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Personal Perspective: Why tolerating ambiguity can deepen connection and hope.

Good fortune should make us feel better. But for people with low self-esteem, positive life events can sometimes have a surprising psychological and physical cost.

Studies show handwriting helps us remember and learn better than typing, and a simple note may turn out to become a meaningful keepsake… for a week or two, or even generations.

Many 20th-century psychiatrists and psychologists would agree that neurosis is not a personal failing but the price of admission for our minds being meaning-making machines.

Most people leave a mental health crisis with a list of phone numbers and no map. A 23-year ER physician—and patient—shares what actually comes next.

Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman strength, the love of another. Along the way, we keep confusing experiment and exploration. An experiment proves or disproves an existing theory; its payoff is data, fixed and binary. An…

The art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth. The vast majority of our mental, emotional, and spiritual suffering comes from the violent collision between our expectations and reality. As we dust ourselves off amid the rubble, bruised and indignant, we further pain ourselves with the exertion of staggering emotional energy on outrage…

In my previous essay I discussed the company side of corporate advocacy. As noted in the essay, in the before time the group One Million Moms called for a boycott of Kraft in response to the rainbow Oreo. However, what motived my decision to write about consumer advocacy was the quandary faced by a friend…