Tag: Anxiety
Hoarding, stockpiling, panic buying: What’s normal behavior in an abnormal time?
Carol Mathews, University of Florida
Symptoms of depression, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders have emerged or worsened for many during the pandemic. This is no...
Connecting to nature is good for kids – but they may...
Louise Chawla, University of Colorado Boulder
As an environmental psychologist who works to improve young people’s access to nature, I recently completed a review that...
Keep calm and carry on – but how? A psychologist offers...
Bethany Teachman, University of Virginia
Well-meaning advice for people freaking out about current events often includes encouragement to be patient, stay calm and keep the...
Stressful times are an opportunity to teach children resilience
Vanessa LoBue, Rutgers University - Newark
Between the global COVID-19 pandemic, the associated economic downturn and widespread protests over racism, it’s difficult for everyone....
Playing football can improve mental health – new research
Mark Llewellyn, University of South Wales; Alecia Cousins, Swansea University, and Philip Tyson, University of South Wales
Playing football is a good way to get...
Black men face high discrimination and depression, even as their education...
Shervin Assari, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and T.J. Curry, University of Edinburgh
Are you a highly educated and relatively wealthy Black...
The stay-at-home slowdown – how the pandemic upended our perception of...
Philip Gable, University of Delaware
Think back to life before stay-at-home orders. Does it feel like just yesterday? Or does it seem like ages ago...
Ashamed over my mental illness, I realized drawing might help me...
William Doan, Pennsylvania State University
I’ve lived much of my life with anxiety and depression, including the negative feelings – shame and self-doubt – that...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
