Wellbeing

When I go to sleep at night, I don’t dwell on that awkward comment I made in a meeting, or whether I’m doing enough to minimize my carbon footprint. My brand of worrying involves all-consuming thoughts of whether I’m making enough money on each of…

One evening several years ago, when my then boyfriend, Sam*, let me use his laptop, he forgot to close the email he’d been reading — which ended with “I can’t wait to see you again” and a bunch of Xs and Os. Suffice it to say, it wasn’t from me.…

“EMDR did for me what 20 years of talk therapy did not,” a friend (who also happens to be a clinical psychologist) told me recently. “Really?” I asked, intrigued. I’ve been in therapy for three decades and sometimes I feel like I’m doing emotional…

Silicon Valley tech execs swear by taking very small doses of magic mushrooms every few days — a.k.a., microdosing them — as a means of boosting creativity and productivity. Redditors report that microdosing alleviates their anxiety and depression,…

When something upsetting happens, my 100-year-old grandmother always suggests that I might feel differently about it the next morning. It turns out that her folk logic could be totally in line with current science. A small new study from the…

In the wake of a particularly messy breakup and the stinging pain of the loss of my father, I went through a life-altering bout of depression in 2016. It wasn’t just the many days and weeks where I couldn’t get out of bed, but suicidal ideation and…

If you’re a frequent flyer, chances are you’re well acquainted with a long list of rules flight attendants enumerate at the beginning of every trip: Open your window shades, set your plane to airplane mode, put your seat in the upright position, and…

Research just provided further evidence of what many have long known to be true: All genders are visual creatures. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on July 15 found that sexy images activated more or less the…

In the 2002 film Punch-Drunk Love, Adam Sandler plays Barry Egan, a single, 30-something living with severe social anxiety. His love interest, Lena Leonard, a divorcée played by Emily Watson, shows signs of anxiety and possibly depression, but…