Uncertainty and change are two of the biggest triggers behind the anxiety people experience while making their way into January.

Anxiety and loneliness are, more often than not, strong driving forces behind oversharing at social gatherings.

"It's as though the awareness of having someone's eyes on me, prevents me from exercising control over my limbs."

Math anxiety can affect people's educational outcomes -- and is a culturally mediated phenomenon that could increase the gender gap in STEM.

The fact that we're constantly on edge due to a multitude of stressors messes with our internal systems, preventing us from relaxing.

This is among the first official guidelines to recommend preventive screenings for anxiety -- marking a shift in how we approach mental healthcare.

An anxiety disorder appears to be at the root of this "fear" of new places. It has a name too: agoraphobia.

“This basic, physical experience of separating residues from our body can trigger a more psychological form of separation..."

Besides helping people connect with nature, gardening might also offer them greater exposure to vitamin D -- overall, improving their mood.

Although these thoughts are often disturbing for the people who have them, trying to suppress them can make them worse -- but a new study on pre-empting them promises some hope.

A series in which The Swaddle team indulges your pity party with advice you'll probably ignore.

Differences in circadian rhythms determine our chronotype -- determining whether we’re "morning larks" or "night owls."

"Scrolling social media is so ubiquitous that [we] do it almost without thinking from the moment we wake up to when we close our eyes at night."

“[T]he presence of music — vs. silence — affected performance... It led participants to make faster and also less accurate decisions.”

“The new findings are important for developing more individualized diagnoses and personalized therapies.”

“When society creates an impossible standard of masculinity to maintain... nobody wins.”

When you're literally acting for an invisible audience every day, it's easy to get caught up in observing yourself rather than experiencing life.

People may be overweighing unlikely probabilities but underweighting likely ones -- like the risk of catching infection by not wearing a mask.