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☆ Why Americans Don't Exercise: Mental Health, Depression, Fitness
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( P.E. Moskowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The evidence is overwhelming that physical activity is good for both our bodies and our brains. By one estimate, we're getting 27 fewer minutes of physical activity on average each day than we did 200 years ago. For kids, who need even more physical activity, the decline is stark. A 2022 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth gave the US a D- score, concluding that America, while never sufficiently supportive of physical activity, had become even worse at making the space and time for it. I'd forgotten that exercise, while not a cure for my mental illness, was a necessary precursor to my mental wellness.

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☆ If you're not making progress in therapy, you might be intellectualizing your emotions. Here are 3 signs, according to a therapist.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Kim Schewitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

You might fixate on understanding why you're feeling this way, why the upsetting situation has occurred, and what you can rationally do to resolve it. AdvertisementShe shared three signs that you might be intellectualizing your feelings and how you can start to feel safe enough to feel them. The goal of therapy should be to support when you're feeling safe enough that you want to feel your feelings." You feel emotionally disconnected from people and things in your lifeFeeling a sense of emptiness or disconnection could be a sign you're intellectualizing your feelings. You're responding normally but you don't feel fully authentic or present because you're thinking too much and you're "stuck in your head."

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☆ My son died on Mother's Day weekend. Sometimes I wonder how I've survived all these years.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Patricia Roos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Mother's Day is always the second Sunday in May. I always thought he probably died the evening of May 10 — Mother's Day in 2015. Since then, Mother's Day has not been my day. It hasn't been easy to move forwardSometimes, I wonder how I've survived these last nine years. As I struggled with Alex's death, I wanted to move forward, somehow integrating his death into my significantly altered life.

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☆ I'm a student at Yale, and we party more than you'd think. Here's what parties at the Ivy League are like.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Miles Kirkpatrick | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewLike most Yale students, I'm swamped. Despite the Ivy League's reputation as one big ivory tower, Yale students still love to throw a good party. Yale isn't a huge party school, but we still have partiesWhen choosing a school, the party scene wasn't very high on my priority list. This wasn't a medieval cloister; it was just what you'd expect from any college despite the Ivy League status. Related storyEven closer to campus is Toad's Place, a club that hosts Yale-only Wednesday night parties and is free on Saturdays with a Yale ID.

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