9 Best Articles in 2020
The New York Times
Stop Trying to Be Productive
The New York Times
6 min read · 1127 saves · Apr 1st · Taylor Lorenz · The internet wants you to believe you aren’t doing enough with all that “extra time” you have now. But staying inside and attending to basic needs is plenty.
The Atlantic
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
The Atlantic
1100 saves · From 2017 · Jean M. Twenge · More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
BuzzFeed News
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
BuzzFeed News
894 saves · 2019-01-05 · Some claim millennials are lazy and entitled –?unable to do basic tasks that older adults have just gotten on with for years. Anne Helen Petersen, senior culture writer for Buzzfeed News, rejects those labels. Milllennials like herself, she argues, are merely trying their best to navigate trends like skyrocketing student loans?and an underpaying,?perk-free?gig economy. Millennials will likely not be the only ones who feel that her insights and observations are almost painfully on the nose.
Psychology Today
10 Exercises to Make You Mentally Stronger
Psychology Today
3 min read · 693 saves · Feb 26th · Building a little mental muscle could have a big impact on your life.
medium.com
Psychologists Explain How To Stop Overthinking Everything
medium.com
7 min read · 651 saves · 2019-11-16 · Thomas Oppong · Overthinking can lead to serious emotional distress and increase your risk of mental health problems
New York Magazine
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
New York Magazine
20+ min read · 636 saves · From 2016 · An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
The Economist Data Team
How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness
The Economist Data Team
5 min read · 620 saves · From 2018 · Youngsters report problems with anxiety, depression, sleep and “FoMO”
The Guardian
The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world
The Guardian
589 saves · From 2018 · Harriet Griffey · We check our phones every 12 minutes, often just after waking up. Always-on behaviour is harmful to long-term mental health, and we need to learn to the hit the pause button
The New York Times
What Makes Some People More Resilient Than Others
The New York Times
6 min read · 489 saves · Jun 18th · Eilene Zimmerman · The very earliest days of our lives, and our closest relationships, can offer clues about how we cope with adversity.
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A Science-Based Technique for Coping With Stress
Psychology Today
4 min read · 187 saves · Dec 10th · How you speak to yourself matters.
BBC Future
Why being kind to others is good for your health
BBC Future
8 min read · 165 saves · Dec 16th · While we might all enjoy the warm glow of helping out others or giving up a little of our time for charity, it could be doing us some physical good too.
WIRED
An AI Used Facebook Data to Predict Mental Illness
WIRED
2 min read · 146 saves · Dec 14th · Grace Huckins · Volunteers let an AI scan their messages from more than a year before they received a psychiatric diagnosis. It was able to flag signs of their conditions.
The Guardian
Has a year of living with Covid-19 rewired our brains?
The Guardian
~13 min read · 123 saves · Dec 13th · Paula Cocozza · The pandemic is expected to precipitate a mental health crisis, but perhaps also a chance to approach life with new clarity
Harvard Business Review
Why Burnout Happens — and How Bosses Can Help
Harvard Business Review
~14 min read · 108 saves · Dec 15th · Now more than ever, managers need to recognize when employees are suffering and do something about it.
Mashable
Quartz
I’m stepping down as CEO due to my mental health—and I want to talk about it
Quartz
3 min read · 56 saves · Dec 18th · Matthew Cooper · Hoping to break the stigma around mental health, the EarnUp co-founder writes openly about his own struggles and how he is balancing them with his career.
The Guardian
Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled in UK to treat depression
The Guardian
3 min read · 42 saves · Dec 9th · Linda Geddes · Exclusive: UK regulators give go ahead for drug to be trialled ahead of possible treatment alongside psychotherapy
The New York Times
Opinion | The Hidden ‘Fourth Wave’ of the Pandemic
The New York Times
4 min read · 22 saves · Dec 9th · Farhad Manjoo · America hasn’t begun to face this year’s mental health crisis.
Axios
Axios-Ipsos poll: Early fears come back
Axios
2 min read · 19 saves · From 2002 · Growing dread about the winter ahead is weighing on Americans' physical and mental health.
