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If you’re feeling not just frustrated and challenged, but helpless, isolated, and trapped, like you want to hide in a cave, or like you’d rather put your hand in a toilet full of tadpoles than spend one more day doing the thing, you should definitely quit whatever it is.
Burnout
Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski
I expected a mental health system built on compassion and respect for the time and minds of the mentally ill.
The Mental Illness Drunk Tank
The Unfleshly Fête
It’s the desire circuit that’s activated when you see the plate of donuts on the table, and it’s activated not by need, but by the presence of something attractive from an evolutionary or life-sustaining standpoint. That is, at the moment such a thing is seen, the circuit is activated whether or not you’re hungry.
The Molecule of More
Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long
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