Happy Friday!

Today is National Take Your Dog to Work Day. It was established by Pet Sitters International in 1999 to celebrate canine companionship and promote local pet adoptions.

The purpose of this day is to boost workplace morale and encourage pet adoptions by highlighting the bond between humans and their dogs. The holiday is actually part of a broader Take Your Pet To Work Week, which also features Take Your Cat To Work Day on the Monday prior.

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A new Harvard working paper found that women who started GLP-1 medications like Ozempic were 27 percentage points more likely to get hired within 18 months than women who wanted to start but hadn't, and 29 percentage points more likely to move in with a partner or get married.

According to the paper, the boost only showed up in new social situations — like job interviews or new relationships — not in jobs or marriages people already had, suggesting this isn't really about health or confidence, but about how strangers form snap judgments based on body size.

Read More: A Depressing New Study Found Women Had An Easier Time Getting Hired After Losing Weight On GLP-1s (Yahoo!Finance)

A new JAMA Network Open study analyzing data from over 330,000 high school students found that suicidal ideation rose among female students specifically in states that implemented total abortion bans, with no corresponding increase among male students in those same states.

A clinical psychiatrist at Case Western Reserve University noted that adolescence is a uniquely vulnerable developmental period, and policies affecting a young person's sense of autonomy and future opportunities may genuinely contribute to psychological distress.

Read More: Suicidal Thoughts in Female High Schoolers Jump After Total Abortion Bans (Newsweek)

Turns out your home might be quietly stressing you out. Anita Yokota, a licensed marriage and family therapist, identifies five sneaky stress triggers hiding in our homes: open floor plans with no visual boundaries, cluttered "magnet" surfaces (her line "visual clutter is mental clutter" says it all), furniture that doesn't fit the room, cool harsh lighting that disrupts our circadian rhythm, and decor that follows trends instead of reflecting who you actually are.

A favorite fix is swapping generic decor for things with real meaning — like one client who replaced an abstract painting with a gallery wall of her grandmother's handwritten recipes.

Read More: 5 Sneaky Ways Your Home Is Stressing You Out, According to a Mental Health Expert (House Beautiful)

MYTH: COVID-19 started the mental health crisis.

FACT: Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, it was estimated that half of the world’s population would experience a mental health condition at some point in their lives.

The crisis was already affecting people in every country and on every continent — including health workers. In 2018, burnout among health workers was already considered “a significant public health problem.”

The pandemic made things significantly worse. More than half of all health workers responding to the virus experienced mental health issues and rates of burnout skyrocketed. Among the general population, the first year of COVID-19 led to a 25% increase in the prevalence of anxiety and depression worldwide.

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