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Psychedelic therapy
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine. More known as MDMA. You have probably heard of it as it is a well known party drug. Among that, it’s also showing real promise to treat mental disorders like PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and other conditions. MDMA is a psychoactive drug with both stimulant, and mood enhancing effects. It appears to act…
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Cloudy with a Chance of Lifelong Friendships
This article is a glimpse of my volunteering experience as a short-term volunteer for an ESC project in Zagreb, Croatia. Come and join me on this 1000-word journey, as I reminisce through my fondest memories of the month and a half spent on gardening, working with school children and forging lifelong friendships, all under Zagreb’s…
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History of the Romani People
“Gypsies”, “Kale”, “Gitanos”, “Manouches”, “Zingari”, “Romani”: those are some of the numerous names given to the Romani community across Europe. Except for the last one, which means “accomplished man”, these different names reveal an important feature of this nation: they are usually named and defined by the others. This led to a lot of misconceptions…
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“Let There Be Light”: The Power of Shadow Work
In recent times, an increasingly popular practice has emerged – the exploration of the shadows within our minds. By delving deep into our innermost selves and fearlessly confronting our demons, fears, and insecurities, we unlock a profound journey of self-awareness and personal growth. This transformative process, known as shadow work, holds immense power to reshape…
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The enemy in the mirror
In this current society in which we live, beauty is an important part of our lives. From the advertisements on television to the television series, all the people we see are beautiful and perfect, but is that real? Both in TV series and in social networks people look flawless using make-up and filters, which make…
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Bhutan: Hometown of Gross National Happiness
You’ve probably come across the concept of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at some point in your life. To put it briefly, this concept is a monetary measure of all final goods and services produced and sold by a country in a given time. Gross Domestic Product is one of the most used data in the…
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Albanian – A Language without Resemblance
Albanian is an Indo-European language, the last representative of the Paleo-Balkan language sub-family. It is a rather unusual language in that, as the last representative of a sub-family of dead languages, it bears no resemblance to any other. In fact, Albanian is a language in a class of its own, using a Latin alphabet since…
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LET’S TALK ABOUT PSYCHOTHERAPY
Words have a magical power. They bring either the greatest happiness or the deepest despair. – Sigmund Freud WHAT İS PSYCHOTHERAPY AND WHO İS PSYCHOLOGİST? Psychotherapy is the process of safely exploring your feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and personal life about yourself and others, in the company of trained mental health professionals. It is speech therapy…
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Exploring Archaeological Tattoo Discoveries
If I told you that tattooing is older than all the pyramids in the world, would you believe me? Well, this practice is indeed ancient and has been passed down through different cultures for generations until our days. I can’t say for certain if your parents would have been furious if you secretly got a…
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Clean(sing) Skopje
Why would you roll a huge ball of trash through Skopje? Well, there can be multiple reasons, and one of them is to raise awareness of recycling and waste in a form of art performance. Art can be a powerful tool to raise awareness about waste and environmental problems. Cecilia (Cee) Martens and Holger Maik…
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Gap year: the secret of good mental health for students
At the end of high school, most of the young people are kind of lost and don’t know what to do after. It’s a very stressful period and choosing a specific field of study in university is usually hard. For a few years, a phenomenon appeared, particularly in Europe: the gap year! Let’s discover the…
