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• Child gambling is a form of self-harm – it’s too complex for a quick-fix clinic | Anouchka Grose

  25-06-2019 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Simple therapies such as CBT can be only partly effective. We need to rein in an industry that unscrupulously targets vulnerable young peopleAlmost half a million children in England and Wales are gambling regularly, with about 55,000 estimated to have a serious problem. Suicide rates for gambling addicts are high, and gambling-related problems cause stress for individuals and families. In response, the NHS has opened its first children’s gambling clinic, offering face-to-face treatment &n
  
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• Is writing down my rage the secret to resolving it? | Emma Beddington

  15-04-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  New research reveals that listing your grievances on a piece of paper, then throwing them away may make you less angry. So I gave it a try …A lifetime enveloped in a benign, insulating cloud of oestrogen left me ill-prepared to be this nakedly, shockingly angry as it ebbs away in perimenopause. It is occasionally exhilarating, but mainly awful, being furious about so many things: the government, contradictory dental advice, inaction on climate breakdown, whatever cat keeps defecating at m
  
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• Maybe the NHS can’t wait to get me off its list | Brief letters

  14-04-2024 18:18 via theguardian.com
  
  NHS waiting list | Spineless politicians | Anger management At first I was pleasantly surprised when asked, in my NHS app, whether I still wanted to remain on a waiting list for a minor operation (Almost 10 million people in England could be on NHS waiting list, 3 April). I now wonder whether this was more about the government’s method of reducing waiting lists rather than my medical need.
  Nick Page
  Winchester• I read your print headline “Invertebrate of the year:
  
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• Diagnosing yourself with a mental health issue may bring comfort, but it can be dangerous | Ashwini Padhi

  14-04-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  What seems like a shortcut to understanding can lead you down a path of confusion and despair. There’s no substitute for professional helpThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workIn the age of information overload, where a world of knowledge lies just a click away, the temptation to self-diagnose mental health conditions has become an all-too-common trend for many people. There is an allure in online quizzes and symptom checklists
  
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• Do you want to receive more love? First get to know your superego

  14-04-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s the internal voice whose strict, unbending standards can make us miserable. But tuning in to it can change everythingSign up for Well Actually, a free weekly newsletter about health and wellnessWhen I first became her patient, I heard everything my therapist said as a criticism. Almost every word that came out of her mouth, I received as a telling off, a character assassination or a low mark. I thought to myself: “I’m paying this woman to help me and all she’s doing
  
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• I was abused as a child, but now my mother needs care | Ask Philippa

  14-04-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Manage your mum’s care from a distance. Don’t get sucked into her orbitThe question My father was violent and my mother emotionally fragile. I took on a parental role from the age of around 11, trying to manage my dad’s moods, keep my mum’s spirits up and take care of my younger brother. Mum often leaned on me and I felt responsible for her stability. We were often punished in cruel ways. I was also abused sexually by a family “friend”. When we finally escaped
  
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• I was abused as a child, but now my mother needs care

  14-04-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Manage your mum’s care from a distance. Don’t get sucked into her orbitThe question My father was violent and my mother emotionally fragile. I took on a parental role from the age of around 11, trying to manage my dad’s moods, keep my mum’s spirits up and take care of my younger brother. Mum often leaned on me and I felt responsible for her stability. We were often punished in cruel ways. I was also abused sexually by a family “friend”. When we finally escaped
  
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• ‘Smell is really important for social communication’: how technology is ruining our senses

  13-04-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Scientists say an overreliance on sight and sound is having a detrimental effect on people’s wellbeing and that our devices should deliver a multisensory experience“Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain’t heard nothing yet.” So went the first line of audible dialogue in a feature film, 1927’s The Jazz Singer. It was one of the first times that mass media had conveyed the sight and sound of a scene together, and the audience was enthralled.There have been improvement
  
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• O.J. Simpson Case Forced Domestic Violence Into the Spotlight

  13-04-2024 08:13 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportThirty years ago, as women's rights advocates worked to pass the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, domestic violence was still something of a hushed topic. Then Nicole Brown Simpson's death forced it into the spotlight. Americans riveted by the murder investigation of superstar ex-husband O.J. Simpson—who died Wednesday at 76—heard startling and painful details of the abuse she described. Her case, say experts, changed the movement nearly...
  
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• Weekend podcast: what’s it like to be a sociopath?; Gen Z’s lust for Sex and the City; and Marina Hyde on President The Rock

  13-04-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Marina Hyde with her take on Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s surreal US presidential bid (1m23s); Emine Saner meets the sociopath who learned to behave – and found happiness (8m05s); why Gen Z has fallen in love with Sex and the City (24m45s); and do our political opponents really hate us? (29m54s). Continue reading...
  
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• Germany Makes It Easier for People to Legally Change Name and Gender

  12-04-2024 19:36 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: ABC News - InternationalGerman lawmakers approved legislation Friday that will make it easier for transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people to change their name and gender in official records. The "self-determination law," one of several social reforms that Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government pledged when it took office in 2021, is set to take effect on November 1. Germany, the European Union's most populous nation, follows several other countries in making the...
  
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• Bipartisan Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Counter Anti-Semitism in U.S.

  12-04-2024 19:36 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsA bipartisan group of lawmakers from both chambers of the U.S. Congress have introduced a bill to combat anti-Semitism, which has been spiking across the nation amid Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza. The Countering Anti-Semitism Act would create a new position of White House national coordinator to counter anti-Semitism who would serve as the president's principal advisor on countering domestic anti-Semitism and coordinate federal efforts to...
  
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• Pressure Grows for EU-Wide Ban on Forced Sterilization of Disabled

  12-04-2024 19:35 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportSpanish disability rights activist Cristina Paredero grew up feeling different and was diagnosed with a form of autism aged 18. She says her parents told her she should never have children, and pressed her into agreeing to get sterilized. Paredero, who is now 31 and upset over what happened, helped draft a 2020 law banning forced or coerced sterilization in Spain and has joined other activists fighting to outlaw the practice across the European...
  
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• Biden, Trump Dig Heels in on Electric Vehicles Ahead of 2024 Election Day

  12-04-2024 19:35 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportA "hoax," the advocates for which should "ROT IN HELL." A product of China, they could lead to a "bloodbath" for the U.S. economy. Or, a savior of the environment that is creating "tens of thousands of good jobs." These are, respectively, how former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden have described electric vehicles—an unlikely wedge issue in a 2024 election that's seen division on pretty much everything else.
  
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• Feeling angry? Here’s how to deal with it | Letters

  11-04-2024 18:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Readers respond to Japanese research on anger management techniques Your article (Write down your thoughts and shred them to relieve anger, researchers say, 9 April) reminded me that, in the 1960s, after visiting a preschool group in a monitoring capacity, I felt aggrieved by the way I’d been received. On returning home, I wrote a letter to the person involved, but then calmed down sufficiently to decide not to send it. I screwed up the paper and threw it on to the open fire. I did feel be
  
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• Trump Says Jews Who Back Biden "Should Have Their Head Examined"

  11-04-2024 18:02 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportDonald Trump on Wednesday lashed out at Jewish voters who support President Joe Biden and framed this year's election as a referendum on the strength of Christianity in the United States—part of his effort to secure backing from evangelical conservatives. Speaking in Atlanta ahead of a fundraiser, the presumptive Republican nominee said, "Any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat or votes for Biden should have their head examined."
  
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• Climate Change May Be Fueling a Rise in Stroke Deaths

  11-04-2024 18:02 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsIntense weather fluctuations caused by climate change could be contributing to a rise in stroke deaths, researchers report Wednesday in the journal Neurology. The study, based on three decades of health records in more than 200 countries and territories, found over 521,000 stroke deaths in 2019 linked to temperatures that swung too low or high. Low temperatures cause a person's blood vessels to constrict, increasing blood pressure and stroke...
  
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• Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster review – no place like home

  11-04-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This absorbing exploration of nostalgia raises questions about its slippery nature, and shows how it has been chillingly deployed in politics, from the cold war to TrumpismIn the 1970s there were American press reports of an Iowa man who was tormented by his yearning for the 16-year stretch of time that ran from 1752 to 1768. His misery was the result of not being able to find anyone who shared this deep nostalgia for a period when electricity was still a 
  
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• The mysteries of near-death experiences | Letters

  09-04-2024 19:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Readers respond to Alex Blasdel’s long read on the studies of brain activity immediately after deathAlex Blasdel’s long read contains some fascinating facts and speculations (The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense, 2 April). However, it is odd to suggest that there are only three approaches to understanding so-called near-death experiences – physicalist, parapsychological and spiritualist.While the field of near-death
  
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• NAIA Restricts Transgender Athletes in U.S. Collegiate Sports

  09-04-2024 17:58 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthThe National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announced a policy Monday that all but bans transgender athletes from competing in women's sports at its 241 mostly small colleges across the U.S. The NAIA, which oversees some 83,000 athletes competing in more than 25 sports, is believed to be the first college sports organization to take such a step. The policy, which goes into effect in August, allows all athletes to participate in male...
  
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• Germany Rejects Accusations of Aiding Acts of Genocide in Gaza

  09-04-2024 17:58 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthGermany on Tuesday strongly rejected a case brought by Nicaragua at the United Nations' top court accusing Berlin of facilitating breaches of the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law by providing arms and other support to Israel in its deadly assault on Gaza. The day before, Nicaragua urged judges to order a halt to German military aid to Israel, arguing that Berlin was enabling acts of genocide and breaches of international...
  
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• American Library Association: "Gender Queer" Most Challenged Book

  09-04-2024 17:58 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsGender Queer, a memoir by LGBTQ author Maia Kobabe, was the most challenged book in U.S. public libraries last year, says the American Library Association in a statement that launched National Library Week. The ALA released its Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2023 along with its State of America's Libraries Report. The report reveals the actions libraries and their workers have taken to address censorship attempts and meet community needs.
  
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• Trans Catholics Say Vatican Statement Lacks Understanding of Their Lives

  09-04-2024 17:58 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthTransgender Catholics are expressing disappointment with a Vatican document released Monday that refers to sex changes as a threat to human dignity. "Transgender people are beloved, intentional creations of God the same as cisgender men and women are," said Michael Sennett, a transgender man who is involved with an LGBTQ+ ministry. "Trans people who take hormones or have surgeries are not playing God; we are respecting and accepting our...
  
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• Vatican Says Sex Change, Gender Theory Are "Grave Threats"

  09-04-2024 17:34 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsThe Vatican and Pope Francis issued a strong declaration Monday condemning transgender sex change, surrogate motherhood, and abortion as "grave threats" to human dignity. "We are called to protect our humanity, and this means, in the first place, accepting it and respecting it as it was created," the doctrine states. The document includes "gender theory," sex changes, surrogacy, and euthanasia in the Catholic Church's list of threats to dignity.
  
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• World Failed Us in 1994, Rwanda's President Says of Genocide

  09-04-2024 16:57 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthRwanda's president said the international community "failed all of us", as he marked 30 years since the 1994 genocide that killed around 800,000 people. President Paul Kagame addressed dignitaries and world leaders who had gathered in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, to commemorate the bloodshed. "And the lessons we learned are engraved in blood," he said. On this day in 1994, extremists from the Hutu ethnic group launched a 100-day killing spree, in...
  
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• Nicaragua Takes Germany to World Court for Supporting Israel's "Genocide"

  09-04-2024 16:57 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsThe International Court of Justice opened hearings Monday over allegations that Germany is aiding genocide committed by Israel in Gaza. Nicaragua last month initiated the proceedings by accusing Germany of "facilitating the commission of genocide and, in any case has failed in its obligation to do everything possible to prevent the commission of genocide." Germany is a key weapons dealer for Israel, while Nicaragua has been a supporter of...
  
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• European Court Rules Human Rights Violated by Climate Inaction

  09-04-2024 16:57 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthA group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights. The women, mostly in their 70s, said that their age and gender made them particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves linked to climate change. The court said Switzerland's efforts to meet its emission reduction targets had been woefully inadequate. It is the first time the powerful court has ruled on global warming.
  
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• Write down your thoughts and shred them to relieve anger, researchers say

  09-04-2024 15:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Writing negative reactions on paper and shredding it or scrunching and throwing in the bin eliminates angry feelings, study findsSince time immemorial humans have tried to devise anger management techniques.In ancient Rome, the Stoic philosopher Seneca believed “my anger is likely to do me more harm than your wrong” and offered avoidance tips in his AD45 work De Ira (On Anger). Continue reading...
  
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• Racial Diversity Among U.S. College Faculty Lags, Report Finds

  09-04-2024 13:00 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportDespite gains in faculty diversity at U.S. universities over the last two decades, Black and Hispanic professors remain underrepresented compared to their students and to professionals with advanced degrees in fields such as law and engineering, according to a report released Tuesday. Faculty diversity can improve the sense of belonging and retention rates for students of color, said Representative Bobby Scott, who requested the government study.
  
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• Canada to Launch $500 Million Fund for Youth Mental Health

  09-04-2024 09:34 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories NewsCanada is setting up a $500-million fund to help community health organizations provide more mental health care to young people. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland made the announcement Tuesday in Ottawa alongside other cabinet ministers, including Ya'ara Saks, minister of mental health and addictions. Many Canadians are facing stress due to war, climate change, and finances, Saks said, and "young people often do not have the tools that the
  
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