Depression

Some studies have shown the potential medical benefits of the mind-altering drug psilocybin. Is the use of magic mushrooms for depression legal in the U.S.?

Psilocybin, the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms," is now undergoing clinical trials. If all goes well, treatments could be available by 2024.

"I believe these compounds could help millions of people around the world," said Beckley Psytech Chief Executive Cosmo Fielding Mellen.

Scientists out of the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden found new information as to how ketamine can aid people with severe depression.

Chrissy Teigen has weathered backlash since tweets she directed at Courtney Stodden in 2011 resurfaced in May.

After Teigen posted an honest admission on Instagram, some celebrities came out to support her, while others chose to criticize.

Chrissy Teigen said in an Instagram post on July 14 that she was "tired of being sick with [herself] all day."

T-Pain has stated in the new Netflix series "This Is Pop" that fellow singer Usher's quip about his effect on the music industry plunged him into a four-year depression.

"These are ordinary, common human problems," said the chief medical officer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. "And I firmly believe that isolation and shame directly contribute to people not getting help."

A new study on MDMA, or "Ecstasy," and PTSD patients shows the potency of powerful new treatments based on psychedelic drugs.

Social restrictions, limits on nonessential businesses, and unemployment were the most commonly cited factors, the CDC study found.

As I was sinking in the wet sand with no one else in sight, the depression that hounded me for months turned to anger.

I don't think that the move to a new city would have affected him all that much if it weren't for the draconian measures in place isolating him from human contact.

I felt trapped by my depression and, having officially left my job, had no idea what I was going to do with the rest of my life.

A leading psychologist—whose course on happiness has attracted 3 million people so far and is the most popular class in Yale's history—offers five science-backed techniques to boost your mood and protect your mental health.

Overall, the survey's results indicated that individuals ages 18 to 24 are experiencing symptoms of depression at much higher rates than they were prior to the pandemic.

It's no wonder that a soulless economic and political system that disregards the well-being of its people produces chronic anxiety and despair.

The reflective relaxation component of yoga is devised to induce a sense of peacefulness, well-being, stress tolerance, and mental focus, all of which should reduce your feelings of depression.

West Virginia was ranked the unhappiest state in the U.S.

Depriving the body of sleep does not only cause grogginess. It causes more serious health issues than that.

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The former producer for the show said that a number of people had asked her to speak about "Patriot Act" after it was cancelled on Tuesday.

"Robin's Wish" features interviews with people who knew the actor talking about the disease he battled in his last days, Lewy Body Dementia.

The FCC voted to establish 988 as the National Suicide Lifeline's number in a vote on Thursday. Phone providers will need to route calls to the number to the Lifeline by July 2022.

Starting high school, I was still the little fat girl with chubby cheeks. It wasn't long before I was called "the beast" again. And a new nickname emerged from the boys on the school bus: "the bulldog."

Jump-starting an economy requires consumer confidence. But consumers only feel confident to start spending when broad economic markers are improving. Understanding the underlying impulses could help.

Only 14 percent of Americans say they are very happy with their lives, according to a new nationwide tracking survey which found U.S. adults are the unhappiest they've been since 1972.

Federal policymakers must act boldly in order to prevent the coronavirus recession from becoming a depression.

Meteorologists are monitoring a weather system that will likely develop into a tropical storm off the Florida coast in the next 24-28 hours.

Depression "is not a mood, it's a psychological disorder," says John Moe, podcaster and author of "The Hilarious World of Depression." "Simplistic solutions [are] useless to the point of being insulting. It's like saying, 'Just go for a nice walk and you won't have such leukemia.'"