By Deborrah Cooper
 Here are three ways to know if YOU are confusing a sex-based association of convenience with a loving committed relationship.
#1 Women Put Too Much Stock on Words
One of the primary tools the player has in his arsenal is a smooth tongue. Words of love flow from his lips, often within hours or days of meeting. A woman desperate for someone to call her own will latch onto those words like a life raft.
"I have a boyfriend and he says he loves me but the problem is he never shows it. I mean, we speak with each other once every week or two. When we meet up we speak like strangers, and he just starts to do physical things. I really don't know whether he just wants me for my body or if really loves me, although he says he does."
Talk is cheap and means absolutely nothing unless a man's words and actions are in sync. In this case, his mouth is saying one thing but his behavior is saying something |
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By Scott Salter
 The importance of psychology in life cannot be taken for granted. Psychology is the science that deals with human behavior as well as that of the non human. Though the course is only 125 years old, it is needed in almost in all spheres of life. Its study has its roots in biology to sociology, trying to seek a relationship between the brain functions and the behavior or the relationship between the environment and the behavior. Since the subject is so vast, there is therefore a need for specialization. As mentioned earlier, psychology touches many aspects of life and so there are various fields of study. These fields are studied in detail at the masters level.
Since 1960, there has been an increase in the students who pursue a masters in psychology. There is competition for jobs which are psychology related and so more and more students are joining the courses. In fact, it has been observed that more than two thirds of the students graduating with a masters in psychology get jobs on field, which are outside psychology and only about one third are |
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By Carol Hofmeister
 For both child and parents alike, a child panic attack can be a very serious and frightening matter. Not only is it important to know some of the facts around a child panic attack, but also to decipher some clues as to what parents can do for their children in this frightening and confusing time.
Children experience emotional issues such as panic and anxiety much differently than adults and often develop fears of going places because of this. There are many different types of child panic attack disorders.
GAD Generalized Anxiety Disorder
GAD is an anxiety disorder defined by excessive worrying about a series of events. Children or teens sometimes worry about past events, conversations they may have had, upcoming events, school, friends, family, functions or any other possibility. Typically a child experiencing GAD cannot control the amount of time spent worrying about such things.
Relaxation techniques and therapy are the most accepted forms of treating GAD. Talking children out of their worrying can work wonders, and a trained mental health physician is usually the best prepared to do this. Rather |
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By Harvey D. Ong
 All civilization, an anonymous pessimist once said, is founded on denial, denial, denial. Freud once theorized that people enter a state of denial in defense of their mental health, attempting to avoid things in reality that might damage the fragility of the inner ego. Others theorize that denial is a defense mechanism, allowing a person to avoid having to face some unwanted facet of reality or of their own personalities. Regardless of which theory is correct, it is beyond doubt that everyone is in denial about something and that this denial might actually be an integral component of maintaining stable mental health. However, recent evidence is starting to reveal what some have suspected all along: denial touches on emotional health and relationships too, and not necessarily in a destructive manner either.
According to Michael McCullough, a psychologist and author of the upcoming book Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct, denial is all part of the social game humans play. The ability to actively and subconsciously ignore the little deceptions and flaws inherent in ourselves and other humans is apparently a core component of |
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