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Over the course of their teenage and young adult years, people tend to face all kinds of challenging and stressful situations. How teens and young adults cope with the problems and new experiences they encounter may be key to their mental health. The idea that there might be a link between the coping strategies people…

Can mindfulness exercises by themselves help with symptoms of anxiety and depression? The answer is yes, according to a new meta-review of 18 studies on the topic. In the meta-review, researchers looked to see whether mindfulness exercises in and of themselves have therapeutic potential. Mindfulness exercises are often researched as one part of a broader…

People who are experiencing depression have more trouble self-regulating as well as exerting control over their own thoughts and actions. It’s possible, then, that honing peoples self-control could reduce their depressive symptoms. That idea was the starting point for a recent study that looked at the effects of a self-control training program in college students…

This week brings us a study on a somewhat, well, depressing topic: how loneliness makes people depressed and how depression makes people lonely. Granted, it doesn’t take a scientist to know that loneliness and depression can reinforce each other, but this study went a little further than that. It looked to untangle the specific mechanics…

Sometimes it’s best to leave the past in the past. At least, that’s what a new study from psychologists in the United Kingdom suggests. In the study, researchers had 372 participants complete a survey called the Temporal Focus Scale, which is designed to measure whether people are more focused on the past, the present or…

Ounce of prevention, pound of cure, all that. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could treat psychiatric disorders by preventing them? Recently, an international team of researchers did a test run of an intervention designed to do exactly that. In their study, they conducted both an internet version and an in-person group version of an…

Well, no kidding! Of course people who are more sensitive to rejection are going to get depressed more easily – I don’t need a study to tell you that! But here’s the interesting part: not all people who are sensitive to rejection are equally prone to depression, and there may be interventions that can help…

School is more than just a place for learning academic subjects. It’s also where students mature as people and figure out how to be part of society. Kids take the more general lessons they learn in school out into the rest of their lives. Because students spend such a big portion of their lives in…

Cell and smartphone use has become a staple of modern life.  According to the Pew Research Center,  nearly 2/3 of Americans are smartphone owners and those numbers continue to climb every day.  Recent polls in 2015 show smartphone usage includes: 64% of American adults now own a smartphone of some kind 85% of young adults…

A recent study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health has suggested that eating a lot of fish may help reduce the risk of depression.  Major depression is one of the most common mental disorders, with most families affected by a loved one or acquaintance at some point during their lives.  It is also…