Behavioral Health

Journaling is a lifelong process — whether it’s daily, yearly or every decade — it's a way to check in with yourself and say, “How am I doing right now?”

When schools closed, children with severe mental illnesses were cut off from the services they'd come to rely on. Many have since spiraled into ERs and even police custody.

WHYY’s Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with psychologist Dan Gottlieb about how to find peace and well-being in the wake of a stressful 2020.

The pandemic has changed the way a lot of us understand and experience happiness. In normal times, we think of happiness as a big-picture ...

Evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare says that human being's ability to cooperate and communicate with others even across species, is what's behind our success and survival.

We all know that drinking a lot of alcohol is bad for your health. It’s tied to heart disease, heightened risk for some cancers, addict ...

Staff is “running out of gas” at Torrance State Hospital, where federal inspectors said short-staffing created safety risks in 2018 and 2019.

If you know someone struggling with despair, depression or thoughts of suicide, you may be wondering how to help. Here are nine things you can do that can make a difference.

Mental health professionals say SAD, depression caused by colder, darker seasons, could be worse this year because of the isolating nature of the pandemic.

There's been resistance to wearing masks and many people report they're reluctant to getting a COVID vaccine. This hour, how to get people to think and act more pro-socially.

“We have to stop the police from being the first responders,” said Gwen Carr, Garner’s mother. “They shoot first and ask questions later.”

There’s not a lot to laugh about right now. But throughout the pandemic, we’ve managed to joke about our shared misery — like makin ...

Some people laugh when they want to cry, or cry when they want to laugh. Turns out, there’s a type of emotion regulation at work.

When my spouse spent 48 weeks on chemo, I got markers and paper lunch bags, and tried the gallows humor thing.

Quality care is critical right now, therapists said, as Black men absorb both the effects of the pandemic and the impact of racism and police brutality.