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Are Your High-Intensity Emotions The Reason You're Exhausted?

There isn’t a middle-ground here, no ebb and flow of stress, no uncomplicated joy or sorrow in an everyday situation. There is only the most exhausting, most labile of emotive response.

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The Independence Illusion: How Vulnerability Will Improve Your Relationships

Being vulnerable, being seen (even lumpy and naked), admitting weakness, asking for help — these acts inspire and edify.

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Cuddle Clones Plush Toys Take Pet Obsession To New Heights

You know how people get attached to their pets? Obsessed even? Crazily, weirdly, freakishly obsessed even?

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Hugh Hefner And Bill Cosby: What Happens When Your Friend Is A Rapist?

It's not easy to reconcile caring about someone with allegations of abuse against them. But sometimes, it's necessary.

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This Just In: Tech Is Turning Kids Into Emotionless Drones

A new study reveals the benefits of unplugging kids from the digital world.

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New Study Reveals Our Brains Use Standard Code To Process Emotions

While computer-like elements of our noggins abound, the idea that our most "illogical bits" are organized the same way makes us seem like cyborgs.

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Unrequited Love is Torture—Here's a Poem About It!

Chances are, you've experienced agonizing, soul-wrenching, f-my-life unrequited love. We found a poem that shares your pain...but in a totally entertaining way.

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