Mental health

Mental health

Over time, daily hassles can exert a cumulative and prolonged effect on our emotional well-being, leading to substantial distress, anxiety, depression, and emotional exhaustion.

For families dealing with PANDAS, PANS, or autoimmune encephalitis, understanding Neuroimmune Reactive Avoidance can be a game-changer. It explains what's actually happening inside our children's bodies.

Despite spending more on psychiatric services and prescribing psychiatric medications at a higher rate than almost any other nation, mental health in the United States over the last two decades has only been getting worse.

Interoception, often called the 'hidden sense,' allows the brain to receive and interpret internal body signals, crucial for emotional self-awareness.

Every baby, Klein saw, is destined to realize a painful truth: beloved caregivers are not always there, and are not always perfect.

The intent behind superstitious rituals often comes from a desire for control, but such actions can lead to severe personal and societal consequences. These consequences highlight how blind faith in spiritual solutions can morph into exploitation and harm.

The aspects of our own psychologies that we cannot integrate into our sense of self are referred to as 'the shadow.' Everyone has one, and its nature varies with how we illuminate ourselves.

Maureen Slough's decision for assisted suicide in Switzerland was communicated to her family via WhatsApp, leaving her relatives unaware until after her death.

"We wanted to test the guardrails. The visceral initial response is, 'Oh my Lord, there are no guardrails.' The rails are completely ineffective. They're barely there - if anything, a fig leaf."

As a young lawyer in the early aughts, my first months as an in-house general counsel were chaotic. The previous counsel had left abruptly weeks before I arrived, and there was no one to fill me in on the multitude of open cases and ongoing projects.

Masking, or camouflaging, refers to hiding one's authentic self to meet expectations contrary to one’s true nature, especially prominent in autistic and neurodivergent individuals.

Keloids, thick raised scars from abnormal healing, affect about 10% of the world's population. They are commonly found on the chest or back.

Adames sat out for the first time all year, took a mental respite, and retreated to the mountains with a close friend who guided him in meditation. This experience helped clean his mind of the pressure he was feeling and reminded him of his roots in the Dominican Republic.

The company PhalloFILL operates the largest network of clinics offering penis fillers, an advanced, non-surgical treatment for girth enhancement. The procedure involves injecting multiple shots of hyaluronic acid into the penis, then using customizable sleeves to sculpt it into the desired shape.

Hader revealed that he chose not to participate in the SNL50 live anniversary special because of his mental health. The sketch was about anxiety experienced by cast members during their time on the show.

There have been instances where our model fell short in recognizing signs of delusion or emotional dependency, so it's developing tools to better detect signs of mental or emotional distress.

A new global study, involving over 100,000 individuals across 59 countries, suggests that owning a smartphone before the age of 13 may mark a critical threshold in a child's cognitive and emotional development.

Dr. Ronald Levant highlights that lonely young men engage with echo chambers for direction and express frustrations, with figures like Andrew Tate exploiting their discontent.

Navigating family dynamics can be challenging, especially when it involves topics like body image and weight loss that provoke anxiety or discomfort.

I have all of Ian's journals. And when I'm kind of in a meditative space of connecting with him, I'll sometimes read. I savor the moments because I don't want to ever finish reading his journals.

When you think about culturally the shift that started happening in about 2020, young people had our entire lives thrown into the metaverse against our will.

A sense of purpose can be understood as an organizing drive towards fulfilling a goal in one's life. Oftentimes, our purpose can involve professional, spiritual, or interpersonal goals that help us feel like the best and most authentic version of ourselves.

Parents who ridicule, threaten or humiliate their children risk leaving them with a 64% higher chance of having poor mental health as an adult.

Research indicates that 40% of high school students have felt hopeless in the past year, with emotional health issues among 18 to 25-year-olds rising from 21% to 33% from 2016 to 2024.

As we age and experience the death of parents and peers, we become increasingly aware of our mortality. Such awareness may trigger anxiety and prompt preparations, such as writing wills and advance directives.