Human Thinking
How Collective Societal Fear creates Toxic Social Norms
Collective fear often shapes what a society is willing to see, name, and change, and that fear can quietly produce toxic “normal” ways of living.
Human Thinking
What is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a belief or expectation that helps bring about the very outcome it predicts, because it subtly changes behavior in ways that make the outcome more likely.
How do Trauma
Common mental health problems and transcendence therapy
Transcendence therapy is a form of psychotherapy that aims to help people overcome their psychological distress by accessing a higher state of consciousness.
and Coping Work?
Learning difficulties and neurodiversity
This is the site megapage for learning difficulties and neurodiversity. It introduces the subject and provides links to pages delving deeper.
and Coping Work?
What is Grounding?
Grounding is about bringing your attention back to the here‑and‑now, especially when overwhelmed, anxious, or pulled into bad memories.
What are Boundaries?
How to Apply a Growth-Mindset to a Relationship Conflict
A growth-mindset treats relationship conflict as something to “learn from” and “work on together”. This tends to keep things “real”.
What is bullying?
What are Trauma-based Flashbacks?
Traumatic flashbacks are moments when a past experience feels as if it is happening again right now, even though you are actually safe.
What is Toxicity?
What is Worrying?
Worrying is what happens when the mind keeps running “what if?” stories about the future, usually about bad things that might happen.
What is Toxicity?
What are stressors?
Stressors are the things that put pressure, or stress, on a person’s mind or body and trigger a stress response.
What is Toxicity?
What is Toxicity?
Toxicity is a useful shorthand for “harm that keeps getting into the system and making it worse over time.” In psychology and everyday life, it usually means patterns (in thoughts, relationships, or cultures) that regularly damage well‑being instead of supporting it.