We Killed God, Family, And Community — And Now It’s Killing Us
We have discarded social institutions that have helped people understand their value and place in the world for thousands of years. And their decline is not just mirrored in the rise of mass shootings.
Purity Culture Trauma Didn’t Push Me Away From My Faith
As we culturally deconstruct the dreadfully misguided marketing effort of purity culture, it’s important to recognize that isn’t the truth of Christianity. As happens too often, fallible humans completely garbled the message.
Therapy Animals Are Not Only Ridiculous, They Probably Make Things Worse
Fourteen years ago, I should have known it would eventually come to this. That I’d have to take time away from solving crimes to explain why I don’t like therapy animals.
How Quitting Facebook Helped Relieve My Depression And Made Me A Better Friend
At first, quitting Facebook was insanely difficult. I had been on Facebook since its inception, and developed social habits centered on the platform.
Has Promoting Mother Absence Spawned Campus Crybabies?
Let’s take a look at some evidence for Mary Eberstadt’s charge that increasingly anxious and rootless young Americans have been cheated by their own families and society of their sense of identity.
Is Self-Care Healthy Or The Ultimate In Millennial Narcissism? Yes
A new study finds a connection between millennials’ high rates of ‘self-care’ and their obsessive use of the Internet — it’s where millennials get solutions, including ones to problems they didn’t previously know they have.
Therapists Who Reinforce Clients’ Trump Fears Are Hurting Them
The election of President Trump is not an excuse for mental health therapists to throw out their professional training and evidence-based research to collude with their patients.
How Anxiety Makes Americans Susceptible To Propaganda
Fear weakens society’s ‘immune system,’ undercutting the mechanisms by which it resists internal threats to order.
Hygge Helps Explain Millennials’ Longing For Reenchantment
Americans’ desire for the Scandinavian concept of ‘coziness’ indicates a spiritual longing, one that speaks to the shortcomings of our demystified culture.
By Making Politics Apocalyptic, Americans Give Themselves Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder
In politics and society, many things are portrayed as a dramatic zero-sum game—where a big winner and a big loser is the only possibility.
10 Things I Wish I’d Done My Freshman Year Of College
Today’s college students are stressed and anxious. We can’t always remove stress from our lives, but we can equip ourselves to handle it better. Here’s how.
How Judging Other Parents Can Equal Class Warfare
Moral outrage over many basic parenting choices is not only illogical and statistically unfounded but a hallmark of the new class war.
6 Steps To The Perfect Wedding
The day you say ‘I do’ is about so much more than you, your anxiety, and your ability to flawlessly recreate your Pinterest board. Don’t miss the beauty inherent in the day itself.
5 Ways To Deal With Holiday Food
The everpresence and overabundance of sweets and salty snacks make the holidays the best and worst of times for anyone with an eating disorder or issues with food in general.
First Graders Do Not Need To Visit Colleges Or Fill Out Applications
Pushing children into endless job prep actually makes them less fit for life. Parents need to tone down the college and career anxiety before they hurt someone.
Humans Have Not Evolved To Handle Modern Dating
What’s expected dating policy today dooms us all to a life of happily never after.
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