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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.

Louis Cheslaw
2w 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.

1mo ago

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.

2mo ago

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.

4mo ago

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.

5mo ago

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

6mo 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.

6mo 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.

6mo 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.

6mo ago

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."

6mo 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.

6mo ago

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