Metaphors are a fundamental aspect of human language and cognition, allowing us to understand complex concepts and relationships by mapping them onto more familiar and concrete domains. However, the ...

"You have to win the battle against depression", "what counts is not surrendering" and "this is not a short road" are examples of conceptual metaphors typically used to describe experiences and issues ...

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"You have to win the battle against depression", "what counts is not surrendering" and "this is not a short road" are examples of conceptual metaphors typically used to describe experiences and issues ...

"Metaphor is not for the true poet a figure of speech, but a substituted image that he actually places before his eyes in place of an idea." "Metaphor is originally a figure of speech, and designates ...

Virginia Woolf wrote tht we suffer from a "poverty of language" when we're in pain. Therapists must help patients to discover ...

From a quantitative point of view, the study also found that these metaphors are used more often by the people suffering from a mental health disorder themselves than by mental health professionals.