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In this day and age, paying attention is harder than ever. A million things seem to be vying for our attention at any moment of any given day, so that makes these puzzles just perfect.
Close out the world for a bit and see if you can make your brain focus. Practice makes perfect!
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Who doesn’t love a freebie (or 7!) now and then? I know I do, and when it’s something you’d pay upwards of $100/hr to get if you made an appointment, well…bonus!
So, without further ado, here are 7 tips you’d have to pay for at the therapist’s office. Go forth and conquer, my friends.
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If you want to change your life – find a relationship, make new friends, learn a new skill, or land a new job – there’s a good chance it will happen sooner if you step out of your comfort zone.
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Spend some time unpacking how your parents acted, why they acted that way, and how it impacted you and you might be well on your way to leaving the past where it belongs.
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It’s okay to have boundaries and expectations that they be respected, even in personal and family relationships. If nothing else, enforcing your set boundaries will make the other party realize that you’ll stand up for yourself if need be – and that’s a start.
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Accusing people puts them on the defensive instead of considering how their actions impacted you. If you simply tell them how you’re feeling, it gives them a chance to fix the situation while still preserving their dignity.
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It takes 20 days to form a habit, so each day, take a small step toward the new habit you’re hoping to establish.
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Comparing yourself to others is a waste of time, and one that can be damaging, at that. You have to form your own desires and personality, our own sense of self, and then be confident that no matter what others think, we’re being true to that sense.
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Change things yourself instead of expecting others to change – you can’t force other people to do what you want (or to want to do what you want) so you have the choice of being disappointed or making the change for you. The latter is more healthy.
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Pretty much every single article out there that talks about getting and staying healthy – body and mind – will tell you that you need to make sure that you’re getting enough sleep. But how much sleep do you need?
It can be a complicated question that takes into consideration various factors like your age, health level, metabolism, etc. At least, it was until you discovered this handy-dandy chart.
Take a look!
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Are you getting enough sleep?
Just as important is your quality of sleep, so if you feel like that’s lacking, you can click here for some tips on improving it.
Happy sleeping!
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It may surprise you that living with ADHD is about more than managing your ability to sit still or pay attention – but as someone who lives with a partner who suffers, I can tell you that the way his brain functions infiltrates more areas of his life than I would have believed at the beginning.
So if you have ADHD, this post will hit you in the feels. And if you’re living with (and loving!) someone who suffers, this post might give you a better ability to understand their daily struggles.
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And like everyone, what comes out is sometimes inappropriate. They regret it, but they likely won’t apologize.
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ADHD sufferers often come across as selfish. As adults, they understand that they aren’t going to to be able to do what they want or get what they want all of the time, but sometimes the impatient five-year-old inside of them wins the day and they come off looking poorer for it.
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Some days, it’s easy to pretend to have it all together (or do they?) and other days that voice asking when they’re going to stop pretending and admit they suck at everything is too loud to ignore.
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People with ADHD replay their entire day and obsess over things said (or not said), items not checked off lists, as well as what needs to be done tomorrow – and next week, next month, etc.
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ADHD minds never stop and never take breaks – and that can be exhausting. The exhaustion can lead to poor behavior and snapped responses, none of which is easy to deal with for the person…or their partner.
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Up to 50% of people with ADHD have chronic sleep issues – and it takes awhile for their brains to shake off the fog and get moving. Sometimes hours.
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People with ADHD often live in excess – they spend too much, eat too much, exercise too much, and so on. The obsessive part of their brain isn’t limited to one thing.
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It can be frustrating and challenging and exhausting, but the bottom line is that ADHD brains were made that way, and the people who own them would be different without them. So like the rest of us, they wouldn’t trade who they are for a more “normal” existence.”
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Yes, they’re staring at you and they look like they’re listening, but sometimes their minds have focused on something else. They’re not being rude; it’s just how their brains work.
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People with ADHD get into hyperfocus modes and woe to anyone who interrupts their train of thought. If they lose it, they will lose it for good so think twice about how important their attention really is in that moment.
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You might need this knowledge for yourself one day…but hopefully not while you’re looking in the mirror.
This list was compiled by British psychologist and author Kevin Dutton for his book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths.
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Psychopaths want power and control, which is given out to those serving the public. They can also be good in a crisis, since they don’t take people’s feelings into account while executing their job.
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Surgeons have to make fast decisions that may be morally difficult for the non-psychopath, and they have to remain calm in intense situations.
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Psychopaths are resistant to stress and thrive in chaos – two qualities that go hand-in-hand with crazy kitchens and long work weeks common in the restaurant business.
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According to this book, having a psychopath on your sales team can lead to a marked increase. They’re confident, charming, and manipulative – plus they thrive in competitive environments.
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Sad, but true….being a member of the clergy not only gives a person a certain amount of power, but it gives you access to information that could be used for blackmail or manipulation purposes.
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Psychopaths have no trouble being calm in front of an audience, and their ability to charm and believe in themselves plays an important role in career advancement.
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Again with the position of authority and power – policemen who work in extra dangerous areas are likely to be psychopaths. They take pleasure in being around bad situations and can remain calm while doing so.
Statistics also show that 40% of police families endure domestic violence – 2x more often than other families.
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A successful lawyer is able to lie, hide their true feelings, and ignore their conscience – a perfect job for a psychopath.
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Seeing your name in print is good for feeding one’s ego, and it’s a job where a competitive drive will get you far.
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Psychopaths are so good with stress that they often prefer operating in chaos since it makes them look better and more powerful in the eyes of others. Studies claim that up to 20% of CEO’s in large companies show a strong inclination.
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If so, you’re ahead of the game! Give it a try!
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You know you love a good challenge, no matter the time of day! So scroll through these riddles and get those neurons moving, people!
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Continue reading when you’re ready for the answer!
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I can hear most of my married friends out there responding to this headline with some version of “duh,” but look – now there’s proof that we’re not just impatient aholes!
The survey, done by Today, surveyed 7,000 American women and found that the majority of us are stressed due to not feeling as if there are enough hours in the day to complete all expected tasks, and that 75% of us feel as if we’re shouldering the majority of both parenting and household duties.
1 in 5 mothers said that one of their major stresses was a lack of help from their significant other.
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Also interestingly, the stress levels play a role later in life, too. When a wife passes first, the husband’s health tends to deteriorate, but when the husband passes first, the wife tends to become healthier and deals better with stress and depression.
It shouldn’t be a surprise, but this is likely because the husband leans more on the wife than vice versa.
If you identify a trend like this in your relationship, you can try writing down all of the daily/weekly duties and splitting them evenly.
Might as well give it a shot!
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One of the great things about the digital age we live in is how accessible things are: things that were once completely out of reach are now right at our fingertips. Like taking a popular course at Yale University online.
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Yale’s “Psychology and the Good Life” course is now available as a free online course to anyone with an Internet connection. The class debuted just this spring and, remarkably, it’s already the most popular course in the 317-year history of the university.
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Roughly 1,200 students are currently enrolled in the class, that’s about a quarter of Yale’s total student body. Psychology professor Laurie Santos will teach the online version, called “Science of Well-Being”, from her home. The course description reads, “The purpose of the course is to not only learn what psychological research says about what makes us happy but also to put those strategies into practice.”
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The six-week class consists of readings, video lessons, and the ability to connect with fellow classmates. Take a look at the description for the class and enroll at Coursera.
h/t: Mental Floss
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Any kind of loss is a painful process. It toughens us up and unfortunately, we all have to go through it at one point or another.
These AskReddit users opened up about the greatest loss they had to overcome in their lives.
“My marriage, I guess. Not so much the falling apart of the marriage – it was inevitable, but the fallout of it. Loss of friends, loss of stability and comfort. I was not prepared for the fallout from ending a very serious, long-term relationship and I definitely was not prepared for how long the feeling of loss/failure would last.”
“My best friend died when he was 18, that was 20 years ago. I still think about him. He was a huge part of my life. My wife and I even named our youngest son after him.”
“My mental health. I took too many drugs and went off the deep end.
Psychosis, hallucinations, anxiety.
I’m playing insanity bingo.”
“My pancreas.
At age 15 my first week if high school it failed and I was taken to the emergency room and diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.”
“Optic nerve damage after a seizure, so my full field of vision on my right side.”
“My mom. She’s been gone 10 years yesterday.
When I asked my mom one day why she never had another kid she told me, “I didn’t think it’d be fair because I knew I could ever love another child as much as I love you.”
As I sit here sobbing my eyes out because I know I will never feel that kind of love again, I started to laugh because I remember her saying right before she died, “Play REALLY sad songs at my funeral because I want every person in there crying their eyes out over me. Not a dry eye in the house, Jenn.”
Every year on this day I seem to get a wonderful gift from her and I got my gift already today and I couldn’t be happier.
There will never be a cooler, funnier, loving mother than mine and I’m so lucky I had her for 36 years.”
“My cat. But I think the worst part is that I’m over the loss and have been for quite some time since getting a new cat. Still I do remember the pain of losing it.
So while I’m now more prepared in life for eventually losing someone close to me but I also know that this time I won’t be able to replace them.”
“I’ve been a writer for about five years now, and I’ve been doing pretty well at it. I’ve never really had a major flop on a long release, but earlier this month I launched a novel under a new pen name, and it bombed.
On the one hand, I know rationally that these things happen and it was probably a problem with the blurb and the cover; the reviews were solid, and people who read it seemed to enjoy it. On the other, I watched 90,000 words and months of work effectively go down the toilet, and that wasn’t fun. I know it’s not on the same level as a lot of people’s losses, but it was that moment of fear that my childhood dream of being a novelist was just dying in front of me, and that all my future books would go the same way (even though my past books have done OK). It was like a mother bird throwing her baby out of the nest and watching it crash onto the pavement below.
There’s ‘loss’ as in ‘absence’, but this was definitely ‘loss’ as in ‘as far from a win as you can get’.”
“My best friend drowned himself 9 years ago. I don’t think I’ll ever stop missing him…”
“My lack of confidence. Couldn’t ask a girl out even at gunpoint.”
“Lost my brother when we were teenagers. We shared rooms til I was 17 and he was 16. We moved frequently when we were young so we had each other when we didn’t have any friends at all. It’s been 8 years, but I still mourn him. I often think of all the milestones we never got to share together.”
“My folks. Yes, for the entire history of history, people have buried their parents. It’s still a deeply lonely and soul changing experience. Now my sister is ill, and I’ve realized she’s the last person who remembers me as a child.
That’s a very lonely feeling.”
“The biggest losses I’ve gone through are: my grandpa who was my male role model and who died when I was 10, my dog who kept me alive through my nightmarishly difficult teens, who had to be put down when I was about 26, and my closest friend who I’d been living with for several years, after I had a period of being suicidal to the point of acting on it in my mid 20s.”
“My mom when I was 18, she was all I had and I’m pretty much an orphan now.”
“My beauty.
I thought i had a big nose and had plastic surgery, but the operation was incredibly botched and I am visibly deformed now.
I miss my symmetry. I cut off my nose to spite my face.”
h/t: Reddit
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