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Dopamine: motivation, pleasure, and addiction

In this post you will understand what this neuromodulator has to tell us about how motivated and involved we are in a certain activity, as well as how likely we are to repeat certain behavior and potentially develop an addiction.

How self-criticism can limit you

In this article, I want to point out how I have observed and pointed out to my patients how much self-criticism can negatively influence people’s lives. Complaints related to anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, attention deficit, and so many others, have self-punishment and self-criticism as common factors.

No. You don’t have to figure out who you are.

You have probably heard someone saying that they would like to know who they are and, quite possibly, you must have already said that to yourself too. But I am sorry to inform you that you will never really know that. There will not come a day when you will realize who you are because you are not, you are always being.

6 reasons why we procrastinate

You may already split up with times when you left something for the last hour or else, things you’ve been putting off for years for some reason. In general, we all have the ability to postpone something, thanks to our cognitive reward ability to postpone. However, this can undermine anxiety management by dealing with the possibility of not having enough time to complete, or else not completing what we should be doing in the most appropriate way. 

Comparison: Why do we think the neighbor’s grass is always greener?

This theme appears so often in my office that I decided to explore more in this post, why we tend to think that the neighbor’s grass is greener than ours.

Although the comparison appears in the clinic in the form of speeches such as: “I don’t feel that I am as good as he is”; “I always think that the other communicates better than I do”; “She is more attractive than I am”; “I will never be as successful as her”, there are at least two types of places we can put ourselves when we are comparing ourselves.