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Socially distancing = loneliness, isolation, illness, and despair.

Posted on 26th March 2020

Another one in case you are not convinced. Although there’s been no time to study the effects of social distancing related specifically to the coronavirus, we know a great deal about the impact of social isolation on mental and physical health. It’s often experienced as highly stressful, and the stress can become toxic. Isolation, particularly when it causes loneliness, increases the risk of anxiety and depression. Social isolation has the equivalent adverse impact on physical health to smoking 15 cigarettes…

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Posted on 21st March 2020

( ) Too many people I've encountered online don’t realise that dealing with the current situation isn’t only about adjusting to working from home. That some of us are dealing with a whole lot more than just that and that being confined to a small space and forced to physically distance may aggravate "social isolation".…

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The Importance of Doing Nothing

Posted on 16th May 2019
Kids, Summer, Playing, Water Squirter

The Importance of Doing Nothing by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries In today’s networked society we are at risk of becoming victims of information overload. Introspection and reflection have become lost arts as the temptation to ‘just finish this’ or ‘find out that’ is often too great to resist. But working harder is not necessarily working smarter. In fact slacking off and setting aside regular periods of ‘doing nothing’ may be the best thing we can do to induce…

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Men are "nothing more than a walking paycheck".

Posted on 24th April 2019

What's the Problem with Masculinity? - Again, for most of civilization, young men were the ones responsible for protecting society. By the time they were adults, they needed to be battle-hardened and physically strong — the survival of the community often depended on it. As a result, brutal, physical violence among men (through organized sport) was celebrated (and still is today, although this is beginning to change). And men who weren’t able to make the cut were shamed for their…

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