Are You Being Gaslighted By a Narcissist? | Psychology Today Your gaslighter may have personality traits, or a personality disorder, which is not narcissism but which stems from a point of past trauma and fear. For instance, if your partner has abandonment issues, they may find all kinds of manipulative ways of making you stayContinue Reading
Suicidal behavior and associated factors in sexually abused adolescents – ScienceDirect It has been found that in cases exposed to sexual abuse, suicidal ideation developed in 63.2% (n = 67) of the individuals and 24.5% (n = 26) of them attempted suicide. The rate of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts was higher in casesContinue Reading
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201119124628.htm Time alone is reflected in people’s thoughts as an opportunity to think about past experiences and future plans, to relax from the stress of social interactions, and to engage in self-selected leisure activities. “Being alone and being with others are represented in people’s minds as qualitatively different experiences, eachContinue Reading
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) has increased during the COVID-19 crisis, in both online and offline worlds. Yet its identification through the child protection system remains minimal, despite continuing growth in police reports of sexual crimes against children. Why is this? And can it be changed? As one English support charityContinue Reading
https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2020/11/17/business-owners-relied-on-peer-to-peer-support-during-covid-19-lockdown-research-finds Kevin Brent, founder and managing director of BizSmart, explained: “According to research peer-to-peer business support enables businesses to advance growth by two to three times their normal levels. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that 90% of business owners have found peer-to-peer support instrumental during the COVID-19 pandemic, andContinue Reading
https://nzfvc.org.nz/news/new-minister-prevention-family-and-sexual-violence-other-ministerial-positions-announced The announcement includes a new ministerial position: Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence. The position is a Ministerial position outside of Cabinet under the Cooperation Agreement Between the NZ Labour Party and the Green Party of Aotearoa NZ. The Agreement States “The Minister for the Prevention of Family and SexualContinue Reading
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-instincts/202011/the-one-trait-conspiracy-theorists-have-in-common “We find that demographic and economic characteristics of individuals are poor predictors of whether they are more likely to believe false narratives,” state the researchers. “However, consistent differences arise along a key dimension: conspiracy theorists are significantly more likely to report high levels of general distrust. Specifically, a oneContinue Reading
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/health-and-human-nature/202011/black-and-white-thinking-can-affect-your-health Dichotomous thinking is seeing things, situations, relationships, and experiences, as either good or bad. Often this leads to people thinking either they have succeeded or failed. With this scenario, it is easy to end up frustrated because there doesn’t seem to be a readily available answer to the problem.Continue Reading
https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2020/11/10/medethics-2020-106343 Non-recent (historic) childhood sexual abuse is an important issue to research, though often regarded as taboo and frequently met with caution, avoidance or even opposition from research ethics committees. Sensitive research, such as that which asks victim-survivors to recount experiences of abuse or harm, has the propensity to beContinue Reading
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/202011/how-narcissists-protect-themselves-feeling-losers The Swiss studies would suggest that people high in narcissism are more likely to fail, but that failure doesn’t seem to penetrate to the core of their sense of self. Taking the approach that narcissism is a stable trait, the Orth and Luciano more or less ruled out theContinue Reading
