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Psychology says the people who find it hardest to be taken care of when they're sick aren't independent, they're carrying a very old belief that needing someone was the fastest way to be left - Silicon Canals

Needing care from loved ones during illness can evoke feelings of vulnerability and discomfort, often rooted in deeper fears of abandonment.

Writing

"I Want To Be Alone"

Solitude is essential but should be self-chosen and limited to foster fulfillment through social connections.

Health

The Many Faces of Procrastination and Health Behaviors

Procrastination can negatively impact health by delaying doctor visits and healthy behaviors.

Online learning

Learning Beyond Correction

Single-loop and double-loop learning enhance student achievement and adaptability in education.

6 New Books That Treat Wellness Like the Business Strategy It Is

Entrepreneurs need better filters for information, focusing on practical tools for health, clarity, and stamina.

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3 Biohacks High-Performing Entrepreneurs Are Using to Outlast Burnout

Founder performance relies on engineered energy rather than just personality or ambition.

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6 New Books That Treat Wellness Like the Business Strategy It Is

Entrepreneurs need better filters for information, focusing on practical tools for health, clarity, and stamina.

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3 Biohacks High-Performing Entrepreneurs Are Using to Outlast Burnout

Founder performance relies on engineered energy rather than just personality or ambition.

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Education

The Consequences of Having No Consequences

Consequences are essential for teaching resilience and responsibility in youth development.

Running

The Psychological Side of Sports Injury Recovery

Sports injuries significantly impact mental health, requiring attention to emotional recovery alongside physical healing.

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The Emotional Cost of Becoming Someone New

Coping with life changes during a Ph.D. journey involves financial adjustments, emotional challenges, and personal growth.

Careers

Meta CTO says he feels stressed out 4-5 times a year and he knows the 'trigger'

Andrew Bosworth manages work stress through prioritization, deep breathing, exercise, and family time, feeling stressed only a few times a year.

Productivity

The Habit You Don't Realize Is Hurting Your Productivity

The human brain cannot multitask; it switches tasks, leading to attention residue that hampers productivity.

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How the Highly Neurotic Keep Their Neuroticism Going

Stress perception is subjective, influenced by neuroticism, and can affect emotional recovery from both positive and negative life changes.

Alternative medicine

Foods to Avoid for Better Digestion

The food we eat significantly impacts gut health, with certain foods causing digestive issues and others promoting overall well-being.

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Men Don't Always Look Depressed

Men face a higher suicide risk, and healthcare providers must improve depression assessments to address overlooked indicators.

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The 5-Word Thought That Can Break Your Life

The phrase 'What if this goes badly?' hinders personal growth and opportunities.

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What To Say When Someone Comments On Your Body, According To Therapists

Body comments can impact self-worth and anxiety, regardless of intention, highlighting the need for mindful communication about appearance.

Relationships

I'm 37 and I finally understand why I keep saying yes to things I want to say no to - psychology calls it "fawning" and once you see it you can't unsee it - Silicon Canals

Fawning behavior leads to difficulty in saying no, causing resentment despite self-awareness and understanding of its irrationality.

"Magic Mushrooms" and the Treatment of Mental Illness

Psilocybin mushrooms, used for centuries by indigenous cultures, show promise in treating OCD, PTSD, and depression, with significant clinical trial results.

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3 Ways to Turn Overwhelm Into Productivity

Overwhelm can be transformed into a productivity tool by understanding it as an attention signal rather than a warning sign.

Alternative medicine

Daily Rituals That Quiet an Overstimulated Mind

Creating intentional pauses throughout the day is essential for mental clarity and emotional well-being.

The Secret to Having a Good Vibe (That Others Can't Resist)

A seven-minute Buddhist practice can significantly improve feelings of connection and well-being towards others.

The 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.

Stop Demanding That You Know What's Next

Nexting is a self-aggressive habit that distracts from the present by fixating on what comes next in life.

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Chronic pain is not just in your head, but it is in your brain

Chronic pain affects 24% of U.S. adults, complicating diagnosis and treatment despite its prevalence.

Mental health

"Lower the Emotional Volume": Chronic Pain

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Chronic pain is not just in your head, but it is in your brain

Chronic pain affects 24% of U.S. adults, complicating diagnosis and treatment despite its prevalence.

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Mental health

"Lower the Emotional Volume": Chronic Pain

When Life Stops: But Only for You

Illness disrupts not only physiology but also our entire sense of existence and future, leading to a profound confrontation with uncertainty and mortality.

Alternative medicine

Tips to Manage Daily Stress

Gen Z and Millennials are experiencing peak stress levels earlier, with burnout common by their 30s, affecting work, sleep, and daily routines.

Why Our Dreams Are So Stressful

Upsetting dreams may aid in emotional processing and contribute to long-term well-being.

Mind Drama

Rumination can start from ordinary painful moments and spiral, affecting both mind and body.

The hardest part of being called too sensitive as a child isn't the label itself. It's the decades you spend afterward trying to feel less, without realizing you were slowly subtracting yourself from your own life - Silicon Canals

The term 'sensitive' can carry a damaging tone that leads to long-term emotional adjustments and a life shaped by others' expectations.

The Powerful Insight That Helped Me Worry Less and Sleep Again - Tiny Buddha

Surrendering involves letting go of control rather than giving up.

Psychology says the most disciplined morning habit isn't waking up early, meditating, or cold plunging, it's the specific discipline of not touching your phone until you've had at least one quiet conversation with your own mind - Silicon Canals

Avoid using your phone immediately after waking to foster mental clarity and enhance the effectiveness of other morning practices.

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The Problem With 'Medically Unexplained' Symptoms

Many patients suffer from unexplained symptoms despite normal tests, and emerging research offers new insights into persistent physical symptoms and treatment options.

Psychology says a woman has a beautiful soul if she has taken real pain and turned it into gentleness rather than armor - because the default response to being hurt is becoming harder, and the woman who went through the same things and came out softer instead has done something rare and almost impossible to teach - Silicon Canals

Pain can lead to gentleness, with some individuals choosing softness over hardness despite their hardships.

Breaking Free from Self-Consciousness and Erythrophobia - Tiny Buddha

Shame can lead to intense fear and avoidance of situations that trigger feelings of unworthiness.

What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do

Accepting mistakes and being honest with oneself are crucial for navigating uncertainty in decision-making.

Why Avoiding Your Emotions Makes Them Stronger

Avoiding thoughts and emotions often intensifies them, while small shifts in response can help manage emotions effectively.

Why Pressure Feels Like a Problem (Even When It's Right)

Resilience is built through facing suffering, not avoiding it, as it fosters clarity, energy, and self-trust.

The 3 Reasons Why Overthinking Gets Worse When You're Alone

Overthinking intensifies in isolation, while social connections help interrupt mental loops and promote action.

Psychology says a truly successful life isn't measured by what you've accumulated, it's measured by whether the people closest to you feel more like themselves or less like themselves after spending time with you - Silicon Canals

Success should be measured by the quality of relationships and personal fulfillment rather than external achievements.

When Tension Turns Toxic

Understanding conflict phases helps in choosing appropriate responses and managing interactions effectively.

When Illness Becomes a Character in Your Life

Chronic illness often becomes personified, impacting adaptation and well-being.

To Be Happy, Use Your Strengths

Using personal strengths enhances fulfillment, well-being, and satisfaction in various aspects of life.

The Link Between High Functioning Anxiety and ADHD

ADHD can manifest as perfectionism, leading to internal stress despite outward appearances of responsibility.

When It's Not Just Anxiety

Women often misdiagnosed with anxiety may actually have ADHD, leading to a lack of effective treatment.

The Link Between High Functioning Anxiety and ADHD

ADHD can manifest as perfectionism, leading to internal stress despite outward appearances of responsibility.

When It's Not Just Anxiety

Women often misdiagnosed with anxiety may actually have ADHD, leading to a lack of effective treatment.

Why You Should Stop Rejecting Unpleasant Feelings

Fixing unpleasant feelings disrupts attention more than the feelings themselves.

Not everyone who smiles through criticism is secure. Some people learned very early that visible hurt made the criticism worse, and the smile is the face their nervous system wears when it's bracing for the next hit - Silicon Canals

A smile in response to criticism often masks internal pain and is a learned strategy from childhood experiences of trauma or stress.

The Tool Your Clients Wish You Had Prescribed

AI can provide immediate mental health support, helping individuals manage anxiety and difficult moments effectively.

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What really controls our appetite hunger, stress or habit?

Hunger, appetite, and fullness are regulated by different brain areas, influencing our eating behaviors and responses to food.

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Our skin is falling off and no-one can tell us why

Topical steroid withdrawal (TSW) is a serious condition affecting many eczema patients, leading to severe skin reactions and inadequate medical recognition.

Helping Everyone Else Might Be Hurting You

Noble self-sabotage manifests as prioritizing others' needs, reinforcing the belief that personal needs come last.

The Question Behind the Question

Emotional questions often underlie technical inquiries, highlighting the need for addressing patients' emotional needs in medical conversations.

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Is Emotional Regulation Effective Everywhere?

Emotional regulation involves actively managing emotions through suppression or reappraisal, influencing their emergence and impact on our lives.

What Happened to My Body When I Suppressed My Emotions - Tiny Buddha

Emotional regulation and healing from trauma are crucial for recovery from addiction and physical health issues.

How to Get Chummy With Your Discomfort

Regulating emotions and reactions is essential for managing life's challenges effectively.

Is Emotional Regulation Effective Everywhere?

Emotional regulation involves actively managing emotions through suppression or reappraisal, influencing their emergence and impact on our lives.

What Happened to My Body When I Suppressed My Emotions - Tiny Buddha

Emotional regulation and healing from trauma are crucial for recovery from addiction and physical health issues.

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How to Get Chummy With Your Discomfort

Regulating emotions and reactions is essential for managing life's challenges effectively.

5 Words That Quiet Your Loudest "What If" Worries

Creating distance from troublesome thoughts reduces their power over you.

Obsessed With Being a Failure

Perfectionists fear failure deeply, equating it with self-worth and often spiraling into negative self-assessment.

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The emotional security secret: how to get healthier, happier and have stronger relationships

Amir Levine's new book, Secure, offers tools to help individuals develop secure attachment styles for improved relationships and longevity.

Psychology says people who get irrationally angry at small inconveniences - the slow driver, the loud chewer, the coworker who replies all - aren't actually angry about the inconvenience at all, they're carrying a much larger weight that they have no safe outlet for, and the small thing that breaks them is never the real thing, it's just the only thing in their day they're allowed to be visibly upset about without anyone asking a follow-up question - Silicon Canals

Small frustrations often mask deeper emotional struggles and unresolved issues.

Psychology explains people who forgive easily aren't weak or naive - they've simply done the math on what resentment actually costs the person carrying it and decided the debt isn't worth collecting, because forgiveness isn't about the other person deserving peace, it's about refusing to let someone who already hurt you once continue to take up space in a body they no longer have any right to occupy - Silicon Canals

Forgiveness is essential for personal well-being and mental health, freeing individuals from the burden of resentment.

Overcoming Problems of the Emotional System

Emotional rigidity leads to self-limiting behavior and misinterpretation of feelings, hindering personal growth and development.

"My Racing Mind Keeps Me Up at Night; It'll Be the Death of Me"

Distressing thoughts about sleep can be managed through acceptance and commitment therapy, improving the relationship with anxiety and sleep.

Psychology says the reason so many people crash emotionally in their early 60s isn't retirement or aging - it's the first time in decades they've had enough silence to hear their own thoughts and they don't recognize the person thinking them - Silicon Canals

Highly functional individuals often face delayed emotional collapse in their sixties due to decades of avoidance and relentless life pressures.

Psychology suggests people who follow through on small promises to themselves aren't just building habits - they're constructing the internal evidence that they can be trusted, which is the actual foundation of lasting self-discipline - Silicon Canals

Self-discipline is shaped by accumulated evidence of personal commitments rather than mere willpower.

Resentment Is Bad for Your Health

Harboring resentment negatively impacts health, while forgiveness promotes healing and emotional well-being.

There's a specific kind of adult who apologizes for crying even when they're alone, and it isn't sensitivity, it's the residue of a childhood where emotion was something you were expected to clean up before anyone saw the mess - Silicon Canals

Adults who were invalidated in childhood often apologize for their emotions, reflecting deep-seated patterns of emotional suppression.

When Arousal Isn't Desire

Intensity in attraction can stem from anxiety or early relational patterns, not just desire.

How to Break a Loop of Stuck Thinking

Flawed assumptions lead to stuck thinking; testing them can prevent errors and improve problem-solving.

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How Daily Frustration Is Slowly Sabotaging Your Health

Chronic anger negatively impacts mental and physical health, leading to various health issues and slower healing processes.

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Experts Emphasize a Focus on Stress, Not Cortisol Levels

There's a difference between trying to reduce your overall stress and looking to specifically control levels of cortisol, however. As Devi Shastri reports for the Associated Press, a number of medical experts have argued that, although there are certain parts of the body that people should be concerned about, cortisol is not one of them. As with many things involving medicine and the human body, medical professionals have advocated for being able to get an expert's opinion.

Health

Misdiagnosed, Dismissed, and Running Out of Time

Autoimmune encephalitis frequently presents with psychiatric symptoms, causing diagnostic delays when patients are initially evaluated by non-neurological specialists rather than neurologists.

When Anxiety Is Really Fear in Disguise

What people call anxiety is often the brain's fear system activating to protect us, sometimes overreacting when no immediate danger exists.

When Anxiety Comes Out as Irritability

Irritability often masks underlying anxiety, functioning as a defensive response that transforms fear and helplessness into anger, which feels more controllable and manageable than vulnerability.

What Happens When We Are Triggered

Someone says something to us, and we are suddenly struck with a sinking feeling in our stomach. Someone does something, and instantly we become enraged or alarmed. Someone comes at us with a certain attitude, and we go to pieces. We hear mention of a person, place, or thing that is associated with an unresolved issue or a past trauma, and we immediately feel ourselves seize up with sadness, anger, fear, or shame.

Mindfulness

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.

The Affective Side of Interoception

Interoception senses the body's internal milieu and evaluates goals, shaping attention and affect and including taste and smell as partly interoceptive.

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.

When Tragic Stories in the News Trigger Health Anxiety

Tunnel vision happens when your mind zooms in on a single "threat cue" and filters out everything else. In this case, the threat cue might be: "He was young." "It was cancer." "It seemed sudden." "He probably didn't see it coming." Your mind grabs onto these details and begins building a narrative: "Cancer is everywhere." "People are dying young all the time." "It's inevitable that I'll get something serious." "If I do get sick, there will be nothing I can do."

Mental health

Why Doing Nothing Can Feel Safer (Even When It Isn't)

Omission bias leads clinicians to avoid effective interventions like EMDR, causing greater harm from inaction than from careful, responsible action.

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"Somatic Shaking" Is An Easy, Natural Way To De-Stress

Somatic shaking uses rhythmic, whole-body movement to mobilize and release stored stress and trauma, reducing tension and daily stress symptoms.

What Your Nervous System Needs You to Know

The nervous system detects safety before conscious thought and alters bodily states, producing signals and behaviors that indicate need for protection or connection.