Mind - Blowing Psychological Truths You Need to Know

 Diving deep into the roots of our human mind, behavior, thoughts, and feelings is a wild and fascinating. There are some incredible facts that can lead you on the path of having a better understanding of yourself and others.

Mind - Blowing Psychological Truths You Need to Know

• Being alone can take a toll on your health and make you more susceptible to getting sick. 

• At night, our imagination is the highest, while our creativity levels drop significantly during the day. 

• Being isolated and alone in your home for a long time can be just as bad for your health and well-being as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. 

• People who are in positions of power and influence over others are usually very bad at determining other people’s feelings. 

• The most depressed people in the world are the ones between the ages of 18 and 33. 

• Travel lowers your chances of depression and heart disease and also improves your brain health.

• Broken heart syndrome, medically called stress cardiomyopathy, could cause short-term severe dysfunction of the heart muscle. 

• The force of authority on humans has the same effect as surviving a traumatic brain injury. 

• When you have two completely opposite views or values about something, and you change one view to match the other, that’s called cognitive dissonance. 

• Women’s threshold for pain is greater than men’s, even though women have half as many pain receptors as males. 

• Staying optimistic about the future can protect you from physical pain and mental illness.

• The scientist Thomas H. Morgan is the one who discovered that chromosomes had inherited knowledge. 

• Some people live their lives as if they were in a reality TV show. This is called the Truman Syndrome. 

• When you look at people kindly, you show them your positive characteristics. On the other hand, when you see others in a negative light, you reveal to them your negative attributes.

• Depression is often the product of our thoughts. Our imagination usually causes problems that don’t exist.  

• The type of  music you listen to shapes your view of the world. 

• Being happy around people makes you happier. 

• Narcissistic Personality Disorder exists in approximately 6% of the population. 

• Today’s average high school student has the same anxiety level as compared to the average psychiatric ward inmate in the early 1950s. 

• Prayer and other religious rituals are connected with significantly lower mental issues or psychological discomfort levels.