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whyisthisinteresting
The Bibiliotherapy Edition

We live in an era when we diagnose ourselves and each other constantly, and we've developed an enormous infrastructure for explaining our problems. We've become very good at prescribing information, but information doesn't always provide consolation. Knowing more about grief, for example, isn't necessarily the same as feeling less alone in it.

— Jeralyn Gerba
2w ago
whyisthisinteresting
The ‘50 First Dates’ Edition

In an obviously less extreme way, I have always felt that my own days start twice. The first comes as soon as I wake up, groggy and typically with racing thoughts following a bizarre dream, or due to some latent anxiety concerning my to-do list for the coming day. The second beginning comes about an hour later, once I've showered, walked, eaten, and either talked to someone, or listened to a great song or podcast.

2mo ago

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air, that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

2mo ago
platformer.news
Why social media bans are gaining steam

Depressed girls use social media more, she says, but social media use doesn't seem to predict later depression. The real crisis, in Odgers' telling, is among adults: parental overdose deaths more than doubled between 2011 and 2021, and caregivers' mental health is among the strongest predictors of child outcomes.

4mo ago
ai-supremacy.com
Summary of the AI Index Report 2026, Part II

The more exposed we are to an Internet of AI slop (AIS) and even the potential of career ladder disruption, the less happy young people are starting to be with regards to their trust and hope that AI will bring a better world.

6mo ago
longreads.com
It’s Hard Out Here for a 20-Something

A year into the pandemic, researchers found that the more time kids spent in online learning, the more depressed and anxious they got. During the second Covid wave, up to 70 per cent of teenagers in the province reported depression symptoms.

7mo ago

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our own thoughts.

7mo ago

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We cannot shut down our internal chatter, and it is driving us insane.

8mo ago

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We worry about things that may never happen, we get anxious about situations we cannot control, and we exhaust ourselves by living in a future that may never exist.

8mo ago

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We think too much and feel too little. Silence has become rather uncommon, and these days, even loneliness is a luxury we can't afford.

8mo ago
readtheprofile.com
The Profile: The members of the gay tech mafia & the conservative Cosmo

Our brains sometimes get stuck in a loop that replays the moment like a broken record. In a recent New York Times feature, writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner says this about trauma: "Happy, well-adjusted people are all different. The traumatized are exactly alike."

8mo ago

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We cannot shut off our minds; our minds are words, words, words.

8mo ago

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