Is only-child syndrome a real thing? by Anna Borges | Oct 28, 2026 | Children, Teens, & Adolescents, Mental Health Topics, Parenting Whether you don’t have siblings, you’re a parent to an only child, or you’re considering how many kids to have, “only-child syndrome” is probably on your radar. Maybe you’ve seen memes stereotyping them as bossy or spoiled or you’ve heard stories of lonely, difficult childhoods from your friends who grew…
How to fix anxious attachment style: A practical guide to becoming more secure by Rachael Schultz | Dec 19, 2025 | Mental Health Topics, Relationships Your partner didn’t text back for two hours and you’ve convinced yourself they’re losing interest. Or you apologized three times for a minor scheduling mix-up, certain it revealed some fundamental flaw that would make them leave. You know, logically, that these reactions don’t match reality. But logic doesn’t stop the…
Parasocial relationships: The good, the bad, and the boy bands by Wistar Murray | Mar 25, 2022 | Mental Health Topics, Relationships My five-year-old daughter has a self-professed “crush” on Tae Young, who is a cartoon member of the early 2000s fictional boy band 4*Town, which is featured in the 2022 Disney Pixar movie “Turning Red.” (I know, my head is spinning too.) I can’t tell if my daughter thinks Tae is…
Exploring the deep bonds between humans and their companion animals by Wistar Murray | Dec 15, 2021 | Feelings & Emotions, Mental Health Topics, Relationships For tens of thousands of years humans have been passionate about their fur babies. The deep bonds between Homo sapiens and other animal species seem so common and obvious that they’ve only recently been studied scientifically. So how did we get from throwing food scraps to wolves at the outskirts…