving. However, despite driving stress being a common experience for many of us, not everyone experiences the same ...

If you tolerate behavior from relatives you would never accept from anyone else, it may be a sign that your ‘holiday personality’ has taken over. The holidays have a curious way of pulling us back in ...

That inexplicable anxiety you feel in crowded places? The way your body tenses up when you hear raised voices? The persistent feeling that something bad is about to happen even when life is going well ...