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Interoception and Anxiety: What a New Study Says About Body Awareness
On August 25, a science-news headline landed in the middle of a few years of "listen to your body" content and sat there a little…
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Why Do People Ghost? New Research Says the Ghoster Hurts Too
Who feels worse when a conversation just stops: the person staring at an unanswered text, or the person who never sent the reply? A new…
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How to Find a Hobby as an Adult When You Have Nothing Left
Most advice on how to find a hobby as an adult gets the order backwards. It treats the missing hobby as a planning problem —…
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Pretending to Be Okay: Where the Feelings Go When You Keep Saying You’re Fine
"How are you holding up?" "Good! Busy, but good." Twenty minutes after sending that text, she films herself dancing in the kitchen to an Ingrid…
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Why Nervous System Flexibility Matters More Than Staying Calm
Somewhere between the reels and the carousels, "regulated" came to mean calm: soft voice, slow breath, unbothered by the group chat. In stress physiology the…
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Why Love Is Blind Couples Fall Hard in the Pods and Freeze in Real Life
She is curled sideways on a velvet couch, talking to a glowing wall. On the other side, a man she has never seen is laughing…
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Why Women Leave Long Marriages: The Slow Exit Nobody Sees
When does a sixteen-year marriage actually end? The court record gives one answer. On October 6, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Whitney Rose…
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Why Good News Feels Threatening When You’re Anxiously Attached
The offer came through, or the person you like said the thing you'd been hoping they'd say, and instead of relief there's a tightening. You…
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Can You Fall in Love With a Chatbot Companion? What a New Study of Young Adults Found
In mid-September, two researchers posted a paper to arXiv with a title borrowed from a 1962 pop song: "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do," a…
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Why You’re Mentally Exhausted Even When You Haven’t Done Much
"what did you do today" "like, nothing. answered three emails. and I'm completely wrecked" That exchange shows up in group chats around 7pm, usually followed…