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    How Can We Help the Hikikomori to Leave Their Rooms?

    26 July, 2019

    An increasing number of people are refusing to leave their homes, even their rooms. Emma Young delves into the phenomenon of hikikomori.

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    Emma Young
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    The Only Emotions I Can Feel are Anger and Fear

    1 June, 2018

    One in ten people struggle to recognize their emotions. New research suggests a vital link between our ability to sense our physical bodies and knowing how we feel. Emma Young reports.

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    Emma Young
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    My Many Selves: How I Learned To Live With Multiple Personalities

    6 October, 2017

    Emma Young meets a woman with dissociative identity disorder and discovers what happens when you lose your sense of being an individual.

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    Emma Young
  • Health & Wellness

    Iceland Knows How to Stop Teen Substance Abuse but the Rest of the World Isn’t Listening

    4 March, 2017

    In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. Emma Young finds out how they did it, and why other countries won’t follow suit.

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    Emma Young