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“Time has a way of remembering things” for a viral livestreamer whose unboxing videos get increasingly gruesome (and frighteningly familiar) in Brian Level’s skin-crawling new story “What’s in the Box?” featured in EC Comics’ Catacomb of Torment #10, haunting shelves April 15th from Oni Press! Ahead of its anticipated release, we’re thrilled and chilled to share an exclusive preview of “What’s in the Box?” with Daily Dead readers, showing that when your past comes back to haunt you in the form of body parts, some grisly assembly is required. You can read our exclusive preview of “What’s in the Box?”…

In pop psychology, as well as everyday conversation, people often toss around phrases like “I just want to feel safe” or “Being numb helps me cope.” But as research and clinical observation show, emotional safety and emotional numbness are distinct psychological states, and confusing the two can slow your growth, isolate you from support, and leave you stuck in patterns that feel safe but aren’t. Before we dive into the signs of confusion, we must define both terms so we can distinguish them ourselves: Emotional safety is a state in which you feel secure expressing your whole range of feelings,…

Because I specialize in treating complex patients, I often see people who come to me with four, five, sometimes six psychiatric diagnoses. Often these patients think that they lost the genetic lottery; how else could they be so unlucky as to have five or six separate biological brain disorders? To help people understand why I think that they do not have a terrible genetic destiny, I talk about Whac-A-Mole, the arcade game where a player whacks a plastic mole as it pops out of a hole, only to have it disappear and be replaced by another mole somewhere else. Sometimes,…

Paul Rothrock had a goal and an assist after replacing an injured Jordan Morris early in the first half and the Seattle Sounders beat the Colorado Rapids 2-0 in a rainy season opener on Sunday night.Seattle lost Morris to a noncontact injury in the 8th minute and Rothrock had a hand in staking the Sounders to a 1-0 lead seven minutes later when he hustled to keep the ball in play, setting up a header by Albert Rusnak for a long nifty assist.Hassani Dotson appeared to score three minutes later in his Sounders debut but had it waved off for…

We are comfortable talking about negotiation in boardrooms, courtrooms, and political arenas. We are less comfortable acknowledging that some of the most complex negotiations happen behind closed doors, in relationships where power is weaponized and safety is uncertain. When domestic violence enters the conversation, one question often surfaces with startling frequency: Why doesn’t she just leave? It is a question rooted in misunderstanding. And more critically, it reflects a failure to grasp the negotiation dynamics at play. Domestic Abuse as a Power Negotiation At its core, domestic abuse is not about anger management. It is about control. It is a…

Many of us get stuck in our heads, ruminating. Developing our metacognition skills (a key executive function skill) can help us work on getting less stuck in our heads over time. Metacognition is the ability to reflect accurately on our experiences so we can learn lessons and carry those lessons forward. It’s actually a very complex executive function skill with many steps, so if this is hard for you, you are not alone. Rate Your Metacognition Skills To determine if metacognition skills are a strength or a challenge, assess how much you agree with the following statements or not (Dawson…

The phenomenon of women’s impact on corruption in organizations is well documented. Over 25 years, the United Nations Gallup World Happiness Study shows a strong correlation between the number of women in elected positions and national levels of corruption. Until 2025, although the domain of psychologists, the question of “why” or “how” corruption decreases with female leadership remained mostly unanswered. In an April 8, 2025, research seminar, “Why Women’s Political Representation Affects Levels of Corruption,” Lena Wängnerud, Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, outlined the consistent findings from several studies. Outsiders Wängnerud notes that while more women…

The following by John Steinbeck supports a well-lived life. “Greatness lies in the one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.” Steinbeck is encouraging us to risk fully participating in life, with both defeat and victory being inevitable. It means living life on life’s terms, doing what we can to minimize being defeated by either defeat or victory. Let’s look more closely at what it means to be defeated by defeat. Defeated by Defeat If we’re not feeling victorious, then we’re not only feeling defeated but also defeated by the defeat. That means we might be feeling like a failure,…

Anthony Dell’Orso tied a season high with 22 points and No. 4 Arizona toppled second-ranked Houston 73-66 on Saturday to move into sole possession of first place in the Big 12 Conference.Arizona (25-2, 12-2), which opened the season 23-0, won its second straight game following consecutive losses to then-No. 9 Kansas and then- 16th-ranked Texas Tech, that knocked the team out of the No. 1 spot in the AP Top 25 poll.The Wildcats were down by two before scoring the next 12 points to make it 60-50 with about five minutes remaining. The Cougars missed eight consecutive shots and had…

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Sinners is not just a film anymore. With a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations and sold-out screenings that sparked genuine online history lessons about the Jim Crow South, Ryan Coogler‘s blues-soaked vampire film has become the conversation in cinema right now. And Deadline just sat down with the whole crew — Coogler,Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku, and Delroy Lindo — for the kind of in-depth interview that horror fans specifically need to be reading. Because here’s the thing, a lot of the coverage around Sinners has leaned into the history, the music, the…