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Journey with Dr. Jud on an exploration of how to rewire your mind with curiosity, compassion, and cutting-edge science.
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What Would It Be Like If Today Were Appreciation Day? (opens the original)
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What would it be like if we declared today as Appreciation Day? Not the Hallmark version, where there’s something to buy and a card to sign and a reminder on the calendar, but a day where we simply notice the things we appreciate and actually say them (this goes beyond gratitude).I’ve been thinking about this all morning, and what keeps coming up is how little it would cost in terms of time and effort. It could be a sentence, maybe thirty seconds.Almost ten years ago, a contractor redid our show
Why Don't We Arrest People for Attempting Suicide? (opens the original)
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When someone survives a suicide attempt, we do not arrest them and try them for attempted murder. We bring them to a hospital, because we understand that someone trying to end their own life is trying to end unbearable suffering.On the night of January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy tried to end her life. By then she had already killed her three children.Thanks for reading Inside the Curious Mind! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subscription-widget-
The Like Button Is the Nicotine (opens the original)
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I’ve been pondering what has been hailed as a “landmark” settlement between Meta and a number of states that is aimed at curbing the harms that Instagram and other social media apps have on teens. While $17 billion dollars is no small sum of money, it is only a fraction of the money that Meta makes on a yearly basis. The company cleared just over $60 billion in profit last year, and the settlement gets paid out over at least five years.More importantly, the majority of the measures that the comp
What's Your Proverbial Porn? (opens the original)
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(Shared with permission)My patient started our session by talking about how he’d failed with porn, again.He had originally reached out to me because of an increasing spiral that looked something like this: he’d feel some type of frustration in life (e.g., not having a romantic partner, a setback at work, etc.), turn to porn, followed by compulsive masturbation, sometimes sex workers, and then feel ashamed of himself. This wasn’t just once a week. It had become a very regular habit.When we starte
Happiness rankings may not be measuring happiness (opens the original)
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Imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to ten at the top. The top of the ladder is the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder is the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally stand at this time?You might have been able to come up with that number (as squishy as it feels) relatively quickly. Now check to see how you got to your answer. Did your brain do a quick recall of your life, checking your high points and low
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