Mental Health

It's not always easy, trying to maintain a house when one is also suffering from depression, but we're proud of his progress here.

Here are some tips from experts about cheering yourself up when you're in a funk.

We barely knew each other as kids, but years later I was still so fixated about his death that I got a tattoo of his name. At 30, I decided it was finally time to figure out why.

There's no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. That doesn't mean your social friends aren't losing it.

That's according to lawyers involved in a settlement announced this week. Facebook will pay out $52 million as part of a proposed agreement.

Sometimes just a minute of vacuuming or cleaning can do wonders to your day.

The game has you assume the role of a professional with your own power washing business. You'll need to clean an entire exterior of a home, from the front door to the porch. So… get to it.

It's only May but Su Lee has written the song of the summer.

The US high court's continual refinement of an obscure legal doctrine has made it harder to hold police accountable when accused of using excessive force.

I learned the quiet heartbreak of losing someone who truly understood what it meant to live in a body like mine.

The class offered three things I'd been desperately missing: drawing, being connected to other human beings and thinking about the body as something to embrace and take joy from.

The day-to-day discomfort of quitting alcohol was so worth the future it made possible. I'm reminded of that feeling often as I stay home now.

If you're working the kind of job where you have the ability to request a long weekend, it's worth taking one — even if you won't be leaving home.

The psychology behind personal space.

The sun coming up in the east and setting in the west is real. Thursday is not.

For the first time, it seems, the entire world knows what it's like to live inside my head.

Collect cute monsters and make your brain feel better.

Cartoonist Jason Adam Katzenstein explains what it's like to have had contamination fears long before everyone else did.

It's tempting to beat ourselves up when we fail, but we're capable of so much more if we give ourselves compassion instead.

In merely weeks, a 15-year-old boy no longer cracks jokes, dances or even utters a word. What's going on?

UC Davis professor Alison Ledgerwood explains why our brains tend to fixate on the negative thoughts instead of positive ones and how to hack yourself to think the opposite.

If luxury THC granola, weed aperitifs and CBD pillows couldn't make me into a stoner, nothing can.

Medieval mystics starved the body to feed the soul. Understanding this perfectionist mindset could help treat anorexia today.

Amid a pandemic that is profoundly decreasing skin-on-skin contact, the author asked people to share their most affecting tactile experiences.

"Tell them we are not suffering!"

The coronavirus pandemic will leave lasting emotional scars.

The Los Angeles-based filmmaker is also doing a lot of meditating — to open up "the tube through which ideas flow."

When people are stuck indoors for long periods of time, it can take a psychological toll. Here are a few useful tips for staying sane.

Welcome to Insomnia Club. It's the worst place online and you're invited.

To write "Hidden Valley Road," Robert Kolker spent three years reporting on a family in which six brothers all grew up to be schizophrenic.

We turned to the archives to find some of the best tips for salvaging your sleep in the midst of nonstop worries. Here's some of what we found.

How one woman's recovery is being affected by the pandemic.

The coronavirus pandemic is a devastating mass trauma — but some people with anxiety and depression have seen their symptoms improve.

I live with a mysterious, chronic disease for which I've been given a number of different diagnoses and that I've been dealing with since 2013. I've since learned a lot about how to cope with illness.

In college, Adderall gave me a sense of focus that felt sublime. Then I OD'ed.

What I learned after six years of giving positive words of comfort to friends and strangers: people want to know that they're not alone, that what they do matters, and that support is nearby.

COVID-19 is also a mental health crisis.

For many young women laboring under the grindstone of American capitalism, the operative feeling of the last ten or fifteen years has not been numbness, but suffering.

The study of the surreal has mostly concerned Dali's paintings and Kafka's writings. But there are psychological reasons why every day seems so otherworldly.

How vacation became just another thing we're working on.

We feel the world has changed, and it has. We know this is temporary, but it doesn't feel that way, and we realize things will be different.

What does it feel like to lose your grip on reality? I know the answer. Thirty years ago, I experienced an intense and terrifying episode of psychosis that lasted around 24 hours.

The widespread shuttering of businesses, the sense that everyone's discussing the same thing all the time — it's particularly disorienting for me.

We're living in a stressful time. It's important to take care of our mental health.

We talked to a couples therapist about communicating, building boundaries and raising kids during the coronavirus pandemic.

Obsessing over tasks and hobbies during the coronavirus pandemic can be a healthy way to cope.

Tech leaders in Silicon Valley are turning to couples counseling to work out their differences. The trend has sparked a new wave of therapists focused specifically on co-founders.

Should the country have an upper-limit age restriction on those seeking its highest office?

You can let anxiety consume you, or you can feel the fear and also find joy in ordinary life, even now.

It can be tempting to read every single coronavirus story being published right now, but too much information can be overwhelming.

Scientists are looking more closely at how viruses and infections could influence our minds.

During the coronavirus pandemic, 12-step meetings are being moved to video chats. Here's how one person in recovery is coping.

Obsessively washing became a way of stealing some control back over my body, making me feel for just a moment like it isn't toxic and polluted.

Here's what you can do to relieve your worries, while still keeping you and your family safe.

A growing body of evidence suggests that the way in which trauma victims talk about their experiences is as important as whether they talk about it at all.

It has been 11 years since the FDA approved aripiprazole for children with autism. The drug initially had a reputation of having fewer side effects than its competitor — but a decade's worth of data suggest that is untrue.

The stupidest, most exasperating piece of advice commonly offered to suffering people is also the truest and most comforting.

It's not just older Americans dying of "despair."

We have side hustles, the latest products and an obsession with doing instead of being. But have we all been buying snake oil?

An entanglement with her shrink-stalking protege teaches Susan Shapiro something about forgiveness.