#Mental Health

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Thomas S. Langner, Who Linked Social Ills to Mental Illness, Dies at 102 — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  He helped lead what became known as the Midtown Manhattan Study, which showed that mental impairment is highly correlated with low socioeconomic status.

  Related: #Obituary, #Social Science
• 🇺🇸 Noah Kahan Wasn’t Sure He Wanted Anyone to See His New Netflix Doc — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The singer and director Nick Sweeney offer fans a look at the aftermath of a breakthrough hit: “I'm scared of opening up like this."

  Related: #Music Industry, #Celebrity Culture
• 🇺🇸 Harrison Ford Reveals He Suffered Clinical Depression in College: ‘I Was Socially Ill’ — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The actor opened up about his past mental health struggles in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter

  Related: #Celebrity Disclosure, #Personal History
• 🇺🇸 Abusive husband gets 8 years in prison for wife's death by suicide — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Lee Milne, 40, was sentenced to eight years in prison following his conviction in Glasgow's High Court for culpable homicide and engaging in abusive behavior.

  Related: #Domestic Abuse, #Criminal Justice
• 🇺🇸 Meta must face youth addiction lawsuit by Massachusetts, court rules — 10/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Tech Regulation, #Consumer Protection
• 🇺🇸 'How are you using AI?' Your therapist should ask you that question, experts argue — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  A paper in <em>JAMA Psychiatry</em> says mental health providers should ask if patients are using artificial intelligence chatbots, just as they would ask patients about sleep habits and substance use...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Clinical Practice
• 🇺🇸 Hawaii Doctor Found Guilty of Attempted Manslaughter of Wife — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Hawaii doctor Gerhardt Konig has been found guilty of attempted manslaughter based on extreme mental or emotional disturbance for trying to kill his wife, Arielle, on her birthday. He faces up to 20 y...

  Related: #Domestic Violence, #Legal Trial
• 🇺🇸 A ‘Messy’ Cease-Fire, and a 15-Year Sentence for the ‘Ketamine Queen’ — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Plus, the latest country planning to ban social media for teens.

  Related: #Tech Regulation, #Youth Safety
• 🇺🇸 Jury convicts Hawaii doctor of attempted manslaughter for trying to kill his wife — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Gerhardt Konig, the anesthesiologist accused of trying to kill his wife in Hawaii last year, was found guilty Wednesday of attempted manslaughter based upon extreme mental or emotional disturbance.

  Related: #Criminal Justice, #Domestic Violence
• 🇺🇸 The Social Media Addiction Trials: What to Know — 25/03/2026 [USA]

  Landmark trials are testing a new legal strategy claiming that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube caused personal injury through addictive products.

  Related: #Technology Ethics, #Legal Accountability
• 🇺🇸 The hardest question to answer about AI-fueled delusions — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I was originally going to write this week’s newsletter about A...

  Related: #AI Ethics
• 🇺🇸 AI Psychosis: Does Conversational AI Amplify Delusion-Related Language? — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.19574v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational AI systems are increasingly used for personal reflection and emotional disclosure, raising concerns about their effects on vulnerable ...

  Related: #AI Ethics
• 🇺🇸 Depictions of Depression in Generative AI Video Models: A Preliminary Study of OpenAI's Sora 2 — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.19527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative video models are increasingly capable of producing complex depictions of mental health experiences, yet little is known about how these sy...

  Related: #AI Ethics, #Technology
• 🇬🇧 Study links children’s social media use with anxiety and depression in teenage years — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Researchers say lack of sleep could be a factor among young people interacting online for more than three hours a day</p><p>Children who are on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/social-med...

  Related: #Digital Media
• 🇺🇸 Not just buying &apos;things&apos;: Why China&apos;s emotional economy is on the rise — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Amid a prolonged economic slowdown, one segment of the world's second-largest economy is growing quicker than the rest: China's so-called emotional economy.

  Related: #Consumer Behavior
• 🇺🇸 Barry Keoghan Says Online “Abuse” Has “Become A Problem” For His Acting: “You Don’t Want To Even Be On Screen Anymore” — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  After exiting social media in 2024, Barry Keoghan recently got candid about the toll online abuse has taken on his career. The Oscar nominee, who has been filming his part of the Sam Mendes’ Beatles c...

  Related: #Online Harassment, #Acting Industry
• 🇬🇧 ‘You lose yourself’: inside the mental health crisis hitting gen X women — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>My generation had great role models, free university and the morning-after pill. We should be running the world. Instead, two-thirds of us are facing mental health problems – and it’s not all about...

  Related: #Demographic Crisis
• 🇺🇸 Why it pays to be bored — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Resolving boredom through our incessant attention to our devices has, according to New York Times bestselling author Arthur C. Brooks, also brought an end to letting our minds wander, inhibiting abstr...

  Related: #Digital Technology, #Cognitive Science
• 🇺🇸 I’m a psychologist who studies couples: People in emotionally secure relationships do 5 things every day—that most neglect — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Emotional security comes down to how a couple handles conflict, independence, boredom and doubt over time. Mark Travers, a psychologist who studies couples, shares the habits of people in emotionally ...

  Related: #Relationship Psychology, #Emotional Security, #Couple Habits
• 🇬🇧 I have stage four cancer – there will be no cure, but death isn’t necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>When you are cured, the world cheers; when you are dying, it mourns. But when you are simply maintaining, the world is at a loss</p><p>Mornings begin with a silent inventory, conducted in the dark ...

  Related: #Terminal Illness
• 🇬🇧 'I can't let panic attacks rule my life any more' — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Musician and author Izzy Judd says she has learned to live with anxiety and to calm her mind.

  Related: #Personal Resilience
• 🇺🇸 Barry Keoghan Says the Online ‘Abuse of How I Look’ Is So Bad He No Longer Wants to ‘Go Outside’: ‘It’s Becoming a Problem’ — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  Barry Keoghan recently told SiriusXM’s “The Morning Mash Up” (via EW) that the online “abuse” about his appearance has gotten so bad that he no longer wants to “go outside.” “There’s a lot of hate onl...

  Related: #Cyberbullying
• 🇺🇸 ‘Food Noise’ Might Explain Your Constant Thoughts About Food — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  How experts define the buzzy term.

  Related: #Eating Behavior
• 🇺🇸 Dave Grohl Addresses Infidelity, Says He Goes to Therapy ‘Six Days a Week’ — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  "I wound up in a place that I needed to stop and sit with myself and re-evaluate myself," the musician said in a new interview

  Related: #Celebrity Confession
• 🇺🇸 TherapyGym: Evaluating and Aligning Clinical Fidelity and Safety in Therapy Chatbots — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.18008v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for mental-health support; yet prevailing evaluation methods--fluency metrics, preference tests, a...

  Related: #AI Ethics
• 🇺🇸 Anson Lo on Wanting Roles About Mental Illness, the Rise of Hong Kong Pop and His Global Ambitions: ‘It’s Wonderful to be Me, But Also a Little Bit Challenging as Well’ — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Anson Lo is one of Hong Kong’s most recognizable entertainment figures, but he still describes himself as feeling small. The singer and actor – best known as a member of boy group Mirror and as a solo...

  Related: #Music Industry, #Career Ambitions
• 🇺🇸 Kevin Spacey’s ‘Mental Illness’ Should Trigger $29.5 Million Payout, ‘House of Cards’ Trial Jurors Hear — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Lawyers clashed over Spacey's "sexual compulsive behavior" diagnosis in 2017 and what it meant for an insurance policy covering the hit Netflix show

  Related: #Legal Dispute
• 🇬🇧 ‘We keep secrets because we’re scared’: Guvna B on porn addiction and recovery — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>After writing about a racist attack on his last album, the award-winning musician wanted his new work to be happier. Then life took him down a different path. He discusses stigma, shame and how he ...

  Related: #Addiction Recovery
• 🇬🇧 Weight loss jabs may help anxiety and depression, study finds — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Drugs used for weight loss could help reduce anxiety and depression, a new study revealed.

  Related: #Weight Loss
• 🇺🇸 Social media making young people less happy, report finds — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Heavy social media use has contributed to 'worrying decline' in wellbeing in Western countries, report says.

  Related: #Technology Impact