Mary Martin

Advising is hard. It’s a complex activity that involves negotiating someone’s difficulty in dealing with a problem and their responsibility for dealing with it. Often, it degenerates into telling people what to do or showing off how much we know. Perhaps if more of us understood advising a little better, we could avoid giving overbearing advice and... See more

We need to fall back in

Are mental health awareness efforts contributing to the rise in reported mental health problems? A call to test the prevalence inflation hypothesis

Learned helplessness, the failure to escape shock induced by uncontrollable aversive events, was discovered half a century ago. Seligman and Maier (1967) theorized that animals learned that outcomes were independent of their responses—that nothing they did mattered – and that this learning undermined trying to escape. The mechanism of learned... See more

if an animal

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s life is worth

living without having a point and without being meaningful in any of the usual senses, then

perhaps a human life can also be worth living without that.

Coming to terms with climate change and its effects while living in constant uncertainty about the world’s future is challenging for any human being.

You're not being selfish when you know that someone isn't good for you and you therefore decide to opt out of them. That's healthy.

With that said, people don't like it when you grow into boundaries. They want the old you back; the one they could walk over or gaslight or worse.

But anyone who doesn't respect your boundaries can be archived from your... See more