Digital media, including social media, became a centerpiece of day to day life at a seemingly exponential rate. Before I graduated high school in 2006, I remember many evenings spent …

Being a Marriage and Family Therapist in the Bay Area specializing in Couples Therapy Palo Alto, means I have the privilege to meet clients from very diverse backgrounds. One of …

Family Stress Test Stress is a natural and normal “by-product” of every family’s life. In fact, family stress can bring out the best of us: as we stretch to meet …

Mary Ainsworth’s work on attachment identified three attachment categories (secure, insecure avoidant, and insecure ambivalent/resistant). The development of the disorganized/disoriented classification evolved as a part of Mary Main’s doctoral research …

When our children come to us with a problem, we usually want to help them. So we console, interpret, advise, distract or praise. Other times, we feel we must teach …

In his new book, “The Stress Solution,” Dr. Rangan Chatterjee offers advice on countering the damaging effects of chronic stress. Not long ago Dr. Rangan Chatterjee had a patient with …

It quickly spreads and seeps in to fill spaces in our personal lives. But there are ways to stop the flow. I was an hour into my surf session when …

Hikikomori is a dark term that describes people who stay holed up in their homes, or even just their bedrooms, isolated from everyone except their family, for many months or …

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. Many people have a stereotype of the condition in their minds. They think about the person who checks the stove thirty times before …

Technology should leave us more free time, but we’re more impatient than ever. Is there a solution? You needn’t spend long in a city where the honking of car horns …

Money, power, and fame don’t make us happy, yet we spend much of our lives chasing after them. Success first, then happiness, we tell ourselves. But perhaps we’ve got it …

Even if you’re not aware of it, it’s likely that your emotions will influence someone around you today. This can happen during our most basic exchanges, say on your commute …

We feel pressed for time due to our own psychology, not just the tyranny of the clock. Right now, I can feel the tight squeeze of stress in my stomach. …

Panic attacks are the main symptom of panic disorder​, but they can occur with other mental health and medical conditions. These attacks are characterized by a variety of physical, emotional, …

Today, our culture is in crisis. Many people have retreated to their ideological bunkers to hate from afar, dehumanizing others rather than risk having real, meaningful conversations across their differences. …

When stress got to be too much for TED Fellow Sangu Delle, he had to confront his own deep prejudice: that men shouldn’t take care of their mental health. In …

Physical contact seems to be declining in modern life. But what happens when we lack human touch? Earlier this year, Tiffany Field, head of the Touch Research Institute at the …

You can easily recognize when one of your friends is being too hard on themselves. But it’s a bit harder to self-diagnose… There’s a mantra that pervades our culture: “No …

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. Essentially, low ability people do not …