That actually happened to me and I almost killed my baby brother because of it. We were 3 and 7 at the time. I saw my brother fall in a pond in a neighbours yard, I dove in after him forgetting I couldn't swim. The neighbour saw me drowning and safed me, but he didn't know my brother was in there too. I swallowed water so couldn't speak coherently for a few seconds but eventually managed to say my brother was in there, he dove immediately and saved him as well. That was more than 30 years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday.

They needed research for this? Seems to me it's self-evident that people who grow up in turmoil suffer the effects later in life. Also seems self-evident that food, being that it's the one thing young people have some control over, is the main effect later in life.

Unless you have any psychological condition that leads you to manic or delusional states, then absolutely talk about what you want to do with friends so you can test if it's reasonable or not.

2% if the time they'll use it for a crime, 98% to tell your employer you weren't really sick but shopping.

That's only motivating if you're a positive person. A negative person will say you've not come far, or you've come far enough...