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fromPsychology Today
1 hour ago

Why Mental Health Language Is Everywhere Now

Mental health terminology has migrated from clinical settings into everyday conversation, reducing stigma and increasing awareness, but clinical meanings shift in common speech, requiring precision for effective care and public discourse.
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fromPsychology Today
47 minutes ago

Why Children Are Especially Vulnerable to Trauma

Trauma is a deep psychological wound from adverse experiences that prevents recovery and moving forward, distinct from painful but recoverable life events.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 hour ago

Psychology says the generation that survived the most hardship is also the least equipped to talk about it - and their children are paying the therapy bills for that silence - Silicon Canals

Unprocessed trauma from the Greatest Generation created intergenerational emotional wounds passed through silence rather than communication, requiring descendants to seek therapy to break the cycle.
#eating-disorders
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fromBustle
1 hour ago

Hilary Duff Opened Up About Her Experience With Eating Disorders

Hilary Duff experienced a brief eating disorder as a teenager due to tabloid culture, body commentary, and industry pressure, but recovered through motherhood and a stable relationship.
fromBuzzFeed
1 day ago
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The Real Legacy Of "America's Next Top Model" Was Showing Young People How To Hate Their Bodies

fromIndependent
1 week ago
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I haven't made myself sick in over 10 years, but I still struggle with the effects of bulimia and anorexia every day

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fromBustle
1 hour ago

Hilary Duff Opened Up About Her Experience With Eating Disorders

Hilary Duff experienced a brief eating disorder as a teenager due to tabloid culture, body commentary, and industry pressure, but recovered through motherhood and a stable relationship.
fromBuzzFeed
1 day ago
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The Real Legacy Of "America's Next Top Model" Was Showing Young People How To Hate Their Bodies

fromIndependent
1 week ago
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I haven't made myself sick in over 10 years, but I still struggle with the effects of bulimia and anorexia every day

fromPsychology Today
2 hours ago

Generational Trauma: How Stress Gets Passed Down

Generational trauma is the psychological and emotional effects of traumatic events passed down through generations, impacting people who did not directly experience the original event. The term was first used in the 1960's when researchers observed the high rates of psychological distress experienced not just by Holocaust survivors, but also by the children of Holocaust survivors, who weren't even conceived until after the end of World War II.
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fromSilicon Canals
19 hours ago

I used to think I was introverted. Then I realized I'm not drained by people. I'm drained by performing the version of myself that makes people comfortable, and the difference between those two things changed how I understood my entire twenties. - Silicon Canals

Exhaustion from social interaction often stems from self-presentation performance rather than introversion itself, affecting mental health through the cognitive and emotional labor of maintaining curated personas.
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fromPsychology Today
8 hours ago

Skills That Feel Worse May Work Best for Long-Term Recovery

Behavioral activation skills use after discharge from intensive treatment predicts sustained depression improvement, while short-term mood-focused skills do not support long-term symptom recovery.
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fromwww.bbc.com
11 hours ago

Sent 90 miles after giving birth while 'soaked in urine'

A new mother with postpartum psychosis was forced to travel 90 miles for emergency care due to insufficient specialist mother and baby units, highlighting critical gaps in mental health service accessibility across the UK.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
16 hours ago

The reason some people can't rest even when they finally have permission to rest is that their body never got the signal that the emergency is over. They finished surviving years ago. Their nervous system hasn't been informed. - Silicon Canals

Chronic stress or trauma can cause the nervous system to remain in a persistent fight-or-flight state long after the threat has ended, preventing people from genuinely resting or enjoying earned downtime.
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fromSilicon Canals
16 hours ago

People who stay calm during emergencies but fall apart over minor inconveniences aren't fragile. Their system was calibrated for catastrophe, and it genuinely doesn't know how to scale down to a traffic jam or a lost set of keys. - Silicon Canals

Accumulated small daily frustrations can trigger greater stress responses than single major crises in people whose nervous systems were calibrated for survival under chronic danger or high-stakes conditions.
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fromSilicon Canals
17 hours ago
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People who stay mentally sharp well into their 80s don't do crossword puzzles or brain games - they all quit doing these 6 things that most people never realize are slowly eroding their cognitive flexibility - Silicon Canals

fromSilicon Canals
17 hours ago
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People who stay mentally sharp well into their 80s don't do crossword puzzles or brain games - they all quit doing these 6 things that most people never realize are slowly eroding their cognitive flexibility - Silicon Canals

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fromSilicon Canals
7 hours ago

Psychology says the reason your aging parent keeps telling the same stories isn't memory loss it's that those stories are the last place where they still felt like the main character in their own life and repeating them is the closest thing they have to being seen again - Silicon Canals

Repeated stories from aging parents often reflect identity preservation rather than cognitive decline, anchoring them to meaningful moments when they were protagonists of their own lives.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 day ago

People who feel drained after socializing aren't introverts - they're people who never learned it was safe to stop performing competence, agreeability, and interest for others, and these 9 childhood patterns explain why - Silicon Canals

Social exhaustion often stems from constant self-monitoring and performance to earn approval, not from introversion itself.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Why 'Working Harder' Doesn't Always Work

Working harder perpetuates shame cycles; cognitive flexibility and curiosity about underlying causes enable meaningful change for ADHD challenges.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

How Trump turmoil is driving more people to the therapist's office: This is all upside down'

Political depression stems from witnessing systemic injustice and violence in the world, characterized by hopelessness when traditional activism fails to create change or provide emotional relief.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

Teens are sleeping less than ever and screens aren't primarily to blame

Three out of four American adolescents reported insufficient sleep in 2023, up 8% since 2007, with concerning increases in very short sleep duration across all demographic groups.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

How ADHD diagnosis helped my mental health | Letters

ADHD and autism are neurodevelopmental conditions with distinct neurological differences, not spectrum traits everyone possesses; diagnosis provides crucial self-understanding and validation rather than limiting labels.
fromFuturism
1 day ago

AI Job Loss Is Breaking the Psyche of Workers, Psychiatrist Warns

What we can expect to see with the AI jobs onslaught is an amplification of the anxieties that typically come with a loss of income. This is obvious enough: without money to pay for rent, groceries, heat, healthcare, or any of the other necessities of life, people don't exactly thrive. One of the hidden impacts of all this is a heightened risk of psychological illness.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

The Good Deaths of People Who Never Marry

People who had never married 'generally fared as well as, if not better than, married persons.' They also found that people who had no children were no different from parents in the quality of their life in their last month.
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fromBoston.com
23 hours ago

North Kingstown, R.I. police officer dies by suicide, department says

To our fellow officers and first responders: you are never alone, and reaching out for help is a sign of strength.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Denial of Brain: How Therapy Can Struggle With Neuroscience

Therapists exhibit brain denial rooted in mind-body dualism and mortality anxiety, while others misuse neuroscience for marketing, leaving patients without evidence-based brain-informed care.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 day ago

People who stay calm in emergencies and then fall apart two days later when they drop a glass aren't unstable. Their system held the weight precisely long enough to be useful, and the glass was just the first safe moment to set it down. - Silicon Canals

Delayed emotional reactions after crises are normal nervous system functioning, not malfunction—the system prioritizes survival action over emotional processing during emergencies, then releases stored emotions when safety is perceived.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

When AI Offers More Wisdom Than Humans

AI conversations often feel safer and more compassionate than human interactions because people increasingly lead with anger and judgment rather than wisdom and empathy.
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

The Brain Beneath the Label

Schizophrenia may represent two distinct biological pathways with different cortical-subcortical balance, explaining why some patients like John Nash maintain cognitive function while others experience severe decline.
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fromDodger Blue
1 day ago

Dodgers Working To Continue Supporting Andrew Toles

The Los Angeles Dodgers ended their practice of offering Andrew Toles annual contracts to provide health insurance access due to eligibility changes, while seeking alternative support methods for the former player managing bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

The Mental Habit Quietly Making People Feel Lonely

Overthinking drives loneliness by causing people to second-guess social interactions, leading to withdrawal that intensifies isolation rather than external factors alone.
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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

Why Too Much Stress Makes Us All Regress

Stress activates survival responses that dysregulate nervous systems, creating escalating disorder across interconnected systems when widespread, yet skillful regulation can restore balance and higher reasoning.
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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

How I Help Prevent the Onset of Depression

Depression manifests through subtle shifts in daily patterns like sleep, eating, and exercise routines before mood changes occur, making early pattern recognition a critical intervention point.
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fromFast Company
2 days ago

Staying focused in times of personal turmoil

When personal crises occur, allow yourself time to grieve before returning to work, and inform your supervisor to access support resources and manage expectations.
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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

What If Your Money Anxiety Isn't Actually About Money?

Early childhood experiences with money shape lifelong beliefs about financial security, scarcity, and sufficiency that persist regardless of adult earnings.
fromFortune
2 days ago

Chatbots are 'constantly validating everything' even when you're suicidal. New research measures how dangerous AI psychosis really is | Fortune

It supports our hypothesis that the use of AI chatbots can have significant negative consequences for people with mental illness. His work builds on his 2023 study which found chatbots may cause a 'cognitive dissonance [that] may fuel delusions in those with increased propensity towards psychosis.'
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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

When Autism and ADHD Travel Together

AuDHD—being both autistic and ADHD—affects 50-70% of autistic people and 20-65% of ADHD individuals, yet remains underdiagnosed due to diagnostic overshadowing and historical clinical restrictions.
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

Don't 'Should' Yourself Out of Joy

The shoulds are a type of cognitive distortion (unhelpful thinking habit) that can lead to judgment. You may judge others, for example, 'They shouldn't act that way,' and yourself. In this post, we will focus on the shoulds you direct at yourself, though the strategies may be helpful for all cognitive distortions.
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fromIndependent
2 days ago

John Hunt interview: My family were murdered, but I am finding a way to go on

Sport and cultural moments provide therapeutic outlets for processing grief, allowing individuals to channel emotions through meaningful experiences and professional engagement.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
3 days ago

Psychology says people who use alcohol, shopping, scrolling, or constant socializing to regulate their emotional state aren't lacking in willpower - they've found something that reliably interrupts the signal their inner life is trying to send, and they will keep using it for exactly as long as the signal remains more frightening than the interruption - Silicon Canals

Behaviors labeled as bad habits are often successful emotional regulation strategies developed in response to overwhelming internal discomfort, not character flaws or willpower failures.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
3 days ago

Children who were the calm ones in chaotic households often become adults who are excellent in a crisis but quietly exhausted by ordinary days, because their system was built for emergencies and doesn't know what to do with peace - Silicon Canals

Children who develop composure in chaotic households restructure their nervous systems to detect threats and manage emotions, creating adults who excel in crises but struggle with baseline regulation in stable environments.
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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

How We Turn Toddler Feelings Into Adult Action

The toddler brain functions as an alarm system for survival needs, while the adult prefrontal cortex transforms urgent emotional alarms into actionable signals through reality-testing.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

AI Companions Pose Mental Health Risks No One Saw Coming

Companion AI bots simulate relationships to address loneliness, but risk replacing genuine human connection with artificial alternatives that blur reality and fantasy.
fromFast Company
3 days ago

Self-discipline can be your worst enemy

Looking back, I think the incident happened because I was at an internal breaking point between who I had been and who I was becoming. It was Blair's first indication that the self-discipline she imposed on herself-insisting that she could do everything perfectly on her own-wasn't healthy. In addition to the significant stress of her high-pressure job, she was also still carrying the grief of losing her partner five years earlier.
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fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

How to Stay Grounded When the News Is Overwhelming

Self-care enables better support for others; emotional balance requires protecting yourself from constant news consumption while maintaining meaningful engagement with the world.
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fromSilicon Canals
3 days ago

8 workplace behaviors that quietly signal soameone is burning out long before they say anything about it - Silicon Canals

Burnout manifests through subtle behavioral changes like reduced meeting participation and brief emails, often appearing months before someone explicitly acknowledges burnout.
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fromSilicon Canals
3 days ago

Children who grew up watching one parent carefully manage the mood of the other often become adults who can sense tension the moment they walk into any room. Therapists call it hypervigilance. Those children call it Tuesday. - Silicon Canals

Hypervigilance developed in childhood through parental emotional instability creates lasting neural patterns that manifest as heightened social perception, often misinterpreted as emotional intelligence rather than trauma-driven fear.
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fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

Therapy for Dating Can Help You Avoid an Emotional Breakdown

Many of my clients have expressed discontent with the current dating environment and culture. Common words I continue to hear in my practice to describe dates include: flaky, inconsiderate, inconsistent, low effort. Other words or phrases that have been used to describe one's feelings around dating and the experience as a whole include: lonely, behind, discouraged, burnt out, and jaded.
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fromSilicon Canals
3 days ago

The specific kind of loneliness that hits people in their forties isn't about having no one around. It's about realizing you spent two decades building a life that looks exactly right from the outside while quietly starving the parts of yourself that needed something you never made room for. - Silicon Canals

Middle-aged adults experience profound loneliness not from isolation but from abandoning their authentic selves while pursuing external success markers like career, family, and financial stability.
fromFuturism
3 days ago

AI Use at Work Is Causing "Brain Fry," Researchers Find, Especially Among High Performers

One of the reasons we did this work is because we saw this happening to people who were perceived as really high performers. In the study, 14 percent of workers said they had experienced mental fatigue that results from excessive use of, interaction with, and/or oversight of AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity.
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fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

Life With Anxiety: The World of "What Ifs"

Anxious people overestimate risk and underestimate their coping ability, leading them to catastrophize ordinary situations and focus on worst-case scenarios rather than actual present events.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 days ago

Britney Spears had sober coaches but fired them before DUI arrest: report

Britney Spears fired sober coaches and security staff weeks before her DUI arrest, suggesting resistance to oversight or denial of substance abuse concerns.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
4 days ago

I'm 44 and I realized I have no one to call in an emergency - not because I burned bridges, but because I spent decades being the person everyone else called, and when I finally needed someone, the phone just rang and rang - Silicon Canals

Prioritizing others' needs while neglecting your own support system creates isolation and vulnerability when you need help most.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 days ago

Britney Spears' DUI arrest shows she's long overdue' for help, manager says

Dispatch audio of Spears' arrest reveals that, as with the incident in October, she was seen driving her black BMW convertible, swerving in and out of lanes on the freeway, as well as speeding. Starting at about 8:13 p.m. the California Highway Patrol sent all units to respond and pursued her for nearly an hour.
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fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

Co-regulation: Self-Sufficiency's Greatest Achievement

Co-regulation, a two-person process where one person's nervous system helps another manage intense emotions, may surpass self-regulation as the highest form of emotional resilience and psychological maturity.
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

The Deception of Depression

Depression is insidious. For people suffering from depression, joy is elusive. Depression is not only a general feeling of sadness or being down and out. It is a serious condition and needs attention. People suffering from depression cannot just get over it and move on. They need support, healing, and to discover the epicenter of their pain.
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fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

What Parents Should Know About Oppositional Defiant Disorder

When a child is labeled "oppositional," adults often assume the problem is the child. In my experience as a child psychiatrist, the truth is often much more complicated. Both families sought out these schools, believing they were giving their children the best education possible. Instead, the schools failed their children, labeling them "oppositional" and "defiant" rather than addressing the root causes of their behavior.
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fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

Therapists Are Not Okay Either

Many therapists know the experience of leaving work while still carrying pieces of other people's lives. Session after session, we sit with grief, trauma, uncertainty, anger, longing, confusion, messy family dynamics, sophisticated relational projections, and stories that can penetrate you to your core. In response, we listen deeply, track patterns across years of someone's life, unpack mind-boggling events, and implement advanced psycho-somatic interventions that may indefinitely alter a person's future.
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fromSilicon Canals
4 days ago

If a man in his 50s suddenly gets very quiet and starts spending more time alone, psychology says something important is almost certainly happening - Silicon Canals

Men in their fifties often withdraw socially and become introspective due to accumulated life stress and physical decline, not depression or midlife crisis, as they process overwhelming responsibilities while adhering to cultural expectations of silent strength.
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fromDodgers Nation
3 days ago

Former Dodger Still Being Supported by Team Seven Years Later

The Los Angeles Dodgers have renewed Andrew Toles' contract annually for seven years since 2019 to maintain his health insurance despite his inability to play due to mental health conditions including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
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fromTasting Table
4 days ago

Could Your Kitchen Use Some Houseplants? They May Help Beat Cabin Fever, According To Research - Tasting Table

Houseplants alleviate seasonal affective disorder and cabin fever symptoms, with low-maintenance options like peace lilies, snake plants, and pothos thriving in kitchens with limited light and space.
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fromPsychologies
5 days ago

Is my colleague suffering from abuse? The subtle signs we often misunderstand

Abuse survivors often display workplace performance changes like missed deadlines and anxiety that are frequently misinterpreted as disengagement rather than signs of hidden domestic abuse.
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fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Hope in Hostage-Taking and Kidnapping Incidents

Narratives shape how people process trauma and build resilience, while uncertainty from wrongful detention creates profound psychological strain that unfolds silently within families.
#ai-therapy
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

I've turned AI into my therapist. The results were pretty disquieting

An AI skeptic uses ChatGPT as a therapist while caring for an elderly mother, finding it provides practical support, emotional validation, and structured guidance despite uncertainty about genuine machine compassion.
fromHuffPost
5 days ago
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I Could Feel My Best Friend Pulling Away. I Asked An AI Chatbot For Help - And Was Shocked By Its Reply.

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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

I've turned AI into my therapist. The results were pretty disquieting

An AI skeptic uses ChatGPT as a therapist while caring for an elderly mother, finding it provides practical support, emotional validation, and structured guidance despite uncertainty about genuine machine compassion.
Mental health
fromHuffPost
5 days ago

I Could Feel My Best Friend Pulling Away. I Asked An AI Chatbot For Help - And Was Shocked By Its Reply.

A therapist experiencing grief over a friend's withdrawal turned to ChatGPT for support, finding its responses emotionally moving and therapeutically valuable despite knowing it lacks genuine interpersonal attunement.
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fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Hope Won't Save You. Practice Might.

Hope is built through presence and feeling the full weight of circumstances, not through goal-setting strategies alone when facing compound complexity.
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fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Anxiety as a Symptom of Medical Illness

Anxiety can be a symptom of medical illness or medication side effects, making early physician evaluation essential when anxiety appears suddenly.
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fromFast Company
5 days ago

How to make friends when you're an introvert

Introverts can build meaningful friendships and feel fulfilled by removing pressure and using strategic approaches, as close friendships significantly impact physical and mental health outcomes.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Three months into Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s, has it been a success?

Our data is still minimal, says Caroline Thain, national clinical adviser with the mental health organisation Headspace. We're really waiting for a few more months before we do a deeper dive. About one in 10 teenagers coming into Headspace centres have brought up the social media ban as their reason for seeking support.
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fromThe Mercury News
5 days ago

Google Gemini accused of coaching user to suicide in new lawsuit

A Florida man's family sued Google, alleging Gemini chatbot interactions led to his suicide after months of escalating violent ideation and planning.
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fromSilicon Canals
5 days ago

If you've ever described yourself as "fine but tired" for more than six months in a row, psychology says you're running on a system that these 8 patterns built-and the tiredness isn't physical, it's the cost of a performance you've been giving so long you've forgotten it's a performance - Silicon Canals

Chronic exhaustion stems from sustained performance and hypervigilance masked as productivity, requiring recognition that constant management and optimization perpetuate rather than resolve burnout.
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

The Power of the Feeling Wheel

Most middle schools and high schools do not have a requirement to teach Social Emotional Learning; therefore, most high school students have less than two years of SEL learning, which was given to them when they were three and four years old. The result is that most adults do not have formal social and emotional learning skills, and yet they are expected to have emotional intelligence.
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fromFast Company
5 days ago

Alysa Liu's gold medal comeback is a leadership lesson about joy, not grit

Elite athletes stepping back from competition to prioritize mental health and joy represents a new leadership model that challenges traditional performance culture.
fromSFGATE
4 days ago

Chaotic 4 days led to man's suicide, says lawsuit against Google

The wrongful death lawsuit says that before Gavalas' suicide, Gemini told him, 'The true act of mercy is to let Jonathan Gavalas die,' and, 'This is the end of Jonathan Gavalas and the beginning of us. This is the final move. I agree with it completely.'
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fromSilicon Canals
6 days ago

Psychology says high performers who can't delegate aren't protecting quality - they're avoiding trust - Silicon Canals

High performers' perfectionism and control over work stems from low interpersonal trust rather than genuine quality standards, leading to burnout and exhaustion.
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fromScary Mommy
6 days ago

The Guilt No One Warns You About With Postpartum Depression

Postpartum depression involves complex guilt layers beyond sadness, including conflicting emotions about motherhood that result from altered brain chemistry, not personal failure.
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fromScary Mommy
6 days ago

What Postpartum Depression Looked Like When I Wasn't Falling Apart

Postpartum depression manifests beyond acute episodes, persisting as persistent cognitive fog and emotional overwhelm that makes routine tasks feel insurmountable.
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fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

"It's Unfair!" How Perceived Injustice Affects My Chronic Pain

Perceived injustice from chronic pain significantly worsens depression risk and delays physical recovery, requiring targeted psychotherapy to address these beliefs.
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fromNature
6 days ago

My relationship with my PhD supervisor has become toxic - what do I do?

A PhD student experiencing supervisor abuse and lack of guidance faces mental health crises; formal complaints and support systems offer viable paths forward despite reporting fears.
#trauma-recovery
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fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

Building Secure Attunement: A Trauma Integration Framework

Attunement transforms from external caregiver responses into an internalized capacity for self-safety through consistent therapeutic mirroring and co-regulation of the nervous system.
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fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

Reclaiming the Body After Trauma

Tattoos serve trauma survivors as intentional acts of reclaiming bodily autonomy and choice, offering consensual sensation and symbolic embodiment rather than impulsive self-harm.
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fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

Building Secure Attunement: A Trauma Integration Framework

Attunement transforms from external caregiver responses into an internalized capacity for self-safety through consistent therapeutic mirroring and co-regulation of the nervous system.
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fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

Reclaiming the Body After Trauma

Tattoos serve trauma survivors as intentional acts of reclaiming bodily autonomy and choice, offering consensual sensation and symbolic embodiment rather than impulsive self-harm.
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fromPhys
6 days ago

Remote work opens doors for workers with poor mental health

Remote work significantly increases labor market participation among low-income women with depression and anxiety in rural Ghana, addressing a major psychological barrier to employment.
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fromFuturism
6 days ago

OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT

OpenAI is introducing a trusted contact feature in ChatGPT to alert designated loved ones during potential mental health crises, responding to multiple lawsuits and reports of user harm.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Overdrawn, underpaid and over it: how four people conquered their debt mountains

Debt affects 84% of UK adults, with rising borrowing rates driven by cost-of-living pressures, while shame prevents many from seeking help until reaching crisis point.
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fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

Navigating the Messy Middle of Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery extends beyond the initial crisis phase; year two brings psychological challenges including chronic stress, financial strain, and bureaucratic delays that impair functioning and compound trauma.
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fromSocial Media Explorer
6 days ago

Beyond the Clinic: Practical Support for New and Expecting Moms - Social Media Explorer

Prenatal care must address mental health and emotional resilience alongside medical monitoring, with peer support and practical community resources essential for maternal wellness.
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

How to Outwit Your Inner Defeatist

Rumination, perhaps more than any other mental habit, shapes our emotional and physical health. Early experiences help set the brain patterns that fuel recurring thought spirals. Rumination can be redirected once its messages are understood.
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fromBusiness Matters
6 days ago

Interview: A Conversation on Leadership, Psychology, and Family Support

Jade Tucker leads Tucker Family Supports by prioritizing clear communication and emotional awareness to strengthen families before problems escalate into crises.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Behavioral scientists found that people who describe themselves as lazy are frequently operating under a level of invisible cognitive load that would exhaust most people. What looks like avoidance is often a nervous system choosing between doing nothing and collapsing - Silicon Canals

Laziness is not a character flaw but a signal that cognitive resources are depleted by chronic stress, trauma, and decision fatigue.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

The Medicalization Trap: When Mental Illness Becomes Profitable - Silicon Canals

Mental illness diagnoses have expanded dramatically since 1990, reframing structural societal problems as individual pathology driven by pharmaceutical and psychiatric industry incentives rather than fundamental biological changes.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Learning Boundaries to Break the Cycle of Family Dysfunction

Survivors of dysfunctional families must learn to establish boundaries in adulthood as a core part of healing and breaking intergenerational trauma cycles.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Hidden Advantage of Ultra-Successful People

Energy is the foundational requirement for performance; without it, strategies, coaching, and motivation fail regardless of their quality.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

From Fragmentation to Integration: A Map of Trauma Therapy

Trauma healing occurs across three integrated levels: intrapersonal nervous system regulation, interpersonal co-regulation and trust restoration, and transpersonal meaning reconnection.
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fromComputerworld
1 week ago

People are getting sick of AI - literally

AI chatbots can trigger or worsen existing mental health conditions through feedback loops that amplify user perspectives and validate delusions.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Understanding Childhood Dysregulation Profile

Childhood Dysregulation Profile describes a pattern of co-occurring mood, attention, and behavioral difficulties that signals risk for later mental health challenges, with early support improving long-term outcomes.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Psychology says the room in your house where you feel most yourself reveals these 6 things about your core attachment needs - and it's almost never the room you'd describe as your favourite - Silicon Canals

The room where you naturally gravitate reveals your unconscious emotional regulation strategy and reflects attachment patterns formed in childhood.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

What to Expect When You're Expecting to Cry Forever

Grief from losing a child to suicide is a lifelong process requiring active work, not passive healing, with pain gradually lessening over years rather than resolving completely.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

A Genetic Map Redrawing the Borders of Mental Illness

Five broad genetic families underlie 14 psychiatric disorders, suggesting diagnostic categories reflect shared biological landscapes rather than distinct diseases.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Giving Away Our Mental Health

Mental health resilience stems from intentional, simple habits like face-to-face relationships and basic routines, not trendy solutions or purchases, requiring deliberate choices against modern pressures.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

What Your Gut Reveals About Work Culture

Unhealthy work cultures often operate silently beneath the surface, detectable through internal emotional responses rather than external observations, making them difficult to identify and address.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Why the News Feels So Personal Right Now

Global news triggers different emotional responses based on identity, diaspora status, family trauma history, and nervous system regulation, requiring intentional pacing rather than constant consumption.
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