“Are You Afraid of Happiness [Quiz]”

“Not everyone experiences happiness as a good thing. Some people feel a sense of anxiety or fear when fortune favors them, and that reticence can lead people to suppress positive emotions to an unhealthy degree.”

“16 Habits Of Highly Sensitive People”

“Depending on the culture, sensitivity can be perceived as an asset or a negative trait, Zeff explains. In some of his own research, Zeff says that highly sensitive men he interviewed from other countries — such as Thailand and India — were rarely or never…

“Gifts For Your Crushing Seasonal Depression”

“With the obvious caveat here that I am not making an expensive fake sun-lamp (“making light”) out of the type of mental imbalance that cannot be “gifted” anything but therapy, prescription medication, and a significantly easier life to contain it —…

“Why Smiling Too Much May Be Bad for You”

“The researchers found that smiling frequently may actually make people feel worse if they’re sort of faking it — grinning even though they feel down. When people force themselves to smile because they hope to feel better or they do it just to hide their…

“How Colleges Flunk Mental Health”

“Despite that very clearly stated law, dozens of current or recent students at colleges and universities across the country — large and small, private and public — told Newsweek they were punished for seeking help: kicked out of campus housing with nowhere else to go, abruptly forced to…

“There is a culture of acceptance around mental health issues in academia”

“I see students forcibly removed from our sessions by their supervisors. I see leading academics decline to advertise our services, for fear that people will use them. I see students who feel like it is…

“New Dartmouth smartphone app reveals users’ mental health, performance, behavior”

“The researchers built an Android app that monitored readings from smartphone sensors carried by 48 Dartmouth students during a 10-week term to assess their mental health (depression…

“Why ranting online doesn’t help manage anger”

“”When some people rant, it opens up a Pandora’s box,” said John Suler, a psychology professor at Rider University, who studies human behavior online. He said there is no way to predict whether ranting will even have the temporary emotional relief that ranters say they seek…

“How the depressed brain changes after psychotherapy”

“A significant interaction was found between the personally relevant statements and goodness of therapy hours in posterior cingulate/precuneal region, indicating increased activation when looking at personally relevant images during…

“Why Novel Reading Reduces Anxiety”

“A recent study at Emory University has shown that novel reading enhances connectivity in the brain as well as improving brain function. Published in the university’s eScienceCommons blog on December 17, 2013 by Carol Clark, the lead author of the study and…