In her new book, “The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change,” Pauline Boss considers what it means to reach “emotional closure” in a state of unnamable grief or ambiguous loss. Boss teases out how one can mourn something that cannot always be described. The pandemic has been rife with “ambiguous loss,” A sense of “frozen grief” pervades great swathes of the global community. Boss believes that by rethinking and lending language to the nature of loss, we might get closer to understanding it.

During the pandemic, about 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. have reported symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder, a share that has been largely consistent, up from one in ten adults who reported these symptoms from January to June 2019

When asked questions normally used to screen patients for mental health problems, 24 percent showed clinically significant symptoms of major depressive disorder and 30 percent showed symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.

In our 2020 commissioned survey, 60% of respondents said that current public investment in mental health research is not enough. This is a 9% increase, up from 51% in 2018.

Social media posts containing expletives has increased 27% on Twitter and 41% on Facebook between 2019 and 2021. Another profanity-filtering service run by Inversoft found that the volume of filtered words has tripled in the past 18 months on the forums and message boards.

Labels like "nonessential" are getting in the way of urgent treatments and surgeries. There’s a better way.

A new CDC study found that the percentage of obese children and teens increased to 22%, compared to 19% before the pandemic. It also found that expected annual weight gain ranged from 5 to 15 pounds.

How do you rediscover a happier, more purpose-driven (and less productivity-obsessed) self in the wake of the pandemic? Quiz yourself alongside work futurist Dominic Price as he lays out a simple yet insightful four-part guide to assessing your life in ways that can help you reconnect with what's really important.

According to NPD, two out of five adult females and three out of ten adult males no longer fit into last year’s clothing sizes; snacking and fitness play a role.

Don’t worry if you haven’t grown as a person during the pandemic.

American well-being is... higher than it's ever been?

Far from dissipating over the last decade, misogyny in the ad industry has simply mutated into something insidious, invisible, lurking in the shadows. It’s time to fire up the floodlights.

Mental health has long been a stigmatized topic in China. Under Chairman Mao’s rule, psychology was dismissed as a bourgeois self-delusion, and was even bann...

Doctors need mental health support. Here’s why many aren’t getting it.

Hiring was much weaker than expected in April. Wall Street thinks it’s a blip, but there could be a much deeper re-think going on of what jobs are needed and what workers want to do on a daily basis.

Oregon's bold move to decriminalize small amounts of all hard drugs and expand treatment is now meeting the reality of implementation as the treatment community is divided over the way forward.

Naomi Osaka advocated for her well-being at work. Here’s how you can, too.

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

“It turns out everything has been overwhelming. And there’s no shaking it.”

The Trevor Project's 2021 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health is the organization's third annual, cross-sectional national survey of LGBTQ youth across the United States. We hope this report elevates the voices and experiences of diverse LGBTQ youth, providing insights that can be used by researchers, policymakers, and the many organizations working to support LGBTQ youth around the world.

The stress and trauma from the past year have taken a toll on all of our brains. Mental health care providers say their patients are reporting brain fog and fatigue. If that sounds familiar, here's why — and what you can do.

This report describes racial and ethnic disparities in stress and worry, mental health, and substance use during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"People have often reported on whistleblowing matter-of-factly as though we did it and moved on with our lives." But that couldn't be further from the truth.

The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021.

The Colorado State Senate gave initial approval to a $34.1 billion budget proposal on Thursday.

As tech campuses became ghost towns, the people who kept them running—cooks, custodians, drivers—faced an existential threat to their livelihoods.