Consultorio Sánchez-Longo

29/12/2025

Your word choices might reveal hidden disorders.

Research summarized in ScienceAlert describes how everyday language can reveal underlying personality dysfunction along a spectrum, from milder difficulties to diagnosable personality disorders.

Drawing on computational text analysis of essays, conversations, and online posts, the studies found that people with greater personality dysfunction tend to use more self-focused, urgent phrasing (“I need…”, “I have to…”), more past‑tense and ruminative wording, and more negative – especially angry – emotion terms.

At the same time, they use fewer affiliative words such as “we”, “love”, and “family”, suggesting emotional distance and relational problems.

Online, individuals with personality disorders and frequent self-harm showed particularly negative, constricted language, with more negations (“can’t”), anger and sadness words, swearing, absolutist terms (“always”, “never”), and reduced references to others. Their self-belief statements were more frequent, extreme, and focused on mental health, trauma, and painful relationships, indicating deeper struggles with identity and self-concept.

These findings do not support diagnosing people based solely on their texts or posts, but they highlight how consistent patterns in language can provide early clues that someone may be struggling with emotional regulation, self-image, or relationships. Shifts toward more urgent, inward‑focused, hostile, and absolutist language – especially when combined with reduced social and affiliative wording – can signal emerging distress or darker personality features, such as narcissism or psychopathy. Noticing these patterns over time, rather than reacting to isolated words or jokes, may help people understand others better, offer support when appropriate, and identify potential red flags in everyday interactions both online and offline. Language thus becomes a subtle window into internal experience, long before difficulties are explicitly disclosed.

References (APA style)

Entwistle, C. (2025). People with personality disorders often use language differently – our research reveals how. The Conversation.

28/12/2025

En todas las casa hay una escoba

En 1938, investigadores de Harvard iniciaron el estudio más ambicioso de la historia al seguir la vida de 724 personas desde su adolescencia hasta su fallecimiento para descubrir qué es lo que realmente hace que una persona sea exitosa y feliz.

Durante décadas, analizaron sus cerebros, sus salarios, sus relaciones y sus traumas. Después de 85 años de datos, encontraron una correlación sorprendente que nadie esperaba.

El éxito profesional en la adultez no dependía del coeficiente intelectual, ni de la riqueza de los padres, ni de las notas escolares. Uno de los predictores más fuertes de éxito fue algo hacer las tareas del hogar en la infancia.

Sacar la basura o lavar los platos no es solo limpieza; es entrenamiento cerebral. El estudio, conocido como el Grant Study, reveló que las tareas domésticas enseñan una lección que ninguna escuela puede replicar: la "ética de la contribución"

Cuando un niño tiene que dejar de jugar para poner la mesa, aprende que el mundo no gira a su alrededor. Aprende que es parte de un ecosistema y que su esfuerzo es necesario para que el grupo funcione.

Los investigadores descubrieron que los niños que hacían tareas se convertían en adultos que:

Reconocen cuando algo necesita hacerse y lo hacen sin que nadie se lo pida (iniciativa). Tienen mayor empatía hacia el trabajo de los demás. Manejan mejor la frustración y el retraso de la gratificación.

En la era de la "paternidad helicóptero", donde evitamos que los niños se aburran o trabajen, Harvard nos dice que al protegerlos de las tareas aburridas, les estamos robando la base de su futura competencia profesional.

Si quieres que tu hijo sea un adulto exitoso, no le compres más juguetes educativos. Dale una escoba.

Fuente: Harvard Study of Adult Development (The Grant Study) y Julie Lythcott-Haims (How to Raise an Adult). Universo Sorprendente.

25/12/2025

Crows don’t just choose a partner — they choose a lifetime. 🖤
Once bonded, a crow couple stays together through storms, seasons, and silence. They protect each other, grieve together, and never abandon their mate. This deep loyalty comes from trust, intelligence, and emotional connection — something rare and beautiful even in the wild. 🌧️🪶
Their love reminds us that true devotion isn’t loud… it’s quiet, constant, and forever. ❤️

05/12/2025

Calendario Puertorriqueño Independentista: Diciembre 1 - Natalicio del Dr. Luis Pío Sánchez Longo, Padre de la Neurología Puertorriqueña, Candidato Independentista a la Alcaldía de San Juan y a la Comisaria Residente de Puerto Rico

https://calendarioindependentistapr.blogspot.com/2022/12/calendario-puertorriqueno.html

01/12/2025

Infórmate acerca de la función de un Neuropsicólogo dentro de las Neurociencias.

17/10/2025

A baby born blue and silent. Doctors frozen in panic. Then one woman said five words that would save 50 million lives."Let's score the baby."It was 1952, inside a New York City delivery room, and Dr. Virginia Apgar had just changed medicine forever—though no one knew it yet.Apgar had dreamed of becoming a surgeon. She had the skill, the drive, and the brilliant mind for it. But in the 1940s, hospital doors stayed locked for women who wanted to hold scalpels. After being told point-blank that no hospital would hire a female surgeon, she made a choice: if they wouldn't let her into the operating room, she'd find another way to save lives.She turned to anesthesiology—and ended up exactly where she was meant to be.Working in Columbia-Presbyterian's maternity ward, Apgar witnessed something that haunted her: newborns dying within minutes of birth, while doctors stood helpless, unsure which babies needed urgent care and which would recover on their own. There was no system. No standard. Just chaos and heartbreak.So one morning over breakfast, she grabbed a napkin and designed a test. Five simple measurements: heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflex response, and skin color. Zero to ten points. Two minutes to assess. One score that could mean the difference between life and death.She called it the Apgar Score.Within a decade, nearly every hospital in America was using it. Infant mortality plummeted. Babies who would have been left to die were suddenly being resuscitated. Doctors finally had a universal language for newborn care—and it came from a woman they'd told couldn't be a surgeon.But Apgar didn't stop there. She earned a master's in public health at 50, joined the March of Dimes, and spent the rest of her life fighting for mothers and babies worldwide. She became one of the most powerful voices in maternal and infant health—the job they said she'd never have.When someone asked how she thrived in a world that didn't want her, she smiled and said: "Women are like tea bags—you don't know how strong they are until they're in hot water."Dr. Virginia Apgar died in 1974, but her legacy breathes in every delivery room on Earth. Every two seconds, somewhere in the world, a newborn takes their first breath while someone calls out a score.A score that honors the woman who refused to accept "no"—and who turned rejection into a gift that keeps on giving, one breath at a time.

31/05/2025

Acepta su realidad sin corregirlo. Ámalo asi.

15/05/2025

04/03/2025

30/12/2024

Long naps affect quality of nighttime sleep: Long naps at any time of day can make you sleep less soundly that night.

30/12/2024

Modificando los horarios de sueño.

Long naps affect quality of nighttime sleep: Long naps at any time of day can make you sleep less soundly that night.

02/11/2024

Learn about vascular dementia, including its causes and symptoms. Discover ways to manage and slow the progression of this condition to improve quality of life....