The final stretch of the year can sometimes feel like the hardest. As the New Year approaches, there is often pressure to finish (or even start) all the things you haven’t quite gotten around to. Not to mention the added stress the holidays...

A new report is painting a bleak picture when it comes to teens’ mental health, as well as their access to professional support for those issues.
Data published by the non-profit Mental Health America shows that rates of severe youth...

Unless you’re blessed to live in a magically warm climate all year round (looking at you, Californians and Floridians), frostier weather is rapidly approaching. And that can come with some unexpected mental and physical side effects.
Changes...

AMMAN —AlGhad— Apparently, Jordanian women are the sixth most beautiful in the Middle East, according to Ranker, a digital media company for opinion-based, crowdsourced rankings.
The Ranker beauty ranking vote included 17 countries and...

When we think about anxiety, we tend to consider what happens in the mind—the excessive worry and catastrophic fears—rather than what occurs in the body. And while many anxious people do make a beeline to a therapist, others visit a...

Horrific events like the mass shootings in Texas and Las Vegas and the devastating hurricanes in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico don’t just cause distress the moment they’re happening. The effects linger on ― sometimes for months or...

Life was never easy for Dorri Olds. She had her first suicidal thought at age 5 — her mother had yelled at her seemingly out of nowhere, and it shook her in a profound way. By age 11 she had smoked marijuana for the first time, quickly picking...

It turns out that one of the most healing factors of therapy is the relationship I have with my therapist. She knows when to be a sympathetic ear, when to challenge me and accepts who I am.
I’m free to be open and vulnerable in a safe,...

Keeping the spark alive in a romantic relationship isn’t easy, especially after the honeymoon phase has come and gone.
But couples who go the distance never lose sight of the qualities and moments, big and small, that remind them why they...

Headlines about a looming male infertility crisis have peppered the landscape in the past few months, thanks to a July study that found the sperm counts of men in North America, Europe and Australia to be on the decline.
The study, a meta-analysis...

Imagine being told that all the things you plan, all the moments you hope to have and all the achievements you aspire to may not happen. That’s what it is like when you hear a doctor say, “You have cancer.”
While many people know...

As if the challenges you have to face living with and trying to battle mental illness (in my case, recurring severe anxiety and depression) aren’t enough, there’s also the feeling of shame that goes with it. That’s my experience...