Your autonomic nervous system has been running a background process all day (or all week), quietly allocating resources toward an upcoming social event. Planning the outfit. Rehearsing potential conversations. Calculating travel time. Managing the micro-anxiety of 'Will I be interesting enough? Will I say something weird? Will I be too tired to be fun?' This is what psychologist and neuroscience researcher Stephen Porges calls neuroception: the way your nervous system scans for safety and threat below the level of conscious awareness.
Unlike Americans, who treat their weekends as a sprint to see who can do the most chores, Sundays are sacred in France-a time to slow down, reset for the week, and do as little as possible. Even protests in France happen every day except Sunday . . . that's how sacred [they] are.
It was difficult for me because one, I had the Euros, which was horrendous for me mentally. I was there but I wasn't playing. Then I had the transfer stuff. With PSR, I thought I was going to leave at some point in the window. It didn't happen. I had to get my head around that to begin with, and then to get my head around it again was hard.
Basically, I had a complex tibia fracture, also fractured my fibular head, my tibial plateau. Just kind of everything was in pieces. She said she also suffered compartment syndrome, explaining that the physical trauma caused pressure to build up in her leg, putting her muscles, nerves, and tendons at risk. Her surgeon, Hackett, had to perform a fasciotomy, and she said he saved [her] leg from being amputated.
Unlike humans, most animals experience a fight-or-flight response when faced with a stressor but immediately return to their resting state when the danger abates. In contrast, humans spend significant amounts of time replaying what happened, assessing the choices they made, and worrying about future threats and challenges.
Tourette Syndrome is a neurological condition that causes a person to make involuntary movements or sounds. I've had tics since I was a child that have included throat-clearing, making noises, repeating words, blinking, winking, flexing my jaw or fingers, repetitive clicking and gasping for air. These tics were at their worst in my late teens, and then fluctuated between manageable and unmanageable in my early twenties.
My husband and I had two children and lost them both. Vincent, 16, enjoyed baking, while 19-year-old James was a brilliant linguist and a deep thinker. Shortly before Vincent's death, Li had written a memoir about her depressive episodes which led to her own suicide attempts.
I think over the years as the women's game has grown, it's opened up more of a platform for people to have their opinion and share their voices. I think unfortunately social media has become a place where people can say whatever they want whether it's good, bad, ugly and sometimes the ugly is really ugly.
Three months after my retirement party, I found myself sitting in my home office at 2 PM on a Tuesday, staring at a blank computer screen. The cursor blinked back at me, waiting for something, anything. But for the first time in forty years, I had absolutely nothing to type. The silence was deafening. I'd done everything right, or so I thought. Saved aggressively, invested wisely,
No reputable financial advisor would suggest risking your entire life savings on a single stock-like the old saying, Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Still, many people who might follow this financial advice often ignore it when it comes to their daily lives: their self-esteem may depend on whether they get promoted to VP at work, or their success as a parent is tied to their child getting into an Ivy League college or making the varsity football team;
Dressed in black and using a wheelchair, Clancy addressed the court only once during the brief hearing, exchanging a murmured "good afternoon" with Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan. Lawyers on both sides hashed out some logistics in anticipation of Clancy's July 20 murder trial, discussing pending motions, the status of discovery, and prosecution experts' upcoming evaluation of Clancy. The defendant herself was unexpressive throughout the hearing and mostly stared straight ahead.
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'The psychological impact of these dark, damp days can be significant. 'Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) affects around three in every 100 people in the UK, is more common in women, and is associated with symptoms such as loss of energy, weight gain and a desire to sleep more. 'We often become more fatigued in the cold and dark, making some of us feel like we just want to hunker down and wait for spring.'
A 20-year-old woman, listed in legal documents with the initials KGM, launched a lawsuit against social media giants YouTube, Meta (parent company of Instagram), TikTok, and Snapchat. The case alleges that these apps were designed to be as addictive as possible and that addiction from a young age spurred lasting mental health damage. Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand to answer questions at the trial this week. He denied that there was conclusive proof that social media created mental health challenges.
Last week I had the privilege of hosting about 100 high school and college students, lawmakers, educators, law enforcement and tech executives at ConnectSafely's Safer Internet Day event in Sacramento. There were a couple of panels and a "fireside chat," but it was mostly tableside conversations among stakeholders, including executives from Google, Meta, OpenAI, Snap, TikTok, Amazon, Roblox, Apple and Discord. The event, organized by ConnectSafely in partnership with Children Now and National PTA, focused on preserving technology's benefits while reducing its risks through thoughtful, research-informed discussion.
The board employs more than 50 social workers to conduct the assessments, but some children have said they are out to get them. The report finds that in some cases the process has led to children's deteriorating mental health, including self-harm and suicidal ideation, and that going through a Home Office age assessment is far more severe and traumatic than a comparable experience with a local authority social worker.
Existential dread is a deep sense of sadness and even terror that can arise when we struggle to understand our existence, such as our mortality, feelings of isolation, and a perceived lack of meaning in our lives. Because existential dread can be so intense, we may avoid or suppress our feelings, which often worsens rather than improves our dread. Further, we may be hesitant to seek support for fear of being stigmatized for struggling with our mental health.
Guilt, in certain circumstances, can be a helpful emotion. For centuries, humans have used guilt to help them connect, collaborate, and build community because the ability to feel guilty when we've harmed someone expresses to them that we care enough to feel badly about what has happened. It also motivates us to try to make a repair.
"I think that parenting needs to be called out of the last 40 years," Vaynerchuk said. "I believe that the burnout, the insecurity, all the stuff we talk about, I believe the reason we're buying more stuff is, we're using it as Band-Aids and glitter because we're not strong enough to be secure in what we are and who we are and what we have."
If you are someone that just wants to identify as another sex, but you know deep down that you're not, but you just want to be called he' or she' that's one thing, said Jones. He continued: But if you, from a psychological standpoint, think that you are another sex, you should not have a gun. Something that has been diagnosed as gender dysphoria is a problem. And all of us know it. We all have to fill out the federal gun form that talks about mental you should have to check that box.
