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I Went To Brain Camp To Cure My Foggy Mind
Elizabeth Gulino
Oct 6, 2023
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Too Many Thoughts Living Rent-Free In Your Head? Try Mind Gardening
Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Sep 13, 2023
Wellness
How My ADHD Diagnosis Changed The Way I Live My Life As A Black Woman
Chanté Joseph
Jun 21, 2023
Living
In Pictures: Young People Living With ADHD
London-based Norwegian photographer Nora Nord was diagnosed with ADHD in 2018, when she was in her early 20s. It was an immensely freeing feeling, she says
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Joanna Cresswell
Mental Health
I Tried Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation For Depression — Here’s...
My depression is deep. Enough for me to find myself sitting in a chair with a helmet on my head, a magnet delivering electric pulses to my brain. The hope
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Fortesa Latifi
Unbothered
Why Are So Many Black Women Using TikTok To Self-Diagnose?
Let TikTok tell it, I’m neurodivergent. I’ve seen enough lists of signs and symptoms on my FYP to wonder if ADHD or borderline personality disorder sho
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Niki McGloster
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Brain Health
‘Glimmers’ Can Make Us Happier — & They’re All Around Us
In significant life events, joy is supposed to be easy to find. Things like marriages and children and graduations and job promotions are the times when we
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Elizabeth Gulino
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Do You Try To Fall Asleep To A Dream Of Your Choice? That’s Dream...
To sleep, perchance to dream? While plenty of us leave our chances of a pleasant nighttime adventure — the kind that makes you rush up to the first perso
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Kayleigh Dray
Brain Health
Too Much Serotonin Is A Bad Thing, Actually
We’ve evolved enough as a species to know that too much of a good thing is actually a bad thing — even excessive amounts of water and exercise can have
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Elizabeth Gulino
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Can Productivity Gummies Help Me Write A Screenplay? Theoreticall...
There’s been a lot of talk about productivity levels lately, whether it’s that people are “quiet quitting” at the workplace or simp
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Jinnie Lee
Relationships
Our Brains Don’t Fully Develop Until We’re 25. What D...
“John Mayer could legally drink by the time Kiernan Shipka was born.” This was one of hundreds of tweets that dominated feeds at the start of N
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Alicia Lansom
Unbothered
I Asked A Black Therapist How To Survive Seasonal Depression
It happens every year here in New York City. You’re living your best life in the streets, mingling at the block parties, acting up at the BBQs, when sudd
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Stephanie Long
Wellness
What 5 Weird (But Common) Sex Dreams Mean, According To A Therapist
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Stevie Martin
Wellness
I’m Being Prescribed Ketamine Treatment For My Brain Injury...
The first time I smoke weed, I am a teenager standing in a droughted riverbed with other nervous, coughing high schoolers. The first time I do ketamine, I
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Fortesa Latifi
Acne Skin-Care Guide
No One Told Me My Acne Would Make Me Hate Myself
Welcome to Acne Week, a five-day stretch where we get real about pimples, zits, cysts, and every bump or blemish in between. From skin-soothing p
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Karina Hoshikawa
Unbothered
I’m A Black Woman Living With Borderline Personality Disorder & I...
May was Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Awareness month but this year it has been marred with negative press. It has been used in the libel case agai
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Varaidzo
Apps
8 Meditation Apps To Consider For When You Just Need A Moment
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Karina Hoshikawa
Unbothered
I’m A Black Woman With OCD, Anxiety & Depression. Here’s What I W...
Trigger warning: This article contains references to suicide, which could be triggering to some readers. I’ve struggled with severe obsessive-compulsive
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Houreidja Tall
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Books & Art
These Intimate Portraits Show The Reality Of Living With OCD
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a largely invisible mental illness. To those who have never experienced it in themselves or loved ones, it may seem
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Wellness
7 Books That Will Help Quell Your Anxiety
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Kimberly Truong
Wellness
Why Every Hot Girl Has IBS… Or Anemia… Or Depression
Now is the time to be as hot as humanly possible. There was a lot we couldn’t access during lockdown, like travel, dates, and family. But, the few things
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Michelle Santiago...
Skin Care
Is “Stress Acne” A Thing? We Asked The Experts
I started dealing with acne in middle school, and by the time 8th grade rolled around, I made it my mission to see a dermatologist and enter high school zi
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Sydney Clarke
Wellness
How To Manage Your Mental Health After A Week Of Sadness & Chaos
The first full week of 2021 didn’t go as planned, to put it mildly. After watching thousands of Trump supporters storm the Capitol building in a viol
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Molly Longman
Anxiety
5 Proven Methods For Preventing Morning Anxiety
It happened for a string of nights in a row. I woke up hours before my alarm, my thoughts already attached to an anxious worry. For a couple nights, it was
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Mirel Zaman
Brain Health
Here’s Exactly What To Say To Someone Who Is Sad
Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death overall in the U.S., and the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10 a
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Elizabeth Gulino
Brain Health
Three Breathing Exercises For Anxiety
2020 has been quite a ride. We don’t have to give you a recap of all the tumultuous, upsetting, and anxiety-inducing events that have occurred up unt
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Elizabeth Gulino
Beauty
Botox Isn’t Just For Wrinkles — It Could Also Help Fight De...
When I hear the word “Botox,” my brain can’t help but think of Jennifer Coolidge in A Cinderella Story, saying: “It’s the Botox! I can’
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Molly Longman
Skin Care
Adult Acne Is On The Rise — & It Goes Way Beyond Surface Level
Anxiety, depression, social isolation: For women, the symptoms of acne transcend the physical.
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Rachel Krause
Wellness
Workplace "Burnout" Is Now Officially A Medical Diagnosis
“Burnout” isn’t just a term you use to describe how you were feeling before you went on vacation and “let it all go.” Nor is it just a word Buzzf
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Molly Longman
Beauty
How Going On Antidepressants For The First Time Changed My Skin
In 2014, after a particularly tough breakup, I started taking antidepressants for anxiety and OCD. I’d struggled with my mental health since around 2
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Rebecca Fearn
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