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About Depression
Read more: About DepressionAn infopage from the New York Times all about depression. Symptoms, causes, treatment. Depression may be described as feeling sad, blue, unhappy, miserable, or down in the dumps. Most of us feel this way at one time or another for short periods. True clinical depression is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss,…
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Cyber Bullying and Depression
Read more: Cyber Bullying and DepressionCFAH: In Cyber Bullying, Depression Hits Victims Hardest Young victims of electronic or cyber bullying – which occurs online or by cell phone – are more likely to suffer from depression than their tormentors are, a new study finds. Traditional bullying, the kind that occurs in the school building or face-to-face, is different. Victims and bully-victims – those…
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The Out Crowd
Read more: The Out CrowdThe high price of trying to be accepted: Social Exclusion Drives Bad Choices (PsychCentral). A new study reveals people who feel excluded will go to any length to try to become part of a group. The desire to be accepted or be a member of an “in” group can include spending large sums of cash, eating…
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Thousands of Years of Monogamy
Read more: Thousands of Years of MonogamyThere’ve been only thousands years of monogamy, that is–since agriculture got underway–according to the newish book, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. When people started farming, say the authors, they started thinking about things like ownership and where babies come from. Monogamy followed–meaning that lifelong pairing doesn’t necessarily come naturally to us. Here’s Dan Savage…
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The Secret’s Secret
Read more: The Secret’s SecretIn the New Yorker, a look at the roots of The Secret in Emersonian “New Thought.” [F]or much of its history, New Thought was viewed as a progressive project—a way to help ordinary citizens seize control of their fate. The historian Beryl Satter has argued that New Thought was, in large part, a women’s movement, and…