Hidden Brain

Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

When people feel anxious about sleep, they may start doing things like lying in bed for hours hoping to fall asleep, or napping during the day to compensate for lost sleep at night. These behaviors feel intuitive, but they often backfire — and can actually make insomnia worse over time.

Hidden Brain

Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

Most people think of sleeplessness as a problem to be solved — a deficit to be corrected. But the anxiety we feel about not sleeping can itself become the thing that keeps us awake, transforming a single bad night into a chronic condition.

Hidden Brain

Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?

Most of us have been told that we need to get eight hours of sleep a night. But Grandner says this advice can actually make insomnia worse. When you're worried about getting enough sleep, you start trying harder and harder to sleep — and that effort to sleep is actually what prevents you from sleeping.

Office Hours

The $750,000 Head Start Rich Kids Get | Office Hours

Happiness is not only a function of what you can get or what you have. It's a function of an absence of anxiety of what can be taken from you.

TED

How to Google Your Symptoms Without Freaking Out | John Whyte | TED

Information isn't knowledge. Remember the phrase TMI? Do people still say that? Too much information. Typically, we would say it about what? We'd say it about someone's giving you too much personal information. Makes you feel awkward. Maybe a little anxious. Well, TMI also is around health. Too much information, when you're searching for your symptoms, actually can create anxiety, can actually be dangerous.

Code Switch

DACA recipients are trapped in Trump's limbo

It's so hard to be living not only in constant limbo, but with this level of hyper-vigilance that no matter what you do, there are outside factors that can wreck your life with a blink of an eye.

Radiolab

This American Roach

And, like every other time she has come into contact with a roach, this sent her into a debilitating spiral of fear, anger, and disgust.

Radiolab

This American Roach

like every other time she has come into contact with a roach, this sent her into a debilitating spiral of fear, anger, and disgust.

Code Switch

The minefields of parenting and race | Code Switch

Parenting activates all these anxieties and all this urgency around our identities and how we move through the world.

Book of the Day

Patrick Radden Keefe on 'London Falling' and the mystery of Zac Brettler

But there was a kind of corrosive anxiety, I think, about not having more. And you know, in some ways this is a very specific story about one boy who was a fabulist and who died too young. In other ways, I feel as though there are elements of this story that many of us would recognize.

It's Been a Minute

Young women are struggling, too. Why can't we see it? | It's Been a Minute

Women have long been more likely than men to struggle with or being diagnosed with depression and anxiety... women's suffering, it's quiet because it's women have had to suffer quietly for a very long time.

It's Been a Minute

Young women are struggling, too. Why can't we see it?

Women have, you know, struggled with higher rates of depression and anxiety for a long time. I wonder what does this demographicwide crisis look like for women and girls?