Skeptophilia

Today, from the "Who Could Have Predicted This Besides Everybody?" department, we have: a study by psychologist David Blanchflower...

Today I have for you two news stories that are interesting primarily in juxtaposition. The first is a press release about a study out of St...

I'm a big fan of the band OneRepublic, but I don't think any of their songs has struck me like their 2018 hit "Connection....

There's long been an association between creativity and mental illness.  Certainly there's plenty of anecdotal evidence -- people li...

I am mentally ill. I say it that openly, and that bluntly, for a reason: mental illness still has a significant and entirely undeserved stig...

If you're fortunate enough not to suffer from crippling depression and anxiety, let me give you a picture of what it's like. Last we...

Over the last couple of months I've been dealing with a health problem that is one of those collections of symptoms that falls somewhere...

I think one of the reason I have a love/hate relationship with Twitter is that my feed sounds way too much like my brain. I do a lot of what...

Depression is, at its heart, a completely irrational condition. One of the (many) therapists I've seen during my life told me that the w...

I have serious anxiety disorder.  Serious enough that some days, I am barely functional. I have had it pretty much as long as I can remember...

I have been following, from some distance, the hue-and-cry over Simone Biles's removing herself from competition on the U.S. Olympic gym...