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Ness Labs
Decision anxiety: how to make decisions when feeling anxious5 min read · Nov 17th · Have you noticed that sometimes you can make decisions in an instant, but at other times the choice feels overwhelming? Anxiety can reduce your willingness to take risks, leading to a phenomenon known…
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Take control of the decision making by exploring your options rationally without the distraction of any unhelpful fears.
Start journaling your ideas, and document your fears, hopes or expectations so that you have a clear idea of where you are now, and where you want to get to.
By recognising that a bad outcome could be managed, you reduce the impact of your internalised fears. 
TIME
Anxiety Feels Terrible, But it Has an Upside.5 min read · Oct 28th
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Vogue Magazine
“Social Media Is Not Real”: Bella Hadid Opens Up About Her Anxiety and Depression2 min read · Nov 9th · Bella Hadid has always been forthcoming about her battle with anxiety and depression, but the supermodel is getting more candid than ever before.
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Why Introverts Are An Asset To The Workplace5 min read · From 2016 · Introversion gets a bad rep, especially in the workplace. Check out some research that debunks common misconceptions about the productivity strengths of introverts.
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Psychology Today
Do You Try Too Hard to Impress Other People?6 min read · Oct 26th · New research shows the surprising benefits of revealing your true self.
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New research on impression management shows that people may be better off admitting to their strengths and weaknesses.
If people are worried about making a strong impression, they can focus on making the best match between their abilities and the situation.
showing your true self (or the part of you relevant to the situation) might actually be a pretty good way to impress a person who you meet for the first time.
The New York Times
The Devastating Ways Depression and Anxiety Impact the Body4 min read · Oct 5th · Mind and body form a two-way street.
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It’s no surprise that when a person gets a diagnosis of heart disease, cancer or some other life-limiting or life-threatening physical ailment, they become anxious or depressed.
But the reverse can also be true: Undue anxiety or depression can foster the development of a serious physical disease, and even impede the ability to withstand or recover from one.
Depression diminishes a person’s capacity to analyze and respond rationally to stress,” Dr. Spiegel said. “They end up on a vicious cycle with limited capacity to get out of a negative mental state.”
Ness Labs
Status anxiety: when striving for success impacts our mental health4 min read · Oct 8th · Status anxiety occurs when we fear that we are not meeting society’s standards for success. This leads to shame, which impacts our mental health.
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A person’s environment can intensify status anxiety. For instance, income inequality and social media both exacerbate status anxiety
Alain de Botton first introduced the term “status anxiety” in 2004. Status anxiety occurs when we compare ourselves to others and fear that we are not meeting society’s standards for success. As a result, we feel trapped in our current economic or social status. This leads to a feeling of shame, which can be detrimental to our mental health.
Status anxiety is driven in part by our cultural beliefs about wealth and self-fulfillment
Ness Labs
Fear of judgement: why we are afraid of being judged5 min read · Oct 1st · If you have ever worried that poor performance in an evaluation will lead to a friend or colleague developing a negative opinion of you, then you are not alone. Fear of judgement by others is common.
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If you have ever worried that poor performance in an evaluation will lead to a friend or colleague developing a negative opinion of you, then you are not alone. Fear of judgement by others is common.
Fear is a human emotion designed to protect us from harm, but once it starts having a detrimental effect on your performance, you need to take control
Fear is a human emotion designed to protect us from harm, but once it starts having a detrimental effect on your performance, you need to take contro
Harvard Business Review
Women Do More to Fight Burnout — and It’s Burning Them Out3 min read · Oct 22nd · Three strategies to help companies break this vicious cycle.
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Women are caught in a Catch-22 when it comes to burnout at work: They suffer it more and also do more to combat it.
One of three women surveyed say they have considered downshifting or leaving the workforce altogether. (Last year, it was one in four.)
While 87% of companies surveyed agreed that it was “very or extremely” critical that managers support employee wellbeing, only a quarter do much about it.
Fast Company
The ‘third shift’ matters—and women do more of it3 min read · Oct 19th · A senior partner at McKinsey & Co. observes that many women are working a triple shift. One is in the home, where women still tend to do the lion’s share. Then there is their job. And third, there are…
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our survey of corporate workers found that women are far more likely than their male peers to invest in the success of other co-workers.
Among senior leaders, women are twice as likely to spend substantial time on diversity efforts.
For working women, the past 18 months have been a test of resilience. Many are working a triple shift. One is in the home, where women still tend to do the lion’s share. Then there is their job. And third, there are the extra responsibilities many have assumed in the workplace.
Brain Pickings
Alain de Botton on the Myth of Normalcy and the Importance of Breakdowns3 min read · Oct 13th · “Crisis… is an attempt to dislodge us from a toxic status quo and constitutes an insistent call to rebuild our lives on a more authentic and sincere basis.”
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The moment we begin to see that there are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives, we cease being captive to the myth of normalcy
In the midst of a breakdown, we often wonder whether we have gone mad. We have not. We’re behaving oddly, no doubt, but beneath the agitation we are on a hidden yet logical search for health.
The moment we begin to see that there are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives, we cease being captive to the myth of normalcy — the cultural tyranny that tells us there are a handful of valid ways to be human and demands of us to contort into these accepted forms of being
Vox
How mental health became a social media minefield~12 min read · Sep 30th · How many mental illnesses does the internet think you have?
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it’s certainly possible to argue that anyone who spends enough time online may experience some of the symptoms that help psychologists diagnose patients.
Psychology Today
What Makes You Happy? Why Fun Matters to Your Happiness5 min read · Sep 24th · The sense of liberation is essential to your psychological well-being.
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recollections of having fun, whether with family, friends, or even strangers, are often one of the most memorable and happiest memories in a person’s life.
While fooling around with friends over a couple of drinks or going to a theme park with family may seem unproductive, these times of fun seem to give people the motivation to continue their life journey and make life worth smiling about.
Quartz
Psychologists say a good life doesn’t have to be happy, or even meaningful6 min read · Aug 20th · A new psychological study says that "psychological richness" can be one important dimension of a full life.
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A psychologically rich life is one characterized by 'interesting experiences in which novelty and/or complexity are accompanied by profound changes in perspective'.
Regardless of the specifics, you may experience suffering but still find value in how your experience shapes your understanding of yourself and the world around you.
person who “develops a taste for having problems”, in the knowledge that the state of having no problems only arrives postmortem
Aeon+Psyche
Empathy is, at heart, an aesthetic appreciation of the other5 min read · Aug 10th · Empathy is an aesthetic practice that relies on our capacity to delight in, and respond with reverence to, the world around us
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Today we think about empathy as a way to understand another’s experience. But when the English word ‘empathy’ first appeared in 1909 as a translation of the German Einfühlung, it denoted an aesthetic ability to appreciate objects and nature.
Aesthetic empathy was possible because it relied on our capacity to generate kinaesthetic images, or mental images of movement and feeling.
Aeon+Psyche
Here’s how to take back your life from long-term worrying7 min read · Aug 5th · Long after they’ve gone, stressors can cause harm to your health. These psychological techniques offer a powerful defence
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Stress – defined as a state in which a person feels that they do not have the resources to meet the demands of a particular situation
One reason that stress can be so harmful is that, even after the initial trigger has passed, it often continues to influence how we think, feel and behave.
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