Parasocial Relationships: When Online Connections Affect Mood and Self-Worth
A parasocial relationship is a one-sided emotional bond with a public figure—someone you follow, watch, or listen to regularly, even though they do not...
People-Pleasing: Why It Happens, the Mental Health Cost, and How to Stop
People-pleasing often begins as a social strength: you notice what others need, you smooth friction, and you can be relied on. The problem starts...
Perfectionism Anxiety: Signs, Causes, and How to Let Go
Perfectionism can look like strength from the outside: high standards, reliability, and an ability to push through. Inside, it often feels like a constant...
Perimenopause Anxiety and Brain Fog: Why It Happens and What to Do
Perimenopause can feel like your mind and body are operating on shifting ground. You might recognize yourself less—more worried, more reactive, less sharp—without a...
Perimenopause Rage: Why It Happens and What Helps
If you have found yourself snapping at small things, feeling “flooded” with anger, or reacting in ways that do not feel like you, you...
Pets and Mental Health: How Animal Companionship Reduces Stress and Loneliness
Living with an animal changes the texture of a day. A dog that insists on a morning walk pulls you into daylight and movement....
Phone Addiction Symptoms: Signs, Causes, and How to Cut Screen Time
Most of us use our phones constantly, but there is a meaningful difference between “frequent use” and a pattern that starts to run your...
Physical Activity for Stress Relief: The Best Workouts to Calm Your Nervous System
Stress relief is one of the most practical reasons to move your body, and it does not require athletic goals or long workouts. The...
Physiological Sigh: The Quick Breathing Tool for Stress Relief
Stress often arrives faster than your best coping skills. One moment you are fine, the next your chest feels tight, your thoughts speed up,...
Pineal Gland Meditation for Sleep: What It Claims and What Science Says
Pineal gland meditation is often marketed as a direct path to deeper sleep—sometimes through “activating” the pineal gland, boosting melatonin, or calming the nervous...
PMDD Symptoms: Cyclical Depression, Rage, and Anxiety Before Your Period
If your mood reliably crashes in the days before your period—depression that feels heavy and unfamiliar, anger that flares too fast, anxiety that locks...
PMDD Treatment Options: SSRIs, Birth Control, Supplements, and Therapy
PMDD treatment is not about “toughing it out” for part of every month. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a cyclical, hormone-sensitive condition where mood symptoms—depression,...
PMDD vs PMS: What’s Different and When to Seek Help
Many people notice physical or emotional changes before a period. For some, those changes are mild and inconvenient. For others, they are intense enough...
Polyvagal Theory Explained: Safety, Stress, and the Autonomic Nervous System
Polyvagal theory has become popular because it offers a simple, body-based language for experiences that can be hard to describe: the calm of feeling...
Positive Thinking: What Helps, What Hurts, and What’s Evidence-Based
Positive thinking is often sold as a simple switch: choose better thoughts, feel better, do better. Real life is messier—and that is exactly why...
Post-Concussion Symptoms: Brain Fog, Headaches, and When to Get Checked
A concussion can be deceptively quiet at first: maybe a headache, a “stunned” feeling, or mild nausea that seems manageable. Then, hours or days...