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Educate. How?
Learn to recognise the mix of psychopathy with fascism & educate others to recognise it.
And never, but never, hand it power - whether via admiration, money (clicks), votes, or submission.
Psychopathy is a personality disorder (involving brain structure). It is mediated by environment, & not all psychopaths do harm. So far, there's no cure.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/sociopaths-and-why-we-elect-them,15201
Psychiatry suspects ADHD is merely a nocturnal clock forced into an 8 a.m. world. The prescribed solution remains unchanged: stare at a bright lamp and comply. https://archive.is/TzObO
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Educate. How?
Learn to recognise the mix of psychopathy with fascism & educate others to recognise it.
And never, but never, hand it power - whether via admiration, money (clicks), votes, or submission.
Psychopathy is a personality disorder (involving brain structure). It is mediated by environment, & not all psychopaths do harm. So far, there's no cure.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/sociopaths-and-why-we-elect-them,15201
2.
How?
Learn to recognise psychopathy and educate others.
And never, but never, hand it power. Whether by admiration, money (clicks) or votes.
Psychopathy is a personality disorder (involving brain structure). So far, there's no cure, so it can't change itself.
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If a habit requires daily willpower to maintain, your environmental architecture is broken.
Cognitive psychology proves decision fatigue rapidly exhausts prefrontal glucose. People celebrated for 'high self-control' rarely exercise it—they architect spaces where distraction requires physical friction and target behaviors require zero clicks.
You fall to your default friction points.
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DATE: October 11, 2026 at 02:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG
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TITLE: People who worry more tend to have more negative dreams, study finds
URL: https://www.psypost.org/people-who-worry-more-tend-to-have-more-negative-dreams-study-finds/
Among 389 Italian adults, stress emerged as the most central element in a web of connections linking worry, anxiety and depression, according to a study published in BMC Psychology. People who reported more worry and more depressive symptoms also tended to report more negative dreams, a pattern consistent with the idea that waking concerns carry over into sleep.
Dreams have long been associated with people’s emotional lives. The continuity hypothesis of dreaming proposes that concerns and feelings from waking life can continue into sleep and influence dream experiences. For example, people under pressure may dream about threatening or emotionally intense events.
However, it is difficult to determine how different dream experiences relate to different forms of distress. A person may remember dreams frequently without finding them upsetting, while another person may rarely recall dreams but feel strongly affected by the dreams they do remember. Research on dreams and research on worry, which has been linked to poorer sleep, have also largely been conducted separately.
Vittorio Lenzo of the University of Catania in Italy led a team investigating these relationships. The researchers surveyed 389 Italian-speaking adults recruited through university mailing lists, social media and online blogs. Participants were 18 to 64 years old, with an average age of about 24, and the sample included 330 women, 50 men and nine non-binary participants.
Participants completed an online survey containing three questionnaires. The Mannheim Dream Questionnaire asked how often people recalled their dreams, how emotionally intense their dreams were, how positive or negative their dreams usually felt, how often dreams affected their daytime mood and how often they told other people about their dreams. Each of these features was measured with a single question.
The Penn State Worry Questionnaire measured pathological worry, meaning persistent and difficult-to-control thoughts about possible future problems. Participants also completed the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale, which measures symptoms related to depression, anxiety and stress.
Lenzo and colleagues then used network analysis. In this type of analysis, each psychological feature is treated as a point in a network, and the connections between points represent how strongly two features are related after accounting for all the others. This approach can show which variables are most strongly linked to the rest of the network.
On average, participants reported high levels of worry, enough to be considered clinically elevated compared with normative data. Depression, anxiety and stress formed a closely connected cluster, with the strongest connection between anxiety and stress. Worry was most strongly associated with stress and only weakly with anxiety and depression, which the authors suggest may reflect worry’s role in sustaining prolonged tension.
Within the dream measures, people who recalled their dreams more often were also more likely to tell others about them, the strongest connection in the entire network. Frequent dream recall was moderately associated with more emotionally intense dreams, which were in turn linked with the feeling that dreams affected daytime mood.
The links between dreams and distress were weaker. People whose dreams tended to be more negative in tone reported more depressive symptoms and more worry, and people who felt their dreams affected their daytime mood reported more anxiety. The authors note that this pattern fits the continuity hypothesis, since people who worry a great deal may carry that vigilance into sleep.
Stress was the most central variable in the overall network, meaning it had the strongest total connections to the other variables, while depression, dream recall and dream intensity were among the least central. Dream emotional tone had what researchers call a negative expected influence, meaning its connections to the rest of the network ran mostly in the opposite direction from those of distress.
The authors concluded that “dream experiences are integrated components of a dynamic system of emotional functioning.” They suggest that more positive dream experiences might help dampen distress, while stress may amplify it. They also propose that worry and depression could lead to more negative dreams, which might in turn feed next-day anxiety, though both ideas require testing in studies that follow people over time.
There are a few things to keep in mind. Because the data were collected at a single point in time, the study cannot show whether dreams influence distress, whether distress shapes dreams, or both. The participants were a convenience sample of mostly young women recruited online, which limits how far the findings can be generalized.
All information was self-reported, and dream experiences depend on people’s memories, which may introduce bias. Each dream feature was measured with a single question, the connections between dreams and distress were small, and while the network was generally stable when tested using repeated statistical resampling, some individual connections were less certain.
The study, “Dream experiences and psychological distress: a network analysis of pathological worry, depression, anxiety, and stress,” was authored by Vittorio Lenzo, Chiara Fioretti, Alessandro Musetti, Raffaele De Luca Picione, Christian Franceschini, Patrizia Strano, Maria C. Quattropani and Alberto Sardella.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/people-who-worry-more-tend-to-have-more-negative-dreams-study-finds/
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DATE: October 11, 2026 at 01:00AM
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TITLE: Neuroscience Can Make Decluttering Easier
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/opinion/clutter-spring-cleaning-psychology.html
Decluttering is a challenge for many Americans, but neuroscience indicates we can make the process easier on ourselves and our loved ones.
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/opinion/clutter-spring-cleaning-psychology.html
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Someone puts a thought in your head—a possibility, a fear, a belief, or a doubt.
You think about it until it shapes your decisions.
Before you choose, ask yourself: Would I believe this if nobody had suggested it?
Sometimes, the choice is yours—but the starting point wasn’t.
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DATE: October 9, 2026 at 02:34PM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY PSYCHOLOGY FEED
TITLE: Scientists discover 5 hidden brain patterns behind depression
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261008005251.htm
Depression may not be one biological condition, but several distinct patterns of brain activity hiding under the same diagnosis. Researchers studying 263 people with depression identified five brain profiles, each showing different patterns of communication between brain regions and associations with symptoms such as anxiety, trauma, and substance abuse.
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261008005251.htm
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DATE: October 10, 2026 at 02:57PM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY PSYCHOLOGY FEED
TITLE: Loneliness may steal nearly 6 years of good health
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261006234514.htm
A large study suggests loneliness and social isolation can cost people years of healthy life, especially when it comes to mental health. Men experiencing both lost about 5.8 years free from depression and anxiety, while women lost roughly 3.7 years.
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261006234514.htm
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DATE: October 9, 2026 at 02:34PM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY PSYCHIATIRY FEED
TITLE: Scientists discover 5 hidden brain patterns behind depression
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261008005251.htm
Depression may not be one biological condition, but several distinct patterns of brain activity hiding under the same diagnosis. Researchers studying 263 people with depression identified five brain profiles, each showing different patterns of communication between brain regions and associations with symptoms such as anxiety, trauma, and substance abuse.
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261008005251.htm
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DATE: October 10, 2026 at 02:57PM
SOURCE: SCIENCE DAILY PSYCHIATIRY FEED
TITLE: Loneliness may steal nearly 6 years of good health
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261006234514.htm
A large study suggests loneliness and social isolation can cost people years of healthy life, especially when it comes to mental health. Men experiencing both lost about 5.8 years free from depression and anxiety, while women lost roughly 3.7 years.
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261006234514.htm
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DATE: October 9, 2026 at 02:34PM
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TITLE: Scientists discover 5 hidden brain patterns behind depression
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261008005251.htm
Depression may not be one biological condition, but several distinct patterns of brain activity hiding under the same diagnosis. Researchers studying 263 people with depression identified five brain profiles, each showing different patterns of communication between brain regions and associations with symptoms such as anxiety, trauma, and substance abuse.
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DATE: October 10, 2026 at 02:57PM
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TITLE: Loneliness may steal nearly 6 years of good health
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261006234514.htm
A large study suggests loneliness and social isolation can cost people years of healthy life, especially when it comes to mental health. Men experiencing both lost about 5.8 years free from depression and anxiety, while women lost roughly 3.7 years.
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261006234514.htm
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Les polluants majeurs, ok, les vaccins, non. La logique dlirante d'un malade mental bombardé ministre de la santé, le #psychopathe #RFKJr, ne tue pas qu'aux #US
- C'est pas cacérigène donc ça va.
- Mais ... il n'y a aucune étude permettant de l'affirmer, on n'en sait rien !
- C'est ça, on sait pas ... DONC c''est pas cancériène oiyr l'instant, on peut y aller."
-> dans cotre intéret personnel, a'achtez autant que possible RIEn des USA, à la rigueur si c'est "organic" ( = bio) mais surtout pas tout le reste.
DATE: October 10, 2026 at 02:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG
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TITLE: Screen time not consistently tied to children’s emotional or behavioral problems in a large Scottish study
An analysis of data from the Growing Up in Scotland study found that, after accounting for family circumstances, the amount of time children spent on screens was not linked to emotional, behavioral, or social difficulties at ages 5 and 10. At age 15, teens who spent 5 or more hours a day gaming were more likely to have elevated difficulties than those who gamed less than an hour a day, while those who spent at least an hour a day on social media and messaging were less likely to. The paper was published in JAMA Network Open.
Screen-based devices such as televisions, smartphones, computers, and tablets have become a routine part of childhood in many countries. In the United Kingdom, 85% of children aged 3 to 5 go online, a figure that reaches 100% by age 10, and 81% of children aged 10 to 12 use social media and messaging apps despite age limits of 13. This widespread exposure has prompted concern about whether large amounts of screen use might harm children’s emotional, social, and behavioral development.
However, research findings have been mixed, and there is still considerable debate about how large any harmful effects actually are. Some of the inconsistencies reflect differences in the type of screen activity, the amount of time spent using devices, and the age of the child.
Younger children may be especially sensitive if screen use replaces play, conversation, or interaction with parents and caregivers. Among adolescents, the picture is less clear because screen use takes place alongside major biological, social, and emotional changes. Many existing studies are also limited because they examine children at only one point in time and do not adequately account for other influences on development.
Study author Fiona McQuaid of the University of Edinburgh and her colleagues examined how screen use related to children’s psychosocial development, both at the same point in time and years later. A key aim was to account for family factors, such as the quality of the parent-child relationship, that earlier studies have often left out.
They analyzed data from the Growing Up in Scotland study, a government-funded study administered by the Scottish Centre for Social Research. Families with 10-month-old infants living in Scotland in 2005 and 2006 were identified from child benefit records, which cover more than 90% of Scottish children, and were followed up at regular intervals with interviews, questionnaires, cognitive tests, and physical measurements. In 2017, the study recruited 502 additional adolescents to make up for the loss of participants from the most deprived areas; they were included in the analyses at age 15 but not in the analyses that tracked children over time.
The analysis included 3,786 children at age 5, 3,126 at age 10, and 2,598 at age 15, with roughly equal numbers of boys and girls. Data were collected in 2009 and 2010, 2014 and 2015, and 2019 and 2020.
Out-of-school screen use was reported by the child’s main caregiver at ages 5 and 10 and by the adolescents themselves at 15. At ages 5 and 10, time spent watching television and using computers or playing games was combined into a daily total, while at 15, time spent on television and films, gaming, and social media and messaging was analyzed separately. The study captured only how much time was spent, not what children were watching or doing.
Parents completed the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire at each age, a widely used screening tool that covers emotional difficulties, conduct problems, hyperactivity, and problems with peers, along with prosocial behavior such as being kind and helpful. Children with a total difficulties score of 14 or more were classified as having above-average difficulties. The researchers adjusted for a wide range of factors, including household income, deprivation, parental education and health, children’s cognitive test scores, household chaos, and the warmth and conflict in the parent-child relationship.
About 11% of children had above-average difficulties at age 5, and about 12% did at ages 10 and 15. Daily screen use increased substantially with age. The share of children using screens for 3 or more hours a day rose from 25% at age 5 to 52% at age 10, and the share gaming for 3 or more hours a day rose from 1.7% at age 5 to about 21% at age 15. At 15, 28% of teens used social media and messaging apps for 3 or more hours a day.
After the researchers accounted for family and other factors, total screen time was not linked to above-average difficulties at ages 5 or 10. Associations seen before these adjustments largely weakened once they were taken into account.
At age 15, teens who gamed for 5 or more hours a day had 2.61 times the odds of above-average difficulties compared with those who gamed for less than an hour. By contrast, teens who used social media and messaging apps for at least an hour a day had about 40% lower odds of above-average difficulties than those who used them for less than an hour, though after the researchers corrected for running many comparisons at once, this held only for 1 to 2 hours a day.
The authors urged caution in interpreting the social media finding. Teens who use social media very little may differ from their peers in ways that affect their well-being, and those who are already doing well socially may simply be more inclined to use these apps.
Looking over time, children who used screens for 5 or more hours a day at age 5 had 2.68 times the odds of above-average difficulties at age 10 compared with those who used screens for less than an hour, but this association was no longer present at age 15. It also did not hold up in several alternative analyses, and only 119 children were in the highest-use group. Prosocial behavior showed no consistent links with screen use.
“In this cohort study, screen use was not consistently associated with poorer outcomes for children. These findings suggest that guidelines focusing solely on screen time may have limited impact on psychosocial outcomes,” study authors concluded.
The authors suggest that guidance should also consider the content of screen use, the context in which it happens, and parental involvement, rather than time limits alone. They note that screen use also carries known risks, including sedentary behavior, online bullying, and exposure to harmful content.
The study contributes to the scientific understanding of the relationship between screen use and children’s psychosocial development. However, it should be noted that the design of this study does not allow any definitive causal inferences to be derived from the results, and the links seen at age 15 could run in either direction. The study also measured only time spent on screens, not content, and screen use was reported by parents at younger ages but by adolescents at 15, while difficulties were rated by parents throughout.
Families from deprived areas, younger mothers, and single-parent households were more likely to drop out over time, and few participants were from ethnic minority backgrounds, which may limit how widely the findings apply. Most of the data were collected before the COVID-19 pandemic and before newer formats such as short-form video became widespread, so they may not fully reflect children’s current digital lives.
The paper, “Screen Use and Emotional, Behavioral, and Social Development in Children,” was authored by Fiona McQuaid, Valeria Skafida, Ruth McQuillan, and Bohee Lee.
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DATE: October 10, 2026 at 12:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG
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TITLE: Family background may explain much of the mental health gap tied to sexual orientation, twin studies suggest
New research indicates that a large portion of the mental health differences between non-heterosexual and heterosexual individuals might be rooted in shared family background rather than social stigma alone. When non-heterosexual people were compared with their own heterosexual siblings and twins, the mental health gap shrank by about half, and by roughly two-thirds among identical twins. The findings were published in Psychological Medicine.
On average, people who identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual report higher rates of anxiety, depression, and other mental health difficulties compared to heterosexual people. The most common explanation for this gap is Sexual Minority Stress Theory, which proposes that the excess social stress faced by sexual minorities, such as discrimination, bullying, and systemic stigma, is the primary driver of their worse mental health outcomes.
Supporting evidence includes studies linking experiences such as victimization to distress. For example, a study covered by PsyPost in 2023 indicated that higher levels of same-sex attraction were linked to psychological distress, a relationship that was partly explained by experiences of victimization.
Other factors, however, might also play a role in these disparities. Mental health problems and human temperaments, such as a tendency to experience negative emotions, are strongly influenced by genetics. These factors emerge early in life, often before sexual orientation becomes apparent. The research, led by Péter Przemyslaw Ujma of Semmelweis University, sought to test whether the association between sexual orientation and mental health might actually reflect these shared familial causes.
Genetically informed studies, which compare non-heterosexual people with their own heterosexual brothers and sisters, have produced conflicting results on whether these disparities stem from minority stress or from shared family genetics and upbringing. For instance, an early 1999 study comparing identical male twin pairs found that gay men still reported higher rates of suicidal thoughts than their heterosexual twin brothers, suggesting family background alone did not explain the disparity.
On the other hand, a 2011 twin study found evidence that shared genetic and environmental background factors partly accounted for the higher rates of depression seen in non-heterosexual people. These conflicting outcomes directly prompted the current authors to synthesize the full body of evidence into one comprehensive analysis.
Ujma and his colleagues conducted a systematic multilevel meta-analysis, a statistical technique that combines the results of multiple independent studies to identify overall trends. The authors searched academic databases for English-language studies in which twins or non-twin siblings reported on both their sexual orientation and their mental health, identifying 17 that met their criteria. They set aside one very large Swedish sibling study from the main analysis because it measured sexual orientation through same-sex marriage and reported its results in a different statistical format.
The researchers extracted data from these studies to calculate effect sizes, representing the difference in mental health between heterosexual and non-heterosexual participants, and organized them into three types of comparisons. First, they looked at the mental health gap in the general, unmatched population, meaning all heterosexual people compared to all non-heterosexual people without considering family ties. Second, they compared heterosexual and non-heterosexual individuals across all available pairs of family members, which included a mix of non-twin siblings, fraternal twins, and identical twins. Finally, they isolated comparisons strictly between identical twin pairs where one twin was heterosexual and the other was not.
The results showed a noticeable drop in the mental health disparity as genetic and family relatedness increased. In the unmatched general population, non-heterosexual participants showed worse mental health by about 0.41 standard deviations, a gap typically considered small to moderate. When the researchers controlled for any family relationship, comparing participants to their siblings or twins, the mental health disparity was reduced by 47.5 percent.
Identical twins share nearly 100 percent of their genes and generally experience the same early upbringing, making them the most rigorous test for family-level traits. When comparing a non-heterosexual individual specifically to their identical heterosexual twin, the mental health disparity dropped by 65.7 percent.
Although this reduction was larger than the one for family members in general, the difference between the two estimates was not statistically significant, likely because only a handful of studies reported identical twin comparisons. The authors interpret these results as evidence that roughly two-thirds of the population gap reflects familial factors, such as shared genes and upbringing, rather than minority stress.
Including the large Swedish sibling study, which the authors analyzed separately, shrank the estimated reductions to 27.8 percent for family members overall and 53.7 percent for identical twins.
The identical twin analysis also showed that the gap did not disappear entirely. Non-heterosexual identical twins still exhibited higher rates of mental health symptoms than their heterosexual twins, meaning roughly one-third of the disparity stems from factors the twins do not share. The authors describe sexual minority stress as one candidate explanation for this remaining gap, alongside other possibilities, such as differences in the life paths of non-heterosexual and heterosexual people. More broadly, they argue that much of the disparity has been wrongly attributed to minority stress and that their results partly falsify the theory.
“The key takeaway is that shared familial factors may account for a substantial portion of mental health disparities associated with sexual orientation,” Yiwen Wang, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Central Florida who was not involved in the research, told PsyPost. “However, accounting for familial background reduces these disparities but does not eliminate them. The study provides an important complement to the minority stress literature by highlighting familial sources of mental health disparities that have received comparatively less attention. I would view these findings as complicating, rather than overturning, minority stress theory.”
“One thing I would caution against is interpreting these findings as evidence that minority stress does not matter,” Wang added. “Accounting for familial factors reduces the disparities, but it does not tell us exactly what mechanisms are responsible for that reduction. Importantly, a meaningful mental health disparity remains even among identical twins.”
As with all research, there are a few things to keep in mind regarding these findings. The authors detected borderline publication bias in the population estimates, meaning the starting mental health gap might be slightly inflated. The studies included in the meta-analysis varied widely in how they defined sexual orientation and which demographic groups they included. The mental health measures and results also differed considerably from study to study, which prevented the researchers from drawing specific conclusions about individual disorders like anxiety or depression in isolated populations.
“The genetically informed design is a notable strength, and the overall pattern is compelling,” Wang noted. “I would be more cautious about the magnitude of the estimates and their causal interpretation, given substantial heterogeneity across studies and the relatively limited evidence from identical twin comparisons.”
Another limitation is that the analyses could not cleanly separate genetic causes from shared environmental causes. The authors suggest the larger reduction among identical twins points toward genetic factors, though the difference between the identical-twin and broader family estimates was not statistically significant.
In addition, because identical twins who differ in sexual orientation are relatively rare, the sample sizes for the strict identical twin comparisons were small, meaning the statistical estimates for that specific group have a wider margin of error. The authors recommend that future studies use highly standardized clinical measures of mental health and prioritize gathering data on both regular siblings and identical twins to build a more precise picture of these dynamics.
“I would like to see studies combine genetically informed designs with direct, longitudinal measures of discrimination, stigma, and other minority stressors,” Wang said. “That could help us better understand how family background and social experiences work together to shape mental health, rather than treating them as competing explanations.”
The study, “How much is sexual minority stress confounded with familial causes? A systematic multilevel meta-analysis,” was authored by Péter Przemyslaw Ujma, John D. Haltigan, and J. Michael Bailey.
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