Happy Saturday, sweet readers!
It’s the last weekend of July so I hope you’re all going to go out and make the most of it!
Right after you check out our latest mental health news updates, of course, wink wink. Keep reading for new information on the psychology of superstition and luck, research regarding transgender and mental illness, ways to find happiness in today’s tumultuous times, and more.
The Psychology of Luck: How Superstition Can Help You Win: According to Stuart Vyse, psychologist and author of Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, lucky objects or rituals we perform for luck give us a feeling of security and “an illusion of control.” Vyse adds, however, that a “generally positive attitude towards life” seems to make more happy events happen for a person.
Psychiatry in the Streets: Unique Services for People Experiencing Homelessness: “As a practice, Street Medicine is the ‘provision of medical care directly to those living and sleeping on the streets through mobile services such as walking teams, medical vans, and outdoor clinics.’ This outreach tradition stretches back to the dawn of contemporary endemic homelessness, beginning in the early 1980s. Teams of professionals and workers who themselves are formerly homeless connect with people sleeping on the streets, methodically engage them, and help them obtain services, shelter, and housing.”
Being Transgender Is Not a Mental Disorder: Study: A new study has found that, rather than being the sole result of being transgender, it looks like the main source of transgender people’s mental distress comes from the violence and social rejection many of them suffer.
Anticipatory Stress of After-Hours Email Exhausting Employees: Many of us have been there. It’s around seven or eight o’clock in the evening and you know — you just know — that your boss is going to email you about something that really could — and should — wait until the next day’s work hours begin. According to “Exhausted But Unable to Disconnect,” a new study that will be presented during the August annual meeting of the Academy of Management, after-hours emailing negatively effects employees’ emotional states, causing them to experience “burnout” and a lack of work-family balance.
Teen Brain Scans Offer Clues to Timing of Mental Illness: According to Ed Bullmore, Head of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, generally the first signs of mental disorders such as depression and schizophrenia start showing during adolescence, and recent research suggests this is due to the rapid development of certain brain regions during this time: “This study gives us a clue why this is the case: It’s during these teenage years that those brain regions that have the strongest link to the schizophrenia risk genes are developing most rapidly.”
Happiness And Inner Peace During Turbulent Times: Unless you’ve been — no, you know what? — even if you have been living under a rock, you’re well aware of the extremely turbulent times our world has been experiencing recently. Marilyn Tam, a board-certified coach in executive, corporate, and leadership issues and the author of The Happiness Choice, has compiled a list of five tips you can try to help find your balance and happiness again.
from World of Psychology http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2016/07/30/psychology-around-the-net-july-30-2016/
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