Psychology Around the Net: May 19, 2018

Happy Saturday, sweet readers! This week’s Psychology Around the Net covers how a parent’s mental health and parenting styles can affect the child’s ability to maintain friendships, reactions to the second season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, why it’s important CEO’s share mental health challenges they faced climbing the success ladder, and more. (Oh, and maaaaaaaybe a little something about a certain couple’s wedding today!) Meghan Markle’s Mom Quits Job at Mental Health Clinic: OK, OK, OK, I admit it. This isn’t exactly mental health news, per se, but cut me some slack. I had to indulge in my guilty pleasure just a smidge today — the day of the royal wedding! Meghan Markle’s mother, a yoga teacher and social worker, has quit her job at a Los Angeles mental health clinic with talk of perusing a private practice career focusing on elderly patients. 13 Reasons Why: Season Two Is ‘Unnecessary’, Critics Say: Netflix released the second season of 13 Reasons Why yesterday (Friday, May 18, 2018), and it seems the second season is being met with even more criticism than the first. While the first season did have some praise for bringing awareness to bullying, rape, and self-harm, many viewers — regular folk and mental health professionals alike — felt it almost (if not out right) glamorized suicide. Now, some critics are saying the second season was not only unnecessary, but perhaps dangerous &...
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