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Do you seek reassurances from your virtual friends? Do you use social media for emotional escape? Why Knowing Our Attachment Style Matters In The Digital Age | Psychology Today 1. Practice mindfulness in interactions. Do you often feel insecure with a romantic partner or feel anger and distrust with your best friend? Do you find you post more often…
Remember more by taking breaks
We remember things longer if we take breaks during learning, referred to as the spacing effect. Scientists gained deeper insight into the neuronal basis for this phenomenon in mice. With longer intervals between learning repetitions, mice reuse more of the same neurons as before — instead of activating different ones. Possibly, this allows the neuronal…
Tinder – Increasing police surveillance
Without context, it’s difficult for AI to detect behaviours and language that are harmful to users. NSW Police want access to Tinder’s sexual assault data. Cybersafety experts explain why it’s a date with disaster (theconversation.com) There’s no evidence to suggest that granting police access to sexual assault reports will increase users’ safety on dating apps,…
Narcissistic love bombing
When your narcissist is a romantic partner, you may have experienced the “love bombing” stage—that totally over-the-top romantic start of the relationship when you were bombarded with small and big gestures of love. This might include messages about being “soulmates,” that they were “waiting for you all my life” or that they “can’t imagine how…
How to Handle Narcissists and Enablers
The best way to avoid being abused and gaslighted as too sensitive is to limit or end contact with the person or people abusing you. But if you are currently unable to leave an abusive situation, there are strategies that can put you on better footing. Stop explaining yourself. The pathological narcissist thrives on exploiting and invalidating others, and your…
Childhood Sexual Abuse and Depressive Disorders
Findings from the four systematic reviews and three meta-analyses identified in this report showed that: Victims of childhood sexual abuse are more likely to develop depressive disorders than are non-victims. There is fair quality evidence that childhood sexual abuse is a likely risk factor for the development of depression, with an odds ratio…