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Not Knowing Is the Hardest Part: What the Research on Intolerance of Uncertainty Reveals About Why Waiting Feels Unbearable
Picture a lift that has stopped between floors. The doors are shut, the little display has gone blank, and nobody has told you whether…
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Stepping Back From Your Own Mind: What Research on Decentering Reveals About Noticing Without Judging
Picture a small room with a radio in it, and the radio is stuck on one station. It is half past eleven on a…
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Forty-Two Trials Later: What the Research on Self-Compassion Reveals About the Way You Talk to Yourself
Somewhere just behind your own eyes there is a commentator who has never once asked permission to start talking. It was awake before you…
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Seventeen, Not Fifty-Four: What a Landmark Study of 2.1 Million Children Reveals About Who Gets Diagnosed with ADHD or Autism Now
Somewhere in an old file there is a photograph that has never quite gone out of use: a boy of nine, out of his…
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Ninety-One Per Cent: What a New Workplace Report Reveals About Burnout and the Cost of Never Switching Off
You already know the feeling before you have a name for it. Your laptop is still open at half past six. The email you…
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Only Four Said No: What a New Study of 350 People Reveals About Feeling Nothing At All
Whatever this is, you did not invent it — and you are almost certainly not the only one it happens to. Somewhere between the…
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Fifty-Seven Per Cent: What a New Workplace Study Reveals About Feeling Stuck, Not Broken
You are not depressed. You are not thriving. You are somewhere in between, and this is for you. It’s half past eleven on a…
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Two Hours Behind: What a Landmark Trial Reveals About ADHD and a Body Clock That Runs Late
You are not lazy. You are two hours off schedule. It is twenty to midnight, and you are lying in the dark doing the…
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The Word You Reach For: What a New Survey of 1,426 People Reveals About Gaslighting, Trauma and the Limits of Therapy-Speak
You already know most of the words in this piece. That is rather the point. You are scrolling back through a text thread at…
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Sorry to Call: What New Research Reveals About Men, Silence and Asking for Help
Your phone is face-down on the arm of the sofa, half past eleven, and you have already typed the first line of the message…
