Concern. Worry. Anxiety. A bright young writer (the author’s name won’t be mentioned here, but there is a chance that he might join us in the comments) just published a really good piece on anxieties of life and suggested a few ways to manage stress and worry. I really like…

Competition is the essence of life. Watch Nature — predators and prey are ever in motion (unless they are in hiding and waiting, asleep or …dead), which are often just the roles various representatives of various species assume and act out, in an eternal theater of birth and death, violence…

polarity as a tactical principle in self-development All of us are on some type of spectrum: fluctuations in mood and alertness, biorhythms and endurance, cycles of productivity and dietary cravings — all affect all, all affect us. We are not robots. We are complex. We are very busy just being…

Writer’s block simply does not exist. It can not exist. For it to exist it has to be something, a thing, a ‘block’. For example, for a traffic jam to occur there have to be cars, many cars, at approximately the same place and intending to move generally in the…

(Part 1 can be found here https://modest-silk-cheetah-193.medium.com/personality-disorder-or-was-it-84f6830f41e9) Why does a “disorder” always translate into a harmful and often negative social behavior? Why — if at the root of the problem is “personality disorder” — wouldn’t a person act out in a completely positive and artistic, albeit eccentric, way? At least…

Often — when a human being does something horrible and damaging to his or her family members, neighbors, coworkers or random innocents — there appear abundant and sophisticated attempts to explain the reasons for violence and seemingly unprovoked aggression. Psychologists and crime profilers are invited by media to answer numerous questions and try to classify and explain the incident. Often the following terms are used: “childhood trauma”, “brain disorder”, “behavioral disorder”, et cetera.

I have an interesting situation: some of my friends and clients have witnessed a paradox: on one hand — they are Americans, who traditionally associated political liberties, economic freedoms, capitalism with belonging to the British system in its origin, which in time developed into an American system of world view…

Very recently a friend took his own life. Family and friends have been dealt a heavy, infinitely heavy blow. This tragedy doesn't seem to grow by any estimate of horror and pain, although it has grown in quantity because the news spread and more people were affected by this terrible…

For the last year not only this country but the whole world has gone through an incredible strain. For many people it's not over — the stress for many is getting worse, while others are managing to stay afloat. …