Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist (2024)

Contradictory communications often expressed by borderline individuals may result in the very outcomes they are trying to avoid. This is the self-defeating "double bind" pattern.

Using negative labels can harm your relationship with your child. Better alternatives exist!

Personal Perspective: Bridging the gap between higher education, the general public, and funding.

In addition to the effects of exercise on adrenal gland functioning, research indicates that exercise has the power to reduce PTSD symptoms by rewiring the brain.

Misophonia research has taken a big step forward over the past year.

Positive and negative childhood experiences can shape an adult's life; examining these early experiences is crucial to overall well-being.

Do you know that gratitude can help you cope during troubled times? These three small gratitude practices can make a major difference in your life.

People-pleasers want to be adored by others, but do so at a great price. Their actions most often don't lead to love but to something else.

Non-traditional diets are more common but can still be a communication challenge.

Explore proven strategies to empower teens to manage their screen time, foster balance, and enhance overall well-being. Take on this challenge with your teen.

You may do the walking in your relationship, but your pheromones do the talking.

Personal Perspective: Here's how one woman took action when met with depression.

Explore the five key elements of holistic health, and enhance your diet, movement, stress management, sleep quality, and mind-body connection for a vibrant and fulfilling life.

The medieval sin of acedia or sloth, like the contemporary symptom of avolition, is typically seen as bad. But this is not always necessarily so.

Did one or more of your teachers help shape the person you became?

Children are naturally creative; however, as we grow up, we become less so. We can regain those creative instincts when we practice small creative acts every day.

This article explores how mental health is addressed and prioritized for today’s youth and calls for a rethink of how schools address the issue of mental health on their campuses

These research-supported tips can help to improve your sex life whether or not you have a partner.

To support survivors of intimate partner violence, we must confront the norms and attitudes that enable abusers.

Recent federal reports outline how identifying service gaps and improving access to services can promote change and improve the well-being of the autism community.

Is doubt always a bad thing?

AI ignites educators' passion, driving a transformative trend in education.

When you understand your reactions to others' commands, you are in a better place to decide how you'll respond.

Would you like to reduce interrupting, improve your conversational skills, and feel more confident socially? You can participate in conversations with ADHD-friendly strategies.

As today's graduates step into a world of unprecedented advancements, recruiters from destructive groups are waiting to lure the best and the brightest of them.

Using your phone when you are with your children may disrupt your ability to relate to them as well as make them feel uninteresting to you.

21st-century culture has changed how children engage with the world, both positively and negatively. Becoming aware of these changes equips adults to foster child development.

Personal Perspective: Critiques of therapy often validate the perceptions of therapists with insider knowledge, which can motivate them to pursue productive change.

It takes two to tango, entangle, and sustain-go. Mutual balanced limitations sustain marriages, arguments, wars, and governments.