Parents Feel Back-to-School Stress Too — Here’s Why That Matters
Every August, the same script runs in a lot of households: new shoes, a stiff backpack, a first-day photo by the front door. All the attention goes to how the kids are…
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GLP-1 Drugs and Mental Health: Where the Evidence Stands on Ozempic and Mood
Somewhere in the last two years, the conversation about weight-loss drugs moved into the therapy room. About one in eight American adults is currently taking a GLP-1 medication — semaglutide, tirzepatide, liraglutide…
Perimenopause and Mental Health: Why Mood, Sleep and Focus Shift Before the Hot Flashes
A woman turns 44 and starts waking at four in the morning. Not every night — enough. Her patience gets thin in a way she doesn’t recognize. She reads the same paragraph…
School Refusal: When a Child Can’t Go to School, Not Won’t
It tends to start around 7:10 in the morning. The backpack is by the door, the cereal is going soft in the bowl, and your child is on the bathroom floor saying…
Climate Anxiety Is Real: What the Research Says About Eco-Anxiety
A 16-year-old from the Philippines, asked by researchers to describe how she felt about the climate crisis, put it this way: for her, the destruction of the planet is personal. That line…
Postpartum Depression: Why So Many New Mothers Go Undiagnosed
Somewhere around the six-week mark, a new mother sits in a paper gown answering a checklist while a nurse types notes into a laptop across the room. One question, if the visit…
The Stages of Grief: What Researchers Found When They Finally Tested Them
Fourteen months after her husband died, a woman apologizes to her therapist for crying. She has read that grief comes in five stages and that the final one is acceptance. By her…
Is It ADHD or Anxiety? How Adults Get an Accurate Answer
A woman in her late thirties has been treated for anxiety since college. Two SSRIs, one good CBT therapist, a meditation app she actually uses. The panic attacks are mostly gone. But…
Loneliness and Mental Health: What New Research Shows — and What Actually Helps
There’s a kind of loneliness that doesn’t look like anything from the outside. You have coworkers. You answer texts. Someone would notice if you vanished for a week. And still, most evenings…