Hanan Parvez 
When a person feels attacked, their fight-or-flight response gets activated. This response isn’t restricted to life-threatening dangers, such as from a predator; it also activates during interpersonal threats. When you feel socially threatened, you might
Humans have emotional needs, and the primary way we satisfy those is via our relationships. The closer a relationship, the more it satisfies our emotional needs and the greater the emotional intimacy in the relationship. Even though emotional intimacy can exist in any relationship, a romantic relationship is usually how most people satisfy their most
To understand emotional detachment, let’s first define emotional attachment, its opposite. Being emotionally attached means you are emotionally invested in something. You channel your emotional energy into it. Our emotional bandwidth is limited, so we must choose wisely where to invest emotionally. When we emotionally invest in something, we expect a return, usually emotional as
You rarely come across someone who does not want to be mentally strong. Personality or mental strength means having certain personality traits that facilitate the achievement of goals. For humans,
Intimacy is huge when it comes to human relationships. Emotional intimacy is arguably the most important type of intimacy for most people. Because humans are primarily an emotional species. Our feelings and emotions comprise a significant part of our psychic life. Emotional intimacy is achieved via emotional connection, and the latter via the expression and
The phrase ‘emotional intelligence’ gets thrown around a lot. You see someone doing a social blunder, and people say, “He has no emotional intelligence.” Seems like emotional intelligence is an important type of intelligence to have and to develop if you lack it. But what does it really mean from a psychological point of view?
The claim that couples who fight a lot are more in love sounds counterintuitive for good reason. Because it is counterintuitive and counter logic. Greater love within a romantic bond leads to increased positive interactions and feelings. Constant arguing and fighting breed negative interactions and emotions that have the potential to destroy relationships.1Stanley, S. M.,
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
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
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 enjoyment from psychological