Can you handle a job where your mental resilience is tested every minute? Tens of millions of people do it worldwide, and their contributions help keep humanity on its feet. Nurses, physicians, therapists, healthcare workers, and more make up one of the most vital sections of society. Unfortunately, they also make up the part of […]
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About five percent of people are affected with ADHD, according to a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry in 2018. Beyond that five percent, even more do not meet the full criteria, but still have difficulties with focusing and impulse control. Many kids with ADHD tend to struggle more in school. According to the study,
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For thousands of years, philosophers and religions have tried to find hidden meaning in the trials and tribulations of human life. From Greek antiquity and early Hindu texts to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, we have striven to answer this question: does our suffering have meaning? Many religions and schools of thought hold that hardships are necessary
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There’s a reason why some are naturally gifted artists and others are born mathematicians, some are social butterflies while others recharge with solitude, and some study using repetition while others can take a mental photo. When it comes to brain structure, everyone is different. An individual’s traits have much to do with upbringing, context, and
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Including President Joe Biden, Emily Blunt, and James Earl Jones, stuttering affects over 70 million people, including 3 million Americans. Denoted by continuous interruptions in the starting and timing of syllabi, stuttering can have dramatic effects. About five percent of children stutter, but approximately 80 percent recover from stuttering by the time they reach adulthood,
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The current re-appearance of Y2K fashion is the perfect example of trends showing resilience. You might have seen your mom wear bubble-gum pink halter tops and chunky flip flops in her old disposable photos from summers in the ’90s, similar to what is popular in fashion right now. The re-emergence of trends illustrates how powerful
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Our brains are amazing. We use them to store and process a variety of information, react better, learn to respond to our environment more efficiently, and survive. Emotions play a large part in this. These reactions to stimuli are processed by the brain, inducing a physiological reaction and emotional response. Oftentimes, these emotions are regulated
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Anyone who has watched Criminal Minds is familiar with the iconic cognitive interview, where the team members attempt to re-immerse a witness into the crime scene by asking them to recall specific details surrounding them. The interview almost always results in an incredible moment where the witness suddenly remembers exactly what happened. However, memory retrieval
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You are sitting in your English class when the teacher announces that you have a pop quiz on the “Macbeth” reading from last night. This was the same reading you procrastinated the previous night because scrolling on TikTok in bed was far more appealing. The overwhelming and endless amount of doomful scenarios going through your
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