AAAAAACHOOOOOO!
That’s me, readers, sneezing my brains out as I type this. You might remember I mentioned being sick last week? Well, this week, allergies decided to fill the void my common cold left behind.
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for me and, as a matter of fact, I’m going to stop here and leave you to peruse this week’s latest news about psychiatry and eugenics, using mindfulness to launch your career, some interesting results related to the self-esteem of women around the world, and more, because I’m headed to my pharmacist.
(They’re used to people looking like something the cat dragged in, right? RIGHT?!)
Adult Women Diagnosed With ADHD May Face Increased Risk Of Mental Health Conditions, Suicidal Thoughts: According to a new study conducted by the University of Toronto in Canada, there’s a link between women with attention deficit hyper activity disorder (ADHD) and other serious mental health conditions as well as physical conditions, such as physical pain. The research also showed women with ADHD are more likely to suffer from insomnia and were more likely to smoke.
Psychiatry is Edging Dangerously Close to Eugenics: Dr. Robert Berezin, a private practitioner and psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School, believes “history is repeating itself”: that today’s psychiatry practices are reverting back to eugenics (simply put, movements to improve the human population’s genetic quality) and comparing today’s pharmaceutical psychiatry to yesteryear’s lobotomies.
Marriage Isn’t Always Fun (And That’s Okay): “When I hear people talk about marrying their best friend, I internally shake my head at their naivety. Do they really think it’ll stay that way? Dating and best friends are always fun. Marriage and spouses are not.” Writer Christine Skoutelas weighs in on comparing dating your best friend and being married to your best friend isn’t exactly accurate, but that it doesn’t mean it’s any less fulfilling.; in fact, for many, it can me more.
Five Ways Mindfulness Will Launch Your Career: From Apple and Google to Yahoo and even Starbucks, businesses everywhere are advocating mindfulness practices to their employees. Check out these five ways practicing mindfulness can improve your work performance now and in the future.
Personality Can Change Over A Lifetime, and Usually for the Better: “[W]hile personality traits are relatively stable over time, they can and often do gradually change across the life span. What’s more, those changes are usually for the better. Many studies, including some of my own, show that most adults become more agreeable, conscientious and emotionally resilient as they age,” says Colby College psychology professor Association for Research in Personality executive board member Christopher Soto.
British Women ‘Have the LOWEST Self-Esteem in the World’: According to the Dove Global Beauty and Confidence Report, a quiz of 10,500 women aged 10 to 64 from 13 countries showed that British women have “the lowest self-esteem scores in the world.”
from World of Psychology http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2016/07/23/psychology-around-the-net-july-23-2016/
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