HeyJaredThe Well Guide
The Well Guide is a monthly essay (with resources, articles, and research) exploring the intersection of mental health, self-discovery, and what it means to live a meaningful life.
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You lose the right to respect when you disrespect someone. (opens the original)
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Someone on the internet recently called me a “white-washed therapist”, a peddler of eurocentric ideas of psychology and said I was clearly ashamed of my own culture and projecting that onto others. A damning judgement…particularly because this person was a complete stranger. They had gleaned this from a few things they had read and many inferences they had made about me. Now, while this didn’t hurt my feelings (I’ve been a Person On The InternetTM for six years so negative commentary is a daily
someone, somewhere, hates you. (opens the original)
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There is a version of you that lives in other people's minds, and no matter how carefully you carry yourself, you will never have complete control over it. Yet, how much time have you spent trying to change someone’s perspective of you? The truth is, most of us spend a considerable amount of time and energy trying; and when we can’t, we feel bad about it. Why?From a psychological perspective, this is called the fallacy of “the illusion of explanatory depth” (which sounds like the name of a Wes A
Saying no to the new. (opens the original)
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Remember the feeling of snapping your phone shut? My high-school bestie used to have a hot pink Motorola Razr and she’d snap it shut after every call. It was so cool. It was 2004. Now, almost 22 years later, the new iPhone is coming out and it folds; so, you can have the same satisfaction … for $2,000.Besides technology and material goods, right now, we have new ideas, new aesthetics, new media, new people available to us every 7 seconds. We scroll through so fast, collecting information on the
end of summer anxiety (opens the original)
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I’m writing this as the sun is setting - it’s 730pm on a late August Friday and pretty soon New York City will look like a Noah Kahan video with crisp fall leaves and a chilled, brisk wind. Summer has an unstructured feel to it — a remnant memory our body holds from our childhoods — even though, as adults, there is no ‘summer break’. Shifting from this mental state back to structure, in the fall, is called the pleasure/dread ratio: how the transition between two states is felt more sharply than
Having a crush is good for your mental health (opens the original)
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When was the last time you had a crush on someone? High school or maybe undergrad? Do you remember what it felt like? Thinking back on my crushes in high school, the thing I remember the most is…how much fun it was!Watch a teen or tween talk about the crush they have on a pop-star, and you’ll watch them experience the full range of human emotions. And in those moments, they are fully alive. Crushes are fun and silly and happy; they are optimistic and hopeful; they are imaginative and filled with
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