Study shows you can improve your mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts aka "you can just get over things". Also words are like spells, be very careful while labelling yourself as "traumatized" or "depressed", they start to become real.

For some people, worrying can actually be a form of safety behaviour. Worrying keeps us alert and, as such, can make us feel as though we’re ready to deal with the danger. We imagine that, if we stop being anxious, we’ll be letting down our guard and become suddenly vulnerable. In fact, all that this sort of constant worrying achieves is to keep us

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If we’re prone to suspicious thoughts, it’s very likely that we’ll also worry a lot. Again and again, our thoughts will focus on our fears. All the research suggests that these two ways of thinking – paranoia and worry – tend to go together. We all know what it feels like to worry, but how do psychologists define this most common of human

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