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What Stops Men From Seeking Help?
Probably the most effective thing people can do to improve their mental health is, in fact, to seek help from mental health professionals. But many people who stand to gain a lot ...
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Autism and Special Interests
People with autism often have "special interests" – topics or activities that they are highly interested in, even obsessive about. These interests can take many forms, but the common theme is the ...
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What Do Your Media Habits Say About Your Personality and Mental Health?
Here’s a shocking finding: going on the Internet might correlate with good mental health. And if you don’t find that shocking, you probably don’t spend enough time on the Internet. That finding ...
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How Early Can Signs of Schizophrenia Be Spotted?
Most mental health conditions are treated after they appear. Given how incomplete our understanding of the brain is, we can only hope that one day we’ll be able to prevent psychiatric disorders ...
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Infants Will Judge You for Not Being Fair
"That’s not fair," said every child ever, at one point or another. We all know that children can have firm convictions about what’s fair and what’s not, but it turns out that ...
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Going Shopping or Going Into Nature: Which Is Better for Your Mental Health?
What should you do this weekend – go blow some hard-earned money, or go walk around by some trees? One is certainly cheaper than the other. A recent study titled Shopping Versus ...
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Anxiety Coping Skills Predict Later Career Satisfaction
I’ve got some good and bad news for all the anxious people out there. As an anxious person myself, I know that anxious people will naturally want to know the bad news ...
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Compassion and Self-Compassion Don’t Necessarily Go Together
Self-compassion is an important predictor of mental health. As I’ve written about before, people with more self-compassion are less likely to experience depression, less likely to ruminate on negative social experiences, and ...
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The Dangers of Phubbing
"Phubbing" may be a made-up word, but the phenomenon it describes is very real. The verb to phub was originally coined as part of a marketing campaign for the Macquarie Dictionary, and ...
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Children Understand Abstract Art
Are you smarter than a three-year-old? If you don’t "get" abstract art, the answer may be no! A recent study from researchers in Greece investigated whether 78 children between the ages of ...
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