Fearing death is useless. It doesn't help and makes you feel worse. Fear of death comes from irrational thinking. Emotions don't come...

Many patients don’t want to take mood-stabilizing medications. What can be done? People with bipolar disorder often refuse medications...

Here's how perceived financial constraints can ruin happiness. Making a purchase should give someone pleasure. However, feeling...

Emotions like anxiety can manifest as unexplained symptoms in children. School-related anxiety accounts for a large percentage of...

Personal Perspective: Living with a serious medical diagnosis challenges our identity. Cancer rates are increasing among young adults....

When co-parenting fails, parallel parenting can guide you to success. Co-parenting requires significant effort and collaboration. Instead...

We might think grief is all the same. But there are many kinds. There are numerous types of grief other than common or "normal" grief....

Finding gratitude for your grit, gifts, and ability to overcome. Complex PTSD, or relational trauma, can be tied to generational legacies...

A conference at UCLA dispels the myths about Generation Z and mental illness. Community and social supports are critical components of...

Can you have too much of an admirable quality? As working hard is perceived as a virtue, overworking can be a difficult habit to break....

In my clinical experience, these fears have roots in childhood and adolescence. Because of the strong mothering pressure that some men...

Hoarding research has uncovered a genetic link and high heritability rates. Hoarding is often mocked, stigmatized, and used as...

Introverts: Speak Up (From Inside Out) It can help to anticipate the most likely questions and objections that could come up at a...

Understanding complexities to help move towards possible realities. Whenever two people are raising a child together, co-parenting or...

The hidden ways that your emotions influence what you do with your money. Emotions impact financial decisions often more than logic and...

Understanding and coping with toxic behavior. Dealing with a narcissist can be emotionally draining and frustrating and can negatively...

You can have meaningful purposes even if the universe does not. Arguments that the whole universe has a purpose are weak. Some people...

Personal Perspective: And three reasons why I quit. Drinking blocks any ability to healthfully analyze destructive behaviors. I didn't...

Exploring the phenomenon of posting self-harm-related content online. Self-harm-related content is prevalent on social media and...

Panic attacks can be terrifying, but very treatable, if you know how. Resisting a panic attack makes it worse. Focus on slow, mindful...