Mental Health & Pandemic Life

The global pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness in America. This report from Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, explores who is lonely, the many causes of loneliness, and ways to alleviate it.

The therapy has helped veterans struggling with mental illness imagine their future selves.

An overwhelming demand for professional counseling has spawned slickly marketed companies promising a service they cannot possibly provide.

If you’re not using any of your PTO, we need to talk. Here are some good excuses to call out of work and how to ask for time off, depending on your situation.

If you suffer from depression, anxiety, PTSD or another mental illness, here are some real-world tips to help you stay happy and healthy at work.

Joe Biden is paying the price for America’s unprocessed COVID grief.

‘Compassion fatigue’ may act as a coping mechanism to being exposed to the suffering of others.

You’re not depressed but you’re not happy – you’re languishing. Give yourself a boost with these evidence-backed strategies

Group therapy promised to be both democratic and radical, but it failed to take hold. Has its time finally come?

You’re not depressed but you’re not happy – you’re languishing. Give yourself a boost with these evidence-backed strategies

An overwhelming majority of people in the United States think the country is experiencing a mental health crisis, according to a new survey from CNN in partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The current false dichotomy holds back research and stigmatises patients

Millions of people are still mourning loved ones lost to COVID, their grief intensified, prolonged, and even denied by the politics of the pandemic.

If you’re thinking, “Oh, I just need to suck it up,” stop. What you’re feeling is real. Here’s how to cope.

If hopelessness is learned, then it can be unlearned: how groundbreaking studies paved the way to help cultivate hope

The human brain, in all its complexity, is nearly impossible to model. One neuroscientist is trying anyway

Five ways to become more accepting of pain.

Mental health is often framed in individual terms with individual solutions – but rising levels of depression, anxiety and stress across society make it clear that we need political answers.

Is there any way to break free? We set out for answers, guided by a Japanese novel, a mastermind of self care, and the one and only Esther Perel.

Our world has been in the midst of a reckoning around mental health for years, and the problem has only been exacerbated by Covid-19. Here's what you can do about it.

Chronic stress was rampant even before the pandemic. Leaders can’t ignore it any longer.

As the COVID-19 pandemic and its fallout increasingly strains mental health, FDA officials have temporarily eased up on mHeath apps and telehealth services. According to the FDA, this would make digital therapeutic apps and “low-risk” telemedicine tools for mental health more available.

“There will be a period of epic withdrawal,” warned one addiction specialist, once schools, activities and social life return to normal.

The brain is surprisingly changeable.