Happy Saturday, Psych Central readers!
Confession time: I’ve been struggling a lot lately with work-life balance. Hasn’t everyone at some point? Probably. Trying to manage work responsibilities, exercise, some semblance of a social life, personal hobbies and passions–oh, and let’s not forget a proper sleep schedule–whew. Failing–and failing for longer than you care to admit–can bring on the panic, anxiety, and depression in a major way.
I’m not exactly sure when things started slipping, but I’m working on it. Hard. If you’re going through the same thing, Mental Health America (MHA) has a helpful list of tips for getting your work-life balance back on track and maintaining it. Check it out.
Now for this week’s Psychology Around the Net! Keep reading for information on how practicing gratitude changed one formally skeptic’s life, how women who work at “breastaurants” can suffer from anxiety and eating disorders, how college athletes are starting to break through the stigma and speak out about their mental health struggles, and more.
Study Finds Day-to-Day Experiences Affect Awareness of Aging, Mood: A recent study of older adults shows that an aging person’s attitude toward aging and his or her day-to-day experiences can affect the person’s awareness of age-related change (AARC) as well as the person’s mood.
The Psychological Explanation for When You Feel Like You’re Being Watched: We’ve all felt like someone was watching us, even when we couldn’t see the person. Why is that? Also, why are we often right about it? Apparently, our eyes pick up more than we know and our systems can detect things beyond what we consciously see.
I Skeptically Tried Practicing Gratitude. It Completely Changed My Life. How one woman went from being suspicious that each psychologist in the building where she worked was using her as a “guinea pig” to practicing gratitude–which was, by the way, first suggested by these psychologists–every day.
Women’s Mental Health Could Suffer from ‘Breastaurant’ Work, Study Says: Sexually Objectifying Environments: Power, Rumination, and Waitresses’ Anxiety and Disordered Eating, published at the end of May in the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly, covers a recent study by psychology professor Dawn Szymanski and graduate student Renee Mikorski of more than 250 women who work in restaurants that require or encourage female servers to wear revealing clothing and flirt with customers. They concluded these women were at a greater risk for eating disorders and anxiety.
Netflix Shows Are Sparking Conversation About Mental Health. But Is It Helping? Netflix programs such as the original show 13 Reasons Why and movie To The Bone provide some helpful and some not-so-helpful (depending on who you ask) looks at mental illness. Let’s take a look at how the entertainment industry can both help and hurt mental health awareness and what the creators and viewers need to keep in mind.
How College Athletes Are Fighting the Stigma of Mental Illness: Victoria Garrick, a junior at the University of Southern California and women’s volleyball player, gave a talk at a TEDx event in June about why college athletes are afraid to admit concerns about their mental health–and she’s not the only one stepping up.
from World of Psychology https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2017/07/22/psychology-around-the-net-july-22-2017/
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