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So you've lost everything in the coronavirus meltdown. But be comforted.  People with money tend to be more lonely than the rest of us.  That's because people who base their self-worth on their financial success  o ften feel that way in everyday life, a newly published study by the University at Buffalo and Harvard Business School, newswise.com reports. “When people base their self-worth on financial success, they experience feelings of pressure and a lack of autonomy, which are associated with negative social outcomes,” the web site quotes says Lora Park, an associate professor of psychology at UB and one of the paper’s co-authors. “Feeling that pressure to achieve financial goals means we’re putting ourselves to work at the cost of spending time with loved ones, and it’s that lack of time spent with people close to us that’s associated with feeling lonely and disconnected,” adds Deborah Ward, a UB graduate student and adjunct faculty member at the UB’s psycho...

Who knew? Stress and anxiety are actually good for us. People generally think of stress and anxiety as negative concepts, but while both stress and anxiety can reach unhealthy levels, psychologists have long known that both are unavoidable -- and that they often play a helpful, not harmful, role in our daily lives, according to a presentation at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, as reported by newswise.com. “Many Americans now feel stressed about being stressed and anxious about being anxious. Unfortunately, by the time someone reaches out to a professional for help, stress and anxiety have already built to unhealthy levels,” says Lisa Damour, PhD, a private-practice psychologist who presented at the meeting at newswise.com. Damour also writes a regular column for  The New York Times  and is author of the book “Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls.” Stress usually occurs when people operate at the edge ...