Jordan Peterson ~ The Reason We Have So Many People With ADHD/ADD
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A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Children are wrongly diagnosed with ADHD if they fall behind at school, warns neurologist
This report by Anita Singh has been published in the Daily Telegraph. It begins: “Children are being wrongly diagnosed with ADHD when they are just falling behind, according to a leading neurologist, who said the medical profession was too quick to label people….
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Science of happiness course improves students’ mental health, study finds
“Almost 1,000 students at the University of Bristol have taken the 12-week course.” Claire Hayhurst reports for the Evening Standard: “A university course teaching students lessons in happiness improves their mental wellbeing, research has found. The University of Bristol’s Science of Happiness…
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Challenging ideas in mental health
OpenLearn provides free learning courses from the (UK-based) Open University. “ Challenging ideas in mental health ” is one such course, involving around 18 hours of study. The course providers say: “Take a new and different look at mental health. This free course, Challenging ideas…
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Instead of rote learning useless facts, children should be taught wellbeing
Writing in The Guardian , Alice O’Keeffe says: “In his treatise on the future of humanity, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century , the philosopher-historian Yuval Noah Harari offers the young people of today some advice. In order to survive and thrive in adulthood, they should not rely…
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Some interesting quotations (2)
You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: “… there’s not a lot to master in medications. It’s like ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ where you had Hal the supercomputer juxtaposed with the ape with the bone. I…
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As a teenager, I believe our mental health is harmed by this dehumanising education system
Writing in The Independent , Romy McCarthy says: “On GCSE results day this week, I couldn’t help but cast my mind back to the daunting day last year as I walked through the school gates with my parents, trying my best to…
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The School of Life: An Emotional Education
This book has been written by Alain de Botton. The publishers say: “We spend years in school learning facts and figures but the one thing we’re never taught is how to live a fulfilled life [editor’s note: see Bad Education ]. That’s why…
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Critical New Perspectives on ADHD
