Watch Overman King Gainer Episode 2 Online. How To Overcome a Bad Night's Sleep. The holidays are exciting - and sleep depriving.
Gaze in a mirror and you probably don't see a perfect sleeper. In Gallup polls, perhaps 5% of the population says they sleep well every night. Yet lots of people have bad nights, with perhaps one third of Americans complaining of insomnia that goes on and on and on.
Depression. Understanding the 10 Most Destructive Human Behaviors. By Live Science Staff | May 13, 2011 12:25pm ET Credit: © Fernando Gregory | Dreamstime.com Compared with most animals, we humans engage in a host of behaviors that are destructive to our own kind and to ourselves.
We lie, cheat and steal, carve ornamentations into our own bodies, stress out and kill ourselves, and of course kill others. Science has provided much insight into why an intelligent species seems so nasty, spiteful, self-destructive and hurtful. Author Bio Live Science Staff For the science geek in everyone, Live Science offers a fascinating window into the natural and technological world, delivering comprehensive and compelling news and analysis on everything from dinosaur discoveries, archaeological finds and amazing animals to health, innovation and wearable technology.
Live Science Staff on. Why Criticism Is So Hard to Take (Part 1) Very few people can take criticism graciously.
For most of us, being criticized is uncomfortable at best--de-stabilizing (or even devastating) at worst. The ability to take criticism in stride, it seems, is almost universally elusive. We all need to feel good about ourselves, so the moment someone judges us negatively any doubts we may yet have about ourselves can immediately catapult to the surface. Why Criticism Is So Hard to Take (Part 2) This post (going beyond Part 1 ) offers additional bulleted explanations to help account for the almost universal susceptibility to criticism.
At the same time, it suggests ways to gradually become less sensitive to the negative judgment of others. • When we're unfavorably evaluated or disagreed with, we can experience such discord almost as a put-down. Serious Psychological Disorders in College Students. Following up on last month's column about psychological stress on college campuses, this month's examines more serious cases of psychological disorder.
Alarming headlines have appeared in recent years regarding college students' (and other young persons') mental health: "Half of college students consider suicide " headlined an August 2008 article from MSNBC.com. The article reported on a large, multi-campus survey that "defined considering suicide as having at least one episode of suicidal thinking at some point. Slightly more than half of students said they fit that category, which is known as suicide ideation.
Whose Life is this Anyway?: When College Students Kill Themselves. Last month, at each of the colleges my children attend, a student committed suicide .
The first, in early January, took place at Bard College, a small, liberal arts school in upstate New York. A senior majoring in film studies hung himself in a classroom. My daughter didn’t know him -- apparently, few in the senior class of about 500 did – but the Bard community felt shaken and responsible:The young man had asked that his ashes be scattered on campus. A few weeks later at my son’s school, Rutgers University, a junior Russian major, another male, jumped in front of a New Jersey Transit train near the school's New Brunswick campus. On large and small campuses, U.S. college students are taking their lives.The number of campus suicides has increased over the past three decades, along with reported rates of clinical depression , although experts point out that this could simply reflect a more honest reporting of an event that’s been too long cloaked in stigma and shame .
Procrastination and Death: Conference Postscript. My final day at the conference for the International Network on Personal Meaning (INPM), "Living Well & Dying Well: New frontiers of positive psychology , therapy and spiritual care," provoked further thoughts about death and procrastination .
Are you thriving? Here is a checklist. In my last post I advocated that we move beyond resiliency as a goal to as a goal.
Why settle for less? But what does thriving look like? I feel like I am thriving in my life right now (it has not always been the case). So here is my own personal take on what contributes to thriving. {*style:<b>DAILY PRACTICES </b>*} Laughing in delight Being playful with others Getting good sleep (in the dark to prevent cancer) Being physically active Mindfulness Attending to the beauty of the natural world Eating well and enjoying healthy food. Mill Valley, CA 94941. Want to limit aggression? Practice self-control. Feeling angry and annoyed with others is a daily part of life, but most people don't act on these impulses.
What keeps us from punching line-cutters or murdering conniving co-workers? Self-control. A new review article in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, examines the psychological research and finds that it's possible to deplete self-control -- or to strengthen it by practice.