The Best Articles in Mental Health

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.»

Forget mantras and self-help that do not work. Use these simple self-parenting strategies to make lasting changes in your life.

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.»

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.»

These evidence-based strategies can help you achieve healthy work-life balance

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»

The modern world feels custom designed to make you feel anxious. Here's what it takes to get to calm and 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.»

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»

Why "good enough" really is good enough.

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.…

Do you often fear the worst is going to happen? Use these therapeutic techniques to think more rationally and calmly

Learn how to use a Brain Dump to calm your mind, tackle your to-do list and go from overwhelmed to fully in control.

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»

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…

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»

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.»

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»

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.»

Why It Happened and Why It’s Bad For Democracy

Evidence for Lukianoff’s reverse CBT hypothesis

“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.»

Here's why you should give more time to your hobbies.

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