mental health

How to Care for Your Mental Health if You Have Colon Cancer

How to Care for Your Mental Health if You Have Colon Cancer

Many colorectal cancer survivors deal with mental health challenges, but the disease doesn’t have to define you

Cómo cuidar tu salud mental si tienes cáncer de colon

Cómo cuidar tu salud mental si tienes cáncer de colon

Muchos sobrevivientes de cáncer colorrectal enfrentan dificultades de la salud mental, pero la enfermedad no tiene que definirte

What Is Art Therapy and How Can It Help Women?

What Is Art Therapy and How Can It Help Women?

You don't have to be Georgia O'Keefe to benefit from the practice of creativity and self-expression

Sam Norpel

Long Covid Ended My Time as a C-Suite Executive, but I’m Not Giving Up on Life

Thanks to long Covid, I now endure severe symptoms that prevent me from doing even the simplest things

Self-Care on a Budget: 5 Affordable Self-Care Ideas

Self-Care on a Budget

Self-care doesn’t have to be expensive. Here are 5 affordable ways to practice self-care without breaking the bank.

Susan Gayhart, 2022 (Photo/Geoffrey Gayhart)

Ketamine Therapy Gave Me the Joy I Never Had with Treatment-Resistant Depression

I finally know what it feels like to be happy — an emotion I’d only ever heard about before

Allison Norlian

I Powered Through Anxiety and Climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro

While filming a documentary about mental health and disability, I eventually conquered my own anxieties. It took every tool in my arsenal.

Living with Anxiety Helped Me Realize I Need to Rebuild My Life

I’m Grateful for the Anxiety That Left Me Gasping for Air

My anxiety helped me realize I needed to reconnect with myself

I Lived with Seasonal Affective Disorder

For Years, I Lived with Seasonal Affective Disorder, Thinking It Was Just the Winter Blues

There’s no cure for SAD, but I’ve learned ways to keep it under control

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How to Get Through the Holidays When Dealing with Grief

Grief can turn the holidays into a difficult time of year, but there are ways to get through it

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Long Covid Changed Her Life Forever

Marjorie Roberts was one of the nation’s earliest Covid patients. She’s still dealing with the aftermath today.

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Covid Family Caregivers Need Our Support

Helping those who help others during Covid

La Covid-19 Persistente

La Covid-19 persistente cambió su vida para siempre

Marjorie Roberts fue una de las primeras pacientes con Covid-19 a nivel nacional. Todavía está lidiando con las consecuencias.

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The Life-Changing Hope of New Treatments for Clinical Depression

For thousands who find no relief in traditional antidepressants, new treatments may bring light to the darkness of depression

Shot Of Thoughtful Mature Woman Looking Out Of Window

Is It Just Sadness or Is It Clinical Depression?

Should you just deal with sad feelings on your own, or ask for help?

September is National Suicide Prevention Month.

What Dr. Virginia Lindahl Wants You to Know About Suicide

Educating yourself about suicide risks and prevention could help you save someone's life

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Put Yourself on the A-List This Summer

Between juggling summer camps, planning vacations and chauffeuring non-stop, moms may have fallen off their own priority lists this summer. Let’s fix that.

Kim Booker doing a yoga pose outside with green grass and trees.

My Journey With Fillers Began When I was 18. By My 20s, My Face Was Permanently Scarred From Cosmetic Procedures.

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) isn’t vanity. It’s self-torture, and it’s socially condoned.

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Someone Who Likes You: The Importance of Girlfriends for Mental Health

Finding and sustaining female friendship is good for your health

Advanced Breast Cancer Support Group Finder

Advanced Breast Cancer Support Group Finder

These support groups and resources can help connect people affected by advanced breast cancer

Red apple looking in the mirror and seeing itself as a pear

What Is Body Dysmorphia (BDD)?

If you’re obsessively thinking about and trying to correct a part of your body, you may have body dysmorphic disorder

Angel Yau

Getting Help for Your Mental Health Is Not a Weakness, but Try Telling My Asian Parents That

As Chinese immigrants, my parents taught me their cultural values of hard work and overcoming challenges through helping yourself — but when the challenge is mental health, that approach doesn’t work.

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When Stigma Kills

Attitudes about mental health in the Black community are changing, but there’s still stigma surrounding mental health diagnoses