mental health

“Stop calling Trump crazy,” wrote former-Congressman Patrick Kennedy in a recent Washington Post article. Many people call Republican nominee Donald Trump crazy. Do they do so in the form of a…

Boosting your mental health is not always about visiting a mental health professional. While there are some mental health issues that necessitate professional medical treatment, there are other mental issues…

Career blues after 35 is more common than we would like to accept. People who cross this age often ponder about their career options in a competitive environment, feeling overwhelmed…

Every so often science takes an interesting turn, and seeks to quantify and understand why things go right — instead of the more common focus on failure analysis. Perhaps it’s…

Probably because the very idea of suicide is repellent to us, we tend to think of it as being rare. In fact, suicide is more common than we’d like to…

If you’ve been feeling more stressed and more anxious over the last few years, you’re not alone. If you feel like there’s just never enough free time, that’s not your imagination.…

Everyone is feeling it, but few can actually put their finger on the source of the stress that seems to have become a pervasive part of our lives. The reason…

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives. — Seneca The tricks our mind plays on us.  One…

We continue to hear about stories of increasing school violence and outbursts. What are the caused of all this? Is it anger? Is it mental illness? It could be a…

Many of us experience stress, depression, and anxiety. Meditation is a great way to help relieve some of these feelings, and more Americans are giving it a shot. Meditation is…

Most of us have experienced an occasional bad day, when life throws us a curve ball for no apparent reason. It’s one thing if you’ve experienced a career setback, an…

Winston Churchill referred to the condition as his “black dog.”  Charles Dickens fell into a recurrent bleak episode of this very same condition at the start of work on each…