Do you disinfect a door handle before you touch it? Do you change your clothes several times a day? Do you wash your hands 60 times a day or more because you feel you are contaminated? If you answered YES to all of these questions, you probably suffer from a washing compulsion...or are at least on the way to it. And you wouldn't be alone in that. About a million Germans are plagued by thoughts of contamination every day and feel compelled to take action against it.

Almost everyone has been manipulated consciously or unconsciously in the course of his or her life. From these, mostly small, manipulations a phenomenon is to be distinguished, which carries the following name since some years: Gaslighting. This particularly strong and continuous manipulation, which is a form of emotional abuse, is unfortunately not uncommon and without intervention often leads to severe mental illness.

Trauma is a stressful event or situation that the affected person cannot cope with and process. As a result of such a traumatic event, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop and severely affect the life of an affected person. Learn more in the following article.