The HR leader’s AI adoption playbook
This term, DARVO, is an acronym for “Denial, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender.” Avigail Lev, PsyD, founder of Bay Area CBT Center and CBT online, says, “It coins a manipulative strategy that perpetrators often use to avoid taking accountability for their actions and put the blame on their victims. It’s a Narcissistic personality disorder…
You may have questioned yourself at some point in life, “Am I being gaslighted?” The practice of gaslighting is one way to abuse and manipulate someone’s emotions. An abuser or bully is gaslighting you when they alter your perception of the world and cause you to doubt your convictions. Am I being gaslighted? How to…
If you or someone you love has a trauma bond, breaking free is challenging. Trauma attachments are solid and subtle, keeping you in a toxic relationship while knowing it’s terrible for you. As with alcoholism, these unhealthy relationships are hard to break due to withdrawal symptoms. After leaving a toxic relationship, you may suffer acute…
According to certain theories, there are seven stages of trauma bonding, and each one helps to maintain the cycle of tension and melancholy that is frequently seen in abusive relationships. Breaking a trauma link is still feasible, even if it could become harder for the victim to escape this traumatizing cycle. Once you have a…
Have you ever felt like you had an overwhelming feeling of vital energy that made you feel lively and unstoppable? Sometimes, you may also feel sluggish, making even the most minor jobs seem impossible. These changes are often linked to the rise and fall of our life force energy, which is called different things in…
Forgotten. An extreme, illogical dread that has the potential to drastically affect a person’s life is known as athazagoraphobia. This disorder may occasionally be considered a subtype of social phobia, which impacts approximately 15 million Americans. In particular social contexts, people with social anxiety worry excessively about being rejected or judged, which is illogical. A…
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