Emotional & Stress Management Articles

Finding a new normal, and being OK with yourself, after rape is possible. When looking for resources on healing from sexual assault, however, your best resources may not be where you would expect them to be.

Is stress making your life miserable? It's time to re-evaluate your life. These healthy coping mechanisms can help.

As her rapist was sentenced to prison decades after victimizing her, this author reflects on how he impacted her life. Trigger warnings galore.

The cyst-popping video I stumbled on one night turns out to have more than 22 million views. Why are we so drawn to these disgusting things?

What makes someone an optimist or a pessimist, and can you successfully develop a more optimistic life outlook?

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.

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?