I regularly see a young adult behaving like a very young child in public, including using a stroller, a stuffed animal and speaking in a childlike voice He hangs out next to the primary schools and gets between two cars. I'm curious whether this kind of behavior has a known psychological explanation, such as age regression, or whether it can simply be a personal preference.Or something serious, I don't really know what to do, is it the good Reddit sub to talk about it? Besides, part of the text is generated by ai since I am French

I've seen many people state that the two are conflated with one another but I don't know the differences between each. I've heard of dissociation described but not in an understanding amount of detail

Is maladaptive daydreaming as bad as dissociation? Are they two sides of the same coin? What does constant maladaptive daydreaming say about a person?

Or platonic attraction with associative learning and positive emotions?

Also, is developing attraction in the former way morally wrong? Something about it rubs me the wrong way and feels potentially gross, but I'm having trouble piecing together why.

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Estimations are fine.

Is it higher in people with OCD?

The more I look at both narcissistic traits and anxious attachment, the more I see similarities.

Low intrinsic self worth, need for constant validation, fear of abandonment, often highly critical.

Are there any differences beyond gaslighting, low empathy and entitlement? Are these the three ways to tell them apart or am I missing the boat completely?

Is psychological issues related to some physical abnormalities in the brain always and vice versa. Can it just be patterns in the brain or actual damage ?

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Has there been any studies on loss of memory of the index event (due to events after the index event) after a diagnosis of PTSD? I assume that there would have been someone who had gone through memory losses i.e. from unrelated accidents or whatever in the history since we acknowledged ptsd.

If someone loses the memory of the index event, do they lose all the associated symptoms of ptsd or have they manifested in some other ways? (I.e. GAD, MDD etc).

When people have episodic disorders like Bipolar or even some presentations of schizophrenia (in terms of positive symptoms), how does that work with the MMPI? Is the person answering based on their current presentation, or do the questions allude to past experiences as well? Would someone with an episodic illness be flagged as answering inconsistently?

Especially in the situation when one of possible ADHD symptom is anxiety due to the train of thoughts.

i read somewhere that the brain doesn’t fully distinguish between fiction and reality when it comes to emotions. is that actually true? like, regardless of the genre, are the emotions we feel while watching or reading fictional stories processed in a similar way to how we would feel if those events were actually happening to us? for example, when a character goes through something painful, we can feel empathy for them, sometimes even cry and experience all kinds of emotions. does the brain process those emotions in a similar way to real-life experiences?

I need to know the difference between mistreatment and abuse in a family context.

What constitutes only mistreatment and when does It cross the line into abuse?

Trends used to change relatively slowly. Now social media can introduce hundreds of micro-trends in a short period of time.

See trend → feel FOMO → buy → trend changes → repeat.

The environmental consequences are huge btw

Alot of very sucessful athletes or Entrepreneurs seem to rely on concepts like these.

A lot of people notice that during a deep depressive episode, it feels almost impossible to remember what genuine happiness felt like. Good memories start feeling unreal, like they happened to someone else or never happened at all.

Why does our brain block or distort positive memories when our mood drops? Does the brain actually struggle to pull up those memories, or is it just rewriting the past to match how we feel right now?

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After the lecture of parts of an article about what deep learning has done to the Big Five personality dimensions, I wonder if deep learning machines have already analyzed the results of IQ tests.

Maybe they would find new, interesting correlations and dimensions of intelligence. The findings in "Machine-Learning Decomposition Identifies a Big Two Structure in Human Personality with Distinct Neurocognitive Profiles" (by Zhuang K, et al.) gives reason to hope that there might even be something among them that has a neurological correlate.

Exist such a study?

Thanks for the answers,

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Im asking just about matrix reasoning/logical aspects

EDIT: Nobody knows, really????????

Hello all! Counselor-in-training here. I've been reading a lot about how trauma is defined by the psychological profession, and its exact definition seems remarkably specific. That is,

Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence

Of course, this isn't really how the term is used colloquially. When most people talk about, say, "having a traumatic childhood," they're broadly referring to things mistreatment, neglect, or abuse.

My question is as follows: is there a clinical term that better captures how people colloquially refer to "trauma?" That is, harmful or stressful life events that have negatively impacted an individual's functioning. Is it something like "life stressors" or (if speaking about childhood "trauma") Adverse Childhood Experiences?

Help a baby counselor out!

I've often heard people bring up the proportional theory—that each year is just a smaller percentage of our lived experience so far. But I'm curious how well that holds up against other cognitive explanations, like having fewer novel experiences or changes in how our brains encode routine memories.

Is there a general consensus on what's primarily driving this shift, or is it a combination of several cognitive mechanisms?

So "substance addiction" seems pretty well defined and agreed upon, whose main key characteristics are loss of control, craving, and substance use despite continued harm.

Is "substance dependence" a synonym? Because I see it being used frequently the same way as addiction. Even in DSM-4 and ICD-11 there were/are substance dependence diagnoses, describing basically the definition of addiction. However I also frequently see it defined as the biological adaptation of the body, causing tolerance and withdrawal, without the other features of addiction (like in Wikipedia for example).

So is dependence a synonym, or a not well-defined term? Is there any better term for the biological adaptation to a substance?

I've seen that book be recommended by many people. Is the book reliable? Is it pseudoscientific? Is it up to date with current research?

Why can forgetting things cause so much distress in people, most likely people with OCD?

Military training often deliberately exposes recruits to stress through yelling, harsh criticism, intimidation, physical exhaustion, frustration, or public correction. These practices are commonly justified as ways to build resilience, discipline, and the ability to function under pressure.

From a psychological perspective, however, I’m interested in how we can distinguish controlled stress exposure with a legitimate training purpose from emotionally abusive treatment.

For example, would factors such as predictability, proportionality, a clear training objective, instructor emotional control, supervision, psychological safety, and post-exercise debriefing make an important difference? Conversely, would humiliation for its own sake, arbitrary punishment, expressions of contempt, or an instructor’s genuine loss of emotional control be psychologically different even if they occur within a stressful training environment?

More specifically, is there empirical research showing that interpersonal stressors such as yelling or humiliation improve resilience or performance under later high-stress conditions, rather than primarily producing compliance or habituation to authority?

I’m interested in psychological research on stress inoculation, resilience training, learning, occupational psychology, or military psychology that could help establish where productive stress ends and psychologically harmful treatment begins.