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Alcohol—The Legal Drug #1

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Alcohol is almost omnipresent in our environment. Parents, relatives, and friends are role models for more or less successful ways of managing alcohol consumption. Added to this are advertising and movies. The association of alcohol with fun, success, attractiveness, strength, and being cool are images that stick in people’s minds, especially those of young people. […]

How to Beat the Days Full of Anxiety?

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Did you know that there are two different types of anguish? So what are they and why does it matter? The significance of distinguishing between existential anguish, which has a spiritual origin, and psychological anguish, which originates from human relationship problems, is that the tools for alleviating them are different. Let us consider this now. […]

Hurried, Worried, and Buried

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I met Frank on a crowded business flight. As he lowered his breathless, oversized body into the narrow seat, wiping perspiration from his brow, he activated his smart phone with one hand while whisking his laptop out of its case with the other. Not yielding a second to take in his surroundings, get comfortable, or […]

How to Adjust Your Mental Defenses

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As a child grows up in their home, even in families where there are no serious conflicts, they need to use psychological defense mechanisms to deal with inevitable frustrations. Just as our immune system was created by God to protect our bodies from invaders such as viruses or bacteria that cause disease, we also have […]

The Harsh Life of a Smoker

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Life as a smoker has never been as difficult as it is today: warning labels on cigarette packs, smoke-free zones in public buildings, price increases, and almost daily bad news in the media. Non-smokers are angry at their fellow citizens who smoke. And yet the number of smokers is rising. Around 100,000 young people worldwide […]

Why You Should Use Up Your Vacation Leave

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We are currently at the peak of the holiday season, but instead of drinking coconut water on the beach, hiking the mountains and enjoying what life has to offer, a surprising number of people are reluctant to take time out from work. Recent research shows one in five people in Ireland do not take their […]