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Yuxin Sun, a psychologist in Seattle, sees many clients in her associate practice who insist they are not perfectionists. “'Oh, I'm not perfect. I'm far from perfect,'” they tell her.But perfectionism isn't about being the best at a certain goal, Dr. Sun said, "it's the feeling of never getting to that point, of never feeling good enough, of never feeling adequate." And this can create a harsh inner voice that belittles and chastises us.Perfectionism is so pervasive that there is a test to measure it: the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. When researchers examined how college students responded to the scale's questions over time, they found that rates of perfectionism have increased in recent decades, skyrocketing between 2006 and 2022.Thomas Curran, an ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky likely changed the fate of thousands of Ukrainian men when he signed a law lowering the conscription age to 25 from 27 this month, more than two years after Russia began its full-scale invasion .Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold back the much larger Russian army and desperately need to replenish their ranks. Now many of the young people who remain in Ukraine – thousands of others have fled the country illegally – worry about their future.New York Times reporters spoke with Ukrainian men who may be affected by the change."I'm worried, even a little scared"Yegor Khomchenko, the owner of a communal bakery in eastern Ukraine who turns 25 next month, said he had many friends who had gone to war.But he said his wife, Amelia, told him he would "do...

Arthur Mensch, tall and thin with a mop of unkempt hair, arrived for a talk last month at a sprawling Paris technology center wearing jeans and carrying a bicycle helmet. He looked unassuming, as someone European officials are counting on to push the region into a high-stakes game with the United States and China over artificial intelligence.Mensch, 31, is the CEO and founder of Mistral, considered by many to be one of the most promising challengers to OpenAI and Google. “You have become the symbol of artificial intelligence in France,” Matt Clifford, a British investor, told him on stage.Much depends on Mr. Mensch, whose company shot to prominence just a year after he founded it in Paris with two college friends. As Europe races to gain a foothold in the AI ​​revolution, the French gov...

American analysts and intelligence officials said Friday they expect Iran to strike several targets inside Israel in the coming days in retaliation for an Israeli bombing in the Syrian capital on April 1 that killed several senior Iranian commanders.The United States, Israel's main ally, has military forces in several locations in the Middle East. But Iran is not expected to target them to avoid direct conflict with the United States, according to U.S. and Iranian officials who spoke anonymously about the expected strikes, which they were not authorized to discuss publicly.Any Iranian attack inside Israel would represent a turning point in the decades of hostility between the two nations and would most likely open a new, volatile chapter in the region. Israel and Iran maintain no dir...

Bennett Braun, a Chicago psychiatrist whose diagnoses of repressed memories involving horrific abuse by devil worshipers helped fuel what became known as the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980s and '90s, died March 20 in Lauderhill, Florida, north of Miami. He was 83 years old.Jane Braun, one of his ex-wives, said he died in hospital due to complications from a fall. Dr. Braun lived in Butte, Mont., but had been in Lauderhill on vacation.Dr. Braun gained fame in the early 1980s as an expert in two of the most popular and controversial areas of psychiatric treatment: repressed memories and multiple personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder.He claimed he could help patients uncover memories of childhood trauma, the existence of which he and others believed was responsi...

Officials at Bayer Leverkusen, the long-established but usually middleweight German soccer team, have been issuing the messages since at least February. Some were delivered in person, a silent blessing after yet another victory. Others came via WhatsApp, unsolicited and unexpected messages from colleagues and acquaintances and, to their occasional surprise, from traditional enemies.Football, after all, is fiercely tribal. Rivals do not easily exchange encouragement or congratulations. But as the German league season picked up pace, many wanted to praise Leverkusen's impending achievement: with each victory, they moved ever closer to being crowned national champions for the first time.And that meant – just as importantly – that Bayern Munich were not.Leverkusen will cross the finish...

Endorsing an anti-Semitic post on X. Suspending Starlink satellite internet service from Ukraine to prevent a drone attack on Russian forces. Reposting conspiracy theorists who argue that the Biden administration's immigration policies are part of a plot to increase the number of people who vote Democratic.Elon Musk's behavior and public statements have clearly offended many people, especially left-leaning consumers who are more likely to purchase an electric vehicle.As a business journalist covering Tesla, the company where Musk is CEO, I'm exploring the extent to which his public persona is damaging the company's brand and hurting sales. Or, as Musk insisted, do people choose the best car regardless of what the CEO says and does?If you own a Tesla, are thinking about bu...

Israeli forces were on high alert Friday in anticipation of a retaliatory attack by Iran or its proxies, which analysts and officials warned could spur an Israeli reaction and potentially spark a broader conflict in the region.Iran is expected to launch an attack as early as this weekend in retaliation for an April 1 airstrike in which warplanes struck an Iranian embassy building in Damascus, killing three generals and other commanders, officials said Friday Americans and Iranians.Military analysts have said that neither Israel nor Iran appear interested in provoking a full-blown war involving the United States, but that a miscalculation on either side's red lines could result in an escalation of hostilities.An Iranian response was inevitable given the high profile of one of the genera...

For decades, Dr. J. Steve Bynon Jr., a transplant surgeon in Texas, has won national recognition and fame for his work, including helping to enforce professional standards in the country's vast organ transplant system.But officials are now investigating allegations that Dr. Bynon was secretly manipulating a government database to make some of his patients ineligible to receive new livers, potentially depriving them of life-saving treatment.Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston, where Dr. Bynon oversaw both liver and kidney transplant programs, abruptly ended those programs last week while it investigated the allegations.On Thursday, the medical center, a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Texas, said in a statement that a doctor in its liver transplant progr...

Knowing that a vote on another aid package for Ukraine loomed in his future, Rep. Chuck Edwards, a freshman Republican, spent part of last week traveling across the country to see firsthand how U.S. dollars would be used in the the nation's struggle to repel the Russian invaders. .What he witnessed as he and a bipartisan group of lawmakers traveled across Ukraine for four days — a dozen airstrikes, a drone assault and sites of gruesome atrocities against civilians — led Edwards and his colleagues to vow to pressure Speaker Mike Johnson to advance a measure to provide more aid to the war effort.They told President Volodymyr Zelensky that their visit had given them a "new appreciation" of what his country was facing, Edwards said, and that they would pressure Johnson to make sure Americ...