The (Scientific) Case for Doing good and Other Positive Psychology Habits – Part 3 of 3
by Venkatesh Gomatam Part – 1 of 3; 2 of 3 ‘Doing Good’ – a one-time thing? Is doing good a one time or infrequently done act whose benefits last a long time? Dr. Waguih William IsHak, a professor of psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai reflects on this -“Biochemically, you can’t live on the 3-to-4-minute oxytocin boost that comes from a […]
The (Scientific) Case for Doing good and Other Positive Psychology Habits – Part 2 of 3
by Venkatesh Gomatam Part – 1 of 3; 3 of 3 Impact of ‘Doing Good’ on Physiology and Body Chemistry The Contagious Nature of ‘Doing Good‘ What happens when we witness somebody doing good or an act of kindness? Research suggests it triggers prosocial feelings and altruistic motivations and physical reactions such as warmth in […]
The (Scientific) Case for Doing good and Other Positive Psychology Habits – Part 1 of 3
by Venkatesh Gomatam Part – 2 of 3; 3 of 3 Author’s note – This is an initiative to understand how Doing Good, practicing kindness and other prosocial and positive psychology behaviors impact us humans. So much of ‘doing good’ is intuitively understood and anecdotally validated, that we don’t stop to think too much about […]
5 million calls, texts and chats in first year of 988 Mental Health Crisis Line
by Venkatesh Gomatam, August 2023 (updated November 2023) The provincial data for 2022 released by CDC shows that the number of suicides for last year was the highest ever recorded in the US. In the 10-year period ending in 2022, over half-million (500,372) people have died due to suicide in our country. Annual rates of […]
LA Dodgers Re-Signs Andrew Toles – Corporate America, Mental Health and Insurance
The LA Dodgers baseball organization re-signed former outfielder Andrew Toles in March 2023. Andrew Toles Batting Practice 2016 Attribution: Arturo Pardavila III from Hoboken, NJ, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons;. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2016-10-22_Andrew_Toles_batting_practice.jpg LA Dodgers have been signing Andrew Toles to a one-year contract every year since 2019 season in order to provide him access to health insurance. What […]