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Status Update: Facebook Is Stressing You Out!
by Cristen Conger | February 17, 2011
Yesterday, I had a red letter day for a number of reasons. At one point, I found myself practically bouncing up and down in my office chair with glee, trying to think of the best way to broadcast my A-plus fantastic mood to the rest of the world via Facebook. Why would anyone care that I had a chocolate cupcake kind of day? I don’t know. But after agonizing over how to communicate all of this, I finally gave up and decided to keep my good fortune to myself.
I was suffering, apparently, from Facebook-related anxiety.
How Accelerated Aging Works – the amazing aging of President Obama
by Marshall Brain | December 10, 2010
Accelerated aging is often used as a device in fiction, as seen in this clip from Star Trek: But it can also happen in real life, as demonstrated here: President Obama after 2 years This same kind of thing happened with President Bush: President Bush after 7 years President Bush after 8 years So what [...]
I hadn’t heard of this before: anxiety sensitivity. I also can’t think of too many worse conditions that don’t involve substantial wounds. Anxiety sensitivity is a clinical condition where an individual suffers anxiety about anxiety. More succinctly, it’s the fear of fear. Well you’ve pretty much lost at the start, haven’t you?
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