No one walks through trauma untouched. Even when you tell yourself you’ll rise above it, outgrow it, or break the cycle—it has a way of rewiring your emotional responses in ways you never saw coming.
Music can lift your spirits, calm your nerves, or break your heart in a few notes. It can also nudge what you remember, but ...
This post is the second of a series about dispelling trauma myths. (You can read the first one here.) As a phenomenon, trauma involves a collection of experiences and reactions rooted in our ...
Patients diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can experience symptoms that include under-expression of emotions, such as numbness, as well as over-expression, such as rage outbursts.
Source: Carl Pickhardt Ph.D. When parents describe their daughter or son’s adolescent passage as an “emotional roller coaster,” they are often not talking about their teenager’s ups and downs, but ...
In a new study, researchers were able to predict a person’s response to emotionally charged scenes using brain imaging and computer modeling alone—gauging not only whether the person’s reaction was ...
An expert explains how to spot and respond to emotional manipulation over the holidays. Mary Jo Trom bley, PhD, Associate ...
This phenomenon known as emotional mirroring, where partners unknowingly mirror each other’s emotions, can be the invisible force steering the course of a relationship—for better or worse. Emotional ...
Celine Dion’s new documentary, I Am: Celine Dion, released on Prime Video on June 25, and fans are sharing their emotional responses to the Canadian superstar’s tough journey with Stiff Person ...