Mental Health

Mental health includes psychological, emotional, and social well-being. It influences how you think, feel, and behave, including how you manage stress and connect with others. Mental health is an important aspect of overall health throughout life.

The Importance of Managing Stress

Woman psychologist talking to patient
Are Your Stress Levels Too High?

Maintaining Healthy Relationships

A jealous woman spying on her boyfriend and watching him text on his mobile phone
How To Cope With Feelings of Jealousy

Explore Mental Health

man and woman winter jogging on city street
Feeling Tired This Winter? Try These 7 Effective Ways to Stay Energized All Season
A tired woman closes her eyes and puts a hand on her head
What To Know About Somniphobia (Fear of Sleep)
person in the right middle having a conversation, while three other people surround her and listen
What Are Social Cues—and How Do You Understand Them?
two people sitting in office chairs laughing while looking at an ipad
What Does It Mean to Be Neurodivergent?
Person working through defense mechanisms in therapy
Defense Mechanisms and Why We Use Them
Person drawing in an art therapy session
Could You Benefit From Art Therapy?
Person listening to someone who has delusions of grandeur talk on the couch
What To Know about Delusions of Grandeur
frustrated person lying on the floor with head on couch covering their eyes with their hands
What Is Repression—and Why Do You Do It?
doctor showing young girl a model of the human brain
What's the Difference Between Your Left Brain and Right Brain?
Person at desk with hands on face feeling an impending sense of doom
What Does It Mean To Have a Sense of Impending Doom?
two neurotypical people sitting on chairs near a large window chatting with each other
What Does Neurotypical Mean?
A young woman in an elevator blowing a kiss to herself in the mirror
The Difference Between Grandiose Narcissism and Vulnerable Narcissism
mom hugging a scared and tearful daughter in a dark room
What Does It Mean To Have Nyctophobia?
Person using self-serving bias to discuss business success in front of work team
How To Recognize the Self-Serving Bias and What To Do About It
person with mysophobia washing germs off hands with soap and a running faucet in the background
What Does It Mean To Have Mysophobia (Germophobia)?
man sitting on the cough in a therapist's office talking to therapist sitting in a chair
What's the Difference Between DBT and CBT?
young woman sitting on a table outside talking to her friend who is actively listening
What’s the Difference Between Introverts and Extroverts?
person covering her ears with two large pillows to reduce sensory overload
What Does It Mean To Have Sensory Overload?
person with a superiority complex looking arrogant in the mirror
What Does It Mean To Have a Superiority Complex?
two pictures of outside sunshine and chairs
I Spent 15 Minutes in the Sun Every Day for 30 Days—And It Had a Huge Impact on My Mood
sad and anxious person living with thanatophobia
What Does It Mean to Have Thanatophobia?
sad person experiencing avolition
What Is Avolition—and Why Does It Happen?
Man looking out the window, reflection of his face in the window
How Living With Athazagoraphobia Affects Your Health
man with toxic masculinity expressing aggression
How Toxic Masculinity Affects People and What Can Be Done About It
Person pressing elevator button to go to a higher floor
What To Know about Acrophobia
person with hemophobia getting scared at the sight of blood
What Does It Mean to Have Hemophobia?
using social support as a coping mechanism
How To Cope With Difficult Situations in a Healthy Way
person standing in the sunlight
What Happens To Your Body When You Get Daily Doses of Sunlight?
Woman listening to music
Sad Girl Playlists Aren’t Just Trendy—Study Finds Sad Music Can Boost Your Mental Health
person talking to themselves
Is Talking To Yourself Normal?
man with turban sitting on bed and meditating
How To Stop Overthinking
Enneagram Personality Types
What Is the Enneagram Personality Test?
couple with a disorganized attachment style
What Does It Mean to Have Disorganized Attachment?
person experiencing a mood swing
Why Are You Experiencing Mood Swings?
couple with secure attachment style
What Does It Mean To Have Secure Attachment?
A woman wears sunglasses and smiles in the sun
What Does Euthymic Mean?
couple with insecure attachment arguing
What Does It Mean To Have Insecure Attachment?
Woman looking bored
What Is Anhedonia?
Health Photo Composite - Maladaptive Daydreaming
What Is Maladaptive Daydreaming?
Two people playing doubles tennis outside
8 Ways to Increase Serotonin
person with aphantasia having trouble thinking of images
What Is Aphantasia?
person running late due to time blindness
What Is Time Blindness?
couple with avoidant attachment style
What Does It Mean To Have Avoidant Attachment?
A narcissistic young woman in vintage dress looking into mirror
What Is a Covert Narcissist?
person trying facial tapping with the emotional freedom technique
What Is the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)?
A woman feeling burnout in front of her laptop computer
What Are the Stages of Burnout?
Person at computer, looking off in the distance, apathetic
What Is Apathy?
A person lies on their bed with a blank expression
What Is Alexithymia?
person self-sabotaging by procrastinating at work
Why Do You Self-Sabotage?
A worried woman
The 4 Trauma Responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
A young group of friends meeting together at a barbecue are chatting and smiling as they greet each other.
What Does It Mean to Be an Extrovert?
A pair of feet on grass; grounding
What Is Grounding?
person in train having dissociative episode
What Is Dissociation?
person experiencing a derealization episode
What Is Derealization?
A father looking at his exhausted soon who's having trouble concentrating
What Is Executive Dysfunction?
Asian man wearing glasses and a yellow button down shakes hands with a colleague
All About the Different Personality Types
Woman working at her desk
What Does It Mean to Have a Type A Personality?
adult feeling paranoid
What Is Paranoia?
dysfunctional relationship between couple caused by pathological lying
What Does It Mean To Be a Pathological Liar?
couple experiencing grief
11 Types of Grief and How to Cope With Loss
A woman sits, relaxed with her eyes closed next to a window with sun coming in
9 Ways to Calm Your Anxiety
person with neuroticism feeling worried
What Does It Mean To Be Neurotic and How Can It Affect Behavior?
highly sensitive person spending time with loved one
What Does It Mean To Be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)?