Feeling Down? Take a Walk in the Woods
Researchers suggest walks in nature—but not in urban areas—may help ease a key component of depression.
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This Is What It’s Like When Gambling Is Your Drug
My buddy prefers gambling to every other substance or behavior, including sex, food, and sleep. He's lost count of how much he won, but it's less than what he lost. Now, in middle age, he says he's over it.
What’s Behind Post-Brain Injury Depression and Anxiety?
A study suggests damaged white matter, the brain's signal cables, may be to blame.
Why Men Kill Themselves
In every country in the world, male suicides outnumber female. Will Storr asks why.
Long Term, Bullying Might Be Worse Than Abuse and Neglect
Children bullied by their peers are upwards of 60 percent more likely to suffer mental illness as adults than kids who are abused and neglected, according to a new study.
YouTube Videos That Make You Tingle
The autonomous sensory meridian response videos are garnering a massive audience, but an explanation for their intense effects has eluded scientific inquiry.
Subsisting on the Faves
Posting teen angst poetry and being part of an active commenting community helped Christine Friar digest the garden-variety pain of growing up, and—unbeknownst to her at the time—curbed the loneliness of being raised by one sick parent and one caretaker parent.
Can We Train Teenage Girls to See Less Darkness in the World?
Girls with depressed mothers are much more likely to develop depression themselves—but there might be a solution.
On the Bright Side
An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to print and digital magazine subscribers.