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Why Trigger Warnings Won’t Help (and May Harm) Vulnerable People

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Most of the time, humans can overcome adversity. Most recover from even the ugliest traumas and vilest human experiences—war, rape, domestic violence, natural disasters—without lasting psychological damage. Remarkably, we have…

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14 min

The Optimistic Nihilists

Life is utterly meaningless, but this is a great opportunity to have fun creating our own meanings—that’s the latest postmodern self-help mantra. The trend known as optimistic nihilism is a…

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6 min

Psychology

The Right to Die

On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, two Russian warships attacked Snake Island. When the Moskva warship demanded that the crew defending the island surrender…

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7 min

Areo Magazine

Psychotherapy: Gaps in Our Knowledge

Our understanding of psychotherapy is as fragmented and distorted as the proverbial blind men’s understanding of the elephant. For one thing, we lack reliable data about how many people practise…

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6 min

Psychology

Salvaging Mental Health Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic

Mental health is health is an aphorism with which young Canadians have grown familiar over the past decade. The sentiment has been reiterated by high school teachers, professors, counsellors, family…

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16 min

Mental Health and Homicide: Progressive Ideology Meets Political Expediency

Mentally disturbed people commit over a hundred homicides every year in Britain. In simplified reasoning, the motives for such killings are beyond comprehension—to a court of justice and perhaps to…

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8 min

The Benefits of Loneliness

In 2017, then British prime minister Theresa May appointed Tracey Crouch to the newly created position of Minister for Sport, Civil Society and Loneliness. Crouch became the head of an…

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9 min

Psychology

Why Critical Social Justice Activism Could Increase Suicide Risk

No death impacts others in the way a suicide does. With a death by suicide come shame, guilt and many questions—the most prominent of which is why? But sometimes we…

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5 min

Psychology

Covid-19 and the Coming Campus Mental Health Crisis

Photo by Andrik Langfield The psychological effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are severe, and underestimating them may be disastrous for our college campuses.In a Pew survey conducted in late March, 18%…

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6 min

Psychology

Coronavirus and Social Interaction

Lenin once said, “There are decades in which nothing happens; and there are weeks in which decades happen.” Never has this quotation been more pertinent than now, during the Covid-19…

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4 min

Culture & Media

YouTube Nerd Essays and Mental Health: A Paean

If you have been engulfed by the all-consuming black hole that is depression or anxiety, or have found yourself peering over its event horizon, then you may be fortunate enough…

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13 min

Culture-Bound Syndromes: Satanic Panics, Multiple Personality Disorder & ROGD

On 6 September, at the District Court in Sydney, Australia, Richard Haynes was sentenced to forty-five years in prison for sexually abusing and torturing his daughter, Jeni. The case made…

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19 min

Psychology

Minds Without Bodies: Transgenderism and the Authentic Self

Jazz Jennings, teenage transgender superstar, turns to the camera: “To all of the kids out there who are hearing this book for the first time, I just want to say…

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7 min

Psychology

The Codification of Sex and the Problem with Sex Addiction

There is an old joke in psychological circles that a sex addict is someone who is having more sex than his therapist. If we accept that—as psychoanalysis claims—every joke contains…

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7 min

Gaming Disorder: The World Health Organisation Jumps the Shark

Earlier this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced plans to include gaming disorder—video gaming that interferes with other life responsibilities—in their International Classification of Diseases (ICD)—despite considerable controversy, including…

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Mental Health

Why Trigger Warnings Won’t Help (and May Harm) Vulnerable People

The Optimistic Nihilists

The Right to Die

Psychotherapy: Gaps in Our Knowledge

Salvaging Mental Health Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic

Mental Health and Homicide: Progressive Ideology Meets Political Expediency

The Benefits of Loneliness

Why Critical Social Justice Activism Could Increase Suicide Risk

Covid-19 and the Coming Campus Mental Health Crisis

Coronavirus and Social Interaction

YouTube Nerd Essays and Mental Health: A Paean

Culture-Bound Syndromes: Satanic Panics, Multiple Personality Disorder & ROGD

Minds Without Bodies: Transgenderism and the Authentic Self

The Codification of Sex and the Problem with Sex Addiction

Gaming Disorder: The World Health Organisation Jumps the Shark

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