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Is Solitude Good for You?
Read more: Is Solitude Good for You?Also from the NYT, Embracing a Life of Solitude, a look at extreme, off-the-grid, away-from-everything loner living. His infrequent visitors would ask things like “What are you going to do if a coconut falls on your head?” — given that the nearest doctor was hundreds of miles away. “I said, ‘Oh my, if I think…
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Is Marriage Good for Your Health?
Read more: Is Marriage Good for Your Health?A big NYT Magazine piece by Tara Parker-Pope surveys the research about marriage, health, and happiness, and finds mixed messages. [W]hile it’s clear that marriage is profoundly connected to health and well-being, new research is increasingly presenting a more nuanced view of the so-called marriage advantage. Several new studies, for instance, show that the marriage advantage…
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Online CBT for Panic and Depression
Read more: Online CBT for Panic and DepressionA doctoral thesis out of Stockholm gives a boost to the growing practice of online therapy.
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Smoking Depressed
Read more: Smoking DepressedReported in the Los Angeles Times, a study showing 43% of smokers over twenty are depressed. A chicken-egg study–which came first? Depressed people were more likely to smoke within five minutes of awakening and to smoke more than one pack of cigarettes a day. Twenty-eight percent of adult smokers with depression smoked more than a pack…
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Happiness Research
Read more: Happiness ResearchJohn Grohol sums up the positive psychology basics in 5 Reliable Findings from Happiness Research. Here they are, minus the explanations, which await you at PsychCentral: 1. You control about half your happiness level. 2. Money doesn’t buy happiness. 3. Lottery winnings create only temporary, short-term happiness. 4. Relationships are a key factor in long-term…