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Loneliness is a common feeling, but there are steps you can take to help feel more connected. Listening to music, calling a friend, taking a walk outside, and other activities may reduce your sense of ...

How Xanax affects your body can vary by your age, mental state when you take the drug, dosage, and other factors. It may have a sedative effect that can make you feel calmer. This drug has boxed ...

Feeling “empty” can be a frightening and painful experience. When we feel emotional emptiness, we feel hollow–like there is simply nothing inside of us. This feeling can be very different from the ...

Are you a good enough friend, employee, partner, or parent? Are you thin, attractive, smart, and nice enough? If you have doubts about yourself, you’re not alone. In fact, clinical psychologist Ronald ...

These pitfalls give minimalism a bad name. Read this before you get rid of too many storage containers or decor.

Pooping can have physiological and psychological effects that may feel pleasurable. Passing a bowel movement involves tension in certain muscles. Relaxing the muscles after a motion stimulates the ...

Whew! It’s been a tumultuous few years, and you (and likely everyone you know) have been through it. Luckily, reading is an inexpensive and fun way to take a break, slow down and relax. And while ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, you can call the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357) ...

Running is both an art and a science in many ways, and sometimes, you choose whether you want to lean into the former or the latter. Such is the case when running by feel (art) or pace (science). Your ...

If you want to watch a feel-good movie, then pull up a chair and look to Netflix to give you that fix. Netflix may not have a feel-good button in its movie section, but the streamer knows that its ...

Loneliness has been on the rise in the United States in recent decades, causing concern about our health and well-being. More people are reporting that they feel lonely often and lack close confidants ...