Category: Mental Health
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Trauma is the most overused word of the decade
Calling everything trauma flattens real suffering and inflates ordinary discomfort. Here’s how the word lost meaning, and why precision matters for healing.
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The street homelessness crisis is a mental health policy failure we keep dodging
Visible street homelessness is mostly a mental illness and addiction crisis layered on a housing crisis. Policy keeps treating one and pretending the other will resolve itself.
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Stress changes how you react
Under stress, your decision-making shifts in predictable ways — and not for the better. Here’s what acute stress does to judgment and how to plan around it.
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Mental health days at work are mostly performative
Mental health days sound progressive, but in most workplaces they function as PR rather than genuine support. Here’s what actually helps employees.
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Why health anxiety is becoming more common
Health anxiety is rising for measurable reasons: search algorithms, wearables, and pandemic-era hypervigilance. Validation and professional support both matter.
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The overlap between different diagnoses is confusing
ADHD, anxiety, depression, and trauma share so many symptoms that even clinicians struggle. Here’s why the overlap exists and what it means for treatment.
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Conspiracy Theories and Mental Health: What Pizzagate Believers Reveal About Radicalization
Pizzagate believers weren’t uniformly mentally ill, but the social and psychological patterns of their radicalization tell us something important about belief itself.
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AI therapy chatbots may already be better than mediocre human therapists
AI chatbots are getting good enough to outperform low-quality human therapy on some measures. That’s a low bar, but the implications are unsettling.
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Safety plans often fail under stress
Mental health safety plans look reassuring on paper, but the moment they’re needed most is the moment they’re hardest to use. Here’s what helps.
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Fitness goals can become unhealthy obsessions
Discipline and obsession look identical from the outside. Here’s how to tell when fitness has stopped serving your health and started running it.