First aid and safety are often lessons taught in schools or discussed at home, with many learning basic responses to cuts and bruises from their parents. Mental health, however, is rarely part of such ...

Physical symptoms of an anxiety/panic attack, like heart palpitations, chest pain, and breathlessness, can mimic those seen with a heart attack. One key way to differentiate symptoms between a panic ...

According to a 2018 study, stimulating the vagus nerve controls the body's rest-and-digest response, which signals the body to relax. Splashing cold water on your face or drinking ice water can ...

How one teenager's battle with severe anxiety prompted him to start Project GenZen, working with apps like Headspace to bring coping tools to others.

I think there is a misapprehension that those of us in the mental-health field who write self-help books do so from a clinical distance and without personal experience with the content that we present ...

Reese Witherspoon said that she tried medication and meditation until a hypnotist helped her resolve her anxiety.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Once again, Clune doesn’t follow the standard quest plot, a tidy arc from diagnosis to cure. Still, in capturing the symptoms, he is spot-on. Through the ...

She helped calm his fight-or-flight response. A Delta Air Lines flight attendant is being praised for her compassionate response to a passenger who was freaking out at 30,000 feet. The empathetic deed ...

Internet users are rallying around a boss's act of kindness after an employee had to leave work due to a panic attack. A few days later, their employer sent a heartfelt handwritten card—and the ...