#shame — Public Fediverse posts
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard Improved (1749 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/29…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #poor #poverty #shame
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Le Figaro: #États-Unis #US : #Google #Maps se plie aux exigences de Donald Trump et affichera désormais «Lac d'Amérique» plutôt que «Lac #Ontario»
BOUUUUUHHHH !!!!
#SHAME ON #GOOGLE !!!!!👎👎👎👎👎
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us. There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.
Eric Hoffer (1902–1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 69 (3.14.69) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11001/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #truebeliever #conscience #defiance #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfdistraction #selfhatred #selfloathing #selfrighteousness #shame
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😅 Ich lach mich schlapp 🤣
S21 - The Game Demo Trailer https://youtu.be/1I9OmD2XLqs - Entwickler ist @Hanging_Gardens_Interactive aus Stuttgarthttps://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/lokales/stuttgart/stuttgart-21-als-horrortrip-die-s21-odyssee-wird-zum-videospiel-79398706.html
#stuttgart21 #Game #Blame #Shame
Falls Sie denken: Der Weg dauert unendlich lang – das stimmt nicht“, tönt es aus den Lautsprechern...doch die Züge kommen einfach nicht in Sicht."
„Die Fertigstellung des Bahnhofs verzögert sich auf unbestimmte Zeit. Bitte beachten Sie die Lücke zwischen Anspruch u. Wirklichkeit" -
Le désintérêt des États-Unis à l’égard de la lutte contre le sida va jusqu'à l’insulte en produisant une carte aberrante probablement générée par IA. #greedsKills #shame #aids #sida #trump #aids2026 https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2026/07/31/quand-le-gouvernement-americain-publie-une-carte-fantaisiste-de-l-afrique_6737154_3212.html
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Ukraine update from Dylan Combellick: Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and kick an oligarch in the nuts: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-july-30-aa8616c8906c?sk=3a30882b2d7733009ea09e426e6d279f
#ukraine #journalism #war #russia #warcrimes #USA #evil #MAGA #greed #billionaires #stupidity #trump #shame #disappointment
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The country will remember. The Youth remembers!
Shame! Shame! Shame!
#TheCountryWillRemember #YouthRemembers #Shame #Justice #Accountability #Democracy #HumanRights #CivilRights #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #Freedom #Equality #Truth #Transparency #PublicInterest #CivicEngagement #PeoplesVoice #SocialJustice #StandForJustice #SpeakUp #RaiseYourVoice #NoMoreSilence #India #Mastodon #activism -
The country will remember. The Youth remembers!
Shame! Shame! Shame!
#TheCountryWillRemember #YouthRemembers #Shame #Justice #Accountability #Democracy #HumanRights #CivilRights #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #Freedom #Equality #Truth #Transparency #PublicInterest #CivicEngagement #PeoplesVoice #SocialJustice #StandForJustice #SpeakUp #RaiseYourVoice #NoMoreSilence #India #Mastodon #activism -
The country will remember. The Youth remembers!
Shame! Shame! Shame!
#TheCountryWillRemember #YouthRemembers #Shame #Justice #Accountability #Democracy #HumanRights #CivilRights #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #Freedom #Equality #Truth #Transparency #PublicInterest #CivicEngagement #PeoplesVoice #SocialJustice #StandForJustice #SpeakUp #RaiseYourVoice #NoMoreSilence #India #Mastodon #activism -
The country will remember. The Youth remembers!
Shame! Shame! Shame!
#TheCountryWillRemember #YouthRemembers #Shame #Justice #Accountability #Democracy #HumanRights #CivilRights #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #Freedom #Equality #Truth #Transparency #PublicInterest #CivicEngagement #PeoplesVoice #SocialJustice #StandForJustice #SpeakUp #RaiseYourVoice #NoMoreSilence #India #Mastodon #activism -
The country will remember. The Youth remembers!
Shame! Shame! Shame!
#TheCountryWillRemember #YouthRemembers #Shame #Justice #Accountability #Democracy #HumanRights #CivilRights #RuleOfLaw #Constitution #Freedom #Equality #Truth #Transparency #PublicInterest #CivicEngagement #PeoplesVoice #SocialJustice #StandForJustice #SpeakUp #RaiseYourVoice #NoMoreSilence #India #Mastodon #activism -
A big disappointment…
...and some feelings of shame and remorse... I have been struggling, I am struggling, and I feel I'm heading into a darker area, which scares me at times... I don't want to fall too much backwards, and end up dropping into a big, dark, hole 🕳️ again. I am not strong enough to deal with depression right now. I don't know if I am there yet... There are plenty of signs of depression, at the moment I write this. But, it could also be another autistic burnout... "Autistic burnout and depression share many outward signs — which is why burnout is frequently misdiagnosed as depression — but their underlying causes, specific symptoms, and paths to recovery are fundamentally different." […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/17/a-big-disappointment/
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Ukraine update from Giorgio Provinicialli: details and perspective from inside the kill zone of Ukraine.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and help peace return to Ukraine: https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali/machines-first-man-last-the-fedorov-doctrine-behind-historys-first-landing-of-the-machines-6038f6287569?sk=94594e29945ac1d70a64971379366619
#ukraine #journalism #press #news #independent #war #warcorrespondent #russia #warcrimes #terror #corruption #lies #USA #trump #maga #loser #fear #betrayal #shame #disappointment
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The Places in My Dreams
The world within, the world of my dreams, is similar to the one I walk through every day. But it is different.
The streets bend strangely. The rooms open where they should not. The people and places are often indifferent to me, and sometimes, they are even antagonistic.
They are not merely people and places. They are representations of emotions I have not yet worked through from the previous day. Sixteen waking hours are not enough to fully grasp all that I have experienced, endured, feared, desired, regretted, or misunderstood.
And so, in the night, these things come alive.
They take on faces. They become houses, roads, crowds, locked doors, ruined landscapes, familiar rooms made unfamiliar. They guide me through the shadow lands—not always kindly, but truthfully. They show me what I could not see while awake.
My dreams are not escapes from the day.
They are the day returning in another form, asking to be understood.Some nights I find myself back in places I have never been, and yet they feel older than memory. A school that was never my school. A church with hallways that keep multiplying. A childhood home rearranged by grief. A city I know by instinct, though no map has ever held it.
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In these places, I am often trying to get somewhere.
I am late. I am lost. I am looking for someone. I am trying to explain myself to people who will not listen. I am searching for a room, a door, a vehicle, a path, a way home. Sometimes I am carrying something fragile. Sometimes I have forgotten what I was supposed to carry. Sometimes I am responsible for a task I do not understand, surrounded by people who seem to know the rules but refuse to tell me.
This is the cruelty of the dream world: everyone else seems initiated.
They move through the strange landscape as if it is ordinary. They know which hallway leads out, which road is safe, which bus to board, which door not to open. I am the stranger in a world that somehow belongs to me. I am the dreamer, and yet I am not in control.
Perhaps this is why the places feel antagonistic. They do not hate me. They are simply unwilling to flatter me. They will not pretend I am finished with what I have not faced. They will not comfort me with easy explanations. They turn my emotions into architecture and ask me to walk through them.
Fear becomes a narrow bridge.
Regret becomes a house with too many locked rooms.
Anger becomes a storm on the edge of town.
Shame becomes a crowd that sees me before I am ready to be seen.
Grief becomes a road that always returns to the same place.
And longing—longing becomes a light in a window I can never quite reach.
I wake from these dreams with the feeling that I have traveled farther than my body could have gone. I have crossed cities, fields, stairways, basements, sanctuaries, ruins, and train stations. I have spoken with the dead and avoided the living. I have been judged by strangers and ignored by friends. I have wandered through the unfinished weather of my own soul.
Then morning comes, and the ordinary world returns.
The walls are where I left them. The floor is solid. The dog needs to go out. The coffee waits. The phone glows with its small demands. The day begins again, pretending to be separate from the night.
But I know better.
The dream has left its residue. A feeling follows me, sometimes faint, sometimes heavy. A hallway from the dream lingers inside the hallway of the house. A face from the night appears behind the face of someone I know. A mood clings to the morning like fog.
The shadow lands do not vanish when I wake.
They retreat.
They wait beneath the visible world, beneath errands and conversations, beneath sermons and chores, beneath the version of myself that knows how to answer when someone asks, “How are you?”
I say, “I’m fine.”
But somewhere beneath that answer, an entire city is still burning, or flooding, or rebuilding itself in the dark. -
Ukraine update from Dylan Combellick: expert analysis and first-hand reporting from Ukraine.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and help the truth spread: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-july-2-f4ba2bed3e15?sk=922f5a0257556387ef2240e46052083e
#ukraine #journalism #war #russia #russiaisATerroristState #complicit #usa #trump #maga #billionaires #greed #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #corruption #crimea #china #petroleum #oil #EU #gas #shame #disappointment
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 69 (3.14.69) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11001/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #truebeliever #conscience #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfhatred #selfloathing #selfrighteousness #shame #selfcontempt
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Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli: the end of Russian occupation is slow, but there is reason to hope.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and help the world learn from true independent journalists living and working in the kill zone of Ukraine: https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali/logistics-lockdown-how-ukraine-closes-the-russian-depth-a791fce527fa?sk=8b54e355d99af2cc9af30b3d4150b1d8
#ukraine #journalism #war #russia #russiaisATerroristState #warcrimes #Complicit #corruption #USA #trump #maga #losers #shame #greed #cruelty #disappointment #resist #news #press #independent #crimea
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Film Review: SHAME (2011): Steve McQueen, Michael Fassbender
Link: https://film-book.com/film-review-shame-2011-steve-mcqueen-michael-fassbender/?fsp_sid=217769
#AlexManette #AlexandraVino #AmyHargreaves #AnnaRoseHopkins #BrianaMarin #CareyMulligan #CharisseBellante #dramamovie #ElizabethMasucci #FoxSearchlightPictures #HannahWare #JakeRichardSiciliano #JamesBadgeDale #LucyWalters #MichaelFassbender #MovieTrailer #NicoleBeharie #RobertMontano #Shame #Shame2011 #SteveMcQueen
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G7 leaders (almost) all having a chat
#DireStraitsKnows #theworld #destroyingAmerica #shame #worldnews #thePresident #worldStage #photo #geopolitics #G7 #photograph #historic
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Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli, independent journalist extraordinaire, and hero of Ukraine.
If you want to understand the heinous war Russia wages on Ukraine, follow the money.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and kick an Oligarch in the teeth: https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali/weeks-off-the-line-russias-missiles-get-smarter-and-europe-keeps-paying-for-them-7dd5cec7b278?sk=a959a1d9e08d114ce7f894c8f9faed1e
#ukraine #journalism #war #russia #russiaisATerroristState #complicit #USA #trump #maga #corruption #traitors #cruel #greed #ghouls #shame #disgust
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#Trump convierte el #Mundial en la " #Copa del #Miedo " : #EEUU #USA limita los visados , despliega el #ICE.
¡ QUE VERGUËNZA ! WHAT A SHAME !
🤮🤮🤮#BOYCOTT THIS #WORLD #CUP OF #HATRED AND #SEGREGATIONISM
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#USA2026 #LOSANGELES2026 #LA2026
#JESSIE #OWENS 1968 RESPECT AND MODEL
#FOOTBALL #SOCCER #PLAYERS #REBELSSHOW THE WORLD YOU HAVE A #CONCIENCE AND A #MORALITY
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Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli, independent journalist extraordinaire.
Russia loses momentum, but even a falling giant can hurt you if it falls on top of you.
Support Ukraine and independent journalism by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall: https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali/the-corridor-cracks-how-ukraine-is-strangling-russias-road-to-crimea-d07ff9203834?sk=f45f24127e1b745df0398bdcf385fd0c
#ukraine #journalism #war #russia #warcrimes #complicit #USA #TRUMP #MAGA #shame #fiends #ghouls #corruption #resist
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Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli and Alla Perdei.
They are a unique and invaluable source of information from the deadliest parts of Ukraine. Their host newspaper will no longer print, and they need your support.
Please share the friend link to bypass the paywall, and support if you can: https://medium.com/@giorgioprovinciali/b4887f67d5e2?sk=83394dd4c2a2067921f14a3a0c97445a
#ukraine #journalism #press #news #heroes #war #russia #russiaisATerroristState #warcrimes #complicit #USA #trump #maga #greed #corruption #fiends #ghouls #shame
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Feeling lazy, unmotivated, and ashamed of it? Doctor says it could be undiagnosed ADHD.
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All this talk of #housing #Budget2026. Isn’t it staggering how not one politician or media outlet is talking about protecting #RentersRights? #RuleOfLaw should be fully operational protecting the people doing it toughest. We should be looking after people better. #auspol #Shame
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Do not forget you are like the rest of the world, and faulty yourself in a great many instances: that though you may forbear from some errors, it is not for want of inclination, and that nothing but cowardice, vanity, or some such base principle hinders you from sinning.
[καὶ αὐτὸς πολλὰ ἁμαρτάνεις καὶ ἄλλος τοιοῦτος εἷ: καὶ εἴ τινων δὲ ἁμαρτημάτων ἀπέχῃ, ἀλλὰ τήν γε ἕξιν ἐποιστικὴν ἔχεις, εἰ καὶ διὰ δειλίαν ἢ δοξοκοπίαν ἢ τοιοῦτό τι κακὸν ἀπέχῃ τῶν ὁμοίων ἁμαρτημάτων.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Collier/Zimmern (1887)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8169…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #humility #humbleness #error, fear #motivation #selfawareness #selfevaluation #selfrestraint #shame #sinfulness
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Do not forget you are like the rest of the world, and faulty yourself in a great many instances: that though you may forbear from some errors, it is not for want of inclination, and that nothing but cowardice, vanity, or some such base principle hinders you from sinning.
[καὶ αὐτὸς πολλὰ ἁμαρτάνεις καὶ ἄλλος τοιοῦτος εἷ: καὶ εἴ τινων δὲ ἁμαρτημάτων ἀπέχῃ, ἀλλὰ τήν γε ἕξιν ἐποιστικὴν ἔχεις, εἰ καὶ διὰ δειλίαν ἢ δοξοκοπίαν ἢ τοιοῦτό τι κακὸν ἀπέχῃ τῶν ὁμοίων ἁμαρτημάτων.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Collier/Zimmern (1887)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8169…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #humility #humbleness #error, fear #motivation #selfawareness #selfevaluation #selfrestraint #shame #sinfulness
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Do not forget you are like the rest of the world, and faulty yourself in a great many instances: that though you may forbear from some errors, it is not for want of inclination, and that nothing but cowardice, vanity, or some such base principle hinders you from sinning.
[καὶ αὐτὸς πολλὰ ἁμαρτάνεις καὶ ἄλλος τοιοῦτος εἷ: καὶ εἴ τινων δὲ ἁμαρτημάτων ἀπέχῃ, ἀλλὰ τήν γε ἕξιν ἐποιστικὴν ἔχεις, εἰ καὶ διὰ δειλίαν ἢ δοξοκοπίαν ἢ τοιοῦτό τι κακὸν ἀπέχῃ τῶν ὁμοίων ἁμαρτημάτων.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Collier/Zimmern (1887)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8169…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #humility #humbleness #error, fear #motivation #selfawareness #selfevaluation #selfrestraint #shame #sinfulness
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Do not forget you are like the rest of the world, and faulty yourself in a great many instances: that though you may forbear from some errors, it is not for want of inclination, and that nothing but cowardice, vanity, or some such base principle hinders you from sinning.
[καὶ αὐτὸς πολλὰ ἁμαρτάνεις καὶ ἄλλος τοιοῦτος εἷ: καὶ εἴ τινων δὲ ἁμαρτημάτων ἀπέχῃ, ἀλλὰ τήν γε ἕξιν ἐποιστικὴν ἔχεις, εἰ καὶ διὰ δειλίαν ἢ δοξοκοπίαν ἢ τοιοῦτό τι κακὸν ἀπέχῃ τῶν ὁμοίων ἁμαρτημάτων.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Collier/Zimmern (1887)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8169…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #humility #humbleness #error, fear #motivation #selfawareness #selfevaluation #selfrestraint #shame #sinfulness
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Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.” Instead, “if your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink, for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
[μὴ ἑαυτοὺς ἐκδικοῦντες, ἀγαπητοί, ἀλλὰ δότε τόπον τῇ ὀργῇ, γέγραπται γάρ, ” Ἐμοὶ ἐκδίκησις, ἐγὼ ἀνταποδώσω,” λέγει κύριος. ἀλλ᾽ ” ἐὰν πεινᾷ ὁ ἐχθρός σου, ψώμιζε αὐτόν· ἐὰν διψᾷ, πότιζε αὐτόν· τοῦτο γὰρ ποιῶν ἄνθρακας πυρὸς σωρεύσεις ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ.” μὴ νικῶ ὑπὸ τοῦ κακοῦ ἀλλὰ νίκα ἐν τῷ ἀγαθῷ τὸ κακόν.]The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Romans 12:19-21 [NRSV (2021 ed.)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/15586/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #romans #avenging #divinejudgment #divinepunishment #divineretribution #divinewrath #doinggood #goodandevil #gooddeeds #loveyourenemy #revenge #shame #vengeance
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Is Food Addiction Real? Just in Time for Thanksgiving!
Originally Published on November 25th, 2025 at 08:00 amFood Addiction: The “Addiction” We All Talk About
Many of us have joked about being “addicted” to ice cream or chips, describing an intense craving that feels impossible to resist. This common experience is at the heart of a serious scientific debate: Is Food Addiction (FA) a genuine addiction, similar to substance addiction?
The conversation has grown more complex as modern definitions of addiction have expanded.
Influential bodies like the American Society of Addiction Medicine no longer require the ingestion of a psychoactive substance for something to be considered an addiction. Similarly, behavioral addictions like gambling disorder are now formally recognized. This has intensified the scientific inquiry into whether addictive-like eating fits the same mold.
To find answers, a recent longitudinal study looked at the role of emotion regulation, how we handle our feelings, to compare food addiction and substance misuse.
The findings were surprising, revealing critical differences in the emotional pathways that drive these behaviors. This article breaks down the three most impactful takeaways that challenge what we think we know about food addiction.
1. The Counter-Intuitive Role of Positive Emotions in Food Addiction
Takeaway 1: Acting on a Good Mood Predicts Substance Misuse, But Deters Food Addiction.
One of the study’s most unexpected findings relates to “positive urgency.” It’s described as a psychological trait. One defined as the tendency to act impulsively when experiencing strong positive emotions, like feeling overjoyed or extremely happy.
The research, which tracked women over six months, found a striking divergence.
A one-unit increase in a person’s positive urgency score was associated with:
- A 100% to 200% increase in the odds of future alcohol or drug-related problems.
- A 50% decrease in the odds of future food addiction.
Why would feeling good lead to such different outcomes?
The researchers suggest it comes down to the reinforcing power of the substance or behavior.
Individuals high in positive urgency may seek to amplify or extend their good feelings, and psychoactive substances are far more effective at this than food.
The study’s authors explain: Women with greater positive urgency may tend to select psychoactive substances such as alcohol or drugs that can more effectively amplify or prolong their positive feelings, rather than food. Food’s effects are less potent and thus less reinforcing than psychoactive substances.
This discovery is significant because it highlights a fundamental difference in the emotional triggers for food addiction versus substance misuse.
While a good mood might increase the risk for substance misuse, it appears to have the opposite effect on addictive-like eating.
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2. How We Judge Our Feelings Matter… But Differently
Takeaway 2: Not Accepting Your Negative Emotions Has Opposite Effects on Food Addiction vs. Alcohol-Related Problems
Another key aspect of emotion regulation is the “non-acceptance of one’s negative emotions.”
This is the tendency to have self-critical or judgmental reactions like shame, guilt, or frustration to your own distressing feelings.
Here again, the study found that this trait was linked to food addiction and alcohol-related problems in opposite ways:
- Non-acceptance was associated with more severe food addiction symptoms.
- Non-acceptance was associated with less severe alcohol-related problems.
The researchers hypothesize that this difference may be rooted in social stigma.
Women who feel ashamed of their negative emotions might turn to food as a coping mechanism because overeating is often viewed as less stigmatized than alcohol misuse.
The study references other research showing that the label “food addict” is perceived as less shameful than “substance or alcohol addiction.” This suggests that societal norms and the fear of judgment can profoundly shape which coping behaviors we adopt.
3. The Complicated Truth About Negative Moods and Food Addiction
Takeaway 3: The Link Between Bad Moods and Bingeing Isn’t a Simple One
The idea that we eat to soothe bad feelings, often called “emotional eating,” is a popular one. This is related to the concept of “negative urgency,” or the tendency to act impulsively when experiencing strong negative emotions.
At first glance, the study’s data seemed to support this common belief.
When looking at a single point in time, the researchers found that negative urgency was a common link between both food addiction and substance misuse.
However, when they analyzed the data over time in a more sophisticated multivariate model, the picture changed dramatically.
After controlling for other emotion-regulation factors, negative urgency was not a significant predictor of future food addiction or substance misuse problems.
This doesn’t mean bad moods are irrelevant.
Rather, it suggests that negative urgency might be a “fellow traveler.” It’s present alongside the true driver, but not in the driver’s seat itself.
When the researchers statistically controlled for the powerful effect of positive urgency, the predictive signal from negative urgency faded away. This finding challenges the simple narrative that “feeling bad leads to addiction” and reveals that, over the long term, other emotional factors are far more influential.
Conclusion: A Different Kind of Struggle
While food addiction and substance addiction share surface-level similarities like cravings and loss of control, this new research paints a picture of two surprisingly different psychological profiles.
One is characterized by impulsivity in good times, which predicts substance misuse, while the other is marked by self-judgment in bad times, which predicts addictive-like eating.
This challenges the one-size-fits-all model of addiction.
The study’s overall conclusion is clear: “These findings suggest that FA [Food Addiction] is not associated with the same key deficits in emotion regulation as SA [Substance Addiction].”
This leaves us with a critical question to consider:
If the emotional drivers for food addiction and substance addiction are so different, does this mean we need to rethink how we talk about, prevent, and treat addictive-like eating?
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#addictionResearch #bingeEating #copingAndEmotions #eatingDisorders #emotionalEating #emotionalRegulation #evidenceBasedPractice #foodAddiction #negativeUrgency #positiveUrgency #shame #stigmaAndShame #substanceMisuse #traumaAndAddiction #treatmentImplications #womensMentalHealth
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Dare not to be guilty of ill Things, tho’ thou wert sure to be secret and unpunished. Conscience will sit upon it, and that is Witness, Jury, Judge, and Executioner.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2216 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/79900/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #conscience #guilt #guiltyconscience #selfawareness #selfcondemnation #selfconsciousness #selfcriticism #selfdeprecation #selfesteem #selfinflictedwound #selfjudgment #selfregard #shame #wrongdoing
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In our quest to end #bullying of the weak, we might have forgotten something.
It's absolute crucial that there's as little bullying as possible. But #ridicule and #shame is also the one thing that works against batshit crazy dominator #narcissists, and even on some variations #psychopathic people.
I think in the old times people did see this aspect of bullying as well. We might have forgotten it.
How do we square these two aspects without hurting those that won't grow up to be nazis? 🤔
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#boundaries #childhoodwounds #emotionalintelligence #emotionalpain #emotionalregulation #emotionaltrauma #EmotionalTriggers #emotionalwellness #familydynamics #guilt #healingjourney #identity #innerhealing #innerwork #MentalHealth #mindfulness #nervoussystem #personaldevelopment #personalgrowth #relationshipdynamics #selfawareness #selfcompassion #selfreflection #selfunderstanding #shame #stressresponse #toxicpatterns #traumaresponse #triggeredbehavior
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Elisa Aaltola Marko Gustafssonin vieraana puhumassa vastalääkkeistä hedonistisen kulutusyhteiskunnan sairaalle hyörinälle, https://areena.yle.fi/1-73932533
#kulutus #kulutusYhteiskunta #hedonismi #syyllisyys #häpeä #ylikulutus #uusliberalismi #kapitalismi #markkinatalous #eläinoikeudet #guilt #shame #psychology #society #consumerism #tunteet #emotions #empatia #empathy #rakkaus #love #talous
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BLOG | Time Has No Meaning... Neither Does Life
Everything is too much and too little...
https://delphinemusic.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/time-has-no-meaning/ #Abscess, #Anguish, #autism #Autistc , #AutisticBurnout, #ChronicConditions, #ChronicIllness #chronicpain #Degrading #Depression #Despair #Destroyed, #Devastated, #Disabilities, #Disability #Disabled, #Distraught, #Distress, #Distressed, #Fibromyalgia, #Fibroplegia, #FND, #Health, #Healthcare, #Incontinence, #livingwithdisability #MentalHealth, #neuropathicpain #Shame
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https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1449387/quand-le-president-americain-publie-une-video-dun-trump-gaza-dapres-guerre-genere-par-lia.html
Quand le président américain publie une vidéo d'un « #Trump #Gaza » d’après-guerre généré par l'IA #LorientleJour
Torses nus et en maillot de bain, Donald Trump et Benjamin #Netanyahu profitent du soleil gazaoui en sirotant un cocktail au bord d'une piscine luxueuse... Le président américain a partagé mercredi une vidéo générée par l’intelligence artificielle sur sa propre plateforme Truth social
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#California #banned #bilingual #education for almost 20 years. It still hasn’t #recovered
The nation’s most #linguistically #diverse #state has a #tortured #history with bilingual education in #publicschools. The #EducationDepartment can’t — and the #Legislature won’t — do what it takes to #repair the #damage.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #Education #Shame #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Xenophobia
https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/12/bilingual-education/
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#California #banned #bilingual #education for almost 20 years. It still hasn’t #recovered
The nation’s most #linguistically #diverse #state has a #tortured #history with bilingual education in #publicschools. The #EducationDepartment can’t — and the #Legislature won’t — do what it takes to #repair the #damage.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #Education #Shame #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Xenophobia
https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/12/bilingual-education/
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#California #banned #bilingual #education for almost 20 years. It still hasn’t #recovered
The nation’s most #linguistically #diverse #state has a #tortured #history with bilingual education in #publicschools. The #EducationDepartment can’t — and the #Legislature won’t — do what it takes to #repair the #damage.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #Education #Shame #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Xenophobia
https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/12/bilingual-education/
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#California #banned #bilingual #education for almost 20 years. It still hasn’t #recovered
The nation’s most #linguistically #diverse #state has a #tortured #history with bilingual education in #publicschools. The #EducationDepartment can’t — and the #Legislature won’t — do what it takes to #repair the #damage.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #California #Education #Shame #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Xenophobia
https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/12/bilingual-education/
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Film Review: SHAME (2011): Steve McQueen, Michael Fassbender
#FilmBook #AlexManette #AlexandraVino #AmyHargreaves #AnnaRoseHopkins #BrianaMarin #CareyMulligan #CharisseBellante #dramamovie #ElizabethMasucci #FoxSearchlightPictures #HannahWare #JakeRichardSiciliano #JamesBadgeDale #LucyWalters #MichaelFassbender #MovieTrailer #NicoleBeharie #RobertMontano #Shame #Shame2011 ...
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"#Pride #paradox": #Sociologist #ArlieHochschild on #Trump's #manipulation of #white #workingclass #voters.
"Trump brilliantly prospected for #white, #bluecollar #shame, found it, converted shame to #blame and set it on #fire"