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

If your anxiety about Monday morning is starting earlier and earlier each Sunday, this post is for you.

How can we improve our interactions with each other and contribute to more peaceful and successful resolutions to the many conflicts we face today?

Is misophonia neurological or behavioral? Genetic or learned? Understanding misophonia defies binary thinking. Learn how to apply both/and thinking to conceptualize misophonia.

If it's been over a year since you lost someone, and you're still "not yourself," you may have prolonged grief. Here's what you can do about it.

A Gen Z teen talks about mental health and how she and her peers hear the messages they receive from the adults in their lives.

Sometimes, the most thoughtful and considerate action leaders can take is to go through difficult conversations rather than around them.

Published in the December 2023 issue of Current Biology, recent research has demonstrated that psilocybin can significantly reduce chronic pain.

Mind reading can have a negative impact on the way you view yourself, others, and the world. It’s important that you notice when you are falling into this thinking trap.

With the urgent need for mental health solutions, psychedelic treatments are developed carefully, while underground therapists offer a stopgap measure.

The vast majority of North American teens uses social media daily. While social media can serve as a way to connect, there are also some known risks and ways to support safe use.

In some moral situations, acts of generosity in one area entail deprivation in another. But people problematically overextend assumptions that morality is always zero-sum.

Eating disorder treatment is rife with sensitive and ethical treatment considerations. Adding telehealth therapy to the mix creates new opportunities and potential risks.

To what extent does the way we exhibit our internal emotional state depend on culturally accepted and predefined display rules?

The sports and fitness industry is bursting with pseudoscience, exaggerated claims, and outright fraud. Protect yourself with skepticism and evidence-based thinking.

Personal Perspective: Read this before considering a restrictive diet, especially if you are a parent.

Do you often feel emotionally exhausted when scrolling through social media? Practicing these four DBT skills can help.

Learn how the foundational skill set of emotional intelligence can support your mental and physical health.

You say you're sorry, but are you really? Cosmetic apologies never work. Understand why you make them and how to do better.

Consciousness can be described in terms of four vectors: 1) a narrating ego; 2) a core primate self; 3) a public persona; and 4) pure awareness via witness consciousness.

While you have an absolute right to your resentment, you also have a compelling right to live a value-filled life free of resentment.

Understanding concepts of the soul, or self, in Indian philosophy.

Rather than trying to catalogue a list of tells, seek to understand people by paying attention to both what they say and how they say it. It’s simply good listening.

Experts are warning that the problem of out-of-control technology continues to grow in alarming ways. Here are 8 ways parents can protect their children.

Dive into the delicate balance of hope and fear in anorexia recovery to learn how effective therapy guides individuals through ambivalence toward healing.

This non-invasive therapy can help clear the way to long-term recovery.

Personal Perspective: The principles of democracy are closely related to love and happiness. The choices we make for our democracy may impact our lives way beyond politics.

Here are the reasons why everybody needs their pupils dilated for a yearly eye exam, especially after the age of 60.

Sexual desire is always the desire for another's desire. We want to be wanted. Understanding why this is and what it means helps us understand ourselves.

As AI's evolving landscape is navigated, it is essential to strike a balance that honors the rich heritage of sculpture while embracing the transformative potential of AI.