Psychology Today

Many people mistakenly think they have to make a one-time, permanent decision between moderation and abstinence. But the truth is: you don’t.

News of a new virus has spiked anxiety and triggered traumatic memories of COVID-19, but it is important to recognize that anxiety cannot differentiate between past and present.

Are you dreading Mother's Day because your adult child isn't in your life? It's important to honor yourself, no matter the reasons for the emotional cutoff.

Our brains are built to think about other minds. So why do whole groups of people slip out of view? The answer says more about structure than biology.

Bringing up leaving when your young adult has barely settled back into a childhood bedroom may sound unwelcoming, but it's a conversation with surprising benefits.

What if scolding yourself for what you didn’t get done today doesn’t actually help tomorrow at all?

Mother’s Day can feel painful and isolating for those navigating different levels of family estrangement. Here’s a tip that may help ease the guilt while honoring your truth.

AI generates the questions it cannot feel, and leaves us alone with the ones we cannot answer.

Therapists everywhere are online educating and reaching millions. Critics say it’s unethical or oversimplified. So where’s the line, and who gets to decide?

Research highlights the importance of followers and followership in successful organizational change, with lessons for leaders.

Exploring how unified AuDHD thinking transforms complexity into connection, meaning, insight, and self-understanding.

Grim keeping is when you connect romantically with someone over shared dislikes rather than likes. Here's what to like and not like about this dating trend.

College is the first place many first-generation students encounter the formal English of institutions, science, and law as a daily lived language.

When your child is left out, it can break your heart, too. Here’s how to support a kid through exclusion without rushing to fix, panic, or lose yourself.

Trauma on stage is often communicated through posture, movement, tension, and breath.

A new book details the scientifically supported global shift away from dominance-based dog training.

What if eating disorders are not just about food or body image? Explore how attachment wounds and emotional survival shape the symptoms beneath the surface.

Personal Perspective: One of the world's most rigorous skeptics spent a day with an AI and concluded it was conscious. If Richard Dawkins responds this way, what chance do we have?

Can you relate to my title? Now you can read my thoughts: Women are expected to function through exhaustion, hormones, stress, and confusion while pretending everything is fine.

We’ve been told that empathy is the ultimate social superpower. But what if your "big heart" is at times a source of systemic bias and personal burnout?