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Happily Married
Read more: Happily MarriedDavid Brooks surveys the happiness literature in an op-ed, The Sandra Bullock Trade. If the relationship between money and well-being is complicated, the correspondence between personal relationships and happiness is not. The daily activities most associated with happiness are sex, socializing after work and having dinner with others. The daily activity most injurious to happiness…
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Food Addiction
Read more: Food AddictionPosted at PsychCentral, Drug, Food Addiction Share Common Source: A new study shows that the same molecular mechanisms that drive an individual into drug addiction are behind the compulsion to overeat, pushing an individual into obesity. An individual rat, at least.
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Tech Support
Read more: Tech SupportArticle + resources: Social Networks a Lifeline for the Chronically Ill: People fighting chronic illnesses are less likely than others to have Internet access, but once online they are more likely to blog or participate in online discussions about health problems […] They are gathering on big patient networking sites like PatientsLikeMe, HealthCentral, Inspire, CureTogether…
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When Your Partner is a Sex Addict
Read more: When Your Partner is a Sex AddictA series of Q&A’s about sex addiction is underway at the NYT–therapists answering reader mail on the topic. Lively, diagnosis-doubting commenters by the dozen follow.
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Self-Defeating Behavior
Read more: Self-Defeating BehaviorPsychiatrist Richard Friedman, MD, writing about on self-defeating behavior in the NYT, confronts a client with a long pattern of not-so-coincidental-seeming disappointments: “Do you ever wonder why so many disappointing things happen to you?” I asked. “Is it just chance, or might you have something to do with it?” His reply was a resentful question:…