Psychology Around the Net: August 8, 2020
This week’s Psychology Around the Net looks at a new study on building strong bonds between children and nature, how Google’s search monopoly is affecting the mental health crisis, research suggesting baby boomers aren’t as mentally sharp as their parents’ generation, and more.
Stay well, friends!
To Bond With Nature, Kids Need Solitary Activities Outdoors: A new study finds that solitary activities (thinking hunting, fishing, and just hiking around and exploring) are perfect for children to build strong bonds with nature. Not only do these kinds of activities help children enjoy being outside, bu...
Source: World of Psychology - August 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Psychology Around the Net Adhd Amygdala antitrust anxiety Baby Boomers demntia Depression emotional processing Google Hippocampus kids Loneliness Memory Nature outdoors Source Type: blogs
10 Simple Ways to Love Yourself a Little More Each Day
Treat yourself right!
Want to learn how to love yourself? Think you can’t? You can — even if you believe you’re too much of a work in progress.
You can do this by learning how to practice healthy self-care a little every day.
Loving yourself is not about looking better than your social media friends or keeping up with the Jones. It’s not about accomplishing great feats or accumulating massive wealth and material things. These are illusions of happiness.
And happiness doesn’t have a timeline. You can’t say, “I’ll be happy with myself when I lose 20 pounds, or when the kids get th...
Source: World of Psychology - August 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Publishers YourTango Mindfulness Self Care Source Type: blogs
How COVID-19 Harms Our Mental Well-Being – And What to Do About It
It’s been months since America first learned of the potentially deadly virus we’ve come to know as COVID-19 or coronavirus. After months of stringent lockdown mandates and emerging in public once again only to have the coronavirus reappear in hotspots across the country as mask wearing and social distancing practices waned, it’s not looking good for a complete reopening of our nation.
Indeed, in numerous (and growing numbers of) states, lockdown requirements and other restrictions are again being ordered. As the mental health toll to our collective well-being mounts, medical experts urge everyone to take proactive m...
Source: World of Psychology - August 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help anxiety coronavirus COVID-10 pandemic Stress Worry Source Type: blogs
Mental Health in the Digital Realm
In the time of a global health crisis, when we are asked to close our doors and forced into isolation, we are left feeling deeply uncomfortable and disconnected. We have no option but to sit, stew and stir in our thoughts and emotions. The one thing that is keeping us sane, helping us feel connected and cared for and allowing us to move through the day, is the digital world. The online space is increasingly being recognized as a platform to encourage conversations around mental health. Whether it is noticing symptoms, exploring ways to cope or validating a person’s experience, it has transformed into a tool to champion t...
Source: World of Psychology - August 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rhea Mathews Tags: Friends Minding the Media Racism Relationships Stigma Technology LGBTQ Media Platforms social media Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Dating Violence in Young Adults
Teen dating isn’t always innocent puppy love. Some young people can get involved in emotionally abusive or even violent relationships. How common is this? What are some of the signs of teen dating violence and how can family and friends help?
In today’s show, counselor Joelle Shipp explains why young people can end up in these kinds of situations and how they can get out of them. She also shares the 3 components of healthy relationships.
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Source: World of Psychology - August 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Children and Teens General Relationships The Psych Central Show Trauma Source Type: blogs
Don ’t Let This One Habit Undermine Your Career and Mental Health
Raise your hand if you’ve complained to a friend the night before an interview, “I can’t stand talking about myself!”
Or felt your face turn Elmo-red when your boss singled out your contributions to the last product launch in front of everyone.
Or hastily said, “Everyone had their part,” when your manager remarked on the calm and decisiveness with which you led your team to meet the last deadline.
You believe it’s important not to be full of yourself. I get it. As a kid you were told not to toot your own horn. Perhaps you were even told that being proud of yourself was a sin.
So you deflect praise instincti...
Source: World of Psychology - August 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stephanie Woo Dearden, MA Tags: Habits Industrial and Workplace Perfectionism Self-Esteem Self-Help Success & Achievement Career Goals Humility Positive Self Talk risk-taking self-confidence self-worth Source Type: blogs
Pregnancy Empowerment in the Time of Covid Isolation
At a time of an unprecedented global pandemic, there is an increase anxiety in interfacing with any medical appointment. For some this means concerns in accessing medical care coming forward, fears of not being able to receive the treatment needed with hospitals over capacity. For others, it reflects a time of concern of contamination of getting COVID if one does not already have it. For a unique group, there is an intersection and special loneliness of accessing medical care in the time of pregnancy and delivery.
With the barriers in place regarding not having partners present for appointments, the first heart beat, and ...
Source: World of Psychology - August 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jessica Koblenz, PsyD Tags: Family Parenting Pregnancy Women's Issues birth coronavirus COVID-19 Motherhood New Parents Source Type: blogs
Learning to Pivot in 2020
Anyone who would consider this year to be roughly the same as usual must be living in a cave somewhere deep in the wilderness. Because for just about every person on earth, it’s been different from any other year in (almost) living memory. And it’s only August. Woof.
I might venture to say that for me, a self-employed artist and writer, 2020 has been possibly even more different than for the average person weathering these strange times. January gave the year a dour beginning, as it ended with the death of my canine best friend of more than a decade. Then in mid-March I gave birth to my first child, on the same day our...
Source: World of Psychology - August 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hanna C. Howard Tags: Books Motivation and Inspiration Personal coronavirus COVID-19 cultivating optimism Motherhood pandemic Perspective Positive perspective quarantine radical acceptance Source Type: blogs
Podcast: My Husband Has Psychosis
What does psychosis feel like? What’s the difference between a delusion that demons exist and a religious belief of the same? In today’s show, Gabe and Lisa recall Gabe’s real-life psychotic episodes and discuss all the pain and stress surrounding psychosis.
Join us as Gabe shares how it felt when there were demons under his bed and when the window washers were watching his every move.
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Source: World of Psychology - August 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: Bipolar General Not Crazy Podcast Schizophrenia Source Type: blogs
Rebuilding Life after Loss with Your Personal Venn Diagram
If someone you love very much has died, you may think your life is over. The psychological impact of loss is overwhelming, especially if the timing or surrounding circumstances were unexpected or traumatic. The mind reacts in astonishing ways while grieving. At some point, however, the realization comes: how can I go on?
Simple photographs that brought so much joy before everything changed might be painful reminders that force you to put them away for a while. The aftermath of a death impacts everyone around the person who died. Family members, friends, colleagues, even casual acquaintances may have differing grief experie...
Source: World of Psychology - August 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jan McDaniel Tags: Grief and Loss grieving Source Type: blogs
How to Talk Politics So Others Will Listen
When decisions and actions of a significant part of a community are experienced as dangerous, threatening, or unjust by others, that community (or family or nation) is forced to figure out what it stands for. That’s what is going on now in America. Our conversations about how to handle the pandemic and how to come to terms with our nation’s systemic racism are surfacing long-simmering disagreements and resentments about who we are. Social media is ensuring that those issues can’t be pushed back underground and ignored. In order for our nation to survive, we are challenged to find common ground.
Conversations between ...
Source: World of Psychology - August 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. Tags: Agitation Anger Communication Policy and Advocacy Communication Differences Disagreement political arguments Source Type: blogs
Decision Fatigue: Why Does Less Feel Like So Much More?
During this pandemic people have found themselves at home either more of the time, or in some cases, almost exclusively. The calendar that was once filled with meetings and reminders, suddenly lacked all its luster. Those annoying dings that once sent us on to the next task, giving us nothing short of a Pavlov’s dog response, stopped suddenly. Previously, we wore the word “busy” as some sort of badge of honor, but now find ourselves feeling lost and even despondent. So how can it be that we’re exhausted at the end of the day? The calendar says that we’re doing less, yet our body, mind and spirit would beg...
Source: World of Psychology - August 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Judy Gaman Tags: Anxiety and Panic Self-Help Stress coronavirus COVID-19 decision fatigue pandemic Rumination stress reduction Worry Source Type: blogs
5 Ways to Make Family Summer Memories Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Find the silver lining this summer based on your favorite childhood activities.
Are you feeling like your world has been turned upside-down since COVID-19 entered our lives? Uncertainty remains as the discussion of re-opening occurs, while cases and deaths continue to rise.
Many camps and other children’s programs have been canceled or have gone virtual. Parents are looking for fun, safe summer activities to keep their kids happy.
All parents want their kids to have a fun and memorable summer.
It’s important to look for the silver lining and make the most of this summer with your kids.
Here are 5 fun summer activi...
Source: World of Psychology - August 2, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Family Publishers YourTango kids Parenting summer Source Type: blogs
When the World Is Breaking Your Heart
The other week, my husband and I were driving home after visiting a beloved family member who is struggling with the excruciating pain and to-the-bone weariness of cancer. As our car lugged down the highway, I thought about the ongoing cruelty of our world: the ravages of disease and war, the current pandemic, the never-ending inhumanity, inequality, and brutality, as well as the general disregard to our earth and the innocent creatures who are clinging to survive on it. (And, yes, I do realize that I’m just as guilty as the masses in spewing out pollution by the simple fact that I drive a car). I held back tears, and th...
Source: World of Psychology - August 2, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tracy Shawn, MA Tags: Death & Dying Depression Grief and Loss Inspiration & Hope Personal Cancer Optimism Source Type: blogs
Coping with Comorbid Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
Tips that work. A plan. These are what help in the battle with mental illness and substance abuse. The material here is from individuals dealing with both diagnoses and for their family members. Tips are shared anonymously for privacy reasons.
If you suspect alcohol or drugs are interfering with your life and your ability to handle your mental health issues, you may be facing a dual diagnosis situation. Talk to your doctor or mental health professional without delay to begin the process of understanding and trying treatment options.
I have learned that willingness is the key to successful recovery work. The willingness t...
Source: World of Psychology - August 2, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jan McDaniel Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Recovery Substance Abuse 12 Steps Addiction Recovery Alcoholics Anonymous Comorbidity Mental Illness Source Type: blogs
