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IMAGINE you are a member of a cult that believes the world will end at a specific time on a specific day. How do you respond when the world doesn’t actually end?Do you acknowledge you were spectacularly wrong? Or do you perform some spectacular mental gymnastics and say that ac
The 'mental phenomenon' is common and affects people based on their background, level of trauma, and emotions. But there are many ways to work through it.
At the Remembering Trauma Conference held in 2003, Mark Pendergrast described how people can develop false memories for terrible events
It has often been said that “Comparison is the thief of joy,” and while I think that it is true, I also think that it is only one side of the story. Comparison is one of the most basic ways that we discover who we are, what we’re good at, and what we’re not