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…
Types of Therapy Explained: CBT, DBT, EMDR, ACT — and What the Evidence Says
Somewhere between deciding to get help and actually booking an appointment, most people hit the same wall: a directory listing full of acronyms. CBT. DBT. EMDR. ACT. IFS, EFT, IPT, psychodynamic. Nobody…
Why You Wake Up at 3 a.m. With Anxiety — and What Actually Helps
The clock says 3:14. Nothing woke you. No noise, no dream you can remember, no alarm. But your eyes are open, your heart is running a little faster than it should be…
Supplements for Anxiety: What the Research Actually Supports
If you’ve searched for a way to feel calmer in the past year, an algorithm has almost certainly offered you a bottle. Ashwagandha for stress. Magnesium glycinate for sleep. L-theanine for the…