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Why Mind Wandering Can Be Actually Good For You
Whether it’s thinking about your goals, running future scenarios, replaying old memories or simply wondering what you’d have for dinner tonight—science shows that mind wandering accounts for more than 45% of your waking hours every day.
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Why American Teens Are So Sad
The United States is experiencing an extreme teenage mental-health crisis. From 2009 to 2021, the share of American high-school students who say they feel “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” rose from 26 percent to
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‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens
One evening last April, an anxious and free-spirited 13-year-old girl in suburban Minneapolis sprang furious from a chair in the living room and ran from the house — out a sliding door, across the patio
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Mental Health Problems Come With ‘Cost’ of Poorer Cognitive Function
All types of mental disorders come with a hidden cost in the form of cognitive dysfunction, including deficits in memory, attention, executive functions and processing speed, according to a comprehensive study that my colleagues and I published
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This Is Why It’s So Hard to Find Mental Health Counseling Right Now
Angelle Haney Gullett lost her father in September and knew she would need grief counseling. She contacted 25 therapists in the Los Angeles area, where she lives, between early October and Christmas, neatly tracking her
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