Can you be born with brain Injury?
The development of learning begins during the gestational period, as the development of the baby depends on the mother's nutrition during pregnancy.
Mental Health, Education & Personal Growth Writer | Daniela Silva
Daniela Silva – Writer & Educator Specializing in Education, Mental Health, and Empathetic Storytelling
Daniela Silva helps brands, publishers, and organizations transform complex ideas into clear, powerful stories that educate, inspire, and drive meaningful action.
A Brazilian writer and educator with more than a decade of experience, Daniela specializes in Education and Mental Health writing, delivering content that is accurate, research-based, and deeply human. Her writing bridges science and storytelling, connecting with audiences on both an intellectual and emotional level.
With a BA in Pedagogy, an MBA in Personnel Management, and a postgraduate certification in Neuroeducation, Daniela brings a unique blend of academic knowledge and creative insight. Since 2012, her work has empowered teachers, guided parents, and fostered impactful conversations in global mental health communities.
Her articles have been featured in leading platforms such as Revista Meer, OC87 Recovery Diaries, The Ability Toolbox, 4W, Inspire the Mind, Psychreg, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, and the New Heights Educational Group.
If you’re looking for a content writer in Education and Mental Health who can craft authentic, engaging, and impactful writing, Daniela is the creative partner who can bring your message to life.
Kindness and Brain: What is the Impact of Kindness in Brain Functioning
Addictions, Brain and Behavior: The impact of Addictions in the Brain and in the Human Behavior
Is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) the Best Therapy for HSPs?
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Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) have unique experiences and sensitivities that can make navigating the world challenging. Often, HSPs find it difficult to manage their emotions, cope with stress, and maintain healthy relationships. In such cases, therapy can be a valuable tool for understanding and addressing the specific needs of HSPs. Dialecti
Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) have unique experiences and sensitivities that can make navigating the world challenging. Often, HSPs find it difficult to manage their emotions, cope with stress, and maintain healthy relationships. In such cases, therapy can be a valuable tool for understanding and addressing the specific needs of HSPs. Dialecti
Letter: The Correct Diagnosis of a Sensitive Personality
Relief: When the Diagnosis Sets You Free!
“There is no greater pain than not knowing who you truly are; and such a relief when diagnosing what’s behind your Personality” (D.S).
“There is no greater pain than not knowing who you truly are; and such a relief when diagnosing what’s behind your Personality” (D.S).
Mental Health Challenges that Neurodivergent Individuals Face.
Neurodiversity refers to the natural variability of neurological patterns that exist among individuals. This includes different forms of brain processing, which can cover a wide range of characteristics and differences, such as autism, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), dyslexia, and Tourette syndrome, among others. Neurodiversity recognizes that each person has a unique brain and, therefore, different abilities, needs, and perspectives.
The relationship between neurodiversity and
The relationship between neurodiversity and
How DBT's Radical Acceptance Helps Me Through My Grief
“If you want to be able to endure life, be ready to accept death” – Sigmund Freud
In March 2015, I lost my mother after a long battle with chronic kidney disease. As a consequence, grief tried to be part of my emptiness, and in an attempt to refuse it, I began to fill my routine with as many activities as possible—cooking, cleaning the house, grocery-shopping. I wanted to avoid processing the pain of her absence in my mind by keeping my body busy all day long. Unable to accept this grief, I sta
In March 2015, I lost my mother after a long battle with chronic kidney disease. As a consequence, grief tried to be part of my emptiness, and in an attempt to refuse it, I began to fill my routine with as many activities as possible—cooking, cleaning the house, grocery-shopping. I wanted to avoid processing the pain of her absence in my mind by keeping my body busy all day long. Unable to accept this grief, I sta
The Asperger’s Syndrome Debate: Rethinking the Terminology and Its Imp
Asperger’s Syndrome was incorporated into the Statistical and Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders 4 (DSM) in 1994 and described as a subtype of pervasive developmental disorders.
However, in 2013, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), one of the main references used by mental health professionals to diagnose disorders, made a significant change. The DSM-5 eliminated the category of Asperger’s Syndrome and used only the term “Autism Spectrum Di
However, in 2013, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), one of the main references used by mental health professionals to diagnose disorders, made a significant change. The DSM-5 eliminated the category of Asperger’s Syndrome and used only the term “Autism Spectrum Di
Systematic desensitization from cognitive-behavioral therapy is the lesson that helped me endure loud noises as a highly sensitive person
Are you a highly sensitive person looking for ways to endure loud noises? In this article, guest writer Daniela Silva shares her experience with systematic desensitization.
For Highly Sensitive People, who due to sensory processing sensitivity, feel the world around them with depth and intensity, perceiving with more vividness the subtleties and details of the environment, footsteps on the ceiling can feel like intermittent pricks in the ears.
This was the situation I experienced with my husba
For Highly Sensitive People, who due to sensory processing sensitivity, feel the world around them with depth and intensity, perceiving with more vividness the subtleties and details of the environment, footsteps on the ceiling can feel like intermittent pricks in the ears.
This was the situation I experienced with my husba
How Does Borderline Personality Disorder Contribute to My Sensitive Writing Skills?
For people with borderline personality disorder (BPD), expressing themselves artistically can be an outlet for dealing with emotional instability, managing emotions, learning to see the world in a palette of colours (rather than in black and white), finding creative solutions to problems, and thinking outside the box.
I would like to shed light on how positive characteristics of the borderline trait such as intensity and passion, creativity, high sensitivity, and reactivity have been the drivin
I would like to shed light on how positive characteristics of the borderline trait such as intensity and passion, creativity, high sensitivity, and reactivity have been the drivin
How Body Image Distortion Affects Adolescents
Adolescence is a phase marked by hormonal, physical, and behavioral changes. It is also a period of many questions, and one of them (if not the most crucial) is the changes that occur in the body itself, which often lead to anguish and comparisons with others.
What is body image distortion and how does it affect adolescents’ body perception?
Dissatisfaction with body image occurs due to inaccurate communication between body and mind, according to the body experience that the person has had thr
What is body image distortion and how does it affect adolescents’ body perception?
Dissatisfaction with body image occurs due to inaccurate communication between body and mind, according to the body experience that the person has had thr
How to Cope with Borderline Emptiness: a singular experience
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a behavioural disorder marked by instability in relationships, exaggerated fear of abandonment, intermittent anger, sudden mood swings, and chronic feelings of emptiness. Discussing borderline states of emptiness is of great importance, as it is because of it that the person with BPD finds himself/herself in an unbridled quest to fill it with alcohol, drugs, sex, and/or self-injurious behaviour.
, the chronic feeling of emptiness is, without a doubt, the
, the chronic feeling of emptiness is, without a doubt, the
Boosting my Body Image with Bodybuilding: A Borderline Experience
How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Reduce Suicidal Ideation
I have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder since 2018, but since my youth, I have always suffered from a lack of meaning in life. It was only after my diagnosis that I became aware that chronic feelings of emptiness are part of the set of characteristics present in the trait. Yes, I said trait, because today after years of treatment with the “right therapy” I can say that emotional instability is just part of who I am, and therefore doesn’t define me.
During a crisis, people dia
During a crisis, people dia
Women with a Filter
Filters, filters on Instagram, which one will make me the fairest of all?
If Snow White's stepmother had Instagram instead of a magic mirror, I bet this is what she would say to her filter app. After all, there are so many ways to become beautiful on screen that the wall mirror has become increasingly obsolete. The stepmother could choose a filter that would give her skin a youthful glow, change her hair color to make it ebony black, and add a blood red color to her lips.
As much as countless
If Snow White's stepmother had Instagram instead of a magic mirror, I bet this is what she would say to her filter app. After all, there are so many ways to become beautiful on screen that the wall mirror has become increasingly obsolete. The stepmother could choose a filter that would give her skin a youthful glow, change her hair color to make it ebony black, and add a blood red color to her lips.
As much as countless
Happiness Edited: The Glamourisation of Happiness on Social Media
Hey, you! Have you ever decided which filter are you using today? What angle do you look best at? What is your best smile? What paradise places will you post at this moment? What social projects or charities have you been committed to contributing to this week?
Stop, think, and post. Because these images depend on the success or failure of who you are (or appear to be). After all, in the world of social media, we need recognition from others to know who we are.
That way, the more beautiful, co
Stop, think, and post. Because these images depend on the success or failure of who you are (or appear to be). After all, in the world of social media, we need recognition from others to know who we are.
That way, the more beautiful, co
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I Love My Selfie: Shedding Light about Digital Narcissism on Social Media
Gerascophobia: When Can Ageing Stop Hurting?
Ageing is a process that begins right after birth. Therefore, we are all getting old. From the baby, the child, the teenager, the adult to the elderly. We will always be younger or older than someone else. And our appearance accompanies each stage of our life, each phase we go through, each new age we conquer. But when the worry of ageing becomes an excessive fear, then we are faced with a behaviour called gerascophobia.
A gerascophobic person has an exaggerated and persistent fear of the effec
A gerascophobic person has an exaggerated and persistent fear of the effec
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Coach App: Relief comes at your fingertips
Daniela Silva shares her journey using the DBT Coach app to support emotional regulation and self-awareness after a Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis. The app’s mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance exercises helped her reinforce therapy skills, gain independence, and manage daily challenges more effectively.
Innovation in Mental Health Care: Telepsychology and New Technologies as Allies in the Therapeutic Process
The world has changed. Day-to-day activities such as paying bills, working, studying, shopping, communicating with family or a co-worker no longer need to be done in person. The technology allows each of these activities to be done by the computer or via smartphones. Wi-fi networks enable interactions between people and groups anytime, anywhere in the world. Thus, the digital world of services also reaches the area of therapeutic treatments of mental health disorders through telepsychology. Acco
What Matters: How Is a Child's Gender Identity Born?
Are biological sex and gender the same thing? Currently, there is a lot of confusion between the terms sex and gender. Many people see sex only as a label, a trait designated at birth by the doctor, according to the baby’s genitalia. But sex is much more than that.
First, because sex is not designated, it is biological and includes physiological factors such as genitalia, hormones, and chromosomes. So sex is an innate trait (because we’re born with it); is dimorphic (distinguishes humans as mal
First, because sex is not designated, it is biological and includes physiological factors such as genitalia, hormones, and chromosomes. So sex is an innate trait (because we’re born with it); is dimorphic (distinguishes humans as mal
Do We Fear Growing Old or Getting Ugly?
With so many aesthetic surgical options, we are losing the perception of what it is like to age naturally.
Getting older in Western societies has increasingly become a challenge for many women. What in Eastern societies is seen as wisdom, the West it perceives as undesirable.
Researchers from Michigan State University concluded that age bias varies among countries and even states. For example, elders are more respected in traditionally collectivist Japan and China, and not so much in more indi
Getting older in Western societies has increasingly become a challenge for many women. What in Eastern societies is seen as wisdom, the West it perceives as undesirable.
Researchers from Michigan State University concluded that age bias varies among countries and even states. For example, elders are more respected in traditionally collectivist Japan and China, and not so much in more indi
Good Thoughts for a Better Mind: Psychoanalysis Transformed My Life
Restlessness is part of human nature. Questions like “Why am I here?” and “What is my purpose in life?” have always permeated my mind. My first episode of depression happened when I was ten and, in an attempt to relieve my sadness and anxiety, I started to write letters for myself about everything that I was feeling.
In my face, anhedonia (lack of pleasure) was present. I could no longer smile, make jokes or enjoy moments with my family. As a consequence, I developed intrusive thoughts that gra
In my face, anhedonia (lack of pleasure) was present. I could no longer smile, make jokes or enjoy moments with my family. As a consequence, I developed intrusive thoughts that gra
Confessions of an Introvert With Borderline Personality Disorder
I have quiet borderline, which means I implode emotions rather than explode them.
Imagine you are looking at a photo album of your life. Through this collection, it is possible to remember places, trips, birthdays, graduations, friends, family. In short, moments that marked different stages of your story. Then you decide to add new photos to the album, but realize there is no more space. Even so, you manage to overlay one photo with another so no memories are left behind. Even with all the phot
Imagine you are looking at a photo album of your life. Through this collection, it is possible to remember places, trips, birthdays, graduations, friends, family. In short, moments that marked different stages of your story. Then you decide to add new photos to the album, but realize there is no more space. Even so, you manage to overlay one photo with another so no memories are left behind. Even with all the phot
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