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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 hours ago

Always in crisis mode? You might be catastrophizing here's how to stop

Catastrophizing is a cognitive distortion where individuals jump to the worst possible conclusions, often leading to chronic distress and mental health issues.
#anxiety
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago
Mental health

Life With Anxiety: The World of "What Ifs"

Anxious people overestimate risk and underestimate their coping ability, leading them to catastrophize ordinary situations and focus on worst-case scenarios rather than actual present events.
#stress-management
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
4 hours ago

The underrated value of rest - Silicon Canals

Prioritizing rest can significantly enhance creativity, patience, and overall well-being, challenging the misconception that rest is for the lazy.
Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
10 hours ago

Not everyone who keeps working after the workday ends is ambitious. Some people simply discovered that the transition from productivity to stillness requires passing through a stretch of feeling they've been avoiding for years, and the extra hour of work is cheaper than the ten minutes of silence. - Silicon Canals

Many work late to avoid confronting uncomfortable emotions, not just to be productive.
#mental-health
Medicine
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

From a Sliver of the DSM to the Whole Patient

Everyday psychiatric practice often relies on a narrow diagnostic framework, missing key symptoms and the patient's broader context.
Mental health
fromFast Company
1 day ago

Why the future of mental healthcare is team-based

Team-based care improves mental health treatment outcomes by integrating multidisciplinary teams to address complex conditions effectively.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

A New Master's Degree Helps Improve Global Mental Health

Global mental health awareness is increasing, but significant gaps in services and cultural acceptance persist worldwide.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

The Link Between Medicine and Psychology

Mental health significantly impacts heart and brain health, necessitating integration of mental health care into traditional medical practices.
Medicine
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

From a Sliver of the DSM to the Whole Patient

Everyday psychiatric practice often relies on a narrow diagnostic framework, missing key symptoms and the patient's broader context.
Mental health
fromFast Company
1 day ago

Why the future of mental healthcare is team-based

Team-based care improves mental health treatment outcomes by integrating multidisciplinary teams to address complex conditions effectively.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

A New Master's Degree Helps Improve Global Mental Health

Global mental health awareness is increasing, but significant gaps in services and cultural acceptance persist worldwide.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

The Link Between Medicine and Psychology

Mental health significantly impacts heart and brain health, necessitating integration of mental health care into traditional medical practices.
Yoga
fromYoga Journal
1 day ago

Feeling Overwhelmed? Indecisive? Stuck? Yoga Can Help. Here's How.

Indecision can stem from a physical response to fear, leading to a state called 'functional freeze' that affects both body and mind.
Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

The one change that worked: in a hectic world, taking up jigsaw puzzles calmed my mind

Rediscovering jigsaw puzzles can provide a satisfying and addictive sense of achievement, especially during times of personal change.
Health
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

The Let-Down Effect: When De-Stressing Makes You Sick

Illness often occurs after stress relief, not during stress, due to the Let-Down Effect.
fromwww.npr.org
4 days ago

'How are you using AI?' Your therapist should ask you that question, experts argue

"We're not saying that AI use is good or bad, just like we wouldn't say, substance use is necessarily good or bad, or consulting with a friend about something is good or bad."
US news
Exercise
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Shame Attacking: Overcoming a Lifetime of Social Anxiety

Social anxiety can be treated effectively through techniques like shame-attacking exercises, which challenge individuals to confront their fears.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 hours ago

Bridging the Gap From Here to Your Future Self

Imagining a future self strengthens connections to values and enhances life choices by tracing continuity from past to future.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
4 hours ago

Do You Like the Person You See in the Mirror?

Body-image concerns are prevalent among women and girls, influenced by unrealistic beauty ideals in media, but can be improved through healing mental schemas.
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

How to Be Methodical

Being methodical usually involves creating a process that you trust will eventually lead to an acceptable result, and then committing to executing it over and over. This reduces a lot of mental load, and helps when you don't know exactly how long something will take or how many attempts you'll need to make.
Productivity
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

The 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
fromPsychology Today
1 hour ago

My Child Has Autism: How Do I Know the Program Is Working?

If the application of behavioral techniques does not produce large enough effects for practical value, then the application has failed. Practical value is whatever you define as meaningful for your child's life.
Mental health
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

EMDR in a World HyperFocused on Healing

EMDR is an evidence-based trauma therapy that helps reorganize fragmented experiences, leading to significant reductions in trauma symptoms.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 hours ago

Psychology says the people who age most visibly aren't the ones with the hardest lives - they're the ones who never learned to put things down, who carried every disappointment and every grievance and every unfairness forward into the next decade, and the carrying shows, eventually, in ways that no amount of sleep or skincare has ever been shown to address - Silicon Canals

Chronic psychological stress and the inability to release emotional burdens accelerate aging and impact physical appearance.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
21 hours ago

When Trauma Awareness Stops at the Hospital Door

Chronic health conditions significantly impact psychological well-being, yet healthcare providers often neglect this aspect for both patients and themselves.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

AI and the 10-Minute Mind

Ten minutes of AI use can significantly reduce persistence and impair independent cognitive performance, undermining the long-term journey to expertise.
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

7 Lessons for When Your Attempts to Control Outcomes Fail

Many situations contain irreducible uncertainty. No matter how many variables we try to control, we can't reduce uncertainty to zero. It's inherent in the messiness of life.
Productivity
#ocd
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

The Drama of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Faith and humility are essential in addressing obsessive-compulsive tendencies, emphasizing the acceptance of uncertainty in relationships.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Your Most Horrifying Thoughts May Not Mean What You Think

Intrusive sexual thoughts are a common form of OCD, often misidentified and not indicative of actual desire.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

The Drama of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Faith and humility are essential in addressing obsessive-compulsive tendencies, emphasizing the acceptance of uncertainty in relationships.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Your Most Horrifying Thoughts May Not Mean What You Think

Intrusive sexual thoughts are a common form of OCD, often misidentified and not indicative of actual desire.
Mental health
fromFast Company
1 day ago

I scaled mental health products for millions

Entrepreneurship is often misrepresented, masking the anxiety and stress that founders experience behind the facade of autonomy and success.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 hours ago

The Power of Negative Thinking for Athletic Performance

Imagery focused on negative possibilities can enhance performance and emotional regulation in challenging situations.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 day ago

Psychology says the adults most likely to end up in therapy aren't the ones who had dramatic or obviously painful childhoods - they're the ones who grew up in households where everything was technically fine, nobody was cruel, and something essential was quietly missing in a way that took decades to find the words for - Silicon Canals

Emotional neglect in seemingly fine childhoods can have profound effects, leaving individuals feeling their inner world doesn't matter.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 hours ago

Positive Beliefs About Aging Can Influence Wellness

Recent discoveries reveal that positive beliefs about aging can improve cognitive and physical functions in older adults.
Mental health
fromInsideHook
2 days ago

Therapists Should Ask Patients About Their AI Use

AI chatbots may contribute to delusional behavior in patients, prompting therapists to discuss AI use during treatment.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
23 hours ago

Hope and Help for Misophonia

Misophonia can severely impact a child's life, manifesting through both sound and visual triggers, often leading to significant distress and behavioral issues.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
5 hours ago

Psychology says people who grew up in the 1960s and 70s don't handle hardship better than everyone else because they are stronger - they handle it better because they were never offered the alternative, and a person who was never offered the alternative develops a relationship with difficulty that people who were offered it spend their whole lives trying to build in a gym - Silicon Canals

Struggling is a norm for my generation because we never knew life could be comfortable.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day ago

Neuroscience reveals that the calmest person in any crisis isn't naturally fearless - their brain learned to delay panic because their childhood required them to be functional before they were allowed to be afraid - Silicon Canals

Calmness under pressure is a learned response, not merely a personality trait or temperament.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
19 hours ago

Levels Over Labels: The Neurotic Personality

Personality is best understood as intersecting levels and traits, with neuroticism shaped by conflict and expressed through obsessionality.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

It's Time to Rethink the "Anxiety Drives PDA" Narrative

PDA is not solely anxiety-driven; it shares traits with ADHD and ODD, suggesting a more complex relationship with demand avoidance.
#emotional-regulation
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Resentment Resolution: Free Yourself From Emotional Burdens

Resentment is a persistent feeling of unfair treatment that links past offenses, leading to a degenerative emotional state.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days ago

The cruelest myth about self-discipline is that you have to feel ready - you don't, you never will, and the people who figured that out earlier simply have more years of evidence that the feeling eventually follows the action - Silicon Canals

Self-discipline begins with action, not feelings of readiness or motivation.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 days ago

I'm 37 and I've already learned the hard way that self-worth takes time, healing isn't linear, and letting go is painful while you're learning to move forward - Silicon Canals

Carrying emotional weight from the past hinders self-worth; true self-worth is built internally, not through external validation.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

How Judgments and Opinions Can Make Matters Worse

Misleading thoughts and emotions can disrupt performance, but psychological flexibility allows individuals to pursue goals despite distress.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days ago

There's a generation of people who were taught to apologize for their needs so effectively that as adults they experience wanting something as a form of aggression against whoever might have to provide it - Silicon Canals

Many adults associate expressing needs with guilt, viewing requests as impositions rather than natural interactions.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

Brain Injury May Reverse Pre-Injury Trauma Work

Brain injury often reactivates unresolved traumas, necessitating neurostimulation therapies and cognitive empathy for healing.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

Time-Outs Work, if We Can Learn to Do Them Right

Well-implemented time-outs lead to positive outcomes and healthier relationships in adults who experienced them as children.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

The Two Thoughts That Quietly Ruin Adult Children's Lives

Struggling adult children often face analysis paralysis due to the fear of uncertainty, hindering their progress and confidence.
#therapy
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

When Therapy Explains Before It Understands

Therapists may misinterpret clients' experiences by relying on familiar frameworks, potentially overlooking genuine feelings and differences.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
6 days ago

When Therapy Explains Before It Understands

Therapists may misinterpret clients' experiences by relying on familiar frameworks, potentially overlooking genuine feelings and differences.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

If Punishments Don't Work, What Does?

First, you have to facilitate through the situation, which means realigning your mindset and asking yourself what you need to do to effect change for the next time you see this behaviour. Once this mindset has been established, there is a sequence of steps we must avoid to be able to effect change. These are as follows: 1. Do not allow your reactions to be based on what your child is saying.
Parenting
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Is Too Much Information Fueling Your Anxiety?

Anxiety disorders have increased significantly, likely due to technology's impact on information overload and intolerance of uncertainty.
Medicine
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Who Does It Help? It's a Good Question in Mental Health Care

Subgroup and biomarker-guided analyses reveal that antidepressants can produce faster, stronger responses in specific genetic or biological subgroups, reducing trial-and-error prescribing.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

What to Do When You Hit Life's Low Point

External crises trigger deep self-reflection, especially during midlife, leading to questions about fulfillment and the meaning of life.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
4 weeks ago

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.
Mental health
Worry is future-focused mental rehearsal that distracts from deeper emotions, harms physical and emotional health, persists through perceived protection and habit, and requires compassionate awareness and boundaries to transform into growth.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

When Small Problems Loom Too Large

Small practical problems can trigger outsized emotions that persist unless investigated and connected to deeper meanings through memory and free association.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

What Is Hope in Mental Health Treatment?

Hope is an active process involving a vision of a better future, imagination, trust, and conviction that a better life can occur despite obstacles.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Can Exercise Help Depression? What to Know

Exercise reduces depressive symptoms across severities and activity types and should be considered alongside established depression treatments.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

'What if I just started shouting?' - when to worry about intrusive thoughts

"If I had an intrusive thought, I'd restart the walk from the bus stop," she says. "I was genuinely terrified that if I didn't redo it and something happened, it would be my fault".
Mental health
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