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4 hours agoWhat a 5-Minute Argument Reveals About Parents and Teens
Short disagreements between parents and adolescents can reveal longstanding communication difficulties and areas for improvement.
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5 hours agoThe Supreme Court ruled against conversion therapy bans. This Dem has a plan to work around that. - LGBTQ Nation
S.B. 934, introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, would extend the statute of limitations for suing for conversion therapy to 22 years, starting when the victim turns 18.
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5 hours agoWhite House Bashes Raskin for Trump Cognitive Test Request
Rep. Jamie Raskin formally requested a comprehensive neuropsychological assessment of President Trump, citing incoherent and volatile comments that experts associate with dementia and cognitive decline.
Left-wing politics
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Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology says keeping your phone on silent isn't a communication preference - it's a nervous system preference, and the people who need it most are often the ones who spent years being on-call for everyone else's emergencies - Silicon Canals
Constant phone notifications can trigger stress responses, leading some to keep their phones on silent as a protective measure for their nervous system.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology says keeping your phone on silent isn't a communication preference - it's a nervous system preference, and the people who need it most are often the ones who spent years being on-call for everyone else's emergencies - Silicon Canals
Constant phone notifications can trigger stress responses, leading some to keep their phones on silent as a protective measure for their nervous system.
fromPsychology Today
8 hours agoThe Role of Food in Mental Health and Mental Illness
Research increasingly demonstrates that healthy nutrition improves mental health, and an entirely new subspecialty has formed to support this. Nutritional psychiatry is expanding rapidly, with research growing 15-fold from 2000 to 2024, reflecting the increasing acceptance of diet's role in mental health.
Alternative medicine
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
12 hours agoNobody prepares you for the particular loneliness of not enjoying your own life - not because it's empty, but because it looks so full from the outside that you can't even say it out loud without feeling like you're complaining - Silicon Canals
Loneliness can stem from feeling disconnected from a seemingly successful life, leading to a hollow experience despite external appearances.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
15 hours agoPsychology says the adults most likely to feel invisible in their own families are not the most difficult ones - they're the ones who made themselves so consistently available, so reliably capable, so quietly present, that everyone around them stopped noticing the person and started relying on the function - Silicon Canals
Reliability can lead to emotional invisibility within family dynamics, where the capable individual is overlooked despite their struggles.
Mental health
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15 hours agoTrapped and Alone: Fear of ICE Is Deepening Postpartum Isolation for Immigrant Mothers | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Immigrant mothers face isolation and stress during childbirth due to fears of deportation and separation from family.
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Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
16 hours agoPeople who always respond with "fine" when asked how they are aren't lying - they learned, at some specific point in their life, that the true answer produced outcomes that were worse than the silence, and fine has been the silence ever since - Silicon Canals
Personal experiences with anxiety and emotional responses reveal deeper truths about coping mechanisms and the challenges of authentic communication.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day agoMental breakdown': oil tanker workers stuck in Gulf for six weeks are reaching their limit
After six weeks stranded in the Gulf, one of the 20,000 seafarers trapped by Iran's chokehold on the strait of Hormuz is reaching their limit. We're at anchor, near dozens of loaded tankers. No one has moved an inch.
Mental health
fromIndieWire
1 day ago'Outcome' Review: Keanu Reeves Is a Troubled Movie Star in Jonah Hill's Desperate and Unfunny Comedy About the Pain of Public Opinion
Hill struggles to open up despite his unabated desire for vulnerability, feeling that he had to turn his own therapy sessions into a Netflix documentary to force himself to an uncomfortably honest place.
Independent films
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology says the habits that signal a man has quietly lost his joy are almost always ordinary - earlier bedtimes, fewer opinions, smaller appetites, a preference for the predictable - because joy leaving doesn't look like collapse, it looks like caution - Silicon Canals
Men often withdraw from joy subtly, choosing safety and routine over novelty and excitement without obvious signs of distress.
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NYC parents
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day agoA day in the life of a 19-year-old in ICE detention: I feel that this nightmare is not going to end'
Detention at Dilley Immigration Processing Center has severely impacted Olivia, a 19-year-old asylum seeker, leading to emotional distress and sleepless nights.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoNobody prepares you for the exhaustion of being naturally magnetic - the way people assume your warmth has no limits, your attention has no cost, and your need to be seen doesn't exist - Silicon Canals
Emotional Magnetic Load (EML) describes the invisible weight of managing others' emotions while neglecting one's own needs.
Women
fromwww.fourfourtwo.com
1 day agoThe more people who know you, the more people who also hate you' Lucy Bronze on the dark side of fame that has crept into women's football
Increased visibility in women's football brings both more fans and hostility towards players, impacting their mental health and experience of fame.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoThere's a generation of men who became their mother's therapist before they turned twelve, and they grew into adults who can read a room in seconds but have no idea how to sit in one without scanning for danger - Silicon Canals
Boys often learn emotional intelligence as a defense mechanism due to emotional parentification, impacting their adult relationships and emotional health.
Parenting
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoThe people who become the calmest adults are almost never the ones who had calm childhoods. They're the ones who grew up in houses where someone else's mood was the weather, and they learned to regulate the entire room before they ever learned to regulate themselves. - Silicon Canals
Children from chaotic homes can develop heightened emotional awareness and calmness, contrary to the belief that such environments only produce turbulence.
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 days agoClassmates subjected a young teen to "relentless" homophobic bullying. Then tragedy struck. - LGBTQ Nation
Leyton's mother stated, 'None of the boys in that school accepted him. They told him they would never accept him for the way he spoke. He was a sassy speaker, more feminine - not the 'hard boy' type. This wasn't going on for just a little while.'
LGBT
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology suggests that men who were told "man up" as boys don't just suppress their emotions - they develop a pattern of harmful avoidance and it's misread as strength - Silicon Canals
Emotional suppression in men leads to serious health risks and relationship issues, as societal norms discourage vulnerability and expression of feelings.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoI'm 66 and I just realized that the things I used to call my personality - punctual, tidy, self-sufficient, never dramatic - were survival strategies I developed before I was ten and kept running long after they stopped being necessary - Silicon Canals
Coping mechanisms developed in childhood can become mistaken for core personality traits, impacting adult behavior and identity.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoResearch suggests that people who pursue happiness directly almost never find it - but people who pursue meaning, connection, and acceptance report a quiet contentment that outlasts every peak experience - Silicon Canals
Pursuing happiness directly often leads to disappointment and lower satisfaction, as expectations create a gap between reality and feelings.
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