Well deserved title for the city of NY, I am definitely one of those people that have to eat my words for underestimating Brunson time after time.. ๐๐
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS ๐
New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!
54 seconds... the total time New York led in Game 4 ๐คฏ
It was the second-lowest amount of time leading in an NBA Finals win since 1970-71, behind only Indiana (0.3 seconds) in Game 1 of the 2025 Finals!
Knicks (3-1) Spurs Game 5 tips TONIGHT at 8:30pm/et on ABC. ๐
#IndonesiaOpen2026
MD | FINAL
#MAS ๐ฒ๐พ Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin Rumsani 7๏ธโฃ def. #INA ๐ฎ๐ฉ Raymond Indra-Nikolaus Joaquin 13-21, 21-18, 21-10
โฑ๏ธ 49 mins
๐ CHAMPIONS! ๐
Fei-Din fought back from a game down to capture the Indonesia Open title, becoming the first Malaysian menโs doubles pair to win the tournament since Zakry Latif-Fairuzizuan Tazari in 2008 ๐ฒ๐พ
#GemilangkanLagi
#BadmintonMalaysia
#DemiMalaysia
Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine.
What went wrong?
In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms:
1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder.
2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology.
3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it.
The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress.
This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does.
Link to paper: https://t.co/ucoGyhEuAj
THE KING WAS IN COMMAND IN GAME 1.
๐ 19 points
๐ 8 rebounds
๐ 13 assists
๐ 2 steals
๐ 9-15 shooting
๐ game-high +11
LeBron and the Lakers will seek a 2-0 series lead Tuesday at 10:30 PM ET on NBC and Peacock!
The 2025-26 NBA Scoring Champion... Luka Donฤiฤ!
๐ช 2nd scoring title in last 3 seasons
๐ช 6th active player with multiple scoring titles
๐ช 3rd season averaging 32+ PPG
๐ช 5th Laker in franchise history to win scoring title
๐ช 1st Laker to win scoring title since Kobe in 2006-07
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