The Best Articles in Mental Health
The most useful articles and videos in Mental Health from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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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 2024 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 ...
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...
Dr. Paul Conti: How to Understand & Assess Your Mental Health
This is episode 1 of a 4-part special series on mental health with psychiatrist Dr. Paul Conti, M.D., who trained at Stanford School of Medicine and complete...
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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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.…
«Detachment leads to better recovery and even improvements in work-related outcomes, such as performance and engagement»
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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What Is Brain Fog?
Brain fog, aka limited cognitive function, may be caused by stress, poor sleep, medications, and more. Here’s what you should know.
The world’s mental health is in rough shape — and not getting any better, a new report…
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A guide to starting your mental health journey
From choosing the right therapist to figuring out how to pay.
Anger, sadness, boredom, anxiety – emotions that feel bad can be useful
Lots of people will do a lot to avoid feeling negative emotions. But researchers are figuring out how these unpleasant feelings actually have benefits.
«deactivation state of doing little, without much behavior or physical arousal. Sadness also brings thinking that is more detailed and analytical. It makes you stop and think.»
How to handle the winter blues, no matter where you live
Seasonal affective disorder is a type of depression that occurs at the same time each year, usually in winter. Symptoms include sadness, loss of energy, difficulty concentrating, and hopelessness, as…
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Mental Health—all under 10 minutes.
How to Feel a Little Better in 2024
It’s time to let go of impossible-to-achieve health goals and just…do less.
7 Pieces of Advice That Will Help You Be Less Anxious
Most advice for anxiety doesn't work long-term... These 7 bits of advice will actually help you be less anxious for good.
«When you immediately try to avoid or get rid of anxiety with coping skills, you make yourself more anxious in the long-run because you’ve trained your brain to fear anxiety itself.»
Are you catastrophizing? Here’s how to stop assuming the worst.
Nine experts weigh in on curbing and diffusing your overly negative thoughts.
What Is the Best Way to Handle Stress?
Anxiety is a human condition; our reaction to it is automatic and often ruinous. So, what is the best way to handle stress?
«Healing from anxiety does not mean not feeling it anymore but that we respond in a compassionate, constructive manner.»
3 Ways to Take Care of Your Mental Health as You Get Older
It’s never too late to start.
«aging can actually do great things for your mental health—with age typically comes wisdom, after all. “The aging process often brings increased resilience and coping skills, contributing to better mental health outcomes»
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Mental Health.
A vaccine for depression
One sunny day this fall, I caught a glimpse of the new psychiatry. At a mental hospital near Yale University, a depressed patient was being injected with ketamine. For 40 minutes, the drug flowed into…
«even if drug companies steered ketamine through the expensive approval process as an antidepressant, doctors could still prescribe the cheap»
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.»
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
The Mental Illness Crisis Has Hit Millennials
Why It Happened and Why It’s Bad For Democracy
How to solve our mental health crisis
Investing in people’s future mental health, based on the key socioeconomic factors underlying it, is the only way to address this rising problem.
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
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