Category: Articles
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Solitude
Read more: SolitudeHere’s the Atlantic on the impact of our solitary and/or siloed lives–The Anti-Social Century. Gist: We’re increasingly at home and/on screens and it’s not helping anyone’s mental health. If two of the 20th century’s iconic technologies, the automobile and the television, initiated the rise of American aloneness, the 21st century’s most notorious piece of hardware has…
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Social Health
Read more: Social HealthThe Guardian on the importance of other people to your health and well-being. Decades of research have proven that connection is as essential as food and water, but this knowledge hasn’t yet made its way into the mainstream understanding of health – and without it, we’re suffering.. Today, many people show signs of social health…
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Volunteering & Mental Health
Read more: Volunteering & Mental HealthOld article, good idea–volunteering in order to feel better. It’s generally understood that helping out others makes a person feel nice, but that experience goes beyond just the feel-good glow of altruism. Studies have found that helping others has tangible benefits, both mental and physical, from lowering your blood pressure to reducing feelings of depression. And research hasn’t…
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Phone Withdrawal
Read more: Phone WithdrawalOn dialing back from five hours of screen time a day (NYT): For two solid days, I basked in 19th-century leisure, feeling my nerves softening and my attention span stretching back out. I read books. I did the crossword puzzle. I lit a fire and looked at the stars. I felt like Thoreau, if Thoreau…
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How Are Emotions Made?
Read more: How Are Emotions Made?Psychologist-slash-neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett challenges the idea that emotions are innate and universal. Instead, she has shown that emotion is constructed in the moment, by core systems that interact across the whole brain, aided by a lifetime of learning…This new theory means that you play a much greater role in your emotional life than you…