Coping and defense mechanisms are behavioral dispositions we use to cope with life stressors and adverse situations. They are important to our social-emotional functioning and are integral to how we deal with our day-to-day challenges. These coping strategies are relevant for our developmental functioning through the processes of self-regulation, adjustment, and adaption. A coping mechanism …
WORRY VS LOVE: Is Worrying a Sign of Loving Someone?
Unfortunately, due to the way many of us have been raised by our parents as well as societal programming that perpetuate false ideas around love, we believe that when someone worries about us, it means they love us. We equate worrying about someone to caring about them. This is one of the biggest misconceptions that …
The Secret for Solving Time Management Problems
I don’t know about you, but I was the kind of person that normally put so much work on my plate that I couldn’t figure out how to handle it all which made it feel as if I was too busy to tend to other things, events, and even other people in my life sometimes. …
Our Society’s Trend Toward Forming Families At Older Age: Effects On Mental Health
Since the 1950’s to present day, some of the main trends and consistent changes in family structure over the decades we’ve seen include: the delay in forming marriages, increase in cohabitation, growth in single parenting, a dramatic increase in women’s labor force participation, and delayed and declining fertility. But how do these profound changes actually …