“When someone has dementia, their true personality comes out. We all experience emotions like anger, rage, and frustration, but healthy adults are often skilled at using willpower to avoid childish emotional outbursts. For someone with dementia, they are no longer...
Ask anyone what they know about grief, and they’ll probably tell you about the five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. What a lot of people don’t know is that this model of grief is widely misunderstood and misused. The model was originally...
“You are the sum of the five people with whom you spend the most time.” Have you ever heard this idea? A LOT of people seem to believe this, and I understand where they’re coming from. It is true that human beings DO have a tendency to mirror one another. If...
Have you ever heard the phrase “emotions are contagious”? I majored in psychology and this idea that emotions are contagious is something that I remember very well from my classes. The idea is that if somebody else is in a bad mood or a good mood, that will “rub off”...
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