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There’s an important difference between looking at porn and being addicted to porn. A “porn addiction” involves an emotional dependence on pornography. Looking at porn can be a totally healthy…
In the same brand of pop culture shorthand that labels oxytocin the “love hormone” and cortisol the “stress hormone,” dopamine is classified as the “reward” chemical we deliver ourselves a…
We’re getting therapy all wrong. The turmoil of the past three years—pandemic, lockdowns, economic uncertainty, political upheaval, and that’s just a snapshot—did a number on our collective psyches. According to…
When the package arrived without issue, the vendor turned Mat on to the Facebook Nepenthes community. If the forums were the farmers markets of carnivorous plant collecting, Facebook was its…
Photo: StunningArt (Shutterstock) There are many different approaches to mental health treatment— cognitive behavioral therapy, old school psychoanalysis, group therapy, addiction counseling, psychedelic mushroom trips, etc. The destination is, broadly,…
When journalists on the fashion beat accept conventional wisdom as fact and don’t look too closely at whether the trends they describe are real, the worst that happens is unstylishness.…
Photo: Photographee.eu (Shutterstock) You’ve taken the leap and scheduled a first appointment with a therapist. Maybe it’s your first-ever session with anyone, or your last session was years ago, or…
Photo: CL Shebley (Shutterstock) You can get messed up from huffing all kinds of common chemicals, from gasoline to paint, solvents, and the compressed air used to clean electronics. Huffing…
For years, too, there’s been a stampede of self-help books by alcohol skeptics, most of them women, many of whom once had trouble drinking not the third bottle. These books…
Screenshot: Wild/Searchlight Pictures HBO just dropped the trailer for the second season of its acclaimed teen drama Euphoria. It’s been a long wait between seasons—though there have been a couple…