Life is a mixture of sadness, thrills, happiness, twist of lemon and rare out-of-your-mind-crazy situations that nobody can quite explain. One of those situations is the rare, but lovely friendship of a dog, George, and his new pal, the Duck.…
Psychedelic science has found a better way to treat depression with the help of magic mushrooms
BY: MIROSLAV TOMOSKI It may still be a few years before daytime advertising tells us to ask our doctors about shrooms, but a team of scientists in the UK is trying to prove that psychedelics can do much more than…
This experimental drug might prevent stress-induced brain damage
By: Adrian Smith Stress causes changes to the hippocampus—the part of your brain responsible for memory and emotion, leading to anxiety and depression. However, researchers from Rockefeller University in New York have not only provided insight on these structural alterations…
Having a mental breakdown is actually good for you
BY: Adrian Smith Society expects the best of people—making us work long hours throughout the week with an emphasis on being responsible, levelheaded, and, above all, normal. But this video from ‘School of Life’ expresses a different view, revealing why…
The anonymous Twitter account that helped this poet celebrate her anxiety
BY: Adrian Smith When poet Melissa Broder noticed her anxiety was also coupled with depression she decided to create something to help her feel comfortable with these mental health issues. Broder began using @SoSadToday, anonymously at first, to speak…
This animated short invites you to try an exercise in self-compassion
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Compassion is the ability to show love, empathy and concern to people who are facing a difficulty, and self-compassion is simply the ability to turn that understanding and love inward and accept oneself. Even the most compassionate…
How binge-watching is ruining television and making you depressed
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Ten years ago, Netflix streaming didn’t exist. If you wanted to watch a television show, you had to tune in on a specific time of the week, where you would watch one episode of the show and…
Don’t blame weed for anxiety or depression says new study
A new paper has found no link between marijuana use and a variety of disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder. The study, published in the JAMA Psychiatry journal on Feb. 17, found that “cannabis use was not associated with increased…
Here’s how we should really be talking about depression
BY: EMILY PLEASANCE The image of the dew droplets on the field and how the cool, crisp air felt on my face will forever be with me. If you ask me what it was about that day in high school…
After ten years of research, this “storyteller researcher” found the simple cure to depression
BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE Brene Brown is a researcher who has often found herself swimming for answers in the darkest waters of human experience. For ten years Brown conducted thousands of interviews to build a life preserver for times when the…
Turns out washing the dishes prevents depression, decreases nervousness and inspires us
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE To relieve stress, some smoke, others work out, and many choose the comforting bath, nap or meal. However, few follow a page out of a book from Monica in Friends by performing household chores for the pleasure…
Science proves getting high on magic mushrooms may help cure depression
BY: TED BARNABY Seeking treatment for depression is both frustrating and discouraging: you walk into the doctor’s office, answer a few questions, followed by a prescription of any number of anti-depressants which, after six weeks of taking them, will either…
Are writers destined to be depressed?
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS At the beginning of November, I boarded two bumpy planes to fly to Charleston, South Carolina. I wasn’t going for the fried chicken or tomato pie or to visit any plantations. I wanted to attend YALLFEST, a…
Sorry Urban Outfitters, depression is not a fashion statement
BY: LAURA ROJAS As a teenager, I experienced episodes of depression I can only describe as being frequent. At that age, hormonal levels are fluctuating; life experiences are suddenly becoming a bit more real. The sadness and uncertainty I felt…
The seven incredible health benefits of doing a headstand
BY: TED BARNABY The headstand is a popular pose amongst Yoga enthusiasts, and with good reason. The inverted pose isn’t just done for fun, or because it looks cool. Headstands generate a surprising number of health benefits, both physical and…
Science proves that hip-hop cures depression
BY: PILGRIM Hip-hop is a notoriously conceited genre, the musicians constantly boasting about their Lamborghinis, big-butted booty-calls, and magnificent estates. It’s strangely un-relatable content given that the genre’s primary listenership is impoverished youth. Yet from Rick Ross’s gold-chains to R.Kelly’s…
It Was My First Time Snorting Anything: This Was My Experience With Ketamine
BY: LILITH I did my first ever line of ketamine off a cheap wooden patio table at a shitty bar in downtown Toronto. My friend and provider, a seasoned raver, didn’t have any straws on him, so he rolled up…
Sleep deprivation could be the root of the student mental health crisis
BY: LILITH We’ve all been there. You procrastinated a bit too long on that paper and now you have one night left to cough up 5,000 words on how the minor characters in Macbeth somehow sparked the First Gulf War.…