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A psychologist has noticed that people are anxious about AI and have existential questions about their purpose now.
Artificial Intelligence

People Being Replaced by AI Are Suffering a Deep Sense of Worthlessness

By Sharon Adarlo

A new survey conducted in the UK found that nearly half of young people wished they lived in a world without the internet.
Health & Medicine

Nearly Half of Young People Wish the Internet Had Never Been Invented

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have figured out, using statistics, exactly how often you should have sex to safeguard against depression.
Mental Health

Scientists Identify Ideal Amount of Boinking for Maximum Mental Health

By Noor Al-Sibai

Startups Are Biohacking Psychedelic Drugs to Make Sure You Never Have a Bad Trip Again
Health & Medicine

Startups Are Biohacking Psychedelic Drugs to Make Sure You Never Have a Bad Trip Again

By Victor Tangermann

A study found that teen girls are taking antidepressants at a much higher rate than teen boys, whose usage rate declined during the pandemic.
Health & Medicine

Teenage Girls Are Taking Way More Antidepressants and Boys Are Taking Way Fewer

By Sharon Adarlo

A new study suggests that people with ADHD who experience depressive symptoms may use sex as a means of self-medication.
Studies

Scientists Find Link Between ADHD, Depression and Hypersexuality

By Noor Al-Sibai

Interbreeding with the Denisovans left us with a gene that helped us with the climate, but left us vulnerable to mental disorders.
Gene Editing

Scientists Say We Bred With an Extinct Human Species and It Left a Grim Change in Our Brains

By Frank Landymore

Game Over, Frycels! Delicious Snack Linked to Depression and Anxiety
Studies

Game Over, Frycels! Delicious Snack Linked to Depression and Anxiety

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new, large study out of Oxford found that just a single synthetic mushroom "trip" can help ease depression symptoms for multiple months.
Treatments

Taking Psilocybin Just Once Eases Treatment-Resistant Depression in Study

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bad news for social media stans: researchers have compelling reasons to believe that using these apps may be making you depressed. 
Health & Medicine

Surprise, Surprise: Social Media Use Strongly Linked to Depression

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to new research, LSD-assisted therapy could be a surprisingly effective and long-lasting treatment for anxiety and depression-related symptoms.
Health & Medicine

Study Finds LSD Therapy Strikingly Effective at Reducing Anxiety and Depression

By Victor Tangermann

Science doesn't know exactly how depression works — and, as it turns out, we might not really know whether antidepressants really work, either. 
Health & Medicine

New Study Claims That Antidepressants Don’t Lead to Better Quality of Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

DMT is joining the ranks of party drugs including LSD, MDMA, ketamine and psilocybin mushrooms as a promising mental health treatment.
Medical

Scientists Are Now Testing Medical DMT on Human Subjects

By Tony Ho Tran

New research suggests that gender-affirming hormone therapy is directly connected to lower rates of depression and suicide attempts in transgender youths.
Health & Medicine

Study Finds That Trans Youth Who Get Gender-Affirming Hormones Are Less Depressed

By Tony Ho Tran

Researchers at the Stanford University say that they were able to treat depression in their patients by stimulating their brains with magnets.
Prosthetics and Devices

Stanford Scientists Say Brain Magnets Can Relieve Depression

By Tony Ho Tran

A brain implant that zaps a woman's brain 300 times per day treated her severe depression after medications failed for years.
Brain

Depressed Woman Gets Brain Implant, Says It Caused “Most Intensely Joyous Sensation”

By Dan Robitzski