A new study published in the Journal of Emotion looked at hope as a meaningful emotion. “We were interested in examining the relation between hope and meaning in life,” study author Megan E. Edwards told us. “We predicted that hope would be a particularly important emotion for fostering meaning in life.” Feeling like life is…
We may receive referral fees from providers listed below. See our full disclaimer. Now, perhaps more than at any other time in recent history, people must change how they connect and access information. Not only are we ordering groceries online, but we’re also accessing medical and mental health care through mobile apps. With their ease of…
By Dr. David Laing Dawson It was difficult to imagine a country as large, as diverse, as so heavily populated in large cities, as the USA, being quelled by a central power, a dictatorship. Images of an ICE raid in Macarthur Park, military vehicles on a couple of city streets in a city of 4…
Trust is a pillar of any healthy relationship. When broken, it can lead to insecurity and hurt. Healthy boundaries, open communication and maintaining emotional safety are all also important, particularly avoiding behaviors that create insecurity. A woman asks Lisa about whether it’s appropriate for her to be uncomfortable with the frequency of texting between her…
On paper, holidays should be a dream. But for those of us with OCD, these breaks can feel anything but relaxing. Instead of slowing down, our minds often speed up, and we can quickly fill newly found hours meant for relaxing by revisiting old fears, generating new ones, and turning moments of calm into mental…
Although the researchers did not find statistically significant differences in risk between men and women, they observed that women showed slightly stronger associations between psychosis and overall adversity, especially in relation to sexual abuse. Another striking discovery was that people who experienced childhood adversity tended to develop psychotic symptoms around nine to ten months earlier…
Nineteen years ago, I made a decision that changed my life: I had gastric bypass surgery. At the time, I weighed 365 pounds, and my relationship with food, my body, and even my self-worth was deeply complicated. Today, I’ve lost and maintained a weight loss of 230 pounds, but what I’ve learned about the weight…
Open any app store and you’ll see an ocean of mental health tools. Mood trackers, artificial intelligence (AI) “therapists,” psychedelic-trip guides, and more are on offer. According to market research, industry analysts now count over 20,000 mental health apps and about 350,000 health apps overall. These numbers are thought to have doubled since 2020 as…
By Marvin Ross My old university research AI – A library card catalogue. Last week we published a blog by Dr Dawson on the similarities of Trump’s targeting of immigrants, refugees, trans people with how Hitler accomplished his support for the Holocaust by demonizing Jews, Gypsies and others. The title was Alligator Alcatraz: The Third…
Although the researchers did not find statistically significant differences in risk between men and women, they observed that women showed slightly stronger associations between psychosis and overall adversity, especially in relation to sexual abuse. Another striking discovery was that people who experienced childhood adversity tended to develop psychotic symptoms around nine to ten months earlier…