In a pair of studies involving nearly 280,000 people, William Chopik found that friendships become increasingly important to one’s happiness and health across the lifespan. Not only that, but in older adults, friendships are actually a stronger predictor of health and happiness than relationships with family members.
Source: Are friends better for us than family? | MSUToday | Michigan State University
Hell yes.
The condition also overlaps with obsessive compulsive disorder, obsessive compulsive personality disorder, and somatoform disorders. During the session, two case reports were presented. The first patient was a 72-year-old white Buddhist nun who presented with extreme weight loss. “You get afraid of eating because you don’t know what it’ll do to you,” said the patient in a video clip. “Eventually I was afraid to do anything, so I did nothing.”
Source: Orthorexia Nervosa: When ‘Healthy’ Eating Turns Dangerous
Some time ago I developed a fear of what would happen to me if I stopped drinking alcohol. So I did nothing.
The photo credit belongs to an Instagram feed from Aspen Well Being. I follow several Aspen CO related feeds for the pictures. It only took me years to discover the tiny button in Instagram that saves photos to your phone.
Years.
“You have to be mindful and focused on the moment. It does not leave much room to let your mind wonder on things that may be going on in your life — you have to focus on not falling,”
Source: Rock climbing envisioned as new treatment for depression — ScienceDaily
Sounds promising and for some people a better alternative than drugs.
Yeah, I had to Google it too.
In both a 2014 white paper by IBM’s Smarter Workplace Institute and in a conference panel the company hosted just weeks ago, its own experts suggested that remote workers tend to be happier, less stressed, more productive, more engaged with their jobs and teams, and believe that their companies are more innovative as a result of flexible work arrangements.
Source: IBM’s Remote Work Reversal Is A Losing Battle Against The New Normal
Memo to IBM:
Why?
Source: Spousal Suicide Ups Morbidity, Mortality in Surviving Partner and
Original JAMA Psych article is the second link.
The article has a link for the full HCHS data brief in pdf format.
Getting rid of belongings is generally seen as positive, even healthy—but when the need becomes compulsive, it can be a sign of a life-consuming disorder.
Source: Compulsive Decluttering: The Opposite of Hoarding – The Atlantic
OCD variants – Compulsive Decluttering or Obsessive Compulsive Spartanism. Puts the Tiny House movement in a different light, no?
“They can’t tolerate discomfort or having to struggle,” Dan Jones, director of counseling and psychological services at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, told the New York Times. “A primary symptom is worrying, and they don’t have the ability to soothe themselves.” In 2010, a national study showed that nearly half of college students seeking counseling had serious mental illness. Those students outnumbered a 2000 study by 100%.
via The #1 Problem Among College Students Is Now Anxiety – Business Pundit.
Anxious Students Strain College Mental Health Centers – NYTimes.com.
More Venlafaxine please.
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