Why Nothing Is Simple Around a Narcissist
When you spend time with narcissists, things rarely seem simple. Everything’s difficult to coordinate and arrange. And nothing seems to go smoothly. In group settings, narcissists like to dominate proceedings. Making it difficult to reach a group compromise. And there’s often drama and conflict. In short, narcissists bring chaos whenever they’re around. Here’s some of the reasons why nothing seems simple around narcissists… They Don’t Go with the Flow Narcissists don’t go with the flow. They lack empathy. So they don’t take into consideration the general consensus of people w...
Source: World of Psychology - July 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jon Rhodes Tags: Communication Narcissism Perfectionism Personality Relationships Controlling Behavior Malignant narcissist Manipulation Source Type: blogs

Psychology Around the Net: July 18, 2020
What’s your quarantine cleaning personality? How can emotional intelligence benefit the workplace? Could it be more effective to modify, rather than eliminate, a bad routine? Answers to all these questions and more in this week’s Psychology Around the Net! Stay well, friends! There Are 5 Quarantine Cleaning Personalities—Which One Are You? When this showed up in my inbox, I thought it was going to be a cute little listicle or fun quiz to pass the time, but actually it has some nice insight! Find out your quarantine cleaning personality, why you lean toward that style of cleaning, tips for reigning it in if ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Psychology Around the Net Emotional Intelligence goals language Personality quarantine routines to-do lists workplace Source Type: blogs

5 Ways to Manage Your ADHD When You Work from Home
Can’t focus? Here’s how to cope with ADHD when you’re stuck at home. Living with ADHD can be a daily struggle. Put social distancing, working from home, and staying inside much of the time in the mix, and you probably feel like most or all of your systems, strategies, and self-care practices have been ripped away. You may feel like there’s no real certainty of when you will be able to reincorporate these necessities back in your life. Well, as a therapist who is also living with ADHD, I feel your pain. There are some tips that might make life easier as you move through this time of uncertainty. I h...
Source: World of Psychology - July 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: ADHD and ADD Disorders Publishers YourTango anxiety focusing problems Productivity quarantine work from home Source Type: blogs

The Perils of Overconfidence
In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, our society conveys the message that we should be a strong, confident person. We shouldn’t hesitate to grab what we want and express our views in a direct, forceful way. Being tentative, faltering, or uncertain earns us the reputation of being weak and indecisive. Assertiveness rules. Extraversion is prized. Humility is shameful. Do we pay a hidden price in our quest to be uncompromisingly assertive and project an image of strength and confidence?  Is it possible to become overconfident? No doubt you’ve met people who dazzle you with their apparent self-confidence and assertiveness. T...
Source: World of Psychology - July 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John Amodeo, PhD Tags: Habits Mindfulness Perfectionism Personality Assertiveness Borderline Personality Disorder Confidence emotional rigidity Insecurity Narcissism Resilience splitting Source Type: blogs

Procrastination Is Really Perfectionism  
Are you prone to delaying the start of a task? Is there a project you know you should start, but you can’t seem to motivate yourself to begin? Are you delaying work that really needs to be done for work or for school? Or do you start something, but can’t seem to finish it?  Perhaps you have that nagging voice in the back of your head that you really should be working on a task or project, but you can’t seem to motivate yourself. Even though that voice telling you to get going is LOUD, you ignore it, sometimes so much so that you feel anxious about your procrastination. And even though that voice may be screaming at ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Heather Rider Tags: Motivation and Inspiration Perfectionism Self-Help Procrastination Productivity Source Type: blogs

Podcast: Do Cell Phones Cause Anxiety?
Do you constantly refresh your social media feed? Are you checking your notifications more often than you’d like to admit?  In today’s Psych Central Podcast, Gabe and psychologist Robert Duff have an enlightening discussion on how the information age has affected our mental health — but only if we let it. Dr. Duff explains how the overuse of social media is often driven by a fear of missing out and even a false sense of productivity. So how can we work with the modern world rather than be controlled by it? Join us to hear specific tips on how to make social media the servant, not the master, of your reality. SU...
Source: World of Psychology - July 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Anxiety and Panic General Interview LifeHelper Podcast Technology The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs

How to Make the Most of Your Staycation During COVID-19
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is easy to feel powerless and isolated. Our inability to chat with friends and family face-to-face, grab a happy hour bite to eat with coworkers, and have a one-on-one with your boss has strained our already-tenuous balance between “work” and “life.” Zoom is now the new “office drop-in.” Emails, blogs, and newsletters flood our inboxes like there’s no tomorrow. While videoconferencing and calls can be helpful tools to stay somewhat connected and informed, they tend to sap a ton of our emotional and mental energy — a commodity that is in short supply already due to the pa...
Source: World of Psychology - July 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Mental Health America Publishers coronavirus quarantine Relaxation Staycation Source Type: blogs

Inside Schizophrenia: Impact of Schizophrenia in Minority Communities
Rates of psychosis are more strongly influenced by ethnicity and socioeconomic status than any other mental health condition. In this episode of Inside Schizophrenia host Rachel Star Withers, a diagnosed schizophrenic, and co-host Gabe Howard discuss the impact of schizophrenia in minority communities. Guest Sakinah “The Muslim Hippie” joins to share her experiences in mental health care. Highlights of “Impact of Schizophrenia in Minority Communities [01:00] The realization [02:08] Sociology definition of the word minority [04:30] The stats of mental health and minorities [09:00] Diagnosing differences [12:00] ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Star Withers Tags: Inside Schizophrenia Mental Health and Wellness Podcast Psychiatry Psychology Racism Stigma brain Mental Disorder Mental Illness Minorities Minority Populations Source Type: blogs

Why People Are Crowding Beaches, Bars & Parties During a Pandemic
We see the photos of crowded beaches, bars, and parties across the United States on a weekly basis. Citizens of other countries are looking at the USA and scratching their heads thinking, “Why do they act like they do not care about the pandemic?” Restaurants are packed. Stores are full. The federal government and the prestigious Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been missing-in-action, offering little in terms of federal support or guidance. Even governors — most famously Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis — have left health guidelines during a global pandemic to individual towns a...
Source: World of Psychology - July 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Ethics & Morality General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 novel coronavirus Source Type: blogs

Podcast: Debating ‘ Anti-Psychiatry ’ Advocacy
Conclusion, do not visit cardiologists. They will give you heart attacks. No, that’s ridiculous. It’s so mind blowing that anyone even said this, right? It’s just ugh. Obviously, people who are extremely sick and who are at risk of killing themselves get psychiatric care. No kidding. So, yeah, this is, in fact, very dangerous. Gabe: The word bullshit is not big enough. This is the literal equivalent of me saying that I looked at fifty thousand people who went to the hospital in the last year. And you were much more likely to die if you had a hospital admission. Now, I’m talking physical health now. ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Not Crazy Podcast Psychiatry Treatment Source Type: blogs

The Psychology of Native American Sports Mascots
Americans are starting to come to terms with the insidious nature of racism — in the way we act, how we speak about others different than us, and yes, even our team mascots. It’s a hard thing to realize that many of the things people took for granted or were seemingly “normal,” probably weren’t normal for every American. Take, for instance, Native American mascots. Native American mascots are fairly commonplace throughout the country, especially at the middle and high school level. Colleges have them, too. Even some professional sports teams — the Washington Redskins, the Atlanta Braves...
Source: World of Psychology - July 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Children and Teens College Psychology Racism indigenous peoples Nfl sports Stereotypes Washington Redskins Source Type: blogs

Purposeful Parenting in the Preschool and Elementary Years
Now that the child is typically equipped with some language skills, this can be a really fun stage of purposeful parenting because of the feedback your child can offer in each of your interactions. Likely by now, your child has gained some control and insight into his or her emotions and you can continue to talk more about managing those as they learn to navigate social relationships.  By age three, children are moving out of the parallel play of toddlerhood and begin seeking and securing consistent friendships. While the idea of sharing possessions can be difficult for any child, “turn-taking” is a great way to intro...
Source: World of Psychology - July 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bonnie McClure Tags: Children and Teens Communication Parenting Students Child Development Early Childhood Education Friendship Learning National Purposeful Parenting Month Source Type: blogs

Music: Insights on Listening to Improve Your Performance at Work
Music plays an important role in our life. It influences our emotions, eases stress and tension, and has therapeutic value. For example, listening to music before a medical procedure, such as a colonoscopy, reduces anxiety.  One of the questions people often ask is, “How does music influence our performance?” To answer this question, we have to distinguish between listening to music prior to work or when we take a break, and listening to music while we are working, as background music. Music arouses different emotions that have a different influence on our cognitive performance. Studies show that participants ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Thalma E. Lobel Tags: Creativity Habits Industrial and Workplace Memory and Perception Cognition Music Productivity Work Performance Source Type: blogs

How to Tell if It ’ s Time to Cut Your Losses: 6 Signs  
Should I stay or should I go? When we choose one path, we’re forced to surrender the other and either contend with loss and other repercussions of leaving, or forfeit a new opportunity and what might have been. Making a good choice involves predicting how the future will play out. To do this in an informed way requires knowing ourselves and having the perspective to realistically reflect on our current context, our future self and what matters most to us. To complicate matters, decision making is often skewed by personality dynamics and psychological issues that unconsciously limit choice and bias people towards staying ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lynn Margolies, PhD Tags: Perfectionism Relationships Self-Help Success & Achievement Disapproval Failure Source Type: blogs

6 Ways to Self-Soothe When Starved for Touch
“I can’t stop crying.” “I didn’t get my stimulus check and I have no idea how I’m going to pay my rent this month.” “My uncle died, and I can’t go to the funeral.” Every day, my social media feed fills with messages like these. People are anxious, immunocompromised, depressed, broke, lonely, and afraid. If ever there was a time for a hug, this is it. No one knows how long we will be asked to physically distance, but each of us will confront real and existential fears, make agonizing choices, feel powerless or unseen, and suffer heartbreaking losses in the coming months. Many of us will go through this ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Publishers Spirituality & Health Hug Isolation quarantine self-soothe touch Source Type: blogs