The Best Articles in Mental Health
The most useful articles and videos in Mental Health from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Mental Health Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Mental Health by Refind users in 2023 so far.
Videos
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How to Be Miserable and Ruin Your Life
Do you complain constantly? Always feel like you’re under attack? Well, congratulations, these alone tell me that you’re already well on your way to becoming...
The Evolutionary Psychology Of Anxiety & Depression
Ed Hagen is an evolutionary anthropologist, Professor at Washington State University, a researcher and an author.Low mood, depression and anxiety are states ...
Why Psychedelics are the Future of Mental Health Treatment
Psychedelics have shown promise in offering a new path of treatment for a host of mental health conditions including depression, post traumatic stress disord...
What Stoicism Can Teach Us About Mental Health
https://betterhelp.com/dailystoic check out today's sponsor BetterHelp to get 10% off your first month of therapy.There are moments where things are so bad i...
How To Let Go Of The Past, Connect With The Present, & Expand the Future
In this new episode Steven sits down with the poet and philosopher Diego Perez, also known as Yung Pueblo.0:00 Intro 02:02 What mission are you on?04:30 Your...
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New to Mental Health? These articles make an excellent introduction.
What Is the Cycle of Avoidance And How to Break It
Avoidance may be causing you anxiety and depression. Learn how to cope with cycle of avoidance and start living the life you deserve.
«it can lead to destructive coping mechanisms such as isolation and substance abuse. This creates a vicious cycle of avoidance that increases stress and creates and reinforces anxiety and depression.»
What Is Self-Parenting And How It's A Part of Healing
Forget mantras and self-help that do not work. Use these simple self-parenting strategies to make lasting changes in your life.
What Is the Dissociative Mind?
When we face overwhelming stress, disconnecting can be a coping skill.
«Dissociation happens because the person is engaged in an automatic activity and is not paying attention to his or her immediate environment.»
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How to Recover from Work Stress, According to Science
To combat stress and burnout, employers are increasingly offering benefits like virtual mental health support, spontaneous days or even weeks off, meeting-free days, and flexible work scheduling.…
«Importantly, recovery in these fields doesn’t just happen when individuals feel depleted or burned out — it’s an essential part of the training and performance strategy.»
How to Deal With Work Stress and Recover From Burnout
These evidence-based strategies can help you achieve healthy work-life balance
How to maintain a healthy brain
Adopt these lifestyle changes and you will not only sharpen your mind today but also reduce your risk of dementia later on
«Train your body Just as mental health and brain health are deeply entwined, so too are your overall physical health and your brain health»
How To Stop Feeling Anxious And Live A Happy Life
The modern world feels custom designed to make you feel anxious. Here's what it takes to get to calm and feel better...
How to Deal With Low Moods: A 4-Step Plan to Help You Feel Better
I discovered that my moods were primarily linked to two things. Here's what I do now when a low mood starts bringing me down.
«The first one was needs, or more accurately, unmet needs. The second one was feelings, unexpressed feelings.»
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Breaking Through Depression; The Balanced Brain
Last year, research cast doubt on the dominant ‘chemical imbalance’ theory of depression. Now two persuasive books by scientists Philip Gold and Camilla Nord offer very different causes of the illness…
«psilocybin docks into the same receptors as brain-derived neurotrophic factor, a protein that promotes the growth and rewiring of neurons»
You 2.0: How to Break Out of a Rut
There are times in life when the challenges we face feel insurmountable. Authors succumb to writer’s block. Athletes and artists hit a plateau. People of a certain age fall into a midlife crisis.…
How to defuse catastrophic thoughts
Do you often fear the worst is going to happen? Use these therapeutic techniques to think more rationally and calmly
Feeling Stressed? Try this time-tested Brain Dump Technique
Learn how to use a Brain Dump to calm your mind, tackle your to-do list and go from overwhelmed to fully in control.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Mental Health—all under 10 minutes.
The psychological immune system: four ways to bolster yours
All of us will experience pain and stress, but the brain has some smart ways to protect us. Here is how to get prepared for periods of adversity
«Taking several long, deep breaths has also been shown to reduce stress and lower the heart rate, allowing us to reach that neutral point of calm»
5 Ways to Reduce Your Stress Levels
By Leo Babauta Stress is a part of life, and eliminating it is a fool’s errand. If you ever succeeded in eliminating all of stress, your life would be boring and you’d have removed yourself from…
Naive Stoicism: Why pop philosophy is bad for your mental health
Chrysippus of Soli was a Stoic. In fact, he was such a good Stoic, that he eventually became the head of the Stoic school in Athens. It might be easy to imagine Chrysippus today as some grave and…
«Curiously enough, both death acceptance and Stoic endurance are the facets that most likely do align with ancient Stoicism»
A smart way to handle anxiety — courtesy of soccer great Lionel Messi
Being incredibly talented doesn’t immunize you against anxiety, but Lionel Messi has mastered a coping mechanism that’s also a tactical weapon, says social psychologist Adam Alter PhD.
«he followed the RAIN steps — recognize, allow, investigate, note — and if he moved his body, the clock would reset, and he’d have to start again.»
Feeling an existential crisis brewing? Here are 3 ways to cope.
How to beat the anxiety that can make you feel helpless.
«Understanding how to handle negative emotions should come with healthy boundaries that are appropriate for someone's own unique situation»
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Mental Health.
How to overcome social anxiety
When even everyday social situations make you feel self-conscious and afraid, it’s time to try these well-tested techniques
«Social anxiety tricks you into believing that certain situations cause anxiety, but in reality, your thoughts about the situations drive your anxiety.»
The Mental Illness Crisis Has Hit Millennials
Why It Happened and Why It’s Bad For Democracy
Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest
Evidence for Lukianoff’s reverse CBT hypothesis
Managing Mental Health in the Achievement Society
“I thought for a long time: is it capitalism, or is it my ambition? And I am a very ambitious person,” Mara Glatzel told me a couple of years ago. That distinction between the narratives of…
«the perception of unlimited choice obfuscates how we are guided into outcomes that continue to uphold the status quo even in their variety.»
Try These 8 Hobbies if You Want to Improve Your Mental Health
Here's why you should give more time to your hobbies.
Podcasts
On the go? Listen to these Podcasts and audio in Mental Health.
The Ezra Klein Show: The Teen Mental Health Crisis, Part 1 on Apple Podcasts
Show The Ezra Klein Show, Ep The Teen Mental Health Crisis, Part 1 - May 19, 2023
Thought Leaders
We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Mental Health, including:
ADDitude
Resources for families touched by attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD). Tweets courtesy of the editors & bloggers you love!
The School of Life
Ideas to help you learn, heal and grow. Subscribe here: http://theschooloflife.com/app/

Tanmoy
Lived experience. Suicide prevention. Global mental health. Building @SanityByTanmoy.

Jordan Brown
Social worker + entrepreneur | Writing since 2016 to make #mentalhealth accessible | I used to tweet

P.E. Moskowitz
i write http://mentalhellth.xyz, a newsletter about why your brain feels bad and what to do about it. new book out via @atriabooks and @bloomsburybooks soonish :)
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