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Psychology Today
The Downside of Solitude3 min read · Aug 15th · Losing connections with your social world.
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Loneliness is the painful experience of being isolated from others, whereas solitude is the pleasant experience of being by yourself.
In social situations, people often avoid those who are known to spend a lot of time alone.
People often think loners won’t be much fun to talk to, but they also think loners won’t enjoy talking to them.
Aeon+Psyche
Why there’s no such thing as the mind and nothing is mental~12 min read · Aug 30th · The terms ‘mind’ and ‘mental’ are messy, harmful and distracting. We should get rid of them
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Convincing others that your pain is not ‘mental’ might be how you defended the reality of your condition
Depression and schizophrenia are no more ‘all in the mind’ than chronic pain
Should we count the immune system as ‘mental’ because it’s psychological and cognitive?
Nat Eliason
I'm a Stupid Monkey and You are Too4 min read · Aug 20th · Instead of relying on Willpower, or even Habits, I use the Stupid Monkey model: how do you get a stupid monkey to not do something it really wants to do?
Aeon+Psyche
Neurodiversity is not enough. We should embrace psydiversity~14 min read · Jul 29th · We live in a world that must move beyond identity politics and embrace new models of the mind. Enter psydiversity
psychology
brain
Scientific American
Your Brain Does Something Amazing between Bouts of Intense Learning2 min read · Jul 7th · New research shows that lightning-quick neural rehearsal can supercharge learning and memory.
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psychology
memory
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virtually all early skill learning is evidenced during rest rather than during the actual practice
It’s during those intermittent breaks that the brain starts to sew together the individual movements that make up a seamless piece.
the brain kept replaying much faster versions of the practice activity patterns over and over again during rest.
TED Talks
How to support a friend or family member who’s struggling with their mental health7 min read · May 30th · Every person’s experience is different, so what’s the best way for you to show up for them? Mental health advocate Sahaj Kaur Kohli provides you with 8 dos and 8 don’ts.
relationships
mental health
health
Aeon+Psyche
The self is not singular but a fluid network of identities~13 min read · May 18th · You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity
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philosophy
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What philosophers call ‘4E views’ of cognition – for embodied, embedded, enactive and extended cognition – are also a move in the direction of a more relational, less ‘container’, view of the self.
The point is that who you are is more complex than any one of your identities. Thinking of the self as a network is a way to conceptualise this complexity and fluidity.
The self is a cumulative network because its history persists, even if there are many aspects of its history that a self disavows going forward or even if the way in which its history is relevant changes. Recognising that the self is a cumulative network allows us to account for why radical transformation is of a self and not, literally, a different self.
The New York Times
The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same.~11 min read · May 9th · Psilocybin and MDMA are poised to be the hottest new therapeutics since Prozac. Universities want in, and so does Wall Street. Some worry a push to loosen access could bring unintended consequences.
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Dr. Doblin’s quest to win mainstream acceptance of psychedelics took a significant leap forward on Monday when the journal Nature Medicine published the results of his lab’s study on MDMA
There’s been a sea change in attitudes about what not long ago was considered fringe science,” said Michael Pollan, whose best-selling book on psychedelics, “How to Change Your Mind,” has helped destigmatize the drugs in the three years since it was published. “Given the mental health crisis in this country, there’s great curiosity and hope about psychedelics and a recognition that we need new therapeutic tools.”
The Guardian
Brain fog: how trauma, uncertainty and isolation have affected our minds and memory9 min read · Apr 14th · After a year of lockdown, many of us are finding it hard to think clearly, or remember what happened when. Neuroscientists and behavioural experts explain why
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“There’s this sense of debilitation, of losing ordinary facility with everyday life; a forgetfulness and a kind of deskilling,”
the brain is stimulated by the new, the different, and this is known as the orienting response
We have effectively evolved to stop paying attention when nothing changes, but to pay particular attention when things do change
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(4) Less is more: Why our brains struggle to subtractApr 14th · When solving problems, humans tend to think about adding something before they think of taking something away - even when subtracting is the better solution....
Aeon+Psyche
If you stay mentally well your entire life, you’re not normal6 min read · Feb 16th · Surveys suggest only a minority of people live lives entirely free from mental disorder. What can we learn from them?
Nautilus Magazine
Welcome to the Next Level of Bullshit~11 min read · 2020-09-10 · One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.” These are the opening words of the short book…
journals.sagepub.com
Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics - Robert Plomin, John C. DeFries, Valerie S. Knopik, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, 20162019-12-15 · Subscription and open access journals from SAGE Publishing, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
nature
The hidden links between mental disorders9 min read · 2020-05-05 · Psychiatrists have a dizzying array of diagnoses and not enough treatments. Hunting for the hidden biology underlying mental disorders could help.
psychology
brain
mental health
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If you have one disorder, you’re much more likely to have another
Nat Eliason
16 Popular Psychology Myths You Probably Still Believe~14 min read · 2019-12-05 · With fewer than half of major psychology studies failing reproduction, it's not crazy to assume a new psych study is more likely to be false than true.
The New Yorker
What Does the Life of the Mind Do In a Crisis?5 min read · 2020-04-11 · Crises are, at least while they are happening, not educational opportunities. But there are still things to learn.
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