Loneliness has recently been called an epidemic in the US — and for good reason. Researchers from Deep Longevity, Stanford University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong studied the impact of loneliness, restlessness and unhappiness on the aging body. Their findings suggested that these negative emotional predicaments may have a greater effect on health … Read more
Eating green and feeling blue? Vegetarians experience depressive episodes twice as frequently as meat eaters, according to a new study by Brazilian researchers published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. There’s a “positive association between the prevalence of depressive episodes and a meatless diet,” the study read. Scientists set out to investigate the potential association … Read more
Meghan Trainor claims the nurses who cared for her and her son when she gave birth implied she was to blame for the newborn’s admission into the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). “They kept asking me if I was on antidepressants during the pregnancy, and I was, but on the lowest dose possible,” the “All … Read more
Socialist and progressive city council members are looking to advance a bill that would pay drug users to return spent paraphernalia as the number of discarded needles in New York City has more than doubled over the last year. The proposed cash-for-addicts program “would authorize the [Department of Health and Mental Hygiene] to set the … Read more
New York City school kids are losing their minds over the zonked-out drug addicts and raving vagrants they encounter every day – and are flocking to therapists to find ways to cope with the stress, The Post has learned. In neighborhoods such as Hell’s Kitchen “a lot” of kids are now in therapy, according to … Read more
When mom-of-three Heather Behrends’ oldest son Jake, 15, started playing baseball, she found herself getting involved. Very involved. “I would go out to practice with him and critique what he was doing — every swing he would take,” Behrends, 43, recalled. Behrends wanted Jake to do well, and when the Denver-based founder of parenting blog … Read more
A warning about a dangerous food challenge issued by the US Food and Drug Administration has had the opposite effect — and instead spurred searches for it. Known as the “NyQuil chicken” or “sleepy chicken” challenge on TikTok and other platforms, the viral trend involves marinating chicken breasts in the cold and flu syrup and then eating the … Read more
Halsey revealed they sometimes wonder if they “chose the wrong life” after confessing they feel a “deep sadness.” “I find that often there is a deep sadness inside me that no amount of worldly pleasure can touch, a loneliness, an emptiness,” the singer — who uses she/they pronouns — wrote on their Instagram Story on … Read more
Despite displaying signs of poorer cognitive performance, older adults tend to have greater mental well-being compared to younger adults, according to a new study. A study published this month in Psychology and Aging by researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine indicates that adults over 60 showed greater mental well-being but worse cognitive performance … Read more
Depression among Americans is escalating and more education about treatment is vital, according to a recent study. Nearly one in 10 people over the age of 12 — and one in five among those between the ages of 12 and 25 — were affected by depression in 2020, findings published in the American Journal of … Read more
Suzie* was a typical 22-year-old recent college grad from the Midwest who was admitted into my mental health clinic in Austin with a variety of increasingly common psychiatric disorders: depression, self-harm (cutting her arms) and a Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) diagnosis. BPD is a serious personality disorder that has 50 times the suicide rate of … Read more
Botox isn’t without its risks — on mental health, too. People who wish to undergo cosmetic treatments such as Botox should have their mental health assessed beforehand, an expert has advised. The accessibility and low cost of cosmetic injections is feeding into body-image issues — and is part of the reasoning behind the call for … Read more