Mental Health

Mental Health

Book cover for "The Healing Power of Resilience" by Tara Narula, MD, featuring a flower entwined with an EKG line, symbolizing the healing power of resilience, on a beige background with a red border.
Tara Narula shares how journalist Richard Cohen challenged conventional ideas about illness, identity, and strength while living with MS.
Book cover of "Invisible Illness" by Emily Mendenhall, depicting a person holding a mirror with the title reflected, set against a cloudy sky—capturing the hidden struggles of living with an invisible illness.
Emily Mendenhall traces the medical myths, gender bias, and neurological truths behind hysteria, one of history’s most damaging diagnoses.
Book cover with a cream background and red border titled "The Power of Guilt" by Chris Moore, PhD, exploring the power of guilt—why we feel it and its surprising ability to heal.
Psychologist Chris Moore reveals why guilt and anxiety lead us to the compassion necessary to earn forgiveness.
A woman in a blue outfit and red heels sits on a chair in a studio with a white backdrop, flanked by stylized images of a person's face looking at a phone.
1 min
"Social media is the perfect recipe for kids to become addicted to their smartphones."
Silhouettes of two people seated and facing each other with a large smartphone between them, displaying multiple thumbs-up icons amid a swirl of digital psychobabble.
Joe Nucci, author of "Psychobabble," joins us to discuss how the misuse of psychological language risks blurring the lines between everyday problems and clinical diagnoses.
A man in a suit sits on a chair in front of a white door, surrounded by a vibrant, abstract swirl of red, pink, blue, yellow, and green colors.
2 min
“Psychedelics crosscut so many interesting domains. They've been used for time immemorial by indigenous cultures. In our own Western cultural history, they really exploded on the scene in the 1960s, and were associated with radical changes to society.”
A green book cover with blue text, inspired by Goldie Chan's vibrant style.
Introverts have social batteries that will drain over time, but they can be recharged with good energy hygiene. Here’s how.
Book cover of "Playful" by Cas Holman with Lydia Denworth, featuring colorful letters and googly eyes on the "u" and "l." Subtitles discuss creativity, connection, play, and insights from play research.
In this excerpt from "Playful," Cas Holman surveys the research that brought the neuroscience of play into the mainstream.
Book cover for "The Art of Spending Money" by Morgan Housel, featuring an origami bird made from money and a quote from Steven Bartlett at the top, exploring how to be miserable spending money unwisely.
In this excerpt from "The Art of Spending Money," Morgan Housel lays out the spending and financial habits guaranteed to end in regret.
A person with curly brown hair wearing a black shirt and gray t-shirt sits against a plain white background, gesturing with both hands raised near their chest.
11 min
“The way my mind works is just out of anxiety and catastrophization.”
A split image showing the left half of a frog and the right half of a chemical structure on a green and white textured background.
5-MeO-DMT may offer a practical way to access and study consciousness in its most basic form.
Alex Partridge, a man with short hair and light facial hair, poses for a portrait. The background features abstract geometric and textured patterns in green, black, white, and blue.
The UNILAD founder followed a rocky road to success — and his 2023 ADHD diagnosis proved revelatory.
Book cover of "The Gift of Not Belonging" by Rami Kaminski, featuring one blue chameleon—an Otrovert—on a branch above five green chameleons on a branch below.
In "The Gift of Not Belonging," Rami Kaminski explains why group consensus may hinder the original thinkers who help advance society.
An image of a sunset through a window.
How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.
John Templeton Foundation
youth
Today’s young people are intelligent and kind, but they are overworked and burned out.
John Templeton Foundation
Pain makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. What's puzzling is why so many of us choose to seek out painful experiences.
John Templeton Foundation