As hard as they can be, at times, mornings are, arguably, the most important time of the day. What you do when you first wake up sets the tone for the rest of your day. A solid morning routine ensures ...

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Thirty-year-old Adam* is not often lost for words, but confesses that he was unprepared for one piece of unsolicited mental health advice he received from a love interest one night. “I was on a date ...

Spiderwebs. I don't think the word is officially listed on the emotion wheel. Still, this is the clearest description I can give of what I and many people I treat face when tackling a particularly ...

The term “depressed” is often used loosely but has clear clinical implications when it refers to clinical depression, or what is known in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ...

Editor’s note: Season 8 of the podcast Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets back to basics with an in-depth examination of the brain in different states. Each episode will focus on one of those ...

We’ve probably all heard about the loneliness pandemic in media reports. We hear about the national mental health crisis too. No one is free from risks to our mental health, though clearly some do ...

“It’s hard to be a kid these days,” says child and adolescent psychologist Becky Lois. Here's how to support a kid in need Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has spent 20 years ...

While depression can trick you into believing you’re the only person who has ever experienced the feelings of sadness, hopelessness and isolation that come with it, that couldn’t be further from the ...