According to Amazon therapist Bea Arthur, “financial anxiety is the biggest crisis in America” right now. And while it’s true that money itself undergirds many of today’s most divisive political issues (health care, campaign finance, and the like), the experience of of financial anxiety in daily life is real and pronounced. For example, according to […]
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How Climate Change Affects Your Mental Health
For all the endless chatter surrounding Climate Change, not much of the global conversation has centered on the connection between Climate Change and mental health. The psychological impacts of a warming world might seem intuitive, and rightly so. But on a personal and macro level, changing habitats and unpredictable weather patterns have had a universally […]
How Mental Health Became Pop Music’s Unlikely Muse
Maybe you’ve noticed that some of the biggest songs on the radio in recent years have dealt with depression, anxiety, suicide, and other aspects of mental health. Or maybe you saw Lady Gaga’s recent speech at the Grammy Awards in which she mentioned, perhaps unsurprisingly, that many artists deal with mental health issues. These developments […]