Andreea Saraev Psiholog-Psihoterapeut Cluj-Napoca

15/11/2025

People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included. But the strain exacts a very high price

14/11/2025

Are you a giver, a taker, or a matcher? Here's the difference—and why it matters.

In every workplace, there are three basic kinds of people: givers, takers and matchers. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant breaks down these personalities and offers simple strategies to promote a culture of generosity and keep self-serving employees from taking more than their share.

13/11/2025

Vindecarea traumelor prin conexiune autentică şi vulnerabilitate faţă de partener - dr. Menis Yousry şi Ştefan MandachiDacă ți-a plăcut acest video, abonează...

12/11/2025

YOUR THOUGHTS ARE CREATED BY YOUR PRIOR SENSORY EXPERIENCE & YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS. Sensations are physical events in the world, such as light, sound, or touch, that your nervous system (comprising the brain and spinal cord) converts into electrical and chemical information. That creates what we call perceptions. Perceptions are the sensations you focus on.
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Emotions and behaviors are also created in the brain. They combine perception and memory to generate action plans and autonomic states, which is fancy nerd speak for how calm or relaxed you are and whether something is pleasant or not.
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Thoughts and how they arise in the brain have been a bit more mysterious and even difficult to define. Here, Dr. Jenny Groh, a neuroscientist from Duke University, provides what may be the best and clearest explanation of what thinking is that I’ve ever heard.
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It appears that thoughts are where we lay down our sensory memories and experiences, and perceptions. Try this. Think about something in your life, and then continue to think about it and see how many different senses those memories and thoughts incorporate.
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Dr. Groh is my guest on the Huberman Lab podcast, out now, an,d we discuss the neuroscience of thinking and also how to get better at focusing, task switching, etc.—all through the lens of neuroscience data.

11/11/2025

This Netflix show highlights key relationship skills that teens can use to better understand, manage emotions, and build healthier connections.

11/11/2025

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09/11/2025

Here are some ways to set boundaries without causing an uproar in anybody’s system:

1. Making Yourself Unavailable

You don’t owe your constant accessibility to anyone. Sometimes, you protect your peace simply by not picking up every call, replying instantly, or attending every event. Space allows recalibration. It’s about small yet really powerful gestures like turning off your notifications, closing your door, going off social media, or telling someone you’ll connect with them later.

2. Partial Availability

You can choose how much of yourself you give emotionally, mentally, or physically. For instance, you don’t have to attend a family event for the whole day, or you can evaluate how much of a task you can do realistically and ask someone to pitch in. Boundaries can be flexible without being self-abandoning.

3. Listening Without Fixing

You can be compassionate without taking responsibility for someone’s healing or choices. For instance, offering a listening ear but not giving advice unless asked (especially when you know that it won’t be taken).

4. Honoring Your Time

Time boundaries are one of the most powerful and underrated ones. When you value your time, others eventually do too. You need to decide for yourself how much time you are willing to spend with a person, on a task, or in a situation so that it doesn’t drain you.

5. Preparing for Draining Interactions

Sometimes you can’t avoid certain people, but you can prepare for them. Grounding yourself before meeting a difficult person, planning an exit strategy, or scheduling something calming afterward. Boundaries here are energetic and about containment and conservation.

6. Redirecting Conversations

For instance, you can gently shift topics or disengage when something feels invasive or draining. This keeps your mental space clean without creating conflict. Yes, you can hang up one minute earlier than usual or leave when you start feeling your body tensing up.

7. Focusing on What Energizes You

One of the most empowering forms of boundary-setting is investing your time and attention in what fuels you instead of what depletes you. For example, saying no to an obligation so you can paint, journal, rest, or take a walk. Boundaries are not just about shutting things out; they’re also about choosing what you let in.

8. Silent Boundaries

Not every boundary needs to be announced. Sometimes you simply start behaving differently, replying less, staying quieter, choosing peace over proving your point, or having conversations with yourself to remind yourself to stay grounded, not to respond or focus on something else.

And that's why so many of us can't set healthy boundaries to preserve our mental and emotional peace and maintain healthy relationships. We're constantly told and made to feel

08/11/2025

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06/11/2025

How do you fill your time after deciding to get sober? For journalist and cartoonist Edith Zimmerman, the answer was rediscovering activities she enjoyed as a kid. She chats with Chris Duffy, host of the “How to Be a Better Human” podcast, about how she quit drinking, learned to replace bad habi...

02/11/2025

From psychoanalysis to existential therapy, there’s a bewildering variety of approaches – with one thing in common