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It’s been days since you’ve had a proper night’s sleep. You promise yourself that tonight’s going to be the night when you finally sleep on time so you can wake up early tomorrow. When tonight comes, you find yourself lying in bed, way past your planned sleep time. As you scroll past another social media
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You may already be familiar with the ‘freeze response’ to stress. Usually, the normal stress response is the fight-or-flight response. If you can fight with the source of your threat/stress, you’ll fight. If you can’t, you’ll try to escape (flight). These are basic survival responses present in all animals. The freeze response occurs when you
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Masochism means enjoying physical pain. We often hear about masochism in the context of deviant sexual behavior. A sexual masochist is someone who gets sexually aroused by pain. There’s also a term for someone who enjoys non-physical, non-sexual pain- a psychological masochist. Psychological/mental/emotional masochism is when a person derives pleasure, satisfaction, or enjoym...
Human relationships are built on the principle of reciprocity- a balance of give and take. That also includes emotional reciprocity, which is a mutual sharing and co-regulation of emotions. When you become someone’s Emotional Punching
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People naturally expect the highest levels of intimacy in their romantic relationships. There are different types of intimacies, the primary ones being physical and emotional. When we hear of affairs and cheating, the violation of physical intimacy immediately comes to mind. That is, the cheating partner had a physical relationship with someone other than their
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