Mental health

Mental health

If this sounds familiar, the reason you stay stuck in this cycle likely has to do with your mind's tendency to disguise rumination as "problem-solving." You might be under the impression that you're figuring out what went wrong or making sure you will not repeat the mistake. However, in reality, you're just reinforcing the guilt and trapping yourself even further in the same emotional cycle. Over time, this habit can end up chipping away at your confidence, relationships, and most importantly, your sense of self.

Young people are in a bad way; they feel very sad, completely depressed. The worst thing isn't the anxiety, or being glued to their phones, or feeling lonely, or being unemployed, or even knowing that it's impossible for them to buy a house; the worst part is that, until just a few years ago, none of them expected to find themselves in this situation.

A few weeks ago, a viral tweet perfectly captured a phenomenon familiar to many of us. The post ― a response to someone's question "what's your biggest ick about yourself?" ― read simply: "i can be really mean when i'm overstimulated." Judging by the retweets, it seems 55,000 people could relate. If you've ever snapped at your partner after a bad day, or had an outburst during a frustrating call with a customer service agent, you may understand the meaning behind the tweet. We're not exactly at our best in moments like these, but they're part of the human response to being overstimulated.

"My ex-boyfriend killed himself. My friend who goes to the same college called to tell me. I knew he was feeling depressed when I broke up with him last month, but he never mentioned wanting to kill himself. He was seeing a psychiatrist and said he was starting to feel better. What if the breakup triggered this? I feel like it's my fault."

Since then, through my own experience parenting a child with PANDAS/AE and sitting with hundreds of parents raising children with complex medical, developmental, or psychiatric needs, I've learned this: We've been approaching it all wrong. This week, as we commemorate PANDAS Awareness Day, I'm reminded that behind every child's battle with neuroimmune illness is a parent fighting a parallel one, often invisible, misunderstood, and dismissed. Parental PTSD is real, and recognizing it is an essential part of raising awareness.

Debt doesn't just sit quietly on a balance sheet. It carries emotional weight, often heavier than the numbers themselves. People in long-term debt may find that the stress, guilt, and constant worry affect their daily lives just as much as the financial strain. Even when someone considers options like debt settlement to manage what they owe, the emotional side of debt lingers. Staying in debt is not only about money-it is about how it shapes confidence, relationships, and overall well-being.

Many Muslim families struggle when a child comes out as LGBTQ. Some respond with silence, fear, or rejection, believing they must choose faith over love. Yet this belief is not Islamic. It goes against the essence of Islam, which is mercy and justice. When religion is used to justify cruelty, it loses its soul. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is described as Rahmat al-lil Alameen, a mercy to all worlds.

The council's committee of the whole passed a resolution on Sept. 10 pledging up to $2.25 million towards the project but the hospital needs $30 million for an initial investment. "We just can't accept that people are suffering on our streets on a daily basis, said Oshawa Mayor Dan Carter, who moved the motion. I've been committed to this from day one, and I'm not going to give up until I get it done."

At some point in our lives, most of us have been told to "put on a happy face" or "fake it 'til you make it." But it may be detrimental to pretend to be happy when you're not. The more people value happiness, the more unhappy they are A 2024 study by Zerwas, et al. surveyed 1,800 people about their level of happiness and their desire to be happy.

The concert was a collective exercise in nostalgia - that powerful emotion triggered by the intersection of experience and memory. Some people think of nostalgia as a sort of bittersweet feeling, an aching reminder of what we have lost. It is joy tinged with sadness, but primarily a positive emotion that is part of the human experience. It is a feeling that sneaks up on you, and not just at massive concerts.

"Midlife adults meet the same diagnostic criteria as younger patients ― struggling with symptoms such as restricting, bingeing or purging," said DeCaro, who also co-hosts the podcast All Bodies. All Foods.

The Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services are playing with women's health. Over the summer, the Food and Drug Administration convened a panel on whether certain antidepressants were safe to use in pregnancy. The Department of Health and Human Services officials recently announced their belief that Tylenol (acetaminophen) taken during pregnancy could cause autism. This posturing on antidepressants and the Tylenol pronouncement is causing fear and confusion in pregnant people who may need these medications.

Something odd happened on our team five years ago that I now witness in many workplaces across the nation. One of our team members (we'll call her Dina) turned in a project that was so poor, her supervisor met with her to offer some corrective feedback. Dina wouldn't have it. Her reaction stumped me. She called out her supervisor on his correction, claiming she'd been attacked. Then, she claimed her supervisor wasn't psychologically safe.

Kirk Jones's terrifically warm, generous film is about real-life activist John Davidson, who is from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders and has Tourette syndrome, with its tics, compulsive behaviour patterns and random obscene shouts. He was awarded an MBE in 2019 for his work educating the nation about the condition since he first exhibited its symptoms as a teenager in 1989, as captured in the BBC's sensational documentary John's Not Mad.

"That's not true. Life is unfair. Things happen to you that you don't deserve," Robbins told us.

Over the past year, I had the privilege of interviewing caregivers who bravely shared their stories about their experience in the NICU. In our study of over 1,000 parents from across the United States, those whose babies required NICU care were 74% more likely to experience a perinatal mood or anxiety disorder than those whose babies did not spend time in the NICU. And while there was resounding gratitude and joy that their little ones had survived, they also reported substantial struggles and grief postpartum.

Optimism lives in a curious in-between space. It isn't an outcome so much as an expectation about one. Yet optimism and pessimism each have immediate consequences for mental health. When we expect good things, daily life feels safer and more enjoyable. Persistent pessimism, on the other hand, breeds emptiness and depression. As a psychiatrist, I often meet people who undermine their own positive feelings.

These statements sound reasonable; even wise. But this seemingly practical mindset reveals a belief that actually amplifies anxiety while keeping our vision and impact small. That belief? That the big picture just "is what it is"-and that our best option is just to learn to navigate it better. Obviously, understanding our limitations is wise. Taking action where we can is imperative. And we must all navigate the world as it currently is.

A study published by JMIR Serious Games, a peer reviewed journal focused on how gaming is connected to education, health, and social change, looked into how the brain responds to both watching films produced by the Japanese animation studio and playing the open-world game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The researchers gathered 518 postgraduate students and divided them into four groups.

According to the family's lawsuit, early this year the boy inadvertently uploaded an image or video of himself exposing himself to his Snapchat connections, one of whom saved it. The next day Gabriel told his parents, Felipe and Orsolya Palacios, who called the school and the police. A criminal investigation ensued, and the bullying escalated, the lawsuit says. Palacios' mother met with the vice principal, and the lawsuit alleges that the vice principal met with the students suspected of possession and distribution of the upload.

I've never seen him look prouder than when he showed me the keys to his new place, and frankly, I don't know if I had ever felt so proud of him. It's funny how you can juggle so many different emotions at the same time, because I also remember feeling scared and concerned. How could he possibly afford this apartment and all the pricey things that went with it, like internet access and utilities?

Yet emotions are the most vital signals our bodies send us, and the most vital information about our lives. What a juxtaposition. If we listen carefully, they can tell us exactly what our problems are and what the solutions can be. I believe that therapists would be in much lower demand if humans had higher emotional access, acumen, skills, and expression-better awareness and understanding, especially with vulnerable emotions in general.

Driving the news: The suicide rate for U.S. adults aged 18-27 increased nearly 20% between 2014 and 2024, rising from 13.8 per 100,000 people to 16.4, per a new analysis of CDC data from Stateline, a nonprofit newsroom. That came as Gen Zers entered that age range and millennials left it, and was driven largely by Black and Hispanic men, especially in the South and Midwest.

I am publicly admitting that I took funds from the Presbyterian Church over an extended period,

Part of the answer comes from optics. Violet light has the shortest wavelength on the spectrum of visible light, right next to the unseen ultraviolet, which only our skin detects. With its short wavelength and high frequency, the color purple contains the highest energy of all visible light. Figuratively, we can think of purple as the border between the visible and the invisible.