Mental Health Topics

Grey’s Anatomy—arguably the best medical drama television series the world has ever seen—will soon become TV’s longest-running medical drama as it goes into its fourteenth season this September. The show centers around the lives of surgeons, from the extraordinary work they do each day to the equally draining dilemmas they…

Celebrities typically use MTV’s annual Video Music Awards (VMA’s) as an opportunity to showcase their latest looks, perform their top hits, and pull off ridiculous publicity stunts. But this year, the VMA’s saw a change in routine. While the stars still came dressed to impress and ready to showcase their…

The realm of dating as we know it has completely transformed and continues to change with advancing technology. Today, there aren’t as many of us meeting our loved ones in person—striking up conversation with them at the local coffee shop, or beginning our love story with a circumstantial meeting on…

Hurricane Harvey surprised us all with more aggression and rain than most meteorologists predicted or have ever seen before. The tropical storm has attacked the Houston, Texas area, flooding it with more than 50 inches of rain and setting a record for the continental U.S. in the process. It is…

YouTuber Chuck Boots Bad Fishing made an amazing video about his passion for fishing. It’s a truly inspiring video that’ll make you want to chase your dreams and realize the importance of finding your true passion in life. I mean, if someone can be this passionate about fishing, you can be truly…

Nobody’s perfect, right? We all have our flaws—like the pimple on my nose—and our downfalls—like my inclination to watch catty reality TV. But what if we used these to our advantage? What if instead of slapping ourselves on the wrist, we embraced our failures and others’ failures and saw our…

Take a moment and try to imagine life without modern-day technology. No alarm to wake you up for work in the morning. No car to get you where you need to go. You don’t have the option of picking up your phone and calling your dad. Or the ability to…

On your walk to work, you notice a man napping on a park bench. He’s wrapped tightly in a torn, flimsy blanket. His boots appear to be in their last wearable days. And aside from what is on his person, he has one lone empty water bottle sitting by his…

She’s always been insecure but these anxieties have worsened with age: she’s uncertain about how her short hair accentuates her oval face; she questions how her preference for baggy sweatshirts affects her attractiveness; she’s confused about her equal love for sports and for shopping; and mostly, she wonders how she…

I am the most indecisive person I know. I spend hours surveying every aisle at the grocery store, deciding whether I should buy this item or that one. The same goes for when I’m shopping for new clothes or picking out new decorations for my apartment. Oh, I like that….

I once had a rather interesting conversation with my college roommate about marriage. We were watching TV when the main character got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend. At that moment, she turned to me and said, “Oh I thought they were already married, I mean they…

The end of summer’s slowly approaching, but early fall and its temperature dips, heavy rain, and gusts of wind aren’t a reason to ditch healthy habits over lack of discipline and interest in your own wellbeing. Instead of swapping nutrient-dense for starchy and sugary foods and waving goodbye to regular…