Browsing: Mental Health

A major US university is set to stop showing letter grades for first-semester freshmen in an effort to help students adjust to college life and address what it calls a growing mental health crisis among college-aged students

As anxiety disorders continue to affect a growing number of adolescents, researchers are exploring whether a therapeutic video game can help teens strengthen the attention skills commonly taught in conventional therapy

Jurors hear from host of medical experts as defence says postpartum psychosis caused young mother to kill children

Most people think of happiness as a feeling: something that arrives when conditions are right and fades when they’re not. But the last decade of psychological science tells a different story. Happiness isn’t primarily a mood state. It’s an output that emerges from the way your life is structured, the choices you make consistently and…

Dr. Kübler-Ross, in her 1969 book, On Death and Dying, offered for the first time a framework for understanding grief, based on her research with terminal patients. Her model is not linear, and individuals may cycle through or revisit as needed

Motivational speakers love butterflies. So do gurus and pastors and coaches. Butterflies offer a stirring metaphor for the potential of human transformation. You disappear into a chrysalis, do some mysterious inner work, and emerge shockingly upgraded, effortlessly beautiful, and ready to soar. It’s a lovely image, but it has one glaring problem: Almost none of…

Keen Ruffalo ditched his fashion design studies to become an actor after he suffered from “COVID depression”

When I arrived at college as a freshman in 1984, I met Chloe. She had long curly hair, trailed patchouli wherever she went, and seemed to have an endless selection of flowy, Indian print skirts. She listened to the Grateful Dead, fretted about getting tickets to their upcoming shows, and hung out with the kids…

Over the years, I have sat with many bullied adolescents. What follows is a composite drawn from those hours; no single patient is depicted, and identifying details do not belong to any individual. But the question at the center of this article was asked, essentially in these words, and I have never stopped thinking about…

A reporter cornered Marie Curie in 1904 and asked whether radium might cure disease. She refused to guess. Nothing had been demonstrated, she said, and she would not pretend otherwise. Her caution vanished the moment marketers got hold of her discovery. Drugstores sold radium water by crate. Chocolate came laced with it. A Pittsburgh steel…