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Jonathan Haidt is a sixty-year-old social psychologist who believes that your child’s smartphone is a threat to mental well-being. His new book, “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness,” which hit the No. 1 spot on the New York Times’ hardcover nonfiction...

·Follow94% of internet connections worldwide are made from a smart phone. In the US alone, 97% of citizens own one of these devices. It’s evident in the numbers, and possibly our own pockets, that smart phones are everywhere and don’t seem to be leaving any time soon.However, 6 months ago, I ditched my smart phone a...

Gravity Images/Getty Images Post Post Share Annotate Save Print Summary. Self-worth is our set of core beliefs about our value as a human being. It’s how we see ourselves and who we perceive ourselves to be. People differ in what they believe they must be or do to have worth or value. When we externalize our self-wo...

Warning: This article contains references to suicide Back in 2021, a 'suicide pod' was made completely legal and fully approved for use in Switzerland.Philip Nitschke, the former physician and founder of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International, created the suicide capsule machine.He wanted to create ‘peaceful, r...