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Childhood trauma significantly increases the risk of being diagnosed with a mental health disorder later in life. For children who experienced emotional abuse, the most prevalent disorder reported was anxiety. Trauma also increased the risks for psychosis, OCD, and bipolar disorder. Significantly, those who experience trauma during childhood were 15 times more likely to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder later in life.

Teens and Millennials can’t keep their hands off their smartphones Daily smartphone screen use is skyrocketing among Gen Z teens and young adults. The most common smartphone use is for connecting with others. Pilot studies using strategies to reduce smartphone use did not produce significant changes.

Living with a narcissistic husband, wife or partner, or anyone else with narcissistic traits is undoubtedly challenging. What is narcissm? Narcissistic personality disorder involves a pattern of self-centered, arrogant thinking and behavior, a lack of empathy and consideration for other people, and an excessive need for admiration. Others often describe people with NPD as cocky, manipulative, selfish, patronizing, and demanding. This way of thinking and behaving surfaces in every area of the narcissist’s life: from work and friendships to family and love relationships.

Stress does not make anyone a nicer person, so it can also cause problems in your relationship. Scientists have now discovered that it even has an indirect effect. A short fuse, crankiness, tension and impatience, stress can lead to all kinds of unpleasant behavior, which can also have an impact on your relationship. This is called the spillover effect in psychology: the extent to which your own emotions influence how the people around you feel.

New research sampled people with BPD who reported having auditory hallucinations. 76 percent of the people with BPD heard voices telling them to hurt themselves; 33 percent heard voices ordering them to hurt others. Caregivers and clinicians need to be aware that hearing voices is common in BPD, and there could be risks of self-harm.

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