When anxiety strikes, self-awareness can morph into toxic rumination. Here's how it can deepen your crisis instead of helping ...

COMMENTARY: Christmastide offers a profound rebuttal to a culture increasingly shaped by self-absorption, reminding us that ...

If the world is a cherry pie, then mankind, in its infinite desire to govern everything, will find a way to slice it between them. Some people see a piece and do what they can to make it theirs. They ...

Solutions offered for detrimental self-absorption vary mostly on the basis of what drives such self-defeating rumination. Does it relate mostly to depression? Anxiety, phobia, panic attacks? PTSD?

If you’ve ever been called self-absorbed, you can be sure you weren’t getting a compliment. Not only is the root definition of the term negative, but it’s also saturated with unfavorable connotations.

Tension: Boomers value independence and confidence—traits once praised—that now often read as self-absorption to younger generations. Noise: Media narratives oversimplify Boomer behaviors, framing ...

If you wish you had an abortion to call your very own, you might be deeply warped, or you might just be Lena Dunham. There’s a fine line between self-awareness and narcissism, and Dunham is on both ...

Having a strong sense of self-awareness is a good thing, as it signifies you know your own worth and set firm boundaries on how you want to be treated. Yet if you let the pendulum swing too far, it's ...

Eyal is a writer and psychologist. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Wired, and Psychology Today. She is currently writing a book on how therapy culture lost its way Extolled by politicians and ...