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Underrecognized Inspirational Value of Persistence
How being creative feels to us and the actual progress we’re making can be two different things. https://t.co/sBYnZRHrMk — Psychology Today (@PsychToday) March 7, 2017 The studies demonstrated under-prediction of the “creative yield” that might be achieved through persistence across many different types of creative tasks. Why do we show such a consistent failure to…
Internet pornography: protective roles of social support among Korean adolescents
http://bit.ly/2L6TY0x Adolescents’ exposure to internet pornography and its negative effects on healthy sexual development have been extensively investigated. However, little research has addressed the identification of protective factors that can buffer these negative effects. Based on the conceptualisation of a stress-buffering model of social support, this study empirically tested whether social support would provide a…
Sexual abuse in childhood leads to greater difficulty with adult relationships
https://aifs.gov.au/cfca/publications/long-term-effects-child-sexual-abuse/interpersonal-outcomes There is increasing evidence that children who have been abused, and in particular sexually abused, have greater difficulties with interpersonal relationships and especially trust compared with non-abused individuals. Given the betrayal of trust and violation of personal boundaries involved in child sexual victimisation, this is not surprising. In addition, the secrecy and often the…
Dissociative identity disorder & sexual abuse
Sybil: A Brilliant Hysteric? | Retro Report | The New York Times https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder#1 Dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder) is thought to be a complex psychological condition that is likely caused by many factors, including severe trauma during early childhood (usually extreme, repetitive physical, sexual, or emotional abuse). https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder Dissociative identity disorder…
Mental health has been commoditised
http://bit.ly/2YQtKmi In the 1980s, British audiences smiled bemusedly at neurosis-laden Woody Allen films and the normality with which American television and cinema treated notions of therapy, meds and interventions. To a British ear, the protagonists of these human melodramas could seem self-absorbed, foolish and narcissistic; figures of fun to be pitied for their inability to…