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Behavioral Optometry vs. ADHD
Read more: Behavioral Optometry vs. ADHDAnother massive mental-health related piece in the New York Times magazine–Concocting a Cure for Kids with Issues. [Some] parents often don’t trust the mental-health professionals who usually treat children with “issues,” as we euphemistically tend to refer to problems like learning disabilities, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism or other developmental difficulties. […] That’s why some of…
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Therapy Books
Read more: Therapy BooksThese are books you may find useful, whether or not you’re in therapy. Most are practical, and several are workbooks, which work best when you actually do the exercises and don’t just read about them, a distinction most of us learn the hard way. The last two are about meaning and about therapy itself. Anxiety…
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Insomnia Battled
Read more: Insomnia Battled“All Nighters” is a New York Times blog series about insomnia–how it’s lived, what to do about it. Cartoonist Roz Chast recommends playing some individual Scattegories, “The A to Z Cure“: One thing I do when I can’t sleep is play alphabet games. I try to list various things from A to Z: countries, rock…
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Too Tired for Sex
Read more: Too Tired for SexA study relayed by the New York Times: About one in every four Americans married or living with someone say they are so sleep-deprived that they are often too tired to have sex, according to a new study by the National Sleep Foundation. Lack of sleep also keeps many people from work and family functions,…
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Playing Hard-to-Get: The Study
Read more: Playing Hard-to-Get: The StudyPsyBlog digs into psych study history and answers the question, Does Playing Hard To Get Work?: [E]very time psychologists used an experiment to test the idea that playing hard to get is a good dating strategy, their results didn’t make any sense. At least not until 1973 when Elaine Walster and colleagues at the University…