Personal Digest: Friendships beat wealth — policy must follow
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social bonds beat bank accounts — The Harvard Study of Adult Development reminds us that close relationships predict lifelong wellbeing more than financial assets, challenging how therapy and funding priorities are set.
| Mental HealthFunding fights, life‑long friendship data, and student lifelines School Counselor (einnews.com) · Social connection (scienceblog.com) · Suicide (msn.com) |
 | RefugeesAid debates, deadly landslides and legal wins for refugees Humanitarian Aid (meforum.org) · Landslide (1news.co.nz) · Football (borgenmagazine.com) |
 | Burnout (psychology)False alarms fuel burnout in cybersecurity teams |
 | Campus sexual assaultTitle IX drama, privacy shifts and horrific campus abuse cases Title IX (kqed.org) · Child Sexual Abuse (nypost.com) · Public records (carolinapublicpress.org) |
 | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)Sparks fly: fireworks, wildfires and thorny PTSD debates Fireworks (aol.com) · Wildfires (fox21news.com) · Sexual Assault (medpagetoday.com) |
 | AddictionCourts, pregnancies and gambling: addiction stories go public Social Media (apnews.com) · Gambling (nbcnews.com) · Opioid (today.marquette.edu) |
 | DogsScrewworms jump species — dogs now at risk |
 | NASANASA hustles: telescopes, Mars mobility and quantum mini‑fridges Space Exploration (newsnationnow.com) · Space telescope (wftv.com) · Mars Rover (aviationweek.com) |
 | SportsWorld Cup buzz, Olympic cuts and Haaland’s joyful model 2026 FIFA World Cup (foxsports.com) · Nordic combined (steamboatpilot.com) · Athletics (sport) (abcnews.com) |
 | BookViral essays fuel seven‑figure deals and civic history finds new readers Essay (latimes.com) · National Book Award (losalamosreporter.com) · Publishing (publishersweekly.com) |
 | PoliticsFrom Hormuz apologies to election overhaul drama Strait Of Hormuz (cbsnews.com) · Election (pbs.org) · Voter Registration (csmonitor.com) |
 | Addiction psychologyEU takes on addictive tech as cannabis rewires daily users Social Media (streamlinefeed.co.ke) · Cannabis (psychologytoday.com) |
 | PTSDNew tools—psilocybin, MDMA and robotic TMS—expand PTSD toolbox Psychedelic therapy (stripes.com) · Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (massdevice.com) · Psychotic (medscape.com) |
 | Alcohol and sexual assaultDrink‑spiking and workplace abuse link booze to predatory harm Drug-facilitated sexual assault (walesonline.co.uk) · Sexual Harassment (pennlive.com) · Rape (sfchronicle.com) |
 | Ukraine CrisisAllies test unity as diplomacy and domestic strain rise Poland (ukrinform.net) · Diplomacy (cfr.org) · NATO (cfr.org) |
 | Refugees in EuropeEU sanctions for smugglers, Estonia extends Ukraine protections Human smuggling (infomigrants.net) · Ukraine (mezha.net) · Asylum (theguardian.com) |
 | Career burnoutManagers, mentorship and AI: burnout’s new culprits Management (bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com) · Physical Therapy (msn.com) · Artificial Intelligence (mk.co.kr) |
 | Rape and sexual assaultNYPD inspector charged — another test of police accountability law enforcement (nytimes.com) · Criminal justice system (amny.com) |
 | Addiction psychiatryParents, pot and the brain: addiction psychiatry watches trends Cannabis (newsbusters.org) · Neuroscience (greenevillesun.com) |