Mental Health
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The Aesthetics of Joy
Ingrid Fetell Lee on design principles that spark positivity and help us to find moments joy of happiness.
How Stress Affects Your Body
Understand how stress operates in your body — and how to reduce stress and build resilience.
Do GABA Supplements Help With Anxiety?
Many people believe GABA may help with anxiety, but the data is limited.
Why Do I Feel Worse About Myself When I Read Self-Help Books?
Sometimes, self-help books can overwhelm and set you up for unhappiness. Here’s why.
How to Deal With Traumatic Memories
Here is one expert’s four-step process for coping with trauma.
7 Self-Care Strategies at Work
Here are self-care strategies for coping with the always-on workplace.
The Happiness Curve
Feeling gloomy in your middle years? Award-winning journalist Jonathan Rauch tells us why life gets better after 50.
How Childhood Adversity Creates Toxic Stress
Pioneering pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris is transforming how public-health advocates respond to the toxic stress created by childhood adversity. Here, she shares her prescription for healing.
6 Tips to Beat the Winter Blues
Seasonal affective disorder can make a stressful time of year even harder. Here’s how to offset the symptoms of SAD.
Exercise Now, Avoid Depression Later
Why midlife fitness may reduce the risks of depression later in life.
How to Find Lasting Satisfaction and Fulfillment
How is it we can have it all and still feel unsatisfied with our lives? Find out how to use your longing to create lasting success.
Designing Happiness
Best-selling author Dan Buettner shares insights from the world’s happiest people that can boost the well-being of communities and their citizens.
The Loneliness Trap
Feeling cut off from others can do more than make you sad – it can even make you sick.
5 Ways to Practice Happiness
When it comes to the quest for greater happiness, waiting and hoping are out. Learning and practicing are in. Here’s how to create your own happy reality — starting now.
How Exercise Can Alleviate Depression, Anxiety, and Stress
Why going for a run helps balance our brain chemistry — and improve our mood.
The Roots of Anxiety: A Case Study
How detoxing helped one woman overcome her anxiety.
How Exercise Benefits the Brain
The benefits of physical activity are more than muscle-deep. Moving your body builds and conditions your gray matter, making you smarter, happier, and more resilient.
A Whole-Person Approach to Treating Depression
Depression is not all in your head. Here are nonpharmaceutical, lifestyle-based ways to treat depression from the ground up.
How to Be Happy
New York Times best-selling author Dan Buettner’s new book offers lessons from experts and the world’s happiest people for boosting the well-being of communities and the people who live in them.
How Adversity Can Lead to Personal Growth
In the face of hardship, some people manage to find deeper meaning and purpose. Discover the factors of post-traumatic growth.
Giving Brings Happiness
Why even tiny acts of generosity can bring you joy.