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Chatbots Stimulate Eating Disorders

Chatbots are contributing to eating disorders — even chatbots designed to help with eating disorders.

The Enemy in the Next Room

As Gil Scott-Heron famously sang, “Home Is Where the Hatred Is.” How does it apply to addiction?

You’re Not the Boss of Me!

Substance or alcohol overdose is often considered one of the manifestations of the self-injury impulse.

Santa Muerte, Addiction Specialist

She is the saint for the forgotten, the disempowered, the scorned, the discriminated-against, the impoverished, the bereaved, the individuals who just can’t wrestle themselves into conformity.

The Golden Rule of Habit Change

Big Think has assembled a montage of three brilliant thinkers on habit substitution.

The Sordid Demise of a Star

Here is another chapter in the life of Elvis Presley, whose career pretty much set the standard in the realms of both celebrity idolization and deliberate suicide.