Mental Health

Winston Ross recalls the heartbreaking ordeal his family endured after his mother's routine surgery led to post-operative delirium.

More people than ever say they're feeling pressured to look and be the best. It's taking a toll.

It's okay and normal to feel your feelings.

A majority of people experiencing homelessness across the world have a history of concussions and other traumatic brain injuries, according to new research out this week.

Kevin Ellison was known for hard hits while playing for USC and the Chargers. Did that lead to increasingly bizarre behavior before his death?

Websites that provide resources about mental health conditions such as depression track individual users and share their data with advertisers.

When I became a mom at 19, my depression spiraled out of control until I reached a delirious state. I was very much alive, but certain I'd been dead for years.

Mathina Calliope goes off her antidepressant and into the woods.

There is little question among psychologists about the benefits of early detection of autism. Yet many children still slip through the cracks.

Why faceless wooden dolls work best to get kids out of their shells.

Amid a lot of great causes and a few places where your money won't make it where you want it to, here are some good places to give.

The yearly family gatherings always start out politely enough, but a few glasses of wine later, exchanges can turn nasty.

Is intermittent fasting a wellness practice, or just another double standard?

Mental health is complicated, murky, and nuanced. Which is why brands need to find a better way to address it.

There's no single answer to the question of why I lose my mind at the beginning of my sophomore year of college. There are just things that happen over the years, and those things accumulate over time, and those accumulations finally break m

How ketamine became the drug of choice for our dissociated moment.

It sucked. Also, it doesn't work.

Today, the average American worker spends 390 more hours at work than they did 30 years ago.

The largest study of mass shooters ever funded by the US government reveals stunning information about perpetrators.

Chinese food always connected me to my cultural identity. It also continually reminded me of all the ways I didn't measure up.

Fika is the Swedish tradition of taking breaks in the afternoon to enjoy a snack. Here's how to do it.

Almost half of America's engineers have operated a train that killed someone on the tracks. Afterward, many suffer nightmares, anxiety, PTSD.

A long-term study of people in four cities finds that income volatility in one's 20s and 30s correlates with negative brain effects in middle age.

Neurological evidence for chaos in the nervous system is growing.

How could a body have gone undetected for so long?

I grew up in Wisconsin, and have lived in Iowa, Minnesota, and New York. Except for a two-year stint in the Bay Area. So I was surprised when my last two Vermont winters put me on my ass.

Searching for a cure for my climate crisis grief.

Mark, a 32-year-old in Texas, tells us why he charted his suicidal thoughts in Excel for a year — and then made it public.

It's all too easy for a love of skin care to turn into an obsession.

For "maladaptive daydreamers," the fantasy worlds they generate gradually usurp reality — and going cold-turkey is an even worse option.

Viewing dementia as an erosion of the self might serve a protective function — but new research challenges this long-held idea.

All-male support groups can help men with depression by providing a space free of toxic masculinity.

The #ToryStory Twitter trend is showcasing urgent issues of mental health, homelessness and housing under the Conservative government.

Existential therapy explores the darkest corners and craggy edges of the many-sided self. The result is true transformation.

"My time in 12-step recovery offered the radical (to me) idea that profundity wasn't predicated solely on dysfunction."

On therapy and acting like a man.

He was convinced the deaths of his friends in combat were my fault. It took him years to realize this feeling had a name: survivor guilt.

What should you eat when nothing sounds good?

In the Netherlands, people have been seeking out windy exercise for more than a hundred years. Today, the practice is so common that it's known as "uitwaaien."

Psychologists are discovering just how much information about our inner states can be gleaned from social media.

Suicide deaths have been rising in recent years. Thoughtful treatment is necessary.

Much of the existing research around psychedelics and mental health focuses on treating PTSD, depression, and addiction. This is a new frontier.