Sept 21st - Kip Watson - Psychology Today Rundown

Today we go through a rundown of Psychology Today's newest issue with Kip Watson. Todays topics include women's libido, photos and social media presence, and depression.Kip talks about depression and how you may recognize it in others, but are you missing it in yourself?Depression can look different from one person to the next, we must recognize the signs and symptoms.We talk about The Big Picture, and how the judgements we make based on people's online photo's may predict how we act towards them in person.Facial expressions and body posture are big roles in how photos are assessed. "First impressions aren't just transient judgments that we later revise, they are in some ways self-fulfilling prophecies."We talk about women's libido and the lack of desire in the bedroom."The FDA hearing in 2014 was a forum for patients, advocates, and health-care providers to talk about female sexual dysfunction—a condition estimated to affect 10 to 40 percent of adult women and for which there are few effective treatment options. One after another, women described the dimming of their libidos and the anguish it provoked: anxiety at the mere thought of sex, grief over their inability to enjoy what they once did heartily, shame and embarrassment about something so essential having gone awry, disconnection from their bodies, and injury to their relationships.""Others counter that social, emotional, and environmental factors are precisely what make or break human sexuality—that if a woman can't stop thinking about the household chores or feels unattractive or just can't stand her partner's breath, well, those thoughts and feelings are the very basis of lack of desire."Read more about the article here.