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Altruism, such as volunteering and donating, has been shown to improve happiness and well-being, and may be fundamental to being human.

Gaslighting can be a major issue during holiday gatherings, but there are ways to recognize and cope with it.

Research shows that gratitude had a significant inverse relationship to loneliness — as gratitude increased, loneliness decreased.

Rethinking soulmate parenting can help improve parent-child relationships and family relationships overall.

Feeling lonely increased risk for all-cause dementia by 31 percent and cognitive impairment by 15 percent.

Learn how to distinguish between normal anxiety and an anxiety disorder, and what you can do to manage your anxiety.

Being authentic can improve psychological health by increasing self-determination and meaning in life.

Learn how to cope with election stress and anxiety with expert advice on building resilience and managing negative emotions.

Both normal and maladaptive guilt can make us feel miserable, but we can take active steps to work through this emotion.

Staying active, eating healthier and considering medication can help manage hypertension and reduce dementia risk.

Counter election anxiety by validating your fears, facing worries during the day, taking a break from doomscrolling and adopting decent sleep habits.

Depression treatment can affect the sex drive, but some antidepressants can actually improve sex life.

Flu, herpes and respiratory tract and other serious infections are linked to accelerated brain atrophy and increased risk of dementia years later, a study says.

Dreams of women who worked outside the home were driven more by the desire for social recognition, a study by Monique Lortie-Lussier and another researcher found.

Some anxiety is normal, even beneficial, during pregnancy and after birth. But for some new mothers, anxiety begins to disrupt daily life functioning.

If we don’t figure out how to deal with the (occasionally grating) humanity of the people we wish to be close to, we are resigning ourselves to loneliness.

New biomarker tests could improve diagnostic accuracy in early Parkinson’s disease and even diagnose it before symptoms begin.

Starting over, responsibilities before bed, conditioned arousal, pressure to sleep and having nothing to focus on are reasons you may be sleepy on a couch but not in bed.