When you think of self-care, bubble baths, massages, your favorite foods, and binge-watching Netflix all day might come to mind. While those things can be occasional ingredients of…
There’s no doubt about it. Our modern lifestyles are not good for our brains. With restaurant food delivered to your door 24/7, never-ending dings and digital screens, 70-hour…
More than one-third of American adults view social media as harmful to their mental health, according to a new survey from the American Psychiatric Association. Just 5% view social…
Mental health in America was declining long before COVID-19 hit. A year later, it’s at an alarming low. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in…
In the past, it was taught and accepted that the brain was the only organ in the human body that was “immune privileged” meaning it lacked any direct…
Around most of the world, vaccinations are on the rise, COVID-19 cases and deaths are declining, and people are starting to resume life as normal, including cautiously traveling…
This past year has been stressful — to put it mildly. As we have moved through 2020, we’ve seen a global pandemic put the world in a death…
Anxiety can make you turn to a variety of habits in an effort to ease the feeling. Unknowingly, many of these only make the condition worse. One coping…
Michelangelo had obsessive-compulsive disorder. Sir Isaac Newton was bipolar and depressed. Abraham Lincoln was known to have depressive episodes and anxiety attacks. Winston Churchill accomplished all that he…
There’s always a light at the end of the tunnel so the saying goes. Faith is believing that it’s not a train barreling straight at you. I had…
We all know what our brain is, right? It’s the three pounds of “convoluted mass of gray and white matter” in your head that “controls and coordinates all…