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Director Venkatesh Maha | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The 2018 Telugu indie film Care of Kancharapalem was a heartwarming and moving human relationships drama enveloped in humour. The unpretentious film is still remembered as a standout indie film to have come from the Telugu realm. With it, writer-director Venkatesh Maha was reckoned as a promising … Read more
April 29, 2022 – Amid all the attention this month to actor Johnny Depp’s $50 million lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard, a psychological term has entered the public’s lexicon: histrionic personality disorder. Depp says that an op-ed Heard wrote in 2018 hurt his career, and he’s suing for defamation. The term was used in court … Read more
You may have heard people call someone else a “psychopath” or a “sociopath.” But what do those words really mean? You won’t find the definitions in mental health’s official handbook, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Doctors don’t officially diagnose people as psychopaths or sociopaths. They use a different term instead: antisocial personality … Read more
SOURCES: Michael Weaver, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences; medical director, Center for Neurobehavioral Research on Addiction, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD, psychiatrist, Cambridge Health Alliance; assistant professor, Harvard Medical School. American Society of Addiction Medicine: “The Definition of Addiction.” National Institute on Drug Abuse: … Read more
People who live with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have a hard time regulating their emotions, which can be very intense, and handling stress. This can lead them to lash out at the people in their lives. As a result, they often have turbulent relationships that are as hard for the other people in them as … Read more