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Michael Works on His Social Anxiety in This Week's Comic from Stephen Maurice Graham
"You are the hero of your own personal Dungeons and Dragons campaign. You are powerful!"
The Growing Business of Plastic Surgery Coaches
A new crop of life coaches want to help you get nip/tucked.
Meet the Man Putting MDMA Therapy On Stage
In new play Give Me Your Love, the artistic director of an experimental theatre company is showing what the drug can do for veterans suffering PTSD.
How Shock Therapy Can Save Depressed Women's Lives
Although it's been stigmatized in pop culture, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can help treat serious depression when nothing else works. We spoke to three women who have undergone the treatment.
Doctors May Have Found a One-Step Cure for Phobias
During tests, the treatment made sufferers of arachnophobia way less scared of spiders than those given a placebo.
I Hired a Millennial Life Coach
I wanted to know why so many people in their 20s are entering the multibillion-dollar, nebulously defined life-coaching industry.
Why We Can’t Ignore the Rise of Mental Health Problems Among Students
In the past 50 years, suicide rates among young Americans have increased by 200 percent. But the issue isn't solely an American one, it can also be found i Europe.
After Years of Therapy I've Discovered a Few Tricks for Dealing with My Panic Attacks
I stayed in the psychodynamic therapy game for far too long largely because I was afraid of "breaking up" with therapists.
How Borderline Personality Disorder Put an End to My Party Days
At the time I was suffering most from the mental illness, everyone from my friends to my doctor failed to understand what was wrong with me. Here's how I got better.
How I Found the Strength to End My Relationship with an Abusive Girlfriend
It involved talking to a cushion and beating the shit out of an ironing board in a sweaty basement with a chubby guy in his underpants.
Death Doulas Help You Figure Out Your Life Before You Die
Death makes us vulnerable, incoherent and depressed. Death doulas are here to help.
Can the Long History of 'Madness' Help in Our Understanding of Mental Health Today?
We talked to sociologist Andrew Scull about his new book 'Madness in Civilisation', which traces the history of mental health disorders over 3000 years.