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Abigail Dantes

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A psychology addict with a passion for literature & the English language !

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Abigail Dantes
@abigail-dantes Jan 20, 2020, 2:30 PM UTC

Psychology Addict # 66 | Paedophilia.

I’ve been meaning to discuss this topic on the platform for quite a while now. But I’ve always been put off by the understanding that this is a subject people don’t really want to talk about. Of cour…

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Abigail Dantes
@abigail-dantes Dec 15, 2019, 7:43 PM UTC

Psychology Addict # 65 | Self-Awareness: Investigating the Past & Making New Year’s Resolutions.

It is that time of the year when even those who are not very fond of planning take a moment to make resolutions. It is that time of the year when even those who refuse to revisit the past reflect on…

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Abigail Dantes
@abigail-dantes Nov 7, 2019, 10:48 AM UTC

Psychology Addict # 64 | The Romantic Love Delusion.

Romance refers to strong emotional feelings featuring courtship behaviour towards another person. Delusion is a term that describes beliefs that are sustained despite the lack of evidence or sound ar…

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Abigail Dantes
@abigail-dantes Oct 24, 2019, 9:29 AM UTC

Psychology Addict # 63 | Loneliness or Emotional Dependency?

”I feel/am lonely” is a ubiquitous statement nowadays. It’s on social media, on blogs as well as in online and offline conversations. The kind of loneliness I am referring to here is not that which r…

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Abigail Dantes
@abigail-dantes Oct 10, 2019, 9:42 AM UTC

Psychology Addict # 62 | Joker & Frankeinstein – A Matter of Identity.

Nobody wants to think how it feels like to be the other guy. Joker. Disclaimer – (1) This is not a movie (Joker) or book (Frankenstein) review. (2) This is not a character analysis. (3) It contains s…

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Abigail Dantes
@abigail-dantes Oct 3, 2019, 9:35 AM UTC

Psychology Addict # 61 | Talking About Guilt.

This post has been mostly inspired by a comment that was left on my feed last week, which was in the context of the advances seen in the understanding of mental health issues. The comment contained a…

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Abigail Dantes
@abigail-dantes Sep 26, 2019, 8:58 AM UTC

Psychology Addict # 60 | A Journey Through The History of Madness.

Disclaimer: In this post words such as lunacy, insane, madhouse, among others, have been adopted to communicate the ways psychological distress has been regarded and expressed across history. In a pr…

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Abigail Dantes
@abigail-dantes Sep 19, 2019, 9:41 AM UTC

Psychology Addict # 59 | Discussing Modern Caregiving.

We were choosing which dessert to go for when Nora asked me: “So, what are you guys doing this Easter?” I told her we’d been invited to have lunch at Alice’s (a dear friend of mine). She winced. “Wha…

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Abigail Dantes
@abigail-dantes Sep 12, 2019, 8:17 AM UTC

Psychology Addict # 58 | Punishment – An Overview Through the Lens of Psychology.

Behaviour is the manner with which individuals act or conduct themselves, particularly in relation to others and the environment they are part of. Not all kinds of behaviour can be attributed to lear…

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Abigail Dantes
@abigail-dantes Sep 5, 2019, 8:11 AM UTC

Psychology Addict # 57 | Memories From The After Life.

Emmanuel Francis, a 41 year-old man, remembers “flying around and following his own body” as the nurses rushed him into the lift on the way to the intensive care unit, as he’d suffered a chest crisis…

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