Psychology Around the Net: July 13, 2019

Ready for the latest on how to weaken your self-confidence (stick with us here), research on women, alcohol, and mental health, and how the Greek concept of eudaimonia can help us flourish in both personal and business life? Dive into this week’s Psychology Around the Net where you’ll find all that and more! 10 Insanely Popular Ways to Weaken Your Self-Confidence: To the approval-seekers, the excuse-makers, the second-guessers: this one’s for you. Women Who Stop Drinking Alcohol Improve Mental Health: Researchers studied the drinking habits and self-reported mental health of more than 31,000 people in the United States and more than 10,000 people in Hong Kong. In both the U.S. group and the Hong Kong group, men and women who were lifelong abstainers from alcohol reported the best mental well-being. Researchers followed those folks who did drink (with the exception of heavy drinkers, who were excluded from the research) for a few years and found that women from both groups who quit drinking alcohol reported more favorable changes in their mental well-being; men did not. Furthermore, within four years women who quit drinking alcohol approached the highest mental health levels reported by the lifetime abstainers. Researchers aren’t sure why, but note it’s possible abstaining from alcohol can reverse alcohol-related brain injury, or reduce life stresses. Your Kid Should Get Mental Health Days, Too: What’s wrong with letting your kid stay home ...
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