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'Focus on me' is bad advice: Gen Z is most 'aware' of mental health, least happy
"Mental health awareness" tells healthy people to medicalize their problems, while neglecting the seriously mentally ill.

Joanne Jacobs
May 102 min read
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Warning: Too much 'trauma' talk encourages fragility
I was wrong about trigger warnings, writes Jill Filipovic in The Atlantic. Writing for a feminist blog in 2008, she thought warning...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 13, 20232 min read
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You are not enough: Love thy neighbor too
"You are enough" is a popular saying, writes Katherine Boyle on The Free Press. But it's not true. Americans have lost their sense of...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 9, 20232 min read
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You're not so special
"No one is you, and that is your superpower!" reads a sign at Brian Huskie's school. "Ridiculous," he writes on SubStack. "Imagine being...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 27, 20222 min read
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