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Elderly Indians often hide financial details from their children. This secrecy stems from a desire for control and fear of becoming a burden. Past scarcity experiences also shape their cautious ...
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. I was wading in a river in Alaska when a man beside me hooked a salmon and a brown bear began moving directly toward him. He had already done the hard part: he had…
(BN) is common and has a global presence and burden. BN shares features with anorexia nervosa and binge eating disorder, but its cardinal feature is recurrent binge eating followed by extreme weight control or…
This is the main point of this post: Sometimes what your brain craves is not good for your body. We all know that this is true. We’re drawn to any food that has ample quantities of fat, salt, and sugar. Visit any coffee…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Y'all, I have to be honest with you. I have looked at all the pictures, watched all the videos, and re-read every headline and story about Nolan Wells, and every…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye âMy best friend was promoted again,â he muttered, halfway through our conversation about something else. In therapy, itâs the detours that often take us to the main…
A question that I'm repeatedly asked: "Why is there a lag between learning facts about animal consciousness, sentience, and emotions and using what we know?" Mary, a well-known psychologist who calls herself a cognitive…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. If you had the opportunity to learn with near-perfect certainty from a blood test whether or not you are destined to become afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease or…
Then one more Instagram Reel became five. One YouTube video turned into another. Suddenly, it's 1 am, and you're wondering why ...
"When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you're giving it power."—Anthony de Mello Many of us have heard the familiar advice: Keep fighting. Never give up. The adversary may be…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Imagine this. You share something you've worked towards for years: a promotion, a degree, a published book, or a new business. Within minutes, people you barely…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. There is no real guide for when you leave the emergency room after a mental health crisis. I spent over two decades on the other side of that discharge desk. There…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Reading about the recent cage fights on the South Lawn of the White House, I was reminded of the emotional violence that can happen between parents and adult children…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Every generation believes dating has become more complicated. And itâs possible that that's true. When talking about dating today, people mention dating apps…
What millions of face ratings revealed raises a fascinating question about beauty, culture and perception.
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader You've probably already tried the obvious approach. You've told that special person "you deserve this," pointed out how tired they look, maybe even booked something and…
During the 1930s, theologian Reinhold Niebuhr began incorporating into his sermons what is now known as the Serenity Prayer. In 1941, Alcoholics Anonymous adopted this familiar version: God give me the serenityTo accept…
Books have played an important part in my life. So I was taken aback when a young cop I know said he doesn’t read. Not that he can’t read; obviously he can since he made it through the police academy. Rather, he prefers…
Despite being more connected than any previous generation, many young people report struggling to build friendships that provide a genuine sense of closeness.
In April, my family lost our house, belongings and cat when a freak storm caused flooding. For the first few days, I felt numb. I was on autopilot just dealing with all the necessary jobs – rescuing salvageable items…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Ask an AI system who you are, and it will answer immediately, drawing on search history, purchase patterns, and other behavioral data to generate a description of your…
Most people assume a difficult mood should be understood before it can be resolved. The idea is that relief follows insight, and insight follows enough hard thinking about what went wrong. Surprisingly, the research…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Davia Sills For the past 16 years, Galit has told me from time to time that she doesn’t really enjoy the way I kiss. Not every time we kissed, but often enough that I noticed it. And I…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Davia Sills When an adult child says, “You ruined my life” (or some close version of that painful sentiment), most parents brace for a specific charge. Parents share with me how they…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader For over 100 years, people have sought the key to success. People built IQ tests to measure it. Schools built standardized tests to predict it. We have created an…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader The placebo effect has been part of medical conversation since the late 1700s, when an English physician named Dr. Alexander Sutherland coined the term to describe a…
I spent four months in a county jail before a court accepted my plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease. The finding placed me in the custody of the state instead of a prison, and for the next 10 months I was a…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Davia Sills We have probably heard or read about impostor syndrome—those feelings of inadequacy that people experience and the fear that others will discover they do not belong in the…
Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Several years ago, a friend described a two-week vision quest in the desert. As he spoke, I noticed something unusual unfolding inside me. Although I still knew very…
As a career prosecutor, I have previously written about whether “looks could kill” and the tendency within the criminal justice system to jump to conclusions about the guilt of a criminal defendant simply by looking.[i]…
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