Emotional & Mental Health Articles

Did you just break up? Don't turn to destructive "coping mechanisms". Here's how to honor your emotional needs, the healthy way.

Millions of people are living with a mental health disorder today. Here, we examine the most common ones and how they can be treated.

Physical exercise may be essential for keeping the brain young as we age, especially for mental tasks that require attention, problem-solving, and making decisions.

Americans, more than almost any other national group on earth, include many fanatics for gun ownership. Is their obsession with guns actually an addiction?

Think you're just being grammatically correct by ending your text messages with a period? Think again. Your message may be perceived as less sincere, a new study warns.

Aspiring American presidential candidate Donald Trump doesn't fit into neat categories, and his style of campaigning breaks all the rules. But does that mean he has a personality disorder?

Is loneliness threatening to ruin your Christmas and New Year? You aren't alone. Here's what you can do.

Platitudes can hurt people in pain as much as their illness or loss.

Seasonal affective depression, triggered by the waning daylight of autumn, is a well-known phenomenon. It turns out that bright lights, however, help depression any time of year.

Deaths from terror attacks are on the rise, but you may be surprised to hear that you are much, much more likely to be killed by a lightening strike or to lose your life to other things you're not scared of at all.