MENTAL HEALTH TOOLKIT

BackgroundThe sustained rise in negative mental health reports among university students is a source of continued global concern, and investigation...

I blame mainstream Western psychology for a lot of the neoliberal bullshit we’re all inundated with. As I’ve gone further into the field of psychology (I have a Masters in counseling psychology and work with therapy clients regularly), I’ve come to see it as mostly individualized, white-centered, male-led, capitalist propaganda. While this isn’t always true, generally speaking, it’s an issue, and it’s having devastating impacts on our ability > MORE

Everyone is telling one another to “get help,” but few acknowledge that the practice is often flawed.

The Most Important Skill Set in Mental Health What We Found After Analyzing Nearly 55.000 Studies Credit: Nicole Avagliano Why does psychotherapy work? Until relatively recently, many scientists …

Expert Dr. Sarah Levitt discusses climate-related distress

As climate change reaches into more aspects of our lives, it's taking a toll on our mental health. And scientists across Canada are trying to learn enough about climate anxiety to prevent and successfully treat it.

In the middle of the night, the world can sometimes feel like a dark place.

Scanners try to watch the red-blue divide play out underneath the skull

An exhaustive, well-powered review may have conclusively debunked the “chemical imbalance” theory of depression.

The missing generation is Autistic/NeuroDivergent adults, typically growing up in the 1980s or earlier, who were not discovered to be NeuroDivergent as children (because of diagnostic limitations of the time). Autism was not even in the DSM until 1980. So prior to 1980, Autistic People weren't even listed in the diagnostic manual. That generation, and generations prior grew up when understanding was very limited, leaving generations of Autistic People undiscovered, or missed.

Depression is a highly prevalent disorder, and its treatment is far from satisfactory. There is an urgent need to develop a new treatment for depression. Alt...

The elite capture of a Blackfoot belief system

It continues to come as a great surprise for many people to learn that psychiatry’s leading authorities, including the former longtime director of the

Are you getting your seven or eight hours of sleep a night — yet you still feel exhausted? Here’s why that could be happening, according to physician Saundra Dalton-Smith.

What comes after being thoroughly disillusioned with your job?

Group exercise and mindfulness are also to be recommended before medication, according to new advice.

Understanding depression as an altered state of consciousness, like a dream or drug trip, could help people awaken from it

The most brilliant and creative amongst us are sometimes the most troubled, and nowhere is that clearer than in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

The tumultuous experience of being an entrepreneur can lead to self-doubt, imposter syndrome and burnout. Proactive care of your mental wellbeing can help to optimize your talents as an innovator and leader.

Think all psychotherapy is the same? Learn how interventions differ between methods.

Participants “rated it among the most personally meaningful and spiritually significant experiences of their lives,” according to the study.

Substance use disorders and other problems cannot be addressed from a position of willful ignorance about our society’s inequalities