The Paradox of Achievement: Navigating Sadness After Reaching Your Goals Reaching a long-desired goal often feels like the culmination of sustained effort. People anticipate joy, relief, and satisfaction. Yet, sometimes, an unexpected feeling surfaces: sadness or a sense of emptiness. This phenomenon, sometimes termed post-achievement depression or the arrival fallacy, surprises many individuals. Consider a…
May 6, 2025
Beneath the Surface: Confronting the Hidden World of Skin Picking and Hair Pulling Body-focused repetitive behaviours, often shortened to BFRBs, represent a group of conditions where individuals repeatedly touch their hair or body in ways that cause physical damage. These are not simply nervous habits like occasionally twirling hair or biting a fingernail. Instead, BFRBs…
May 4, 2025
When Loved Ones Become Strangers: Navigating Dementia and Unrecognition The progression of dementia frequently brings the profound distress of seeing loved ones fade from memory. This erosion of recognition, a hallmark of conditions like Alzheimer's disease, triggers deep grief and disorientation for families. Specialists observe this painful trajectory impacts not just the person with dementia,…
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