After a decades-long struggle with depression about which she has opened up in the past, singer Michelle Williams has checked into a mental health facility outside Los Angeles, CA, to seek help from what she describes as a “great team of healthcare professionals.”
“I feel like my whole life is a question,” I declared dramatically to a group of strangers one night in early June, as I balanced awkwardly on a fat millennial pink pillow. Around me was a group of mostly women who’d paid $108 to participate in a “medicine reading ceremony” in SoHo, a neighborhood I don’t typically…
In April of this year, Demi Lovato gave a touching speech about mental health at her Brooklyn concert. On stage, she talked about her struggles and told the crowd she had happily entered her sixth year of sobriety at age 25. Her new song “Sober,” however, alludes to a recent relapse.
Kate Spade New York has announced that the company, co-founded by the late designer Kate Spade, will donate $1 million to organizations that support suicide prevention and mental health awareness.
Kate Spade’s death by suicide at 55 is as shocking as any sudden celebrity death—the designer, mother, and fashion industry innovator is gone abruptly, unexpectedly, and entirely too soon. But the context and circumstances underscore its tragedy: For over two decades, the fashion designer’s commercial and personal…
Gather ‘round, lambs, for a brief update about our mother and leader, Mariah Carey, who revealed that she’s been living with bipolar disorder II for over a decade.
The American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed new guidelines on Monday calling for universal screening for depression in teenagers.
As Republicans fail to offer more than thoughts and prayers to those affected by the most recent mass shooting, Donald Trump blames the massacre in Parkland, Florida not on guns, white supremacy, or a history of violence, but on mental illness:
This coming January, our favorite vaginal egg hawker Goop will hold its second “In Goop Health” summit in New York City, where for the reasonable price of $650 for a “Turmeric” level ticket and $2,000 for “Ginger” (sadly, already sold out), you’ll be treated to “cutting-edge panels of health-defining doctors and…
Vivek H. Murthy served as the Surgeon General from 2014-2017, so you can probably consider him a health expert. He’s got an important message for us about our brains and bodies: if you sometimes feel like loneliness is killing you slowly, that’s because it is.
“When you tore the Pope’s picture up on Saturday Night Live!, whose picture were you tearing up?” Dr. Phil asked Sinead O’Connor on Tuesday’s episode of his show. The answer might surprise you!
This week in empathy: hairdresser Kayley Olsson of the Iowa cosmetology school Capri Waterloo shared a story on Facebook of a 16-year-old girl who, she wrote, was too depressed to brush her hair. When asked to cut it all off in order to spare her the pain of preparing for school picture day, Olsson wrote that she…
“Her case is cyclothymia, dating from the age of seven and a half. She is about thirty-three, speaks French fluently,” James Joyce wrote in a 1936 letter concerning his daughter, Lucia Joyce. “Her character is gay, sweet and ironic, but has had bursts of anger over nothing when she has been confined to a…
On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety starts with the worst: our protagonist is 20 years old, and she thinks she is dying. For those who have had a panic attack, the feeling will be a familiar one—a racing heart, blurry vision, various symptoms that often cannot be explained by the circumstances. And like author Andrea…
Today I received a text from my best friend, who had just received the latest print issue of Psychology Today. She was put off by the cover image—it promotes an article on toxic behavior—and wanted a second opinion. So without further ado, here it is: wow, Psychology Today, this photograph is repugnantly sexist! So…
On Saturday, passengers boarded United flight 455 in Austin, Texas and, as is custom, seated themselves and awaited departure to San Francisco, California. But banal events took a turn for the unsettling: a pilot in plainclothes appeared, took hold of an intercom, and delivered a troubling rant.
Here’s how I am going to achieve calm: I am going to think about Ladies of London star Sophie Stanbury’s incredible, lustrous hair. It gives me great personal joy, and I will not apologize.
“I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by own bra,” wrote Carrie Fisher in her 2008 memoir, Wishful Drinking, in what is truly the most apposite, preemptive obit of the modern era—one resonating far louder this week with the news of her death at…
The year 2016 has been an ice cream sundae of realized horrors, topped off by a human that actually looks like a cherry if that cherry was radioactive and run over by a convertible. A lot of fears that used to feel outlandish suddenly seem pretty plausible: apocalyptic climate change, nuclear war, fascism, close-up…
The newest and largest U.S. study to date, following nearly 1,000 women over five years, shows that abortion doesn’t cause short- or long-term psychological issues. Not that politicians use facts or science when passing abortion laws anyway, but should they decide to start, this is good news.
