The unmatched drop in suicides that Sri Lanka achieved around the turn of century provide lessons for what is useful to try now, as our rates gradually plateau. Looking back over phase dramatic reduction provides an opportunity also examine critically strategies used other countries, reduce suicides. And examining little explored facets puzzling phenomenon suicide is, helps us develop new insig...

BACKGROUND Racing thoughts is a frequent symptom in mood disorders, particularly mixed depressive states. This paper aims to summarize our current knowledge about its phenomenology and frequency in the spectrum of mood disorders, and to offer a new theoretical framework. METHODS We made a selective review of original and review papers in Medline and PsychInfo database using the keywords "raci...

Philosophy should be understood with its accumulative structure. Thus, when one strives to understand a philosopher’s thoughts, he/she not isolate the philosopher from previous and contemporary theories in his/her era; take into account this continuous In context, Kant’s, Bergson’s, Iqbal’s understandings of time seem have continuity themselves, even if they might seen as having incompatible po...

The nature of test anxiety and its relationships to performance and cognitive interference are analyzed from the standpoint of attentional processes. A new instrument to assess dimensions of reactions to tests is presented, and its psychometric properties are described. The scales of the Reactions to Tests questionnaire (Worry, Tension, Test-Irrelevant Thinking, Bodily Symptoms) were compared w...