The coping strategies made sense when they were formed. The problem is they kept running long after they were needed.

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A 2026 study found that 45.15 percent of participants 65 and older with more positive beliefs about aging showed improvement ...

Anxiety itself is not a mental illness. It's a normal, adaptive emotion that helps us respond to perceived threats. Anxiety ...

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Youth mental health has worsened significantly over the past decade, but new interventions that teach positive psychology concepts in school may help. One solution is to provide mental health care in ...

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Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s choice of pinch hitter, a football coach’s decision to ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

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