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Dolly Parton built a legacy that included children. She didn't have any herself.

The Roman Cicero is credited with the notion Friendship abates misery, by doubling our joys and dividing our grief. 9/11 showed peer support as uniquely powerful in healing grief.

A Chinese mushroom causes hallucinations of tiny people within real environmental backgrounds. This phenomenon raises questions about perception, memory, and reality.

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Here is another perspective on online “lurking” without engagement as a healthy way to respect the need for change and cope with grief.

Why can losing someone we’ve never met feel so personal? The recent losses of Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen offer a window into parasocial grief.

How do millions of strangers agree on anything? By turning arbitrary choices into "objective facts." Here’s how.

Personal Perspective: On my journey with schizophrenia, prior to diagnosis, there were many opportunities for me to get help from friends, family, and my professors, but I refused.

House mapping helps ADHD households and overwhelmed or busy families reduce clutter and mental fatigue by designing spaces around how they naturally live.

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What feels like rambling in therapy can reveal how you handle rejection, boundaries, intimacy, and conflict.

Do you sometimes look up from what you have been doing, see something that catches your attention, and then respond with action? That's the good news and the bad news.

Two assassins both shocked the nation, but only one was probably a psychopath based on historical collateral information and analysis with the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised

Personal Perspective: Even highly trained clinicians can struggle with licensing exams, and the experience can challenge confidence and identity, affecting professional identity.

Apologizing before anyone accuses you of anything can be a trauma response related to shame. Here's the physiology behind chronic sorry-saying.

Why do some parents feel blindsided by estrangement? Sometimes they truly miss the signs. Other times, “I have no idea why” becomes a way to avoid accountability.

Learn the specific behavioral and sleep signals that reveal the temperament traits driving sleep struggles in children, so you can start working with your child's natural wiring.

The words we use to describe dementia can become descriptions of the person. What if changing our language could help us see more of who is still there?

A one-year AI moratorium offers real protection for students at school—but it won’t prepare them for the AI they encounter everywhere else.

In ancient myths, the hero must conquer a monster, while in real life, we must conquer what lies within.