Skeptophilia

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

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

One of the long-standing unanswered questions in medical science is the role of the mind in physical health. A well-known example is the pla...

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...

There's long been a supposed connection between being highly creative and being mentally ill. The list of individuals who were both is ...

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...

I have a friend whom I frequently take out for walks.  I'll call him Jim.  Jim doesn't have it easy; he's of normal intelligence...