Wanting to help others can be good for your health. But if you feel like you have to do it and put aside your own well-being to do so, it can be problematic. This is known as a messiah complex, savior ...

Complex PTSD, or C-PTSD, refers to different things for different people. Among clinicians, C-PTSD is often used as a polite way to refer to someone with both Axis I and Axis II disorders—that is, ...

Last week, comedian Kathy Griffin took to social media to share her recent mental health struggles in a video. In it, Griffin reveals between deep breaths how she had an eight-hour panic attack the ...

No one gets through life unscathed. But what trauma does to our brains is sometimes a result of factors outside of our control. This is especially true for children. When a fragile, growing brain ...

The military-industrial complex is at once more and less than the name implies. As a catch phrase, it may be on its way to surpassing in notoriety “merchants of death,” the term that grew out of ...

A “martyr complex” is a term to describe a trait where a person persistently carries out self-sacrificing behaviors. A person with a martyr complex may sacrifice their own needs to serve others, even ...

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Generally, “inferiority complex” is an umbrella term describing chronic feelings of inadequacy and insecurity. People with an inferiority complex may experience chronic self-doubt, have low ...

Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (c-PTSD or cPTSD) describes a set of disruptive symptoms that emerge after experiencing inescapable traumatic life events, especially those of a horrific or ...