Career, Health, IQ, Personality, & Relationship tests. — Psychology Today has a clever index of online psychology self-tests I just had to share. I didn’t like my parenting test, it was painfully accurate, I have perfect parent syndrome, but I’m sure there is more to it than that. I was online hoping to test my psychology knowledge on…

Are you her future or her project? — People who enter into relationships in fixer mode believing they know what’s best for the new person in their lives are an absolute nightmare. This person, gender defined as a female in the title for simplicity, not to be taken personally, will control every aspect of the new person’s life…

A quick guide to page setting and line spacing. — The Kindle book creator doesn’t work for me so I have been using both google docs and slides to try to format my book with many issues getting the margins and spacing correct. Uploading as a doc file saved from google docs worked better than pdf, though I have found…

Toxic people are novelty and victim seekers. — One surefire way to keep toxic people away is don’t be interesting. Toxic people are toxic because they’re not able to enjoy life in the same way most people can. A toxic person will suck the life out of you trying to entertain themselves because they wish they had what…

Six key differences. — A sociopath is narcissistic, but a narcissist isn’t always antisocial or sociopathic. Narcissists and sociopaths attract people easily, this is often referred to as charm, but it’s more like their hand puppet. The “charm” of a sociopath or person with anti-social personality disorder (APD) and a narcissist (NPD) is developed…

Accepting negativity and embracing reality. — “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.” — Voltaire. Toxic positivity is the effect of a generation of people who were told to think happy thoughts, stay positive, good vibes only, don’t…

Or, how to attract someone so desperate they’d take anything. — I don’t date because I’m not very nice. The thought of sharing my home with anyone other than myself and my children makes me want to hurt people. I’m also allergic to strangers. Nonetheless, here are three ways to turn off a lady from a not very lady-like, non-dating perspective: 1. Tell dirty jokes and have overly sexual discussions.

Two signs that psychologists identify in spiritual narcissists. — “Self-enhancement through spiritual practices can fool us into thinking we are evolving and growing, when in fact all we are growing is our ego.” — Scott Barry Kaufman. Tibetan Buddhist Chögyam Trungpa warns of ego distortions in seeking spiritual awareness and psychologists agree. Psychologists find that spiritualism may in fact…

The neurocognitive processes involved in flashbacks. — I found emotional flashbacks one of the most debilitating symptoms of complex posttraumatic stress syndrome (CPTSD). I could be having a fantastic day and all of a sudden everything would spin out of control. Emotional flashbacks feel exactly like re-experiencing a traumatic event or series of events, and though they…