Happy Saturday, sweet readers!

This week’s edition of Psychology Around the Net will help you fill your weekend with ponderings about potentially healthy ways to change your perspective, what it really takes to fall in love (or, at least, feel closer to someone), how your state ranks when it comes to mental health services, and more.

Enjoy!

5 Ways to Adjust Your Perspective in 2015: Feeling moody? Want more creative inspiration? What about help focusing on the “important things”? These five tips might surprise you.

A Short History of Mental Illness in Art: From Vincent van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait With a Bandaged Ear” to Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” see how some of the world’s famous works of art have helped us see mental illness as part of the human condition.

Can You Fall in Love With Someone by Asking These 36 Questions? Psychologist Arthur Aron found that pairs of strangers who asked (and answered) these three sets of questions made them feel closer to one another than those who just engaged in small talk.

iPhone Separation Anxiety Makes You Dumber, Study Finds: This one’s sure to spark some debate. One study shows that iPhone users who didn’t have their iPhones performed poorly when it came to cognitive abilities.

25 Ways to Stop Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed: Most of us feel a little overworked or overwhelmed — or both — at times. Here are 25 ways to gain more control over your time, your work, and ultimately your life.

Development of Psychosis: Gray Matter Loss and the Inflamed Brain: According to new research, “[t]he thickness of cortical brain tissue progressively reduces as individuals develop psychosis,” and the time when our brains are maturing (between adolecense and adulthood) is a typical time for the onset of psychosis.

15 Things That Shouldn’t Define Your Self-Worth: Your relationship status. Your job. Your body. Many of us are guilty of factoring in these things when determining our self-worth, aren’t we?

U.S. Mental Health Services Ranked by State: A new Mental Health America (MHA) report measured factors such as the rates of mental illness in adults and children and state hospital readmission rates to help determine mental health status and care accessibility across the nation.

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    Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 14 Jan 2015
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