https://mentalhealthtraining.info/course/narcissism Contents of the training programme Introduction Signs of a Narcissistic Personality Disorder Believe They Are Better Than Anyone Else Need Constant Praise, Attention, and Admiration Sense of Entitlement The Tendency to Demean and Belittle Others Associating Themselves to People with Status Take Advantage of Other People Lack of Empathy Reactive to Criticism The Different Types of Narcissists The Exhibitionist Narcissist The Closet Narcissist Th...
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 152
Laughter Is the Best Medicine You have probably heard the term laughter is the best medicine. It may even be a bit cliché at this point. However, it still holds quite true. If you are feeling down, forcing yourself to smile or laugh can turn your mood around. If you are in need of a pick-me-up, make sure you hang out with people who are upbeat. If you are with others who are down as well, it’s going to be difficult for each of you to get out of your funk. No one can truly be happy 100% of the ti...
Sep 06, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 151
The death of a family pet can trigger a sense of grief in children that is profound and prolonged, and can potentially lead to subsequent mental health issues, according to a new study by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The team found that the strong emotional attachment of youngsters to pets might result in measurable psychological distress that can serve as an indicator of depression in children and adolescents for as long as three years or more after the loss of a beloved...
Sep 05, 2021•5 min•Season 4Ep. 150
Should You Suppress Your Feelings? People are wired with emotions. Therefore, when you suppress your emotions, you are going against your design. That can cause harm to you physically and emotionally. There is a time and place for everything, including expressing emotions. It’s probably not the best idea to shout in the middle of a busy location. In this day and age, people could mistake your actions when doing this. Keeping your emotions bottled up will eventually lead to stress and other adver...
Sep 05, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 149
Do Men and Women Handle Emotions Differently? Intuitively, many believe that men and women handle their emotions in different ways. But, there are certainly men who are more emotional and women who are not. It could be a societal aspect where men are taught to “man up” and keep their emotions in check, while women are told they are the nurturers in a relationship and should express emotions more readily. The book, “Men Are from Mars and Women Are from Venus,” lays out why we are different from e...
Sep 05, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 147
5 Sure-fire Ways to Release Regret Regret happens. What doesn’t have to happen is you holding on to it forever? Releasing regret is a process, one that is different for every person and every situation. However, you can give various forms of releasing regret a try and learn about yourself in the process. 1. Practice Daily Gratitude Practising daily gratitude is a great way to consistently remind yourself of all that you have. Family, friends, a home, food to eat, maybe even a cute puppy to come ...
Sep 05, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 148
5 Ways to Experience Personal Growth even in an Upheaval When you’re in upheaval, you tend to hit survival mode pretty quickly. Your life becomes focused on just getting through the day. Beyond that? You don’t have the time or energy to care. Now more than ever, you need to take advantage of what time you have for personal growth. When we are challenged is where we rise to the occasion the best. During the upheaval, our minds become busy, and we start thinking more. It’s a great time to take adv...
Aug 30, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 146
How Can I Be Happy with Where I Am In Life? People are often told that they need to do more, be more, and can't be truly happy until they do. This can often be an exhausting list of unattainable goals to chase. Instead of focusing on what you don't have, you should use the tips below to help you be happy with wherever you currently are in life. Don't Compare Yourself to Others Where do you hear about all these more things that you need to do and achieve? Probably from friends and family, right? ...
Aug 30, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 145
The Power of Self-Belief If you believe in yourself, there is little to stop you in whatever you want to accomplish. It gives you the power to push forward and to defy the odds. You will be able to handle any roadblocks that come your way. You will also brush off the naysayers. It gives you peace of mind when you stick to your self-belief. To keep that self-belief strong, you need to define your goals. You wouldn’t expect a general to fight a war without a map. You, too, need a map to guide you ...
Aug 29, 2021•2 min•Season 4Ep. 144
Sexual deviation is any sexual activity outside the scope of what is currently conventional. It is known medically as paraphilia. Views of what is conventional can change pretty quickly. For this reason, any list of deviant practices will, to some extent, be a reflection of the prevailing view of what is expected. Paraphilias are emotional disorders with sexual behaviours or impulses, distinguished by intense sexual fantasies with an urge that keeps coming back. The desires and behaviours may in...
Aug 14, 2021•11 min•Season 4Ep. 143
Top 3 Secrets of Ageing Gracefully Every human on this earth - at least the ones lucky enough to make it - has to face ageing. It can be difficult to do so with grace, but when you age gracefully, you will ultimately be happier. You will enjoy your time more than when you waste it fighting to age. Below are the top three secrets to ageing gracefully. 1. Reduce Your Stress Levels People may have told you that stress ages you unnecessarily, and they aren't wrong! Stress can affect everything from ...
Aug 14, 2021•2 min•Season 4Ep. 142
Depression Explained Do you know someone who has depression? Have you or someone in your family been diagnosed with depression? Even if we are dealing with depression in ourselves or our families, we may not know what it truly is. Is it just feeling sad all the time? Why can't people merely snap out of it? Depression is said to be the most widespread mental disorder. It affects women far more than men and is particularly prevalent in teens. What Causes Depression? There are various opinions on w...
Aug 08, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 141
What is exhibitionism? Exhibitionism occurs when a man gives way to an urge to expose his genitals to a female stranger or a person with whom he is not in a close relationship. It is an almost solely male disorder and is one of the most familiar forms of sexual deviation. In a sexual context, exhibitionism is a sexual kink in which the person feels sexual arousal at the idea or reality of being seen naked or engaged in sexual activities by others,” says clinical sexologist Sarah Melancon, in the...
Aug 07, 2021•10 min•Season 4Ep. 140
All of us feel inferior sometimes, especially when we start comparing ourselves to others. We may even feel down and melancholy for a few days as a result. However, some individuals feel inferior and inadequate almost all the time. These individuals can be suffering from a severe inferiority complex. What is an Inferiority Complex? An inferiority complex is the feeling of inadequacy brought about by various factors, including real and imagined ones. Human emotions can significantly influence a p...
Aug 03, 2021•5 min•Season 4Ep. 139
Did you know that successful people deal with adversity? It’s true. If you read the stories or profiles of most successful people, you will be surprised at just how adverse their situations were. They often tell stories for others to learn and used to overcome adversity. You should read the profiles of successful people. They contain gems of information and can act as a resource for everyone else. The story is one aspect of reading about them. However, how they dealt with the situations is often...
Aug 01, 2021•2 min•Season 4Ep. 138
Did you know that successful people deal with adversity? It’s true. If you read the stories or profiles of most successful people, you will be surprised at just how adverse their situations were. They often tell stories for others to learn and used to overcome adversity. You should read the profiles of successful people. They contain gems of information and can act as a resource for everyone else. The story is one aspect of reading about them. However, how they dealt with the situations is often...
Aug 01, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 137
Life isn’t always the way we want it to be. All we have to do is to glance at the headlines to see that we live in very uncertain times. The job we thought was safe might not be there tomorrow. There’s always some natural disaster somewhere. And people seem to be more cruel than kind. It’s easy to get caught up in a negative spiral of self-doubt and anxiety. How do you stay hopeful and positive when around you all you see are negative messages and fear? Be here now By focusing on the present, yo...
Aug 01, 2021•2 min•Season 4Ep. 136
One in four adults will struggle with a mental health issue during their lifetime. At work, those suffering — from clinical conditions or more minor ones — often hide it for fear that they may face discrimination from rivals or even bosses. Managers are likely to see employees struggle with anxiety, depression, burnout, trauma, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Those mental health experiences will differ according to race , economic opportunity, work type/physical environment and many o...
Aug 01, 2021•6 min•Season 4Ep. 135
If you don’t get to know the people you are trying to motivate, you won’t motivate them. It is that simple. You can’t apply motivational techniques as if they are a recipe for cooking stew. Besides, even when you cook stew, you often deviate from the recipe. You need to get at the heart of whom each person is when motivating them. People are different, and you need to consider those differences. Some people are driven using high energy techniques, whereas others like a laid-back and subtle appro...
Jul 30, 2021•2 min•Season 4Ep. 134
If you have had a difficult time trusting yourself, it may be a sign that you lack confidence. You cannot develop any trust without confidence. Feel secure in your abilities and be strong in your convictions. But, know when you are wrong as well. The above requires you to develop confidence. That may seem scary to you. However, it’s not as difficult as you think. No one is born with confidence. It is something people learn and develop during their lives. It’s the same for you. Take steps to deve...
Jul 30, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 133
Apology accepted by Stephanie Lam. Saying sorry can be a powerful plea for forgiveness, a humble act and a virtue. But when used too often or without thinking, it might not be such a good thing. The word 'sorry', when used appropriately, can be packed with power. It can heal wounds and bridge divisions. Admitting you made a mistake and taking responsibility for it is not a mark of weakness, but a virtue. It would be impossible to go through life without ever causing anyone discomfort or upset, h...
Jul 25, 2021•4 min•Season 4Ep. 132
Isolation is the “silent killer” affecting an estimated 8 million elders in the U.S., but it is an epidemic that often goes unnoticed and untreated. On average, 40% of seniors are impacted by the isolation that comes with living alone and the resulting feelings of loneliness, increasing their risk for depression, dementia, and premature death. What is isolation? Isolation is the experience of being separated or cut off from other people. It is usually felt when an individual has minimal human c...
Jul 25, 2021•25 min•Season 4Ep. 131
Mindfulness, No-Mind and Choiceless Awareness Imagine what it might be like to be an animal such as a squirrel. A squirrel doesn’t have worries about the dynamics of their workplace, about debt or about their relationships. Squirrels don’t have their head in the clouds daydreaming about what might be… They don’t have regrets, and they don’t have delusions. Instead, a squirrel simply experiences the world as it is. Hyperreal across all the senses, squirrels simply take in the world around them as...
Jul 21, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 130
How to Use Mindfulness With CBT Mindfulness is the practice of ‘getting out of your own head’ and of simply being rather than constantly thinking, worrying and stressing. While mindfulness is a common part of many meditative practices, it is also an integral part of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). More specifically, mindfulness is used for ‘cognitive restructuring’ which is an aspect of CBT concerned with the ‘reprogramming’ of thoughts. How Cognitive Restructuring Works The idea behind cog...
Jul 21, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 129
Why Mindfulness is the Perfect Antidote to Modern Living As much as many of us choose to overlook it, there is a lot of wrong with the way most of us currently live our lives. We evolved in an environment completely foreign to the world we live in now and adapted to gain abilities and traits that in many ways leave us unsuited for our current environment. We sit in chairs all day long gaining weight, we eat processed foods, and we face constant stresses from work, from our relationships and from...
Jul 21, 2021•2 min•Season 4Ep. 128
Meditation is something that we’re constantly being encouraged to use. Every self-help guru, every highly successful individual and even many athletes trumpet its many benefits and the research too seems to back up its value. So why don’t more people practice it? The main problem for most of us is that it’s really rather daunting, obtuse and complicated. Meditation is ultimately about reaching enlightenment and inner peace, right? Sounds a bit heavy for a Friday evening! The real question for ma...
Jul 21, 2021•2 min•Season 4Ep. 127
Mindfulness is a term that gets thrown around a lot at the moment, and which is often hailed as some kind of ‘solve all’ for every kind of problem under the sun. Mindfulness is part self-help technique, part clinical tool and has lately grown to spawn countless e-books, courses and evening classes. But what precisely is it, and how do you define it? Mindfulness: An Explanation Boiled down to its essence, mindfulness is the observation of one’s own thoughts and emotions. In other words, it means ...
Jul 21, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 126
Submissive behaviour is the tendency towards being passive and willing to yield to others. It involves being overly obedient and quick to give way to the demands of others, letting them make decisions for you. Most of us are submissive at times, depending on the behaviour of other people, or the particular circumstances in which we find ourselves. We accept we cannot always have our own way, and make a judgement to be passive. However, some people continually submit to others, and refuse to sta...
Jul 19, 2021•8 min•Season 4Ep. 125
There’s more pressure than ever before to get things right in every part of your life, to be perfect. Gadgets, apps, and advice on how to be your very best all the time surround us. But that’s such an illusion. No one can be perfect; it just isn’t humanly possible. It’s great to set the bar high, to go after challenges and stretch yourself. But you can’t expect to win at everything all the time. Sit back for a minute and consider the benefits of embracing imperfection. 1. You’ll be happier Perfe...
Jul 18, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 124
Have you ever thought about having a mentor? Mentors can be useful for many people; students, employees, entrepreneurs, or even just in your personal lives. Below are some of the main benefits of having a mentor. They’ll Give You Advice As you work towards achieving your goals, chances are your mentor will have some advice for you. And when selecting a mentor, you should choose one who has been on a similar journey as you for this reason! When you come across something that you aren’t quite sure...
Jul 16, 2021•2 min•Season 4Ep. 123
