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We are failing our kids, and they know it
Helen Roy
In a healthy society, would everyone and their mother need a complicated cocktail of uppers and downers just to get through the day? Of course not, and we obviously don’t live in a healthy society. Around 13% of Americans take antidepressants, and their use is growing around the world. The long-term use of the drugs is also increasing, year after year. In 2000, around 5 million Americans had been taking antidepressants for five years or more. By 2018, this had increased to 15.5 million. At the same point, almost 25 million adults had been taking antidepressants for more than two years, a 60 percent increase from 2010.
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How To Lose Friends and Alienate People
Helen Roy
For people who find mainstream politics, usually covered in woke detritus, repulsive, there is a certain temptation to take on the precise inverse version of the thing that most offends you in order to fight it. Don’t like those banshee Democrats whose entire identity is based on the fake news they mined on their side of the internet? Reflexively, the impulse to fight back on the existing terms bubbles up: beat them at their own game! We are better posters! We have better information! We have better arguments! So we simply must take to that comments section and ATTACK! This is how we win! While those sentiments about the superiority of conservative thought might be gratifying, this perpetually embattled position is one of a loser.
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Don’t Let Dry Skin Ruin Your Winter
Helen Roy
The winter storms that hit over Christmas were a great reminder of a couple things. First, disaster preparedness in your car is essential, second, you should know how to keep your pipes from freezing, and your skin will dry out–unless you take action.