Snapshot · Morbid
Dwight Moore's EKG results appeared to be the profile of a much older person who had suffered years of heart problems, despite him never smoking, drinking excessively, or having a prior cardiac history.
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Dwight is admitted to hospital and X-rays reveal a significant mass in his intestines. Surgeons open him up and find nothing — not even a blockage — just inflammation. His intestines are physically removed and inspected end-to-end. A second mass appears in a different location on follow-up scans, and a second surgery produces the same baffling result: nothing. [1] — Ash Kelley "Pooled arsenic in Dwight Moore's intestines looked exactly like a solid mass on X-rays because arsenic is a heavy metal X-rays can't penetr…" 49:47 Meanwhile, Blanche grows progressively less present and less caring, and Dwight's family starts to wonder if the engagement is over. Dwight, ever optimistic, attributes her distance to personality rather than malice. Ash and Alaina note with dark irony that Dwight consistently recovered fastest during the stretches when Blanche wasn't around.
Doctors told Dwight there was a mass but had no explanation for it. Before anyone called for next of kin or a specialist, Blanche was on the phone telling his sisters the mass was cancerous. It matched a pattern: she had a habit of calling time of death before emergency services.
Dwight Moore underwent two surgeries in which his intestines were fully removed and inspected, with surgeons finding nothing both times because the arsenic had already moved through his system.
Spencer Greenberg and Jeremy Stevenson analyzed almost 500 self-improvement techniques and found they all reduce to just 12 underlying psychological drivers.
Cold exposure has good short-term alertness benefits but the evidence base for long-term health benefits is much weaker than popularly believed.
In a randomized study of 20 habit-formation techniques run on hundreds of people, almost none of the techniques produced statistically meaningful results.
People given a tiny-habit fallback option (e.g. 10 squats instead of gym) were actually MORE successful at completing the full habit, not less.
The most effective habit-formation technique was 'habit reflection' — recalling a past successful habit, writing down what helped, then applying those lessons to a new habit.
A study found that simply scheduling enjoyable activities was as effective as standard cognitive behavioral therapy for depression, leading to its own therapy called behavioral activation.
The 'worry time' technique — deferring all worries to a designated time of day — helps people realize they have more control over worry than they thought and reveals it is less useful than it feels.
A study found that participants told to try to stay awake while in bed fell asleep faster than participants told to try to sleep — illustrating the paradox of direct effort.
Spencer Greenberg reduced his severe social anxiety dramatically in roughly 6 months through a structured exposure therapy hierarchy, culminating in asking strangers for hugs.
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