Saturday 4 March 2017

Psychology Around the Net: March 4, 2017

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It’s that time again, sweet readers!

Let’s catch up on the latest mental health-related news around the ‘net including the habits that build a strong relationship, the pros and cons of patients’ having access to their doctors’ notes, a new video game about depression, and more.

9 Habits Of People In the Healthiest Relationships: Do you compliment your significant other in public? Do you put yourself in their shoes to better understand where they’re coming from and so you can practice empathy toward them? What about joking, laughing, and flirting? These qualities and more could the reason why your relationship is strong — or ways you can go about strengthening it.

What Happens When Patients Access Their Mental Health Providers’ Notes? A small study from the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care in Portland regarding OpenNotes offers some insight about how the program — which allows patients access to their doctors’ notes — can affect the relationship between a mental health profession and his or her patient.

13 Surefire Ways to Tap Into Your Creativity: Sometimes (many times), creative people face creative blocks due to mental blocks; sometimes, they even use these excuses to stall and avoid their creative work. However, there are ways to get past this creative barricade and start acting on — and keeping up with — your creative urges again, such as committing to one creative practice a day, stepping outside your office or home and soaking up some nature, improving your tolerance for failure (hey, you can’t win ’em all), and more.

A Guide to Burnout: What It Is, and How to Overcome It: Learn the symptoms of “burnout” and what causes it (it’s quite different from just feeling tired after a long day), the three clear-cut parts of burnout (yes, this is quite specific), and ways you can overcome it and avoid burnout-related risks including various mental and physical health problems.

‘Please Knock on My Door’ Is a Digital Life of Depression: Please Knock on My Door isn’t an app, like so many mental health-related apps out today, but a video game that “drives home the feelings of intense lethargy, self-doubt and numbness that can constantly assault someone living with depression” and how depression can infiltrate a person’s life. Please Knock on My Door is set to hit Steam later this year.

Prebiotics Could Stop Stress From Harming Sleep Quality: The American Psychological Association states that stress is a key factor for many people who don’t get enough quality sleep each night. Now, researchers from the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder reports taking prebiotics — which promote good bacteria already in your bowel or colon (as opposed to probiotics, which introduce the good bacteria) — could help people sleep better because they “fix” (for lack of a better term) the upset in that gut bacteria that stress can cause.



from World of Psychology https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2017/03/04/psychology-around-the-net-march-4-2017/

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