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10 Thinking Errors That Will Prevent You From Being Mentally Strong

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Mental strength requires a three-pronged approach — managing our thoughts, regulating our emotions, and behaving productively despite our circumstances. While all three areas can be a struggle, it’s often our thoughts that make it most difficult to be mentally strong. As we go about our daily routines, our internal monologue narrates our experience. Our self-talk […]

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Measuring This Brain Region Could Predict Depression And Anxiety Years Before It Hits

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Those with more reactive amygdalae at the start of the study were found to experience more severe symptoms of anxiety and depression in response to later stressful life events. However, an overactive amygdala alone was not enough to predict anxiety and depression. These symptoms had to first be triggered by a stressful life event. These

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Psychologists Say Doing These 7 Activities Will Make You Happier

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Happiness is good for you. Psychology research shows that happy people make more money, perform better at work, live longer, and have better marriages than everyone else. But the causes of happiness are elusive — philosophers have been trying to figure it out for thousands of years. Over the past few decades psychological science has

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4 Things You Should Know About Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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In blanket terms, OCD is characterized by two things: obsessions (intrusive, recurring thoughts) and compulsions (behaviors, typically repetitive, that are performed to lessen the anxiety of the thoughts). But the disorder can be difficult to identify because it can present in so many different ways. The National Alliance on Mental Illness defines OCD as a

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“The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.”

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In a section of his 1843 masterwork Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (public library), which also gave us Kierkegaard on our greatest source of unhappiness, the Danish philosopher defines boredom as a sense of emptiness and examines it not as an absence of stimulation but as an absence of meaning — an idea that also

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