Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist (2024)

Have you ever bumped into someone who looks extremely familiar, yet you have no clue who they are or why you know them? While confusing, there is a simple explanation.

Just how far would some people go to get revenge after being humiliated at work? New research sheds some disturbing answers.

When we feel certain of our conclusions, we fail to think about the consequences if we’re wrong. As they say, when you assume, you make an… well, you know the rest.

Mind-wandering is a common phenomenon, but it is not well understood how it affects our emotions. A new meta-analysis sheds some light on this complex question.

Are we mislabeling our everyday struggles as trauma? Let's debunk some common myths and misinformation about what traumatic events really are.

Several new studies confirm that how you eat can positively or negatively affect how your brain ages and functions.

Research shows silence is good for our relationships and well-being—yet many of us still fear silence. Here's why it's healthier to embrace it than fight it.

Learned helplessness can trap you in a cycle of negativity, impacting your mental health and relationships. Discover how optimism can break the cycle and transform connections.

A Personal Perspective: Music therapy can be effective for the healing process.

Are you aware of the reporting laws in your state and the institution where you work? Important factors to consider as a mandatory reporter.

Childhood adaptations can lead to unique strengths in adulthood. Traits viewed as negative can become valuable assets in personal and professional settings.

Personal Perspective: Hearing loss, like many other chronic conditions, is invisible, making it challenging to get assistance in a medical setting without asking for it.

Building and sustaining patient trust depends not just on competence and reliability, but also on demonstrating concern and benevolence.

The signs of an unhappy person are often subtle and detectable only when identifying a pattern of several distinct behaviors.

The neural mechanisms underlying magnesium sulfate treatment in pregnant individuals expecting a pre-term child.

Personal Perspective: Should you disclose a mental illness to an employer? You may not have to think about it until your illness becomes symptomatic.

Over time, individuals who constantly complain become "addicted" to negativity, attracting more drama and dissatisfaction into their lives.

Healing from trauma is not a linear process. It's marked by ups and downs, progress and setbacks, and learning how to manage in the aftermath.

This post explores a different way to view the trendy topic of gut health by exploring the gut-brain connection and how to trust your gut with greater confidence.

There's a lot to be learned about negotiation success in preparing for seasonal transitions.

Reconnecting clients to their transcendent self, deepening presence with others, and awe in daily life.

Within the supposed safety of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, the likelihood of someone new to sobriety becoming sexual prey is very real.

Appreciation is a critical element in retaining employees.

Why do consumers think and act the way they do? Ask Sigmund Freud.

Learn how invisible work infiltrates 21st-century workplaces. From emotional labor to mentoring and bringing work home, it impacts our well-being. What invisible work do you do?

When people preemptively announce "I don't want drama", what does it say about them and their past?

A Personal Perspective: Dromomania is a symptom of some types of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder involving an uncontrollable urgency to travel.

After almost four decades of antidepressant prescribing, the incidence, duration, and severity of withdrawal effects is still highly contested.

Neurological symptoms misrepresented as a byproduct of geopolitical warfare through modern-day "Red Scare."

Amy Propen's new book combines empathy with ecology and explains why we must offer wildlife corridors to animals.

Shame destroys happiness; here’s how to set yourself free.

There are three particular learnable behaviors that might help in developing the skill of actualizing happiness

Being successful, in the simplest terms, means you are flourishing. But flourishing isn’t something that happens from the outside in; it’s something internal.