The Man Who Took In His Dying 89-Year-Old Neighbour, Norma Cook
Originally published 2022-09-26. In the last months of her life, a 31-year-old actor in West Hollywood, Chris Salvatore, invited his 89-y...
Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing
Mental health deserves the same care in conversation as physical health. Explore stories about emotional wellbeing, people's experiences and the search for support. An article can open a useful discussion, but it cannot diagnose a reader or replace care tailored to their situation.
Nine Signs You May Be an Overthinker, and How to Ease It
Originally published 2022-07-05. In July 2022, Dr Lalitaa Suglani, a chartered psychologist based in Birmingham, England, shared a list on ...
Personalised Brain Implant Eases One Woman’s Severe Depression
Originally published 2021-10-08. In October 2021, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) reported that a small ...
Does Spanking Affect Children's Brains? What a Harvard Study Found
Originally published 2021-04-19. Does spanking affect a child's brain? A 2021 study from Harvard University suggests it may. Researche...
Robin Williams's 1990 Senate Testimony on Preventing Homelessness
Originally published 2021-04-18. In 1990 Robin Williams sat before a US Senate panel and argued that homelessness could be prevented, not...
Lady Gaga Tells Oprah She Developed PTSD After Being Raped at 19
Originally published 2021-02-18. Lady Gaga told Oprah Winfrey that she was sexually assaulted repeatedly from the age of 19 and that the t...
Yuri Tolochko and Margo: The Bodybuilder Who Married a Doll
Originally published 2021-02-15. Yuri Tolochko is a bodybuilder from Kazakhstan who became a fixture of tabloid news after holding a weddi...
COVID-19 and the Brain: Oxford Study of 236,379 Patients
Originally published 2021-02-01. A large University of Oxford study found that about one in three people who had COVID-19 (34%) received a...
Why a UK Judge Blocked Julian Assange's Extradition in 2021
Originally published 2021-01-07. On 4 January 2021 a London judge refused the United States' request to extradite WikiLeaks founder ...
Betrayal Can Change You Forever: How to Heal and Trust Again
Betrayal does change people, but it does not have to change them for the worse. Being lied to, cheated on, used or abandoned by someone you...
Japan's October 2020 Suicides Outnumbered Its Covid Deaths
Originally published 2020-12-04. In October 2020, Japan's National Police Agency counted 2,153 suicides. At that point the country...
Quebec City Halloween Sword Attack: Victims, Trial and Retrial
Originally published 2020-11-02. On Halloween night, 31 October 2020, a man dressed in a medieval-style costume and armed with a katana-sty...
Autistic 7-Year-Old Restrained by School Officer in North Carolina
Originally published 2020-10-24. In September 2018 a school resource officer in Statesville, North Carolina, held a handcuffed 7-year-old ...
#StandWithSophie: The Viral Custody Video and What Happened Next
Originally published 2020-09-26. #StandWithSophie began in September 2020 with a video of a distressed 9-year-old Texas girl, Sophie, ref...
Stomach Aches in Children: When Anxiety May Be the Cause
Originally published 2020-09-24. Yes, a stomach ache that keeps coming back can be one way anxiety shows up in a child. Young people often...
Linden Cameron: Salt Lake City Police Shooting of an Autistic Boy
Originally published 2020-09-10. Linden Cameron was 13 when a Salt Lake City officer shot him during a mental health crisis in September 2...
10 Signs of Overthinking and What Actually Helps
Overthinking is the habit of turning the same thought over and over without getting any closer to an answer or a decision. Most people do i...
Reality Versus Social Anxiety: A Comic of Everyday Situations
Like many mental health conditions, social anxiety can change how you perceive situations, yourself and other people. In this comic, the ar...
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Cartoonist Pablo Stanley turned John Lennon’s Imagine into a webcomic in which each line of the song is paired with a drawing of people fr... -
Brad Pitt did not write the famous list of twenty marriage tips that circulates under his name. The real author is Gerald Rogers, a Brigham... -
First published January 14, 2017. Many people who describe themselves as empaths say they feel tense, tongue-tied or worn out around someo... -
"Who are you?" is the question at the heart of I Am Nature , an 81-second campaign film made for the conservation group WWF and p... -
First published March 14, 2017. Thyme cannot cure strep throat, herpes, a yeast infection or the flu. That is the honest answer to a claim ...
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Originally published 2017-12-02. "If you love her, don't destroy her" is the title of a widely shared 2017 letter by the Leb... -
If you want a home workout that needs no equipment, five moves cover almost the whole body: the plank, the squat, the bird-dog, the glute b... -
Originally published 2017-02-09. Letting go means deciding to stop carrying something that drains you: an expectation, a grudge, a habit o... -
Originally published 2020-04-27. "Weightless" is an eight-minute ambient track by the Manchester band Marconi Union , written wi... -
In early 2018 a young Thai woman named Atittaya Chumkeaw drew attention online for something simple: she kept posting happy photos with her...