Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When someone’s gone through emotional neglect, chronic stress, or unprocessed trauma, it often shows up in ways that look like ...

So, you've started to notice some patterns in your life, and you're wondering why you react the way you do. Emotional habits can feel like second nature, but sometimes they're more than just quirks.

What’s the big idea? People-pleasing is not a personality trait. It is part of the trauma response known as fawning. Although it can be a useful mechanism at times, existing in a state of fawning ...

Emotional wounds from past experiences might seem confined to your mental landscape, but medical research increasingly confirms what many health practitioners have long suspected: the burden of ...

A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem examined how thought-patterns associated with unfairness, known as ...

Overthinking is not just a habit or personality quirk — it’s often your brain trying to protect you. Psychology suggests it ...

When your nervous system has been primed by trauma, you can overreact to perceived "dangers" that aren't life-threatening, ...

Many of us will have heard of the “flight, fright, freeze” response when we are confronted with a threatening situation. In ...

A new study has found that even if survivors’ physical and psychological scars have healed after experiencing trauma, their bodies can still carry a biological “imprint” of the event years into the ...

This post is the second of a series about dispelling trauma myths. (You can read the first one here.) As a phenomenon, trauma involves a collection of experiences and reactions rooted in our ...

Most people know the fight-or-flight response, a survival mechanism related to threatening situations and events. In recent years, in no small part due to high-profile legal cases involving sexual ...

That inexplicable anxiety you feel in crowded places? The way your body tenses up when you hear raised voices? The persistent feeling that something bad is about to happen even when life is going well ...