Staggering Increase in Mental Health Issues among Young Adults

Some experts claim that the idea that there’s an epidemic in anxiety or depression among youth “is simply a myth." But a new analysis ...

Depression Is Often the Fast Lane to Self-Destruction

The suicides that happen daily rarely make national news. But when a celebrity commits suicide, it's international news. It hits the headlines because, ...

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of ...

Can Artificial Intelligence Provide Intimacy?

MIT professor Dr. Sherry Turkle tells the following story:

Years ago I spoke with a 16-year-old girl who was considering the idea of having a computer ...

Loneliness Is an Epidemic with Physical Impact

Researchers created a banal scenario: a group of people would play a frivolous game of catch, tossing the ball to one another to pass the time, trying ...

US Surgeon General Says Loneliness Is Health Care Crisis

From 2014 to 2017 Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy served as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States. From this vantage point he identified one of the ...

Study Shows Americans are Increasingly Unhappy

Even with the economy humming, Americans are feeling more anxious, depressed, and dissatisfied with their lives than they did in 2009. Polarization is ...

Researchers Identify 412 Emotions

In his book Whisper, Mark Batterson writes that Robert Plutchik, professor emeritus at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has identified eight basic ...

A Rising Plague of Melancholy

New research reveals that depression is now the most common serious medical or mental health disorder in the United States. According to the World Health ...

Poet Langston Hughes on Broken Dreams

In the 1920s a young African American writer moved into New York City to join what became known as the Harlem Renaissance, an explosion of creativity ...