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For me to put my random ramblings about Psychology, mental and physical wellness, or random stuff :P

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a licensed clinician, and any advice written here is merely my own opinion. Talk to an actual therapist, they'll be much smarter than I am

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Psychology

How Emotions Work

I’ll probably be yapping a lot about emotions on this blog, since it’s what I research, so I first want to give some general info on how emotions are created, most of which comes from Dr. James Gross and Dr. Jennifer Veilleux. Emotions are difficult to define, and even experts in the field can’t agree on a single definition. But essentially, they’re messages from our brain about something that matters to us. Emotions are brief, usually only a couple minutes at most, as compared to moods, wh
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On How to Learn and Study

One thing I've been diving a lot into this past week is learning about learning, which has been super interesting. Most of what I've learned has been through Dr. Justin Sung, who's a learning coach and makes a bunch of great youtube videos. (Almost all of this is summarizing what I learned from this video) If you're like me, if you take notes, it's probably the standard handwritten/typed full page of words, directly copying down words of powerpoints or what the teacher says. Maybe the odd d
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On Sleep quality and how to improve it

Hey ya'll! Some of you may know I'm very passionate about getting adequate sleep. It's been proven to be vital for both physical and mental health. But many of us (myself included until several months ago) just get 7 hours (or less) and say we're good, but wonder why we're tired, struggle to get out of bed, and deal with so much fatigue and mental struggles. You've probably heard the estimates that teens should get 8-9 hours of sleep, and adults should get 7-8 or so. But that doesn't do as much
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On phone use and thinking

Do people read these? Ig we'll find out! But I wanted to share some recent thoughts and discoveries I've made recently, and hopefully they'll be helpful. I know we've all heard the lecture time and time again about how bad phones are, how they're rotting our brains, etc, etc. I think we can all acknowledge that spending 2 hours scrolling on a phone or watching youtube on your computer is a waste of time. But almost as dangerous is the smaller, shorter uses. Checking your phone in the mor
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