With the current heatwave going on, I thought it would be prudent to draw attention to the fact that seasonally-induced and temperature-related psychological difficulties are exceedingly common (recent meta-analyses show that approximately 1 in 20 people meet clinical thresholds for seasonal affective disorders in the UK), and are even more so when living in environments…
It is likely you, the reader, like many people have never put too much thought into the concept of self-soothing.
In most peoples minds, self-soothing is not a not really a thing. It gets lumped in with things like self-pity, or playing oneself a tiny violin. It is often seen as the mark of someone…
