Fact Friday: Psychology ISN'T Mind Reading

You've heard it a thousand times; you've probably even said it yourself: "So, you're a psychologist? Do you know what I'm thinking right now? What am I thinking? Tell me what I'm thinking!"

While this might be a useful thing while playing All-Fours or trying to figure out why your girlfriend is giving you cut-eye, psychology can't help you read someone's thoughts.

Did you do something? Did you forget to do something?
We wish we could help you out, but we really don't know how.

Tuesday Talks: Stigma

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Tuesday Talks is a series aimed at discussing mental health in the Caribbean, with a focus on Trinidad and Tobago. The Alive Child and Family Counselling Centre hopes that through these posts, people can get a better understanding of what mental health and mental illness is, and that cultural taboos and stereotypes in the Caribbean region can begin to change as we strive towards developing a more accurate psychological perspective.

To begin this series, our first topic is stigma.