The 5 Qualities You Should Be Looking for in a Romantic Partner by Taylor Bennett | Aug 23, 2017 | Mental Health Topics, Personality, Relationships People love love. They love to talk about it, read about it, watch movies about it, and most of all, experience it. The ultimate goal for many is to find love. Every girl wants a prince to come along and sweep her off her feet. And every guy awaits the…
Am I A Control Freak? by Taylor Bennett | Aug 22, 2017 | Mental Health Topics, Personality I didn’t know I was a control freak until my ex-boyfriend couldn’t hold it from me any longer. We were on our way to see a movie—a safe 45 minutes before it started of course—when he just lost it. He said he couldn’t take it any longer. Not just my…
Am I Passive-Aggressive? What Is Passive-Aggression? by Taylor Bennett | Jul 10, 2017 | Mental Health Topics, Personality You just found out that your best friends made plans to go to the beach without you. Why wasn’t I invited? Do they not want me there? Instead of confronting them and the problem head on, you ignore their phone calls and their texts. You don’t invite them to your…
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI): Overview and facts by Lenora KM | Jun 29, 2017 | Mental Health Topics, Personality What Is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)? The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a psychological test that evaluates and determines personality characteristics. It measures people’s mental health and provides evidence of mental disorders. Who Should Take the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)? The MMPI test is mainly geared…
How to Deal with Someone Who’s Passive Aggressive: 5 Strategies by Lenora KM | Jun 16, 2017 | Mental Health Topics, Personality, Relationships You decide to wear a dress instead of your regular attire of blue jeans and a T-shirt when you meet your family for dinner one night, and your sister gives you a compliment that doesn’t really seem flattering at all. She says she doesn’t usually like what you wear, but…
Watch Carl Rogers Describe the Therapeutic Power of Empathy. by Anthony Centore, PhD | Jun 13, 2014 | Community, Mental Health Topics, Personality Carl Rogers, the founder of humanistic psychotherapy (non-directive therapy) talks about the power of listening to feelings, and reflecting them back to clients, in therapy (and in relationships in general). Dr. Rogers states, We give too little importance and consideration to an element which is extremely important… It is one…
Beware of the “Me-Monster!” by Michael Reffner, Ed.S. | Nov 14, 2013 | Feelings & Emotions, Mental Health Topics, Personality What’s a “Me-Monster,” and how can I be sure that I am not one? Good questions! If you got the impression that being a Me-Monster is an unfavorable thing, you’re off to a good start. You may not recognize “Me-Monsters” at first glance, but you certainly know them when they…
Am I arrogant? 5 signs that you may have a big head by Jon Negroni | Sep 26, 2013 | Mental Health Topics, Personality Are you arrogant? Do you find yourself exaggerating your self-image almost instinctively? There are several levels of arrogance, much of them having to do with how quick we are to make ourselves look better than we actually are.
Therapy Question: Do People Get what they Deserve? by Anthony Centore, PhD | Oct 30, 2012 | Mental Health Topics, Personality Therapy Question: Do People Get what they Deserve? Greetings Thriver’s – I’m Dr. Anthony Centore, here for Thriveworks, in Partnership with Theravive. Psychologist Melvin Lerner has spent his career studying the concept of “Justice”. According to his research, we are pre-disposed to believe in a JUST world. It works like…