Friends are better for your mental health than your partner, study finds
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Where are the citations and links to the studies? … Asking for a friend
Relationship advice always comes from people who can't keep a relationship.
Love Anna, and have for a while… but that weird voice she uses to portray another character makes it hard to watch 🙁 she used to not do this
High quality friendship is essential for emotional well being. Thanks Anna. Love Xav
Stay good gurl, Luv ya.
I'm watching Craig of the Creek. They do a lot of friendship episodes. Cool show.
wait a second. Are people just not developing real deep connections with their partners anymore? SEESH!! That would explain so much!
thats because americans are terrible at relationships, especially american women
Is it okay for me to say that I love your videos, because you're awesome? You really are.
One study doesn't mean a lot. A bunch of studies showing the same things is a strong suggestion. Got more studies?
manifesting felt impossible until last month… friend recommended the book Vibrations of Manifestation and the way Alex Lane explains reality creation through quantum mechanics clicked instantly. got 3 job offers this week
Baseball, huh?
Thank you. And if people want kids they should adopt or mentor. Don’t feed the machine, recycle!
So are you subtly advocating for polyamorous relationships?
Gosh I didn't know I needed validation for being in aromantic poly relationships but thanks
You can have a partner and friends. A nice happy balance.
I would definitely say this advice is great, unless all of your friends are toxic and terrible people.
I guess I need nicer friends
cool
Sounds more like unhealthy self-isolation and unhealthy cultural relationship patterns that encourage codependency than it being that a romantic relationship is inherently bad fot mental health
The right friend should be able to help out your relationship..
"Hey becca I want you to check out thi study …"😂
People who call their husband/wife their partner have higher depressive symptoms over those whom don't.
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
can we get a link to that study so I can send it to everyone
I think because you can have so many friends, that dilutes their influence a bit. It's both impossible and unhealthy to be so there for many of your friends the way a family member, what we deem partners to be, is, and vice-versa. Partners literally share your space, often money, your body, identity. But how many of your friends would you drop everything, risk your job, move across country to be close to, sacrifice large amounts of money and time for…? Didn't think so. One, maybe two. Because it's simply not possible to do all that for more people, we have very finite resources. So even though having healthy friendships and relying on other people besides your partner is hugely important, and dropping off the face of the earth when you get one is obviously not good for you, I think it's understandable to invest more in a relationship with a partner once you get one. They're simply so much more influential in our lives (in case of serious long-term relationships of course). Now, whether all that we need and expect of a partner is going to be given to us is a whole different matter…
Friends with benefits, win/win.
Scott Galloway is not gonna like this 😂
Can you link the study?
Women make better friends for women than for males for Women. males only want to be friends with Women because they want to get into The Woman's panties.
Fun tip: Begin you study titles with ‘Harry Potter and…’
Anna and bestie continue to deliver zinger takes based on real studies, with in-beccable class and sass.
What's not to love 💕
Dr incel seems to be going through a bad case of dry box and is SO jelly that Becca is getting some!
monogamy moment
a lot of people don’t realize this but if your friend suddenly disappears now that they’re in a new relationship, it’s likely a toxic one where the person is directly isolating them or is draining them emotionally so much that they isolates themselves.
don’t just immediately give up on them or feel abandoned. if you really care about them then please check in on them and try to be open when they come back because the relationship may have changed them or really affected them. and if it applies, you can hold them accountable for disappearing after they’ve recovered at least a little bit from the toxic situation. ❤
Hi Anna, I love your videos! But I have a problem here. I’m a psychology student, I analyzed the paper and actually the information you’re giving might be not correct at all. Even if having friends and also prioritizing friendships is good, the author suggests that this study is a correlational study and longitudinal, which doesn’t explains a causality and doesn’t represent the whole population. Also I consider that “depressive symptoms” might be an exaggerated concept, because it’s a clinical disorder. And also the author concludes that these “depressive symptoms” tends to happen to teenagers more and that it decreases the older people get. How I said. I love your videos and your content but I feel like you might be generalizing a study that even finds error within itself. ☺️☺️
So yeah, I guess one extreme is better than the other extreme. But how about the healthy middle, where you have a romantic relationship and still keep your friends around?