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mental health
Serious Brain Trauma Starts Well Before Young Athletes Go Pro
McKee, who is also the director of neuropathology for Veterans Affairs Boston, began studying the brains of former NFL players 15 years ago. She couldn’t believe what she saw: big lesions in…
Please Stop Asking Chatbots for Love Advice
As he sat down across from me, my patient had a rueful expression on his face.“I had a date,” he announced. “It didn’t go well.”That wasn’t unusual for this patient. For years, he’d shared…
Trans People’s Mental Health Is Being Weaponized Against Them
A couple of years ago, it was impossible to be both transgender and mentally healthy—at least according to the International Classification of Diseases, an enormous guidebook doctors the…
Meet the Psychedelic Boom’s First Responders
That first year, Fireside trained more than 100 volunteers and conducted some 2,550 conversations with callers—including Greenberg. Within months of reaching Jasmine, he had walked away from…
Frances Haugen Says We Need a ‘Free Mark’ Movement
You believe those laws will come?Will we get the laws we need in the next two years? Very unlikely. But I think we’ll get the laws we need in the next five to 10 years.Meanwhile, Meta has…
It’s Time to Let the Noisy World Back In
I asked Zachary Rosenthal, director of Duke University’s Center for Misophonia and Emotional Regulation, for some advice on weaning myself off of noise-canceling devices. He recommended…
How to Leave a Platform When the Party’s Over
In the beginning, I hated posting. It was 2006, and I was 12 years old. Too late for AIM, too young for Facebook, and too scared of MySpace (around this time, a cop had given an in-school…
What a Therapist Wants You to Know About Remote Therapy
I felt like a thawing glacier. Still chilly, I contacted my colleague, Jo-e Sutton, a certified holistic health practioner. She surprised me with her enthusiasm. “Zoom sessions are the…
NASA’s Year-Long Mars Simulation Is a Test of Mental Mettle
With the Mars simulation, Haney suggests that NASA should watch the crew for danger signs, like symptoms of depression, heightened irritability, and moodiness, and changes in sleeping and…