Psychology

To be diagnosed as a specific phobia, a fear must be excessive, unreasonable, and have lasted for six months or more; and it must interfere with normal life.

After decades of telling myself that screaming was unseemly, I could only really do a feeble imitation of someone letting out a scream.

Few would have expected Saito’s Japanese-language solution to the climate crisis to have much appeal outside leftwing academia and politics.

Are we ashamed of our past? And perhaps more importantly, what does all that secrecy cost us?

When in distress, a lot of consumers are inclined to throw money at their problems.

Given the devastating effect that loss of smell and taste can have on quality of life and wellbeing, this will have a huge impact on global health

Until last year, China’s zero-Covid policy had won much support from its citizens. When western countries such as the US and the UK recorded hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of infections, the ruling Communist party used the opportunity to emphasise the virtues of its system of government.

There are distressing accounts of self-harm, suicide, suicidal thoughts, widespread despair and spiralling anxiety.

Psychologists found that the more hungry people felt, the more angry – or hangry – they became.

In 2018, serial entrepreneur Russel Glass had a realization: “The world was not going to be able to ignore mental health much longer,” he told Quartz.