Social media companies like Facebook and Twitter are trying to step in, but the misinformation permeates — In 2017, a family member of mine was diagnosed with colon cancer. The sad announcement was sent via email, after which my (enormous) extended family sent a flurry of follow-ups. …

The wellness case for learning new skills — In the summer of 2016 I was very unhappy. I was coming up on my year anniversary of living in London, where we had moved from Brooklyn for my husband’s job, but I still felt pitifully lonely and poorly adjusted to the culture. I reentered therapy, tried to socialize often…

Unconventional therapies promising rapid relief — like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing — are becoming more popular. Whether they work is up for debate. — Traci Powell experienced a personal epiphany while watching the Disney movie Frozen. A nurse practitioner from Florida, Powell had long struggled to keep memories of her childhood abuse at bay. As a way to cope, she organized her life so that she never had to develop intimate relationships: She conceived…

There’s a fine line between educational vlogging and fearmongering. I went down the rabbit hole. — A video opens with a young boy, maybe five years old, waving to the camera and chatting animatedly. His words are obscured by a soundtrack and his mother Andrea’s voice: “This was the first sign of autism that I noticed in my son at six and a half months,” says…