What Is Your Sexual Script?
In my first Human Sexuality class, one of our first assignments was to complete our sexual script. Scripts, in psychology, are the formulas you create, influenced by your culture, in…
Stigma: Menstruation
In my previous post, Stigma: Mental Health, I shared the mechanisms and origin of stigma on mental health. Another topic, that unfortunately is marked in most cultures, is the stigma…
Stigma: Mental Health
Mental health stigmatization was first seen even before 400 B.C. since people who suffered from mental illnesses were thought to be demonically possessed. Even in the 20th century, when doctors invented…
The Cypriot Dream
I decided to end 2020 with a dream and more specifically with “The Cypriot Dream.” I remember when I was in high school, for my English literature class, we had to…
Show me who you attract and I’ll tell you who you are
One of the reasons that I was thrilled to visit Florence was to book my ticket for Galleria Uffizi. As we were toured by one art historian, one thing that…
Let’s talk about koupepia
Food. Food is such a small word, carrying myriads of feelings, thoughts, and memories. Food reflects aspects of our cultural roots. Food evolved from our basic need to feed to…
Wanna know about Defense Mechanisms?
Considering the architecture of our mind, we’re programmed to avoid pain and seek pleasure. Each one of us defines what are pain and pleasure differently; however, all of us find…
Let’s talk about Panic Attacks to Take Action Now
Let’s start with the good news: nobody attacks you. The not-so-good news is that what you are experiencing are the symptoms of a panic attack since it falls under the…
Be a l e r t: the Intelligence Quotient story
By definition, an intelligence quotient (IQ) is a number that represents a person’s reasoning ability at the time of test-taking. In other words, it’s an individual’s mental age divided by…
If you OVERTHINK, raise your hand
When I was doing my practicum, one of the pieces of advice that I kept with me, was to act as if I were a detective trying to solve the…