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Mental Health
A Memoir of Three Years in a Mental Hospital In her new book Committed , Suzanne Scanlon writes about being institutionalized in her youth and how she eventually got out.
The Complete History of Ezra Miller’s Controversial Career From kidnapping allegations to an apparently recasted role in Invincible.
Gisele Says Changing Her Diet Cured Her Depression Who needs therapy when you can just cut out sugar?
When Did Everyone Get So ‘Dysregulated’? How managing our mental health became a matter of monitoring our nervous systems.
Regina King Is ‘a Different Person’ After Her Son’s Death The actress opened up about her grief for the first time since son Ian Alexander Jr. died by suicide in 2022.
A Beginner’s Guide to Sex Therapy What to expect in these intimate sessions.
Lucy Prebble’s Messy Women The playwright on Succession fan theories, her characters’ possible mental-health diagnoses, and if we’ll ever get another season of I Hate Suzie .
This Woman Wants You to Freeze A professional ice-bath coach says plunging into 50-degree water could change your life.
Maybe Your Teen Doesn’t Need a Mental-Health Day Letting kids stay home from school can be really bad for them, actually.
Maya Kowalski’s $211 Million Verdict A Florida jury found Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg liable on all counts, including contributing to her mother’s suicide.
By Dyan Neary
What Happened to Maya Kowalski When a 10-year-old girl complained of mysterious pain, a doctor suspected child abuse. How far would she go to prove it?
By Dyan Neary
Childhood Independence Is a Mental-Health Issue What if we are inadvertently contributing to a decadeslong crisis?
By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
At Least There Isn’t Crowdwork With a Book Gary Gulman, Maria Bamford, and Aparna Nancherla on writing for the page versus the stage.
By Jesse David Fox
day of reckoning
Aug. 31, 2023
Reality Stars Accuse Bravo of ‘Depraved Mistreatment’ “Right now, during this strike, they’re going to be the ones that everybody goes to for cheap labor,” Bethenny Frankel says.
By Rebecca Alter
mental health
Aug. 21, 2023
A Treatment Program Kept Binzai From Killing Himself, But Now It’s in Peril A staff and funding shortage threatens the future of a mental-health lifeline for Chinese immigrants.
By Rong Xiaoqing
Sad Girls Club Founder Elyse Fox Can’t Afford to Get Overwhelmed “If we’re stressed out as a mental-health organization helping other people, then it’s counterproductive.”
By Brittney Oliver
social studies
July 31, 2023
How Trauma Became America’s Favorite Diagnosis Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives.
By Danielle Carr
Making Friends Low-Key Changed glaive’s Life — and Music “There’s a lot less time to sit there and be like, Holy fuck, life is awful. ”
By Justin Curto
mental health
June 27, 2023
Lewis Capaldi Cancels Tour Due to ‘Impact’ of Tourette’s Syndrome “It became obvious that I need to spend much more time on getting my mental and physical health in order.”
By Alejandra Gularte
glastonbury 2023
June 25, 2023
Glastonbury Crowd Helps Lewis Capaldi Finish Song The singer has been open about his Tourette’s syndrome diagnosis.
By Charu Sinha
All the TV I Watched When I Was Chronically Depressed When I wasn’t watching TV, I could hear my brain, and my brain was the worst podcast in the world.
By Emily Gould
girl interrupted
May 23, 2023
Susanna Kaysen Reflects on Girl, Interrupted Turning 30 “There was a way in which, for some people, the hospital could be a refuge or a haven, and I don’t think that’s true anymore.”
By Bindu Bansinath
Tom Holland Says He’s Been Sober for Over a Year He says working on The Crowded Room helped him learn to recognize his triggers.
By Tariro Mzezewa
just asking questions
May 8, 2023
The Grim New Consensus on Social Media and Teen Depression Psychologist Jean Twenge discusses all the evidence that Instagram and TikTok are making kids miserable.
By Benjamin Hart
first person
Apr. 24, 2023
My Night in an Emergency Psych Ward An involuntary check-in led to a voluntary life change.
By Samantha Mann
and how do you feel about that?
Apr. 14, 2023
Manhattan Is Awash in Empty Therapist Offices Post-pandemic, Realtors are finding them next to impossible to fill.
By Adriane Quinlan
first person
Apr. 13, 2023
Could I Still Be Ambitious Without My OCD? I quieted my anxious thoughts by working hard. That only made my disorder worse.
By Rainesford Stauffer
mental health
Mar. 27, 2023
4 Explanations for the Teen Mental-Health Crisis The possible culprits include social media’s pernicious influence on adolescence, rising academic pressure, and helicopter parenting.
Narcissist and Proud Rebranding a personality defect as a “positive illusion.”
By Hanna Rosin
first person
Feb. 9, 2023
It Wasn’t Just a Breakup How the catastrophic end of my relationship led to a diagnosis that changed my life.
By Camonghne Felix
mental health
Jan. 19, 2023
Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman ‘Stepping Away’ Ahead of New Album “My mental health has rapidly deteriorated over the past several years,” the founding guitarist wrote.
By Justin Curto
mental health
Nov. 3, 2022
Selena Gomez Opens Up About Living With Bipolar Disorder The singer reveals her experience with psychosis and details her diagnosis in her new documentary, My Mind and Me .
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
sober questioning
Oct. 26, 2022
The Voice in My Head Doesn’t Want Me to Get Sober So I learned to shut him — of course it’s a him — up.
By Ana Marie Cox
Has the Surgeon General Been on ‘Quiet Quitting’ TikTok? Dr. Vivek Murthy says toxic workplaces are harmful for mental and physical health.
By Danielle Cohen
Kanye West Can Be Bipolar and Accountable for His Antisemitism The case for holding someone accountable for harmful actions does not rest on whether they had full agency over their behavior.
By Eric Levitz
Meghan Markle Recalls Asking for Help During Her ‘Worst Point’ She encouraged fans to be “honest about what it is that you need” in the newest episode of her Archetypes podcast.
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
science of us
Oct. 11, 2022
Why Are Kids So Sad? As American youths suffer from a mental-health crisis, the media asks the wrong questions.
By Malcolm Harris
trailer mix
Oct. 10, 2022
By Justin Curto
mental health
Sept. 26, 2022
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
too many reps
Sept. 7, 2022
By Rebecca Alter
Amy Schumer’s Mental-Health Parody Did Not Go Over Well She has since clarified that she did not intend to mock Tom Holland.
By Danielle Cohen
mental health
Aug. 17, 2022
Jonah Hill Takes a Break From Press Tours Due to Anxiety He directed and starred in an upcoming documentary, Stutz .
By Alejandra Gularte
Ezra Miller Is Being Treated for ‘Complex Mental Health Issues’ “I want to apologize to everyone that I have alarmed and upset with my past behavior,” The Flash star said in a new statement.
By Jennifer Zhan
The Comedy Mask A comedian’s suicide sets in motion a recognizable pattern of events and painful attempts to understand fellow performers’ despair.
By John Roy
cancellations
July 27, 2022
Shawn Mendes Cancels Wonder World Tour for His Mental Health “I need to take the time I’ve never taken personally, to ground myself and come back stronger.”
By Justin Curto
mental health
July 14, 2022
Constance Wu Felt Like She Didn’t ‘Deserve to Live’ After Social-Media Backlash She returned to Twitter three years after she “ignited outrage and internet shaming that got pretty severe.”
By Rebecca Alter
mental health
July 14, 2022
Constance Wu Opens Up About Attempting Suicide The actress says she wrote a book she hopes will help people “talk about the uncomfortable stuff.”
By Bindu Bansinath
the return to the office
July 13, 2022
By Choire Sicha
mental health
June 27, 2022
Machine Gun Kelly Got Sober for Megan Fox and His Daughter “I was like, ‘I need to kick the drugs for real this time,’” he says in his new documentary.
By Alejandra Gularte
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