Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P
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Asterion, Jess, Avo, and all the other ghosts.
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On the Beauty of Audiobooks
People love to debate about many things, and that's fantastic. Debates strengthen some opinions, challenge others, and generally help people grow in critical thinking and reach new, previously unthought-of ideas.
By Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P 3 months ago in BookClub
More Than Pleasing: Art and Environment
Let us begin with the premise that being environmentally conscious does not imply being flawless; rather, it means being mindful of what needs to be done to make our earth a better place for future generations.
By Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P 3 months ago in Art
If One Day is too Much
Motivation is a thing with feathers. Similarly fleeting, what we call "mental health" can be found on uneven grounds. For many, looking back on their life is seeing a patchwork of very different emotional and physical states, and such is life.
By Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P 3 months ago in Psyche
Self-doubt, laziness, and avoidance…could compassion be the answer?
Do you find yourself struggling so much that you think you might just give up altogether? Do you feel harsh towards yourself because when things are hard you procrastinate? Or maybe, you did give up, and now wonder "What's wrong with me?".
By Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P 3 years ago in Psyche
I Was Admitted to a Psychiatric Hospital. Here is my Experience
By the fourth day in the clinic I had grown doubtful of my motivations, the motivations of the government. Why do I want to feel ‘better’? Why would the public system pay for a private stay so that I can feel ‘better’? I won’t lie, my writing had something to do with it… and, there it was again, atmosphere. I sat in an armchair facing the window as the sky turned lilac around the big public housing complex.
By Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P 3 years ago in Psyche
Have you been defeated by your own mind? Life is difficult for many, but according to psychologists, it is you who needs to change.
I touched my skull - just right behind the ear - and found the texture discomforting. Am I getting dandruff again? So, I try probing better, peeling away to reveal (or create) a rush.
By Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P 3 years ago in Psyche
Don't be a Stoic
Across the vast lands of Twitter, bookshops, Amazon and blog stires, one Philosophy has ruled them all. Stoicism is the philosophy in which thinkers — most notably Seneca and Epictetus — emphasised that a wise person would be emotionally adaptable to adversity since “virtue is sufficient for happiness”.
By Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P 4 years ago in Psyche
Why Are Artists Never Happy?
We talk about madness, mental illness, oddballs, but, do we really consider the bigger picture when discussing artists? I was searching for sentences, keywords, stuff that people usually searches for or associate with "artists". Across several interesting findings, one struck me:
By Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P 4 years ago in Psyche
You're not stupid, but we are stupidly confident
In a famous line from Theatetus, Socrates compares his philosophical activity to midwifery (v, he maieutikê technê). Socrates, according to Maieutics, first facilitates and then criticises other people's ideas. In other words, Socrates felt that individuals were convinced of their own views, even if they were false, and that they could not recognise (as he did) that they simply "didn't know" things. As a result, he would probe them more and more until they began to doubt their earlier ideas or came to a different conclusion. This was not a quest for the ultimate truth, but rather to raise awareness of the reality that we know far less than we believe.
By Avocado Nunzella BSc (Psych) -- M.A.P 4 years ago in Psyche
