People in high-risk groups are already more likely to be experiencing negative mental health effects during the pandemic. Spending the holidays isolated from family and friends may make matters worse.
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Rituals have powerful effects on our emotions, allowing us to relive the happiness of Christmases past.
As the pandemic wears on, some people struggle to keep adhering to restrictions and social distancing guidelines. There are psychological reasons for caution fatigue, and ways to overcome it.
Previous studies showing links between smartphone use and poor mental health are based on flimsy evidence.
Clear messaging about who needs to get tested is better than stigmatising people who are understandably worried about their health.
The jury’s still out on whether or not CBD relieves stress and anxiety.
The pandemic has put a spotlight on a once little-discussed disorder – hoarding. But hoarding disorder is not what you might think.
Here are four ways adults can help kids work through their worries about the environment.
As uncertainty abounds and anxiety skyrockets, you’ve probably heard advice to be patient, stay calm and keep the faith. Here are 10 concrete tips to help you actually manage the stress.
What anxiety and loss does to us – and how to live with it.
This brain region also shows how effective certain treatments will be.
Schools can impact the mental health and well-being of not just students but their parents, too.
Mexican philosophers have a word for the peculiar anxiety you may be feeling: ‘zozobra,’ a dizziness that arises from social disintegration.
Traumatic experiences (usually of shame or defeat) lead many people across the globe to cut themselves off from social contact and withdraw from society.
It’s helpful to remember you’re in an unusual situation with no perfect map of how to cope, or a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to get through it.
It’s clear that the pandemic has affected mental health. Researchers have now identified how extensively: Five stress scales with interconnecting symptoms combine to form COVID-19 stress syndrome.
Our mental health and economy are suffering from this pandemic. Parent support programs are a proven way to improve both.
How much does your virtual reality headset know about your life?
Johannesburg is not the most anxious or dangerous city in the world, but its global reputation, history and architecture make it a valuable site for thinking about how anxiety structures our lives.
Social media and changing ideas about masculinity are making more and more young men believe their body is too small, skinny or insufficiently muscular.
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Mental health researcher, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University
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Professor, NHMRC Emerging Leader & Clinical Psychologist, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Personal Chair, Swansea University
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Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
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Assistant professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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