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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…
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Manufacturing Depression
Read more: Manufacturing DepressionA long review/think piece in the New Yorker about therapy and psychiatry, including the view from Gary Greenberg’s book, Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease: Greenberg basically regards the pathologizing of melancholy and despair, and the invention of pills designed to relieve people of those feelings, as a vast capitalist conspiracy to…
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Adventure Therapy
Read more: Adventure TherapySkiing, pizza, and group–program for teens profiled in the Calgary Herald: There’s no texting on skis. No distractions. Just fresh air and the challenge of learning a new sport. So-called “bad kids” can leave their reputation behind at school and forge a better one in the outdoors. That’s the theory behind the Adventure Therapy program,…