What is Depression? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual -5 defines depressive disorders as types of Mood disorder. The most easily recognized and the most severe depression is a major depressive disorder. It may be described as feelings of extreme sadness, hopelessness, worthlessness and a loss of interest or pleasure which affects an individual’s daily life. It is the experience of a depressed mood for at least 2 weeks. Individual experience with depression differs accordi

Imagine that you are getting ready to go to a party but you get a sudden overwhelming feeling, like another heartbeat. You start worrying about who you should talk to when you reach there, what if no-one wants to talk to me? What if nobody likes me? You finally muster the courage to reach the party. Someone approaches you and starts talking to you but your mind is racing, your breathing is affected, you are sweating profusely and you can’t seem to even see straight. It almost

Introduction “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle All of us try to solve our problems by searching for the solutions in different books, websites, other people’s opinions and so on. We seek external information which we can incorporate in our selves to solve our own problems and make our lives peaceful. There are many of you who seek the help of others in solving your own dilemma or go through some self help book which will quickly narrate the steps

Abstract The world is in a constant influx of change. The requisites and innovations of today become a part of history, a few years down the line and are replaced by nuanced and advanced technology and ideas. In this constant evolutionary cycle, we seem to have been stuck somewhere when it comes to our education. Psychology, the science of behaviour and mental process, is accessible to only a few when it is of utmost importance to all of us. If our younger generations are tau

Introduction: Even though everyone develops at varied paces, all of us achieve similar developmental milestones at about a similar time. These developmental skills include important abilities like language and communication, socializing, problem-solving and even some physical skills like rolling, crawling, walking and other fine motor skills. If some of these skills do not develop as per the appropriate timeline, depending upon the severity, it can cause varied problems in th

Sensory Phenomena Sensory Selectivity Our sensory receptors respond to a limited range of stimuli. Let’s consider vision. The electromagnetic spectrum ranges in wave-length from a billionth of a meter up to more than a thousand meters. Of this spectrum we only see the tiny portion between 400 and 700 billionths of a meter. Our eyes are completely insensitive to everything else. It is beyond our conception to imagine what an X ray would look like or what color it would be. The