Currently Creasing: Week of May 27

Collage courtesy of Afropunk

Here’s what our team has for you to bookmark & read this week

1. Why Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem: Boosting your ego won’t make you feel better. Instead, try talking to yourself like you would your best friend.

2. The Troubled History of Psychiatry: Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself, including the fundamental question of what constitutes a mental disorder.

3. There Is Too Much Stuff: The human brain can’t contend with the vastness of online shopping.

4. A new rule from the Trump administration would diminish protections for transgender people in health care: The change interprets sex according to the ‘plain meaning of the term’

5. Are Nutritional Supplements a Waste of Money?: The FDA is stepping up its oversight of the $50 billion nutritional supplement industry

6. The Gut Hypothesis: Could Parkinson’s disease, a brain disorder, have its origin somewhere else? A controversial theory is gaining ground.

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Thought of the Week

“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.”

— Audre Lorde