Reading List – On Health

The Overdiagnosis and Mistreatment of Autism

The Overdiagnosis and Mistreatment of Autism

The ones most affected by this euphemistic fog are not the high-functioning adults demanding validation, it’s the children who still cannot speak, and whose parents are begging to know: Will they ever be able to live independently?

The mental health consequences of social justice fundamentalism

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.

Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

The Food Group You May Be Missing

We must stop using a female model to treat men’s mental health

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?

Suicide rates among people in most age groups have been increasing steadily for the past 20 years in the United States.

The Coddling of the American Parent

The Panic Over Smartphones Doesn’t Help Teens

How long does it take to form a habit

How to practically create new habits

6 Reasons A No Sugar Diet Won’t Make You Healthier.

No Such Thing as Too Much Exercise, Study Finds

How communities can help kids fight obesity and become healthier adults

Can Healthy Cooking Oils Raise Your Diabetes Risk?

Here’s to us non-morning-persons

She fought for her life

WHO guidelines on sexual violence

7 reasons not to feel bad about yourself when you have acted immorally

Guilt: Or why it’s good to feel bad

Happiness Won’t Save You

Loneliness matters

First Principle Thinking

Wow

First-principles thinking clears the clutter of what we’ve told ourselves and allows us to rebuild from the ground up

A sensible guide to non-attachment

Don’t think about it is bad advice

When the urge comes to do the counterproductive thing, don’t resist. Instead, replace.

Schedule nothing

What you read is so crucial

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

The stresses of an era can’t be wished away; the truest intellectual training could be how to stay calm, and keep thinking clearly, in the high-strung culture in which students need to make their lives.