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Are Difficult People Bleeding You Dry?
Relationships are always an energy exchange. To stay feeling our best, we must ask ourselves: Who gives us energy? Who saps it? Difficult people can leech the energy right out of you. Learn how to successfully deal with five types of these “energy vampires."read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 23, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Judith Orloff, M.D. Tags: Happiness Personality Relationships Self-Help difficult coworke difficult people drama queen emotional vampires energy vampires fixer upper guilt narcissist passive aggessive Source Type: news

Warning! Are Difficult People Sapping Your Energy?
Relationships are always an energy exchange. To stay feeling our best, we must ask ourselves: Who gives us energy? Who saps it? Difficult people can leech the energy right out of you. Learn how to successfully deal with five types of these “energy vampires."read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 23, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Judith Orloff, M.D. Tags: Happiness Personality Relationships Self-Help difficult coworke difficult people drama queen emotional vampires energy vampires fixer upper guilt narcissist passive aggessive Source Type: news

How to Find a Supportive Community Online
Do you ever feel lonely online? You know, you’re flipping through page after page of your so-called “friends” on Facebook or some other social media platform, but you realize you are actually quite lonely?read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 23, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John Corcoran Tags: Happiness Personality Relationships Social Life community social connection success Source Type: news

Behind The Scenes With The 'Queen of True Crime'
Ann Rule, known for spellbinding detail of crime cases in her bestsellers, on the importance of forensics in writingread more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 22, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cathy Scott Tags: Law and Crime Personality Ann Rule serial killer ted bundy The Stranger Beside Me true crime book Source Type: news

How to Strengthen Your Mental Toughness Like An FBI Agent
LaRae Quy was a brand new FBI Special Agent, and it was the height of the Cold War, but she was given a huge job. Her assignment was to go undercover and locate a known Soviet spy operating somewhere in Silicon Valley, and to convince him to start spying for the U.S. How can this relate to your business? read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 22, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John Corcoran Tags: Personality Relationships Self-Help Social Life business entrepreneurship Fears self-confidence toughness Source Type: news

Why Is Employee Recognition Always a Problem?
One issue that recurred in literally every employee survey I was involved with over several decades was lack of employee recognition. Providing such recognition should be easy for management, but it isn't. Why is that? I asked readers and received insightful answers. read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 20, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Victor Lipman Tags: Behavioral Economics Personality Relationships Work employee employee recognition management positivity ratio Source Type: news

Why is Employee Recognition Always a Problem? Readers Answer
One issue that recurred in literally every employee survey I was involved with over several decades was lack of employee recognition. Providing such recognition should be easy for management, but it isn't. Why is that? I asked readers and received insightful answers. read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 20, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Victor Lipman Tags: Behavioral Economics Personality Relationships Work employee employee recognition management positivity ratio Source Type: news

Violence Risk Reduction Planning
While the murder rate in the U.S. is down as a whole, the mass murder rate has been rising. Many have been broadcasting the fact that we are seeing an overall decline in the murder rate in this country but the U.S. still has the highest violence and incarceration rates of all advanced nations in the world.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 20, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kathryn Seifert, Ph.D. Tags: Education Law and Crime Personality Resilience gun control incarceration mass murder politics teen violence USA Source Type: news

Resources For People With Borderline Personality Disorder
This is a space for people with borderline personality disorder who have specific suggestions about how they recovered or what specifically helped them, including sites, blogs, books, and more. Please focus on recovery.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 19, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Randi Kreger Tags: Eating Disorders Personality Source Type: news

Defending Lincoln Against Psychoanalysis
Why did a New York state senator want to ban psychoanalysis in 1931?read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D Tags: Personality Psychiatry Source Type: news

What a Narcissist Needs is More, not Less, Self-Love
Narcissists may seem as though they’re completely in love with themselves, but at the root of their inflated egos are deeply-held feelings of inferiority. Arguments and criticism therefore bring out their worst fears. Perhaps instead of self-love we should think of narcissists as experiencing self-hate.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. Tags: Happiness Personality Relationships Self-Help criticism empathy mood narcissism perfection relationship tips self-acceptance self-esteem self-love Source Type: news

How to Take Advantage of the Luck in Your Life
How to take advantage of the luck in your life. read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 17, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sheila Kohler Tags: Happiness Personality Resilience Source Type: news

Tactics for Facing a Pit Bull Attorney in Divorce Court
Negative-advocate attorneys escalate their cases and take most of their case activity to court. They formally adopt a splitting approach, acting as if their clients do no wrong and you do no right.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 16, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Randi Kreger Tags: Law and Crime Personality Source Type: news

Where Are You When You’re “Beside Yourself”?
The expression “I was beside myself” is one of our language's most intriguing idioms. And the mental state—or better, feeling state—it refers to bears a peculiar resemblance to the splitting of schizophrenia. Still, this familiar phrase is hardly to be taken literally. So just what essential part of you suddenly makes a guest appearance when you're feeling this way?read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 15, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D. Tags: Personality Psychiatry Relationships Stress Source Type: news

The Seductive Power of Overconfidence
Belief sells, whether it’s true or not. In the case of overconfidence, the belief in one’s ability—however out of proportion to reality—generates its own infectious energy. Self-deception is a potent means of convincing the world to see things your way.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 15, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: David DiSalvo Tags: Cognition Personality Social Life confidence narcissism overconfidence self-deception social influence Source Type: news