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[Link] Sam lives in Tasmania but has to fly to Melbourne to get the ADHD help he needs
Read: 6/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Tasmania has just one specialist ADHD clinic servicing the whole state and only three psychiatrists that will take ADHD patients. For Mr Mitchell, it meant he resorted to visiting a psychiatrist in Victoria to manage his disorder.
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[Link] Tonga’s drug crisis: Why a tiny Pacific island is struggling with a meth epidemic
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
After more than four decades spent living in New Zealand, Ned Cook knew it was time to return to his home country of Tonga. His country was in the grip of a methamphetamine epidemic that was ripping families apart and overrunning the country’s hospitals and jails.
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[Link] 4 Work-From-Home Tech Tricks I Learned From Twitch Streamers
Read: 21/11/2021 www.wired.com
Like many Americans in office jobs, I started working from home in March due to Covid-19, and I haven’t been back to the office since.
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[Link] Our Brains Were Not Built for This Much Uncertainty
Read: 21/11/2021 hbr.org
Prior to the pandemic, the working world already felt to most of us like it was undergoing rapid, unrelenting change — changes in customer preferences, client and employee expectations, and competitive advantages.
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[Link] What to Do if Your ADHD Medication Messes With Your Appetite and Body Image
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
When Spencer Jardine was 15, she was diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and prescribed treatment in the form of Adderall.
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[Link] Why Music Drives Us to Mayhem
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Mr. Ayers is a musician, writer and the U.S. head of the British record label 4AD. His memoir will be published by Viking in 2022.
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[Link] After a Person Accidentally Kills Someone, How Do They Heal and Move On?
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
When news broke that Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop gun on a movie set, many were quick to litigate Baldwin’s level of responsibility and search for someone to blame.
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[Link] This Couple Survived the Unite the Right Car Attack. The Trauma Tore Them Apart.
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
On the day of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Marcus Martin wore his red-and-white Jordans.
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[Link] Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All Into Dopamine Addicts
Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com
According to addiction expert Dr. Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?
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[Link] Get Reading: This Is How Books Can Impact Your Mental Health
Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com
We’ve long known that we can find comfort, solace and help in the pages of a book, and now research has confirmed that reading can be good for our mental health.
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[Link] Online child abuse survey finds third of viewers attempt contact with children
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The largest major survey of people who watch online child sexual abuse has found that one-third of respondents attempted to directly contact a child as a result of the illegal images they watched online.
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[Link] How to Identify Your Shadow Emotions (and Why You Should)
Read: 2/11/2021 lifehacker.com
At some point in our childhood, we learn that living in a society means controlling certain emotions. We suppress, in particular, emotions we consider to be “negative”—fear, anger, jealousy, selfishness—for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that we consider them shameful.
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[Link] Natasha was told she was being manipulative. But she had a misunderstood disorder
Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Natasha Swingler has lived with complex mental illness from a young age. It would take some time until she would learn of her diagnosis — borderline personality disorder, or BPD.
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[Link] The Weird Strategy Dr. Seuss Used to Create His Greatest Work
Read: 8/8/2021 getpocket.com
Behind the bet that led to your favorite childhood book.
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[Link] Why the French Don’t Show Excitement
Read: 8/8/2021 getpocket.com
Not only is ‘Je suis excité’ not the appropriate way to convey excitement in French, but there seems to be no real way to express it at all.
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[Link] IQ tests can’t measure it, but ‘cognitive flexibility’ is key to learning and creativity
Read: 8/8/2021 theconversation.com
IQ is often hailed as a crucial driver of success, particularly in fields such as science, innovation and technology. In fact, many people have an endless fascination with the IQ scores of famous people.
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[Link] What Every Dad Should Keep in Mind About Parenting Humor
Read: 8/8/2021 www.fatherly.com
Humor is a powerful tool in a parent's arsenal. But it's good to think about whether a dad joke is used to lighten the mood, or maintain distance. Last night, I accused my neighbor of being an alien. That infuriated my daughter. My mom had asked my daughter about the neighbor.
[Link] $40m psychedelic medicine institute launches in Melbourne
Read: 30/7/2021 www.smh.com.au
A world-first global research institute that aims to develop new pharmaceutical-grade psychedelic medicine to treat mental health disorders is launching in Melbourne on Friday.
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[Link] ‘No One’s Ever Talked to Me About This Before’
Read: 30/7/2021 www.nytimes.com
Social media creators are helping women and people of color identify possible symptoms of A.D.H.D., a disorder most often diagnosed in white boys. “When I was a kid, I had the sense things were more difficult for me,” Tiffany Bui recalled.
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