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Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoPsychology says the happiest people aren't the ones who found their passion - they're the ones who stopped treating their life as a problem that needed solving - Silicon Canals
The relentless pursuit of passion may lead to unhappiness, while embracing diverse interests can foster a richer, more fulfilling life.
Medicine
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThe cruelest part of being exhausted for no reason is that you start to distrust yourself. If the bloodwork is fine and the sleep is adequate and the schedule isn't punishing, then the only remaining explanation is that something is wrong with how you're built. And living inside that suspicion is its own kind of tired. - Silicon Canals
Exhaustion without a medical explanation leads to self-blame and societal dismissal, creating a unique struggle for those affected.
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoPsychology says the secret to a good retirement isn't wealth or health or even relationships - it's having at least one thing you're still in the middle of, still becoming, still learning how to do - Silicon Canals
Retirement fulfillment stems from ongoing pursuits and curiosity, not just financial security or traditional metrics of success.
Digital life
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days agoI baulked at the idea of friction-maxxing'. But there's more to it than meets the eye | Gaby Hinsliff
Friction-maxxing encourages embracing effortful activities as a form of resistance against technology's convenience, promoting deeper meaning and joy in life.
fromPsychology Today
3 days agoThe 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
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
11 hours agoNeuroscience 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.
fromScienceDaily
1 week agoScientists discover hidden brain switch that tells you to stop eating
"People tend to immediately think of neurons when they think about how the brain works. But we're finding that astrocytes, what we used to think of as just secondary support cells, are also participating in how our brains regulate how much we eat."
Medicine
#emotional-neglect
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
10 hours agoPsychology 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.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoPsychology explains people who grew up with very little affection become adults who are deeply uncomfortable being comforted - not because they don't need it but because need, expressed openly, was never safe, and the body that learned that keeps flinching from the very thing it was always asking for - Silicon Canals
Experiencing a lack of affection in childhood can lead to difficulties in accepting comfort and expressing needs in adulthood.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
10 hours agoThe cruelest form of loneliness isn't having nobody. It's having people who love you in a way that doesn't quite reach the part of you that needs reaching, so you feel guilty for still being hungry at a table that everyone else thinks is full. - Silicon Canals
Loneliness can persist even in loving relationships when emotional needs remain unmet and unexpressed.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoThe 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
1 day agoI'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.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology says the habits that signal a man has quietly lost his joy are almost always ordinary - earlier bedtimes, fewer opinions, smaller appetites, a preference for the predictable - because joy leaving doesn't look like collapse, it looks like caution - Silicon Canals
Men often withdraw from joy subtly, choosing safety and routine over novelty and excitement without obvious signs of distress.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoThere'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
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology says keeping your phone on silent isn't a communication preference - it's a nervous system preference, and the people who need it most are often the ones who spent years being on-call for everyone else's emergencies - Silicon Canals
Constant phone notifications can trigger stress responses, leading some to keep their phones on silent as a protective measure for their nervous system.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoMost people don't realize that the spotlight effect - the documented tendency to believe others are watching and judging us far more than they are - quietly steals decades of joy from people who never knew it had a name - Silicon Canals
The spotlight effect leads individuals to overestimate how much attention others pay to their perceived flaws.
Cooking
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoPsychology says the meal you crave when you're sick reveals these things about your earliest experience of being cared for - and it's almost never about the food itself - Silicon Canals
Comfort food cravings during illness reconnect us to childhood experiences of being cared for, triggering emotional memories rather than physical hunger needs.
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoHangry Isn't Anger: Understanding Frozen Stress Response
"Hangry" has become such common vocabulary that most people know exactly what it means: that irritable, snappish state when you need food. Recently, people have suggested extending the pattern-"slangry" for sleepiness-related irritability, "shanger" for shame-triggered snappiness, "franger" for frustration-fueled reactivity. It's clever, and naming these states does help create awareness. But I think these neologisms accidentally reveal something more important: We've lost the ability to distinguish between our stress response and actual emotion.
Mindfulness
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