Psychology
Exploring "Why" questions about Psychology
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Why do you have to take antidepressants for life and how is depression an illness?
Depression is hard for me to grasp as an emotion but as a illness it makes a lot of sense. For me (and others like me) it is very easy to act happy or sad but actually feeling anything is pretty rare.
Why do some people feel more comfortable in the city, while others are more at home in the country?
preference.... I am not aware of any specific cause. The human brain rebels against monotony and sameness so that might have something to do with it.
Why all the hate for Joss Whedon’s handling of Black Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron?
She got captured and put in a cage by a male villain. Partly because ScarJo got pregnant during filming and they had to write her out of some action scenes, but when the only woman on the team is the
Why does it seem like after you go through some tragic events in life you lose the capability of having feelings?
First of all, I'm sorry for your loss; it's never a great thing to lose someone. But from experience, this may be a form of dissociation. This is probably a way that you're coping with this immense pa
Why is it easier to be angry and upset than to be happy and polite when you’re tired?
The short simplified answer is that politeness and such things require more energy and computing power to generate than just being aggressive and defensive, which are more basic instincts. So when you
Why do clean bed sheets feel so good? Or is it just the placebo effect of them being clean?
Because your grease and dead skin coat the dirty sheets and its kind of gross. Additionally the sheets fibers compress from your weight. So when you wash them you get rid of the nasty shit that feels
Why is there so much hate towards comic sans?
I have asked this myself and the answer I was given was twofold: * 1- It was, and often still is, overused. As a standard microsoft font it's seen as the go to "wacky-fun-font". * 2- It's used inappro
Why when I have a bruise or cut causing discomfort do I feel the need to constantly mess with it causing more discomfort?
It's a stress reaction. Medicine is a relatively recent development (tens of thousands of years old) versus millions of years of being alive and being injured. Animals (of which we are one) tend to 'f
Why does being tickled make us laugh when it is such an unpleasant sensation?
The short answer is we really don't know. Of course, [people have their guesses](_URL_1_), and it seems to be that it isn't a naturally occurring physiological response driven by (as you put it) a bio
why I go to bed after eating a good meal and wake up with a growling stomach, but when I go to bed after having not eaten I wake up not feeling hunger.
If hunger is a conscious experience, it might be because your consciousness only notices the difference between 'just a minute ago' (right before you fell asleep), because you weren't conscious during