mental health

How to Stop Worrying and Overthinking

How to Stop Worrying and Overthinking

By Farah Aqel Overthinkers are people who are buried in their own obsessive thoughts. Imagine being in a large maze where each turn leads into an even deeper and knottier tangle of catastrophic, distressing events — that is what it feels like to them when they think about the issues that confront them. Everyone overthinks […]

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    Working From Home? Why Detachment Is Crucial for Mental Health

    Working From Home? Why Detachment Is Crucial for Mental Health

    By Wladislaw Rivkin As an academic who regularly worked from home in the days before coronavirus, my friends often joked about what they imagined my daily routine might be (such as enjoying a morning gin and not changing out of my pajamas). But as many people now realize, the reality is quite different. Working from […]

    Can’t Go Outside? Viewing Nature on a Screen Can Improve Your Mood

    Can’t Go Outside? Viewing Nature on a Screen Can Improve Your Mood

    By Cris Brack and Aini Jasmin Ghazalli Are you feeling anxious or irritated during the coronavirus lockdown? Do you constantly want to get up and move? Maybe you need a moment to engage with nature. Getting into the great outdoors is difficult at right now. But our research soon to be published in Australian Forestry […]

    Rising Temperatures May Cause 2,100 Annual U.S. Deaths, Research Predicts

    Rising Temperatures May Cause 2,100 Annual U.S. Deaths, Research Predicts

    An additional 2,100 deaths from fatal injuries may occur in the U.S. every year from a 2 C rise in temperatures, which could have grave implications for global changes associated with the climate crisis. Under the Paris agreement, international leaders have agreed to limit global temperature increases to well below 2 C above pre-industrial levels […]

    CDC: Suicide Rate Among U.S. Workers Increasing

    CDC: Suicide Rate Among U.S. Workers Increasing

    From 2000 to 2016, the suicide rate among American workers has increased 34 percent, up 12.9 per 100,000 working persons to 17.3, according to a worrisome new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Workers with the highest suicide rates have construction, mining and drilling jobs, the U.S. health officials reported Thursday. […]

    Depression and the Healing Desert

    Depression and the Healing Desert

    By Jana Richman In a dark time, the eye begins to see. Theodore Roethke It slips in quietly. A hint of terseness marks his voice, an opaque film covers his blue eyes, his face flushes and its lines deepen. His 6’4″ frame droops toward the floor as if he’s ashamed to drape his sorry self […]

    Lawyer Burns Himself to Death to Protest Environmental Destruction

    Lawyer Burns Himself to Death to Protest Environmental Destruction

    A nationally known civil rights lawyer and environmental advocate died after setting himself on fire in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Saturday to protest environmental destruction. David Buckel, 60, doused himself with an accelerant before starting a fire that ultimately killed him. “I apologize to you for the mess,” he wrote in a suicide note he […]