February 14th is an exciting day for young and old lovers alike. It can be a day of celebration of love. Love of all hues and colours, with all its grandness and simplicity. It gives me great pleasure to greet you all on the occasion of Valentine’s Day and say that I Love You All [...]
Archive for the ‘personality’ Category
This Valentine’s Day, Love All !
Posted in Love, adding dimensions, empowering, food for thought, greetings, our mind, people, philosophy, psychology, society, spirituality, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged adjustments and compromises, commitment, commitment phobia, common interests, connotations, emotional closeness, emotional drifting, everlasting love, greetings, infatuation, intimacy, limitless and unconditional, Love, marriage, passion, physical attraction, proximity, roses, sharing and caring, spiritual, valentine's day, youth on February 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Britney Spears and Bipolar Disorder
Posted in Bipolar disorder, Psychological disorders, celebrities, habits n addictions, life's dilemmas, people, personality, personality disorder, psychology, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged 2 boy kids in 2 years, addictions, alcohol, attention seeking, Baby one more time First Album, bald hairstyle, Bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, Britney Spears, celebrities, counselling, cusotdy battle, custody battle, delusions, depression, divorce, elation, hallucinations, Harper's Bazaar, jason alewxandra, justin timberlake, kevin federline, lip lock, madonna, Manic Depressive Disorder, marriage, mood disorder, mood swings, MTV music award, new album Black out, poor parenting skills, posing nude for a magazine, psycho education, psycho therapy, psychotic features, rehab centres, suicidal, teenage fame, timberlake on February 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The whole of last week saw all news papers covering the story of Britney Spears’ hospitalization, for the second time in a month for her mental illness. She has been diagnosed as suffering from Bipolar Disorder. Before we discuss what exactly is Bipolar disorder, lets have a peep at her life story so far:
Britney was [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 3
Posted in adding dimensions, children, counselling, education, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged emotional immaturity, emotions, laterality, learning disability, memory, reading expressions on other's face, right-left confusion, sequencing, spatial ability, specific learning disability, symptoms of LD on January 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Let me once again make it very clear to all that the intention of my posts on Learning Disability is early identification and early intervention so that most of these kids will come out of the problem or the damages are minimized or intelligent kids are helped to make their own strategies to overcome the issues bogging [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 2
Posted in adding dimensions, children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, parenting, people, psychology, research, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged ADHD, learning disability on January 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In my first post on Dyslexia, I had mentioned that some children will have difficulties in the psychological processes of acquiring language, understanding and using it. Let me mention which are those psychological processes:
Attention
Sensory input or sensation
Perception (integration of all the sensory inputs inside the brain and making sense of them)
Cognition (understanding the information and [...]
ADOPTION and related issues – 4
Posted in adding dimensions, adoption, children, counselling, empowering, food for thought, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, philosophy, psychology, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged adoption in indian context, conditions for adoption, procedure on January 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In this post I would like to discuss other issues connected with adoption, more in the context of Indian milieu.
Who are the ones who generally adopt a child?
Married couples who have not had a child of their own, due to various reasons, who now want to go in for adoption.
Married couples who have their biological child/children [...]
ADOPTION and related psychological issues – 3
Posted in adding dimensions, adoption, children, counselling, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, philosophy, psychology, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged adopted children, adoption, adoptive parents, betrayal of trust, birth parents, child, confused emotions, disturbed behaviour, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, honesty and trust, parent, search for roots, Self support group, Sudatta Bangalore, teenage adoptees, teenage identity crisis on January 5, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Many of the doubts and confusions about adoption are alleviated during the pre-adoption counselling sessions. Here it is very important to note that both the husband and wife need to be in total consensus to go in for adoption. In case one of them is not too sure or hesitant or unwilling, it is imperative [...]
ADOPTION and related psychological issues – 2
Posted in adoption, children, counselling, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, personality, philosophy, psychology, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged adopted children, adoption, adoptive parents, betrayal of trust, birth parents, child, confused emotions, disturbed behaviour, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, parent on January 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »
So which is the right age to inform the child that it was adopted? well, those who have made a long term study of teh cases opine that it is best to inform the child as soon as you start interacting with it. In your day to day activities, whenever there arises an opportunity to [...]
ADOPTION and related psychological issues – 1
Posted in adding dimensions, adoption, children, counselling, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, philosophy, psychology, society, spirituality, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged adopted children, adoption, adoptive parents, betrayal of trust, birth parents, confused emotions, disturbed behaviour, revealation by third party on January 2, 2008 | 19 Comments »
As a psychological counsellor, I have come across many adoptive parents and adopted children seeking counselling for various emotional issues. And somewhere deep down in my heart I used to wonder if I had counselled them effectively or not. Some times it becomes very difficult to transport myself into the minds of my clients and experience [...]
The Psychology behind Suicide Attacks
Posted in Religion, children, education, empowering, food for thought, life's dilemmas, parenting, people, personality, psychology, society, spreading awareness, terrorism, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged assasination, Benezir Bhutto, inferior feelings, love and security to children, martyrdom, psychology, Religion, self-worth, suicidal attacks, suicide bombing, terrorism on December 28, 2007 | 16 Comments »
We are reading yet another suicide bombing that killed the democratic political leader Ms Benazir Bhutto and hundreds of other innocents in Pakistan yesterday. The news item catches world attention and world leaders make an uproar when a world famous, charismatic leader is killed in such an attack. otherwise, hundreds of such news items that appear in news papers [...]
Colours of Christmas and New Year!
Posted in empowering, food for thought, life skills, our mind, personality, psychology, thoughts and emotions on December 21, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Isn’t that picture lovely!
Colour Colour What Colour
Any Colour
All Colours!
God gives us all a box full of colours – all colours
And asks us to colour our life with any colour
We have the choice!
Black, Grey or Bright Colours?
You pick and colour.
Do not blame God that He made your life dull and grey!
That was your choice!
Even now you [...]
