Stress

As political polarization intensifies, navigating family dynamics during the holidays can be more challenging than ever. This article explores practic...

WARNING: This article discusses suicide. David Parfett's son committed suicide after purchasing poison online from Kenneth Law, who allegedly shipped...

The world needs more empathy and compassion, but being kind doesn't mean being a pushover. Learn how to practice Ruthless Compassion and be truly kind...

Pop psychology may seem benign and even helpful, but being shallow and uninformed, it can cause substantial and lasting damage.

The mental health impact of our climate crisis can't be underestimated. This season of wildfires in Canada has been unprecedented. Its trail of physi...

The topic of anger comes up fairly often in my psychiatry practice. Recently, I saw the movie, Turning Red, and I started thinking about the different...

The only thing that anti-Asian sentiment does is to cause harm to individual Asian people like me. Hatred did not cure AIDS and it won’t cure COVID.

Embracing the strange is likely to build more and better connections, making us happier, and that will be something to be grateful for this Thanksgivi...

It doesn’t look like the economy is going to get much better any time soon, so, I’d like to offer 10 simple tips for dealing with stress during these...

As I write this blog, I’m thinking that most likely, there will be another mass shooting in the US by the time it’s published. According to recent sta...

While it’s important to know the facts about what’s going on in Ukraine, too much graphic content can be overwhelming. We can become incapacitated and...

Young people today have been facing far too many crises. What I propose is a way to manage the stress of today’s insane world, and a way to feel more...