It wasn’t easy for Bill Thielker to believe it when his doctor diagnosed him as depressed–mostly because he wasn’t terribly sad.
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Nairobi: 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours — Introduction
If you’re craving a quick hit of optimism, reading a newsmagazine is probably not the best way to go about finding it. As the life coaches and motivational speakers have been trying to tell us for more than a decade now, a healthy, positive mental outlook requires strict abstinence from current events in all forms
Essay: The Brain: Time Travel in the Brain
What are you doing when you aren’t doing anything at all?
Medicine: Pills for Mental Illness?
Mental-health experts across the U.S were choosing up sides in a controversy over a new drug.
Obsessive Internet Use Linked with Depression in Teens
Spending hours on the Internet may trigger depression, say researchers from Australia and China.
Invisible Wounds: Mental Health and the Military
U.S. Army specialist Ethan McCord was one of the first on the scene when a group of suspected insurgents was blown up on a Baghdad street in 2007, hit by 30-mm bursts from an Apache helicopter.
PTSD in Colorado Springs: How Army Town, Veterans Cope
In retrospect, Disneyland wasn’t an ideal family-vacation spot for Mark Waddell, a Navy SEAL commander whose valor in combat hid the fact that he was suffering from severe mental trauma.
Psychotherapy Goes from Couch to Yoga Mat
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Was Stress a Factor in Major Hasan’s Fort Hood Attack?
While no one yet knows what ignited Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s murderous rage Thursday afternoon, Nov. 5, at Fort Hood, the kindling was hiding in plain sight
Barbara Ehrenreich on The Peril of Positive Thinking
If you’re craving a quick hit of optimism, reading a news magazine is probably not the best way to go about finding it.