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With Anxiety On the Rise, Some Children Try ‘Exposure Therapy’

CRANSTON, R.I. — Audrey Pirri, 16, had been terrified of vomiting since she was a toddler. She worried every time she shared a meal...

Declaring Curry and Samosas Enemy No. 1 to Whip the Police Into Shape

PORT BLAIR, India — For G. Chitra, an officer in India’s overburdened police forces, pretty much everything in her life is bad for her...

Outcry Over High School Clinic Exposes Deep Divisions on Mental Health

On the January evening when the superintendent introduced staff from Generations Family Health Center, the nonprofit health care group that was to provide services...

Many Teens Report Emotional and Physical Abuse by Parents During Lockdown

New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on adolescents’ mental health during the coronavirus pandemic suggests that for many teenagers who...

Returns to the Office Raise Mental Health Challenges

“I’ve had a lot more employees reach out to me due to their anxiety, often saying they can’t pinpoint the reason for it,” Ms....

More Teenage Girls With Eating Disorders Wound Up in the E.R. During the Pandemic

During the pandemic, emergency rooms across the country reported an increase in visits from teenage girls dealing with eating and other disorders, including anxiety,...

Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room

PORTLAND, Ore. — It would hit Alina Black in the snack aisle at Trader Joe’s, a wave of guilt and shame that made her...

Try These Brain Foods to Improve Your Mood

“Our brains evolved to eat almost anything to survive, but increasingly we know there’s a way to fuel it to improve overall mental health,”...

America Is Falling Apart at the Seams

In June a statistic floated across my desk that startled me. In 2020, the number of miles Americans drove fell 13 percent because of...

Melatonin for Sleep: How the Aid Works

“The impact it has on our sleep depends on the time of day that you take it,” said Dr. Martin, who is also a...

Travel as Healing

Still, the downturn forced hotels and resorts — and their guests — to expand their notions of wellness and what activities fall under that...

Is That Sniffle a Cold? Or Is It Covid?

There is a distinction between reasonable fear and anxiety that becomes disproportionate and all-consuming, said Dr. Itai Danovitch, the chair of the department of...

James Webb Space Telescope Launch Is Making Astronomers Very Anxious

What do astronomers eat for breakfast on the day that their $10 billion telescope launches into space? Their fingernails.“You work for years and it...

Pushed by Players, the N.F.L. Works to Embrace Mental Health

Prescott said that he is in regular contact with the Cowboys’ mental health and wellness consultant, Yolanda Bruce Brooks, as well as the team’s...

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