To be heard over today’s cacophony of voices, one needs a hook: a meme, a viral photo, a catchy phrase, a juicy zinger, a sound bite. Speakers soon learn that overstimulated, desensitized attention ...

To be heard over today’s cacophony of voices, one needs a hook: a meme, a viral photo, a catchy phrase, a juicy zinger, a sound bite. Speakers soon learn that overstimulated, desensitized attention ...

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The way people talk about mental health has changed dramatically in recent years. Psychological terms that were once confined to therapy rooms and academic discussions now dominate social media and ...

Psychological terms such as "narcissistic abuse" and "gaslighting" are bleeding into everyday speech. Online, several influencers have accused their peers of harmful, abusive tactics. Experts talked ...

Psychology-related words and phrases tend to creep into our everyday vocabularies. Unfortunately, many of them have been twisted in our minds, and we now use them to refer to the wrong thing—or, in ...

When I first joined TikTok in 2020, I couldn’t go a day without seeing videos about abusive narcissists, whether in the form of “toxic” exes, or emotionally absent parents. While narcissists obviously ...

You’ve probably heard terms like "boundaries", "gaslighting", and "narcissism" — among other clinical, psychological terms — on an almost daily basis for years now. If you’re anything like me, you’re ...