Emotional & Mental Health Articles

Are Dutch doctors too quick to allow people to undergo euthanasia? Following the assisted suicide of a sex abuse victim under 30, UK citizens are in uproar.

Fentanyl, an opioid up to 100 times more potent than morphine, is currently flooding American streets, often with deadly consequences. What do you need to know about this "modern heroin"?

Skin picking disorder … Not very nice, but it happens more than we think apparently. Patients who suffer from excoriation tend to pick, scrap or dig into their own skin over and over, making lesions.

Could virtual reality help people with paranoid delusions overcome their symptoms? A new study offers an exciting look into the kind of mental health treatment we will be seeing a lot more of in the future.

Has an elderly loved-one of yours become aggressive, paranoid, and deluded? Causes are more varied than you may think. What are they, and how do you cope?

What ultimately makes you happy — or not? A huge new study has discovered some of the genes responsible for regulating our emotional state.

Being disabled adds a new layer of awkward to the already less-than-awesome dating experiences most people experience. How do you make it work?

Could a cat's soft fur or a dog's happy wagging tail improve our health? It could. Here we examine the many ways our pets improve our health.

You try to treat everyone with respect, regardless of differences — but could you subconsciously be hurting disabled people with ableist attitudes you didn't even know you had?

Video games get a lot of bad press. Here, we look beyond the stereotype and examine all the potential benefits of gaming.