Mental health
fromPsychology Today
10 hours agoSexual Assault Survivors Are Not Responsible for Their Own Suffering
The effects of trauma from sexual abuse in adolescence are long-lasting and profoundly alter development.
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fromAbove the Law
9 hours agoWhy Your Story, Engagement, And Empathy Matter More Than Ever - Above the Law
Trust begins with realness. When lawyers share their story and the reason behind their work, clients see themselves reflected in that narrative. Clients are not simply hiring legal skill; they are looking for alignment, empathy, and shared values. Storytelling bridges that gap.
Online marketing
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 hours agoThe quietest kind of exhaustion belongs to people who translate themselves into a different version for every social context in a single day, and by evening they aren't tired from activity, they're tired from the number of identities they had to maintain - Silicon Canals
Identity-switching fatigue is a modern epidemic caused by the need to perform different roles throughout the day.
Parenting
fromSilicon Canals
21 hours agoThe people who were praised for being mature as children and punished for being needy as adults, and the decades it takes to untangle which one was actually true - Silicon Canals
Maturity in children often reflects adult expectations, leading to long-term consequences for the child's emotional development.
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
20 hours agoPsychology says there's a specific version of loneliness that only shows up in retirement - not the absence of colleagues or the silence of mornings, but the slow understanding that the version of you the world was interested in was the one producing, performing, solving, and the version sitting at home in a quiet kitchen is someone the world has gently agreed to stop asking about - Silicon Canals
Retirement loneliness stems from losing one's identity and purpose, not just from missing social connections.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoThe people who are constantly checking in on everyone else aren't necessarily nurturing. Many of them are quietly running an experiment to see if anyone will ever check in on them unprompted, and the experiment has been returning the same result for decades - Silicon Canals
Constantly reaching out to others can stem from childhood experiences of needing to earn attention.
fromThe Conversation
4 days agoHow Islamophobic rhetoric leaves an impact on the mental health of Muslim Americans
A study by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate found that the average number of Islamophobic posts jumped from 2,000 to 6,000 each day on X alone in the first six days of the conflict.
Philosophy
Photography
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPeople who always volunteer to take the group photo instead of being in it aren't being helpful - they've found the one socially acceptable way to remove themselves from the frame without anyone asking why, and that quiet self-removal is the most visible invisible thing a person can do in a room full of people who never notice who's missing from the picture until years later when someone asks "wait, where were you?" - Silicon Canals
People often hide behind cameras at events to avoid being in front of them, masking their insecurities.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoPsychology 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.
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Bootstrapping
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoThe reason some men never move forward in life has nothing to do with motivation or discipline - it's that they built their entire identity around a version of themselves that stopped being true years ago, and starting over feels like admitting it was all wasted - Silicon Canals
Many individuals struggle to update their identities after past failures, clinging to outdated self-perceptions.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoPsychology says people who are warm in public but distant in private aren't being fake in either setting - they've built an entire social identity around the version of themselves that performs well in rooms and they genuinely don't know who shows up when the room is empty - Silicon Canals
People may develop a polished public persona that overshadows their true self, leading to a disconnect between social performance and personal identity.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology says the loneliest form of love isn't being unloved its being adored for a version of yourself you've been performing so long that the real you has started to feel like the imposter - Silicon Canals
The worst loneliness is being loved for a false self that no longer exists.
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Social media marketing
fromSocial Media Explorer
1 month agoMental Health Is One of Social Media's Biggest Content Categories. So Why Are Behavioral Health Employers Invisible? - Social Media Explorer
Mental health content on social media outperforms healthcare professionals, highlighting a marketing issue for behavioral health organizations.
Social media marketing
fromSocial Media Explorer
1 month agoMental Health Is One of Social Media's Biggest Content Categories. So Why Are Behavioral Health Employers Invisible? - Social Media Explorer
Mental health content on social media outperforms healthcare professionals, highlighting a marketing issue for behavioral health organizations.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoI'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.
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Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology says the unhappiest men in any room aren't the ones who complain - they're the ones who've become so skilled at performing contentment that they've lost the ability to locate their own actual feelings beneath the performance - Silicon Canals
Many men mask their true feelings behind a facade of competence and ease, leading to emotional disconnection and confusion about their own emotions.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoMost men who grew up in the 1960s and 70s were taught that admitting you needed help was a character flaw. Finally, we are discovering that openness has its own kind of strength. - Silicon Canals
Men are taught to suppress emotions, leading to loneliness and health issues.
LGBT
fromSlate Magazine
5 days agoThe Right Thinks I Don't Exist. The Left Thinks I'm a Liability. I'm Just Trying to Figure Out How to Live.
Transgender individuals in America face increasing legislative attacks, yet embracing authenticity and gender expansiveness is crucial for survival and fulfillment.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThere'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.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoPsychology 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.
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Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoI want to say something that my generation rarely says out loud: being tough your whole life doesn't actually protect you from loneliness - it just means you're better at hiding it from everyone, including yourself - Silicon Canals
Being tough can lead to loneliness and isolation, as it prevents genuine connections and vulnerability.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoI grew up in a family where asking for help was the same as admitting weakness - and now I'm 66 and sitting alone with problems I don't know how to solve because I never learned how to say "I'm struggling" - Silicon Canals
Asking for help is often perceived as a weakness, rooted in deep-seated beliefs about masculinity and self-reliance.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoThere's a specific kind of person who volunteers the embarrassing story about themselves before anyone else can bring it up, and it isn't self-deprecation. It's copyright. If they tell it first, they get to decide what it means. - Silicon Canals
Claiming the narrative of an embarrassing story prevents others from defining its meaning, rather than demonstrating humility.
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 week 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
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoThe people who say they don't care what others think are almost never telling the whole truth. What they actually did was move the audience inward, and now they perform for a private version of the same judges they claim to have escaped. - Silicon Canals
Indifference to others' opinions often masks internalized judgment rather than true freedom from social conformity.
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoThe Erasure That Altered Who "Counts" as Autistic
In 1925, Sukhareva clearly described older boys who were writing for a school newspaper in a great literary style, playing musical instruments, creating art, connecting deeply with nature and select individuals, and holding on to their ethical principles. They also had sensory sensitivities, limited motor coordination, intense idiosyncratic interests, and difficulties with socializing.
Writing
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoThe people who talk about their childhood like it was fine but can't remember most of it aren't lying. The absence of memory and the absence of trauma feel identical from the inside until something cracks the seal, and by then the person has built an entire adult identity on the version where nothing happened. - Silicon Canals
Childhood amnesia affects memory retention, leading to a lack of vivid recollections from early years despite having a normal upbringing.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoPsychology suggests men who are deeply unhappy in life but hide it well aren't being strong - they're running a performance that costs them every real connection they have, and the people closest to them almost never see it coming - Silicon Canals
Men often mask their depression with busyness and distraction, making it difficult to recognize their true emotional state.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoPsychology says the art of not caring what others think isn't something you decide to do one day - it's a quiet skill built over years of noticing how much of your life was being shaped by opinions of people who weren't actually paying attention to you in the first place - Silicon Canals
People overestimate how much others notice their actions and appearance, leading to unnecessary self-consciousness.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoResearch suggests that people who say they prefer being alone aren't always telling the truth. Many of them preferred connection until it repeatedly disappointed them, and solitude became the story they told to make the disappointment portable. - Silicon Canals
Solitude is often misinterpreted as a preference, when it may actually be an adaptation to past relational failures.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoPsychology says people who randomly cringe at past memories have a level of self-awareness that most people never develop - because the cringe only exists when a person is emotionally intelligent enough to look back at who they were and recognize the distance between that version of themselves and the one standing here now, and that distance is called growth even when it feels like shame - Silicon Canals
Cringing at past actions signifies emotional growth and self-reflection, indicating a recognition of personal development over time.
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoHow to View the Concept of Shaming
If you feel shame, recognize that no one else can shame you; only you can make yourself feel ashamed. Only you have the power to create your emotions-positive, negative, helpful, or unhelpful. The Stoics Hundreds of years ago, the Greek and Roman Stoics advanced that insight. In his treatise the Enchiridion, Epictetus wrote: Men are disturbed not by the things that happen but by their opinions about those things. In his Epistles, Seneca stated: Everything depends on opinion.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoHidden Psychological Costs of Misappropriated Black Imagery
It is striking how frequently organizations and individuals display images and stock photos of Black people, especially Black women, to project an image of inclusivity and to deflect accusations of Anti-Black Racism. However, a closer look at their actual practices-such as hiring, firing, internal policies, equal pay, and addressing inequities-reveals a significant absence of Black professionals and notably Black women in leadership and decision-making positions.
Social justice
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoWhy Mental Health Language Is Everywhere Now
Mental health terminology has migrated from clinical settings into everyday conversation, reducing stigma and increasing awareness, but clinical meanings shift in common speech, requiring precision for effective care and public discourse.
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoPeople With Mental Illness Are Too Easily 'Othered'
Anyone who is under psychiatric care, or loves someone who is, may want to read the book The Devil's Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today, by Susanne Paola Antonetta. If you care about history, particularly the history of eugenics, you may be interested as well. The book may offer us more respect for the mind, for consciousness, and its diversity.
Psychology
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoWhen it comes to mental health labels, we need to tread lightly | Letters
Social inequality and hardship drive much mental ill-being; cautious, neurodiversity-informed therapeutic approaches and careful use of diagnostic labels can aid mentalisation and prevention.
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoDealing with the Fear of Looking Dumb
In some cases, fear of looking dumb is a symptom of social anxiety disorder (APA, 2022), and it can be associated with perfectionism and fear of failure. It can show up in issues such as imposter syndrome, or feeling like a fraud and worrying about not rising to the expectations of a high-achieving position. It can also be related to stereotype threat, when someone's membership in a marginalized group leads them to worry that they will act in a way that confirms negative stereotypes.
Mental health
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoThe Hidden Struggles of Invisible Disabilities
Invisible disabilities—chronic pain, ADHD, depression, chronic fatigue, autoimmune and neurological disorders—are often unseen, provoke skepticism, and require awareness, accommodation, and flexible support.
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