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Your Pain Can Explain Why You Hurt People Without Excusing You (opens the original)
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love is how we show people our weakness | issue #5My mother, sister, and I were watching a film about a woman who had a daughter out of wedlock and resented her because not only was abortion not an option for her, but she couldn’t get married because, with the way the story goes for most single mothers, not every man would settle with them. And it showed me how most people endure pain they know nothing about from the people they are expected to love, and how others handle the grief of what could
why you can’t stop doomscrolling even when you know it’s bad for you (opens the original)
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Maybe Your Phone Isn’t the Reason You Can’t Stop Doomscrolling (opens the original)
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We Have Too Much to Consume, and Somehow We’re Still Bored (opens the original)
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We Have Too Much to Consume, and Somehow We’re Still Bored (opens the original)
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I lay in bed scrolling away the afternoon, and it doesn’t occur to me that I have scheduled an appointment with a writer to discuss ‘how to write’ or that I am to run a few errands before night falls. And in the moment between the pleasurable relief of procrastinating on work and the excitement of new content to watch, I realized the pattern of doomscrolling comes from the fear of missing out, not necessarily from being ‘bored.’Most times, I lie in bed thinking about all the things happening wit
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