Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
You cancel plans with a friend because you’re exhausted, then spend the next three hours feeling guilty about it. You say yes to covering a...
Read Article →She’d been through two rounds of cancer treatment, the second harder than the first. When a hospital chaplain visited and asked how she was coping,...
Read Article →In 1984, a researcher named Roger Ulrich published a study in Science that examined recovery rates of surgery patients at a Pennsylvania hospital. Some patients...
Read Article →A woman who’d been in treatment for depression for two years started drawing again, something she’d done as a child and abandoned in her twenties....
Read Article →The patient hadn’t left her apartment in nine days. Depression does that: it saps the energy required to do the things that would help, which...
Read Article →Matthew Walker, who directs the Center for Human Sleep Science at UC Berkeley, opens his 2017 book “Why We Sleep” with an uncomfortable claim: there...
Read Article →The Harvard Study of Adult Development has been running since 1938. Researchers tracked 724 men over the span of their lives, following their health, relationships,...
Read Article →You’ve gotten through the hard part. The crisis has passed, the worst of the depression lifted, the anxiety is manageable now. Your therapist calls it...
Read Article →At some point, the story became the truth. Not consciously , you didn’t decide “I am an anxious person” or “I am someone who can’t...
Read Article →You’ve done plenty of work on yourself. You understand where your patterns come from. You can articulate, with real clarity, how your childhood experiences shaped...
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