Depression Isn’t Caused by a Chemical Imbalance
The prevailing theory for depression focuses on an alleged chemical imbalance in the brain—meta-researchers are now dispelling this narrative.
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Psychology
True Happiness Means Embracing Sadness and Pain
We are often sent messages that we shouldn’t feel negative emotions, so people are highly conditioned to want to change or get rid of their emotions, which leads to suppression, rumination, and/or avoidance—thus impeding our happiness.
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Comfort with Solitude Comes Before the Ability to Think
Freedom entails the capacity to think and to judge in private, where solitude empowers the individual to contemplate their actions and develop their conscience, to escape the cacophony of the crowd. Solitude precedes moral thinking.
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Self-Esteem, Self-Compassion, or Self-Indifference? Which Is Best?
Millennials are the generation who came of age during the self-esteem movement. The concept of self-esteem is losing it’s currency, but are self-compassion or self-indifference better frameworks for emotional health?
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We Can Never Know Whether Something Is Good or Bad, and That’s Okay
This Taoist parable highlights how our obsession with evaluating outcomes can be a deceiving diversion that distracts us from action and inner peace.
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Overcoming Childhood Trauma and Other Heroic Lessons from ‘The Dark Knight’
A cinematic masterpiece, ‘The Dark Knight’ is filled with insights into empathy and building emotional resiliency after childhood trauma.
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Should Parents Admit Having a Favorite Child?
Whether parents admit it or not, most have a favorite child, though they should heavily consider whether admitting it would be in any child’s best interest.
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‘Why So Serious?’: Child Abuse in the Dark Knight
The actions, nonetheless, of our parents and the mentors of our youth bear heavily on our psychological, social, and neurological development.
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