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    <amp-auto-ads type="adsense" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1763189992875486"> </amp-auto-ads> Recently, word circulated online that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) had established a new mental disorder called “selfitis” and stated that  obsessive photo taking and posting is a way to gain attention, compensate for low self-esteem, and compensate for lack of intimacy Women who post sexualized selfies are motivated by the attention  that they do indeed receive from these photos in the form of likes and followers,  and this self-sexualization doesn’t actually translate to sexual empowerment in offline encounters Laura R. Ramsey, Amber L. Horan, Picture this: Women's self-sexualization in photos on social media, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 133, 2018, Pages 85-90, ISSN 0191-8869, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.06.022

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    <amp-auto-ads type="adsense" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1763189992875486"> </amp-auto-ads> Adults with ADHD think about time differently.  Our inability to anticipate future rewards and consequences, our remarkable ability to procrastinate, our inability to ignore the static around us  — these traits all contribute to our trouble with deadlines, punctuality, and planning Research suggests that those with ADHD are deficient in temporal processing abilities, which affect executive functioning. This  interferes with our ability to perceive time accurately when tasks require our attention or present an opportunity for impulsive responses Does time move slower for people with ADHD? reception of time, overestimate time intervals, and sense time passing more slowly than do their non-ADHD counterparts , according to a new study How can I be on time with ADHD? Plan to Arrive Early To be there on time, the first trick is to actually plan to be there early!

    <amp-auto-ads type="adsense" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1763189992875486"> </amp-auto-ads> Can too much Tylenol cause autism? A new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that  exposure to acetaminophen in the womb may increase a child's risk for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or autism spectrum disorder . Does taking Tylenol while pregnant cause autism? They found that  unborn children exposed to acetaminophen were 19% more likely to be on the autism spectrum  and 21% more likely to show signs of ADHD. Is Tylenol linked to ADHD? The UCLA researchers show that  taking acetaminophen during pregnancy is associated with a higher risk in children of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and hyperkinetic disorder .