“Hard Work, Attention to Detail,” and Paralyzing Fear: the Ups + ...
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Alex Dobrenko added
Founders are striving to do something more innovative, uncertain, and psychologically demanding than most of us ever try to do—many with potentially large impacts on the world—and yet their distinct psychological needs have gone largely unstudied and unaddressed. And despite the many headlines signaling a “mental health crisis in startups,” with se... See more
Gena Gorlin • The Psychological Needs of the Extremely Ambitious
Britt Gage added
Our culture is attempting to glorify mental illness as a badge of honor, but the reality of living with these diseases is far from glorious.
Freddie DeBoer • Latest Episodes | Honestly Podcast
Nick deWilde added
there is a difference between destigmatizing mental-health problems and popularizing them to the point that millions of young people are searching their normal feelings for signs of disorders.
Work in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
Keely Adler added
• To the wider public, mental health is synonymous with mental illness. Our notion of physical health is, however, very different than our notion of physical illness.
James Beshara • Mental Wealth
• When it comes to mental health, our society approaches it like we did with physical health 50 years ago. We only think about it when something is wrong.
James Beshara • Mental Wealth
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Often today, those who suffer from mental-health issues are encouraged by well-meaning awareness groups to claim proud ownership of their troubled inner lives. So rather than feel stigmatised, a sufferer might seek dignity by identifying with her depression. That proud identification might be helpful in the short term (and certainly to disparage pe
... See moreDerren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
although mental illness is global, the experience of mental illness cannot be separated from culture. If there is a surge of Anglospheric gloom among teenagers, we have to study the culture that young people are consuming with their technology. In the past generation, the English-speaking world, led by the U.S., has experimented with a novel approa
... See moreWork in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
Keely Adler added