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How long does it take recover your self-esteem from a break-up?

A recent German study shows that relationship that had lasted a year or more before the ultimate breakup are particularly damaging to self-esteem.

Subsequently starting a new relationship increased self-esteem, as long as the new relationship lasts.

However, shorter relationships — those lasting less than a year — tended to reduce people’s self-esteem.

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Alexithymia and childhood trauma

A huge study of studies has correlated childhood maltreatment with alexithymia.

Alexithymia, which literally translates as ‘no words for emotions’, is a difficulty some humans have identifying and describing their emotions.

But it’s also a often a compellingly obvious indication of neurodiversity…

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What is the least stressful phase of life?

Research reveals that humans report feeling stress as move through time, becoming older and more chill in the process.

Aging humans have fewer stressful experiences, and they deal with whatever stress they do experience much better than when they were younger.

On the other hand, Middle age humans are way more stressed nowadays than they were 20 years ago.

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Men, and the bearing of bad news…

The human inclination to share intimate and personal information about ourselves is a critical pathway toward achieving authentic intimacy with other humans.

New research confirms something we already sort of suspected…men are disinclined to share bad news compared to women, a study finds.

Even though they’d like to learn how…

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