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fromForbes
6 hours agoHow Technology Is Driving Stress and Burnout Today
Modern technology has conditioned people to live in a constant state of alert, leading to widespread exhaustion and burnout.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
13 hours agoAFL player Nathan O'Driscoll opens up on depression and mental health struggles
I'm sharing this because speaking up matters. No one is there to judge you, every person I've opened up to has supported me in ways I never expected. From the outside, it might look like I have everything, but what's going on internally can be a very different story.
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#loneliness
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fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoThe epidemic isn't loneliness - it's the number of people who've been lonely so long they've stopped registering it as loneliness and started calling it personality - Silicon Canals
Loneliness can be misinterpreted as independence or preference, leading to a lack of recognition of the feeling itself.
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fromFortune
1 day agoYour job can actually kill you: More than 840,000 people die annually from health conditions linked to work stress, ILO report says | Fortune
Work-related psychosocial risks contribute to over 840,000 deaths annually, primarily from cardiovascular disease and mental disorders, impacting global health and economy.
#resilience
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fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology says the most resilient people aren't the ones who never fell apart - they're the ones who fell apart quietly, rebuilt themselves with no audience, and never mentioned it - Silicon Canals
Strength comes from overcoming breakdowns, not from avoiding them.
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fromSilicon Canals
4 days ago8 small habits of people who grew up with money worries and still flinch at the sound of a bill arriving even though they could pay it ten times over - Silicon Canals
Financial anxiety persists regardless of improved financial situations due to deep-rooted conditioning and fear responses in the brain.
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fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoI spent forty years believing I was mentally strong because I never broke down - it took one question to make me understand that what I called strength was just a very old, very practiced form of disappearing - Silicon Canals
True strength involves vulnerability and allowing others to see struggles, rather than hiding them.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days agoLena Dunham is right that fame is toxic. Unfortunately, we're all famous now | Emma Beddington
Fame has become increasingly toxic, distorting relationships and self-image, affecting mental health, and creating a shared experience of 'famesickness' in the digital age.
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fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoThe hardest thing about healing isn't the work itself. It's the quiet grief of realizing how many years you spent believing the problem was you, when the actual problem was an environment that needed you to believe that in order to keep functioning - Silicon Canals
Family systems may require a child to remain unwell for their own functionality, leading to grief and loss when the child realizes their true self.
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fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoPsychology says the reason so many successful people quietly burn out in their 50s isn't overwork - it's that they spent three decades performing a version of themselves that the job required, and somewhere along the way they stopped being able to locate the original person underneath, and the burnout isn't about energy, it's about grief for a self they outsourced - Silicon Canals
Identity erosion in high-performing professionals often manifests as a grief response to losing one's original self to job demands.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoNot everyone who works through the weekend is ambitious. Some people learned a long time ago that the cost of stopping isn't lost productivity, it's the immediate surfacing of everything the work was keeping quiet - Silicon Canals
Work can serve as a means of emotional suppression, masking deeper issues rather than addressing them.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology says the unhappiest men in any room aren't the ones who complain - they're the ones who've become so skilled at performing contentment that they've lost the ability to locate their own actual feelings beneath the performance - Silicon Canals
Many men mask their true feelings behind a facade of competence and ease, leading to emotional disconnection and confusion about their own emotions.
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