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While we’re usually mindful and specific about the qualities we desire in a romantic partner, we may not consider our friends so carefully. However, when a friendship has run its course and maintaining it feels like a burden, there are ways to break free. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/soci...
7 Strategies People Use to End Draining Friendships
Ending a stale friendship is a complicated process, but it can benefit you too.
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A painful experience can change your life, but it doesn’t have to become your whole identity. Finding meaning in what happened and deciding what comes next can help you move forward. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-bu...
Don't Let Your Wound Become Your Story
Life wounds all of us, but what happens next is up to you—three small steps to avoid feeling powerless.
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When someone shares something that's weighing on them, and you tell them you'll be thinking of them, do you really do that? Changing the way we follow up can transform our connections. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/grat...
The One-Minute Habit That Can Deepen Any Relationship
4 steps to becoming a follow-upper.
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Which approaches to flirting are most effective? From smiling, to humor, to gift-giving, here's what works best for men and best for women. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insi...
Effective Flirting Looks Different for Men and Women
Whether they seek a hookup or long-term love, men and women flirt, but they do it differently.
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Sometimes the attempt to preserve an experience gets in the way of actually having it. Here’s what happens when we make the decision to put our phones down and just be in the moment. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cell...
BTS: The Science of Choosing to Be Present
More than half of all concert-goers admit they prioritise filming over being present. Most will rarely revisit those videos. Here's how BTS got more than 50,000 people to put their phones down.
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As AI continues to infiltrate the medical world, a key question becomes when and where human judgment should remain active, even when AI outperforms humans. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
What If the "Human in the Loop" Is the Problem?
“Human in the loop” is one of AI’s most comforting ideas. But a recent clinical paper turns that assumption on its head.
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We all want to be dependable and meticulous, but extreme conscientiousness can trap you in a cycle of burnout. It can shade into perfectionism if you can't differentiate between importance among tasks and learn to identify when something is "good enough." www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/self...
When Being Conscientious Becomes a Liability
Conscientiousness can fuel success, but in excess, it can lead to perfectionism, rigidity, and burnout. Learn how to loosen the grip without losing your edge
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“Capitalism does not only organize our labor. It also enters our desires. It teaches us what to want, what to value, what to admire, and, increasingly, what kind of person we should become.” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cons...
Why We Care So Much About People We Have Never Met
Why do we care about celebrities’ weddings, breakups, and babies? Repeated exposure can turn people we have never met into people we feel we genuinely know.
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GLP-1 prescriptions for teens are surging. But research on growth, bone, and mood hasn't kept pace. Here's what parents need to know. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
Hopeful Vigilance: What Parents Should Know About GLP-1s
GLP-1 prescriptions for teens are surging. Research on growth, bone, and mood hasn't kept pace. Here's what parents should know and monitor.
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Workplace incivility can be a precursor to bullying and aggression. Here’s how to stop that cycle and protect employees from workplace violence. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-...
Preventing Workplace Incivility From Leading to Violence
Incivility is an insidious driver of attrition as well as job dissatisfaction, but it has a darker side as well: it can lead to violence. Research explains.
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Millions of people already turn to AI for emotional support and advice. But psychotherapy has always centered on something technology may struggle to replace: the experience of feeling deeply understood by another person. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/expe...
Does Psychotherapy Still Need a Human?
Depth therapy is surging as AI reshapes a strained mental healthcare system. When only a human relationship will do isn't clear — and the next few years will decide what's what.
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Many people raised in chaotic homes swear that they won't parent their children the way they were raised. Research reveals how big a challenge that is and what can help them succeed. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/expe...
The Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting
There's no rule book for parenting. Trying to break destructive cycles often leads to repetition of old patterns. What are flexible ways to get there while the kids are still home?
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Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who reflexively blamed you for everything that ever went wrong? Here's a technique that could help overcome that dynamic. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/my-s...
How to Live With a Partner Who Blames You for Everything
Does your partner blame you for everything that goes wrong? Here is a strategy to live with a habitual blame-shifter while minimizing conflict.
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Modern life presents us with a tidal wave of articles, TV shows, podcasts and other content. How can we manage the onslaught without becoming depleted? www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mode...
I'm on a Communication Diet, and You Should Be Too
Modern life presents us with a tidal wave of articles, TV shows, podcasts and other content about everything under the sun. How do we manage this without depletion and vulnerability?
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Research sheds light on how people judge whether a person is heroic. Brave and selfless? Check. But the rest may depend on cultural values. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cult...
What Are the Characteristics of True Heroes?
Studies shed light on how people judge whether a person is heroic. Brave and selfless? Check. Patriotic and respectable? Maybe. Judgments are in part shaped by cultural values.
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Interviewing for a leadership role is different than interviewing for an entry-level position. Here are practical strategies to hone your skills and land a leadership role. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lead...
Interview Like a Boss
Your resume got you in the door. These practical strategies will help you prepare, stand out, and show the interviewers that you’re ready to lead.
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Exhausted by intrusive memories? Shift your focus from fighting the bad to growing the good through the power of grateful mental visualization. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/grat...
What Gardening Can Teach Us About Our Intrusive Memories
Exhausted by intrusive memories? Shift your focus from fighting the bad to growing the good through the power of grateful mental visualization.
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Stop asking, "What’s your opinion?" Instead, try, "What advice would you give me?" And other small linguistic shifts that can build allies rather than critics. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/curi...
The Magic Words That Will Get What You Deserve
2. Seek a chain of yeses.
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Parents sometimes blame kids for their screen use. But the technology was designed to capture them. Here’s a better way to understand the problem. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neur...
Stop Blaming Kids for Technology Designed to Capture Them
We’ve blamed screens and content. The deeper problem may be the machinery behind them—and what it teaches developing brains about attention, reward, trust, and stress.
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Some people may appreciate being deeply loved by someone without wanting to become their entire universe. Here are 4 reasons why more isn't always better when it comes to love. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-t...
The Hidden Burden of Being Loved Too Much
Love may be essential to a flourishing life, but love is not all we need.
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Who are you? If you're like most of us, answering that question is a lot trickier than it sounds. Here's why, and how to begin acting from authenticity instead of automatically performing roles. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/trau...
The Identity Crisis So Many of Us Face
Often, identity is not who we are but how we learned to survive.
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What would slow medicine look like in psychiatry? It might look like much more time—time to take a full history, think creatively, and exercise diagnostic humility. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...
Slow Medicine in a Fast System
After my fourth suicide attempt, doctors found a brain infection—then siloed it from my psychiatric care. The correct diagnosis wouldn't come for four more years.
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When everything seems empty or hollow, it’s easy to assume it’s a philosophical crisis. But sometimes it’s not nihilism—it’s anhedonia, a core symptom of depression that makes it hard to feel meaning at all. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/home...
Are You a Nihilist or Anhedonic?
If you're feeling empty, you might relate to nihilism, the philosophy that life is meaningless. However, it's easy to confuse nihilism with anhedonia, a core symptom of depression.
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Many young men are struggling mightily today, but it's not entirely clear what's behind it or the best ways to help. The results of a major new survey may get to the heart of both challenges. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-...
The Context of the Crisis Facing Young Men
Young men are straining to find their footing because the institutional pathways that once guided the transition to adult roles have gone missing.
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You've probably experienced this truism: The harder you fight unwanted thoughts, the louder they get. There's a proven, if counterintuitive, solution. Get out of the way and let yourself heal. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxi...
Stop Fighting Unwanted Thoughts
You don't stop unwanted thoughts by trying to stomp them out. Healing is not a subtraction. You do not get better by removing the bad. You heal by building something else.
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What if our imperfections are not something to avoid but to embrace? Here’s how our flaws actually make us beautiful and uniquely ourselves. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
The Beauty of Being All of You
Discover how honoring your authentic self can transform your perceived imperfections into your greatest strength.
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How one therapist’s dog, Monty, changes the feel of his therapy room—and why it often helps his patients. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dept...
The Role of a Therapy Dog in Private Practice
My therapy dog doesn't keep score, doesn't have an agenda, and doesn't feel any urgency for anyone to change. Seven years in, I still have plenty more to learn from him.
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Most happiness frameworks explain the past but don’t clearly predict the future. The “four-pairs” theory can help us understand what really provides lasting happiness. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cell...
What Happiness Frameworks Keep Getting Wrong
Freud tells you why. CBT tells you how. Buddhism tells you to let go. But none, one expert argues, tell you whether what you’re doing right now will make you happier later.
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Mirror neurons are thought to be a source of our empathy. They fire when we experience an emotion, such as love or disgust, and when we observe someone else expressing the same emotion. Here’s what else they can do. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
How My Brain Reflects Yours
What are mirror neurons and how do they impact the way we move through our daily lives? Just like bodily movement, emotional states are also observable by the brain.
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New CDC data found cannabis in nearly half of adolescent overdose deaths, which could signal that teens are taking multiple substances at once. Here’s what families need to know. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/addi...
Cannabis and Fentanyl in Adolescent Overdose Deaths
CDC found cannabis in nearly half of adolescent overdose deaths. It may signal polysubstance risk and should prompt family talks about fentanyl and naloxone.
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