Mapping happiness on iPhone and quitting your job

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iphone lse.pngIf you happen to be one of those iPhone owners you might want to check out a new app by the London School of Economics which helps measure your happiness on a daily basis. The free mappiness app will anonymously collate all the information to build a national picture of happiness and how it is affected by environmental factors. Sounds like a good use of technology.

Elsewhere, have you thought of leaving your job recently? If the evidence on CareSpace is anything to go by, lots of social workers find themselves in rather unhappy working situations. Psychology Today has come up with eight good reasons to quit your job - although a recession is perhaps not the ideal time to be looking for another one.

Also today, NICE is consulting on draft recommendations for psychosis and co-existing substance misuse.

And achieving goals can help people in the early stages of dementia manage their condition, research has found.

Finally, there's a new blog out there dedicated to fostering wellbeing.
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