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5 articles tagged with #mental health

Magic mushrooms vs. the brain that won't stop second-guessing itselfWellness

Magic mushrooms vs. the brain that won't stop second-guessing itself

A new book explores whether psilocybin - a substance famous for dissolving your grip on reality - could help people with OCD, the so-called 'doubting disorder,' finally make peace with uncertainty.

·3 min read
Can you actually get well in the city, or are we all just kidding ourselves?Wellness

Can you actually get well in the city, or are we all just kidding ourselves?

Victorian novelists prescribed country air for everything. But for those of us stuck in the city, is genuine wellness actually possible - or just a very expensive fantasy?

·2 min read
Why not knowing might be the most useful skill you can developWellness

Why not knowing might be the most useful skill you can develop

Journalist Simone Stolzoff's new book argues that learning to persist through uncertainty - rather than escape it - might be one of the most valuable skills we can build.

·2 min read
Is burnout actually everywhere, or have we just learned to call everything burnout?Wellness

Is burnout actually everywhere, or have we just learned to call everything burnout?

Burnout is real and serious - but a new essay argues that using the word for everything from hard weeks to genuine collapse may be making the actual problem harder to identify and treat.

·2 min read
Why young people are stripping down and embracing naturismWellness

Why young people are stripping down and embracing naturism

A writer's accidental visit to a naturist resort raised a surprisingly serious question: could embracing nudity in community be the antidote to our modern body image crisis?

·2 min read