mental health

The key to happiness is being less optimistic and accepting a certain amount of unhappiness.

Love triggers the same regions of your brain as cocaine addiction.

When you struggle with anxiety or depression, sex may be the last thing on your mind. But understanding the physiological and mental benefits of a healthy sex life can help it become a tool for well-being.

Next up on the top 10 countdown, Big Think’s sixth most popular video illustrates the mental fireworks of a psychedelic experience.

The countdown continues! In this video, comedian Pete Holmes likens depression to quicksand and provides a method to help you cope and with it.

Man’s best friend indeed.

A new study suggests that a device’s night mode may damage sleep hygiene even more.

Expert opinions matter, especially when their knowledge is continuously refined by critical analysis.

David Bienenstock has made it his mission to keep the history of cannabis alive.

An experimental study involving 90 heavy drinkers found promising results.

Researchers discover that not only can anxiety prevent you from sleeping, but not getting a good night’s sleep might also cause anxiety.

Mycologist Paul Stamets believes they should be.

Move over SSRIs, Advil is on the way.

Researchers say further research is needed, though.

It’s one of our five major personality traits, and arguably, it’s the worst one. Why are some human beings neurotic?

A newly studied hallucinogenic substance has shown signs of treating mental health conditions more efficiently than psilocybin.

Not only will this help diagnose schizophrenia earlier, but it also points to a possible cause of schizophrenia.

The under-recognized condition affects workers in offices across the globe.

A new study finds that casually fibbing to children results in lifelong issues.

Researchers measured high- and low-adversity participants’ feelings of compassion.

Lengthening daylight isn’t necessarily good news where mental health is concerned.

A new study shows that nearly 40 percent of Americans report being stressed out by U.S. politics.

While pressure to succeed is on the rise, students’ mental health and readiness for college has diminshed.

Most of us can’t imagine wanting absolute control over a nation or feeling compelled to commit mass murders — so then what is it about a dictator’s psychology that makes them different?

Suicide rates in Puerto Rico have risen by a third since Hurricane Maria.

Duke University psychiatrist Harold Koenig describes how. The post Faith Benefits Health appeared first on ORBITER.

Most of us have heard of Abraham Maslow and his hierarchy of needs, but Maslow doesn’t have a monopoly on self-actualization.

Moving the needle forward on psychedelic research.

Anxiety provoked by an unavoidable threat — like an electric shock in a lab — increases as the expected event draws closer.

When you combine feelings of resentment with the societal praise of leaving one’s mark, it forms a lethal cocktail.