According to a CDC survey released last month, anxiety levels in the US are, on average, three times higher than they were a year ago. To understand on a deeper level the roots of our anxiety in the current situation, let’s consider the uncertainty that has surged over the past six months in five distinct areas of our lives. The Sources […]
Read MoreAbout six years ago, a friend of mine was sitting in a restaurant with his wife in a small town in France and observed that almost everyone in the restaurant was looking at their smartphone. Then he noticed he and his wife were doing the same. When I told him I was writing a book on this subject, he […]
Read MorePsychology Today recently published Anthony Silard’s article, “Do You Enjoy Your Phone or Feel Trapped by It?” You can read it here.
Read MoreLoneliness has skyrocketed over the past few years. According to a recent Cigna study, over 3 in 5 Americans are lonely. “Yes, but why,” you may be asking. Is it our phones and devices, or other societal changes, such as increasing economic, political and social discord and division? It’s Not Just Our Phones It’s difficult to isolate only […]
Read MoreAnthony Silard’s article was recently published in Psychology Today. You can read it here:
Read MoreOpinions about when the pandemic will end are like mouths: everyone has one. Optimists predict a flattening of the curve and a workable vaccine within six months; pessimists forecast that we’ll be flattened by the curve and will never return to our pre-pandemic way of life. So which is better? To be an optimist and […]
Read MoreThe million-dollar question running through the minds of most of us during the pandemic, often multiple times each day, is “When will it end?” I’ve joined Zoom group meetings with friends that focus singularly on this question. After a while, we grow weary of talking about it, yet it still occupies a large portion of our brains every day. Miss […]
Read MoreAt this stage of our collective history, there seems to be consensus that the overuse of our phones and devices is causing our close relationships to atrophy. Yet many of us still do not understand how this is happening. In this article, I will attempt to shed light on how our excessive reliance on email, texting and other forms of text-based communication (IMs, […]
Read MoreAnthony Silard’s article was published in Psychology Today. You can read it here.
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