Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist (2024)

It has never been more important to foster supportive communities, authentic connections, and a culture of kindness to combat the youth mental health crisis.

Personal Perspective: When I have to cancel plans because of my invisible disability, the stigma can feel insurmountable. Sometimes it's easier to pretend I'm just flakey.

Personal Perspective: How many times have you said the words to yourself: “You’ll be happy you went”?

How much of our intimate lives—our traumas, our griefs, our anxieties—do we want to share with those who want to sell us more products?

Personal Perspective: Our minds can help us live more fully or get in our way. These suggestions can help us determine which thing is happening in the moment.

Gambling was the first behavioral addiction officially accepted by psychiatry in the United States, but others may follow, such as gaming, food addiction, and sex addiction.

Setting specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-based goals (SMART) can be helpful in your relationship.

A Personal Perspective: Many of the tasks associated with finding and maintaining employment can be impossible for autistic people.

A Personal Perspective: When my cat and my old friend died within weeks of each other, I learned that anticipated grief is not the same as real grief.

Discover how active listening, empathy, and embracing diverse perspectives can transform your workplace into a culture of respect, wellness, and genuine connection.

Our modern lifestyle causes us to lock our eyes more frequently on screens than on human faces, which has significant implications for developing our social skills.

Goal achievement and productivity aren't just about reaching the goal. It's also about celebrating the wins along the way. Many want to skip this step, resulting in burnout.

Like almost anything else, hope can be good or bad. When excessive, hope is addictive, leading to decisions that don't elicit desirable outcomes.

Want to transform your child's learning experience into a journey of joy and deep engagement? Here's how to do it by unlocking flow.

Want to know why you're addicted to this show? A co*cktail of neurotransmitters is to blame.

Being highly motivated to get things done can be richly challenging and energizing or disheartening and physically and mentally exhausting. This is what makes the difference.

Missing your loved one this Father's Day? Here are some unexpected ways loss can shape your life.

New research finds that patients with Long COVID brain fog or cognitive impairment have the biological signature of acute COVID-19 infection in their brain.

Consider these 10 tips to embrace true well-being, positivity, and joy this summer.

Have we gone too far to the social, political, and legal extremes? Recent science on left-wing authoritarianism may hold some answers.

"Citing up" likely stems from implicit bias toward what researchers are familiar with as established and credible, and new research may be more forgettable unless impactful.

Stalking victims are sometimes blamed for "encouraging" their stalker or asked what they did to "lead them on." But research finds that most stalkers need little to no encouragement.

Your first sexual experience may be long past, but it could still affect you.

Many Western nations are becoming increasingly unhappy. It's time to define happiness in a way that is sustainable.

Personal Perspective: For more than six decades, the poet Rumi has inspired me psychologically, spiritually, and transformatively. Here is why we need his timeless poetry now.

Understanding the "as-if" personality and the conundrum of being real.

Michelle Slater's 'Soulmate Dog' combines science, philosophy, riveting stories and unbounded care into a heartfelt examination of the nature of love and the inevitability of loss.

What we have lost or gained in the shift in therapeutic terminology?

Adult children don't always like or appreciate each other. Blood ties and a common history aren't always enough to maintain a connection.