Why can it be difficult to change? Why is it that we can know what the right thing to do is, but find ourselves refusing to do it?

There are many different strategies that we use when dealing with our issues. In this article, we’ll take a look at three broad psychological coping strategies that we might employ to handle our problems. These defenses usually serve to momentarily solve an issue, but often at a cost.

Our beliefs about ourselves and the world can have a lot of influence over our actions. Some beliefs may be helpful and drive us to accomplish much, while others might get in the way of what we need. Contrast the belief that your efforts have no value with the belief that you fundamentally have something to offer, and it becomes apparent that one of these is likely to be experienced as paralysing, while the other might be experienced as highly motivating. Beliefs are someti

Stark (1994) defines illusions as unrealistically positive views of reality. Within relationships, it may refer to the idea that people are