"I wish I was dead.” Today, when your child says these words, they cannot be brushed off as simple teen angst. There is a chance she is seriously considering taking her life. According to a survey by ...

When your child tells you they are feeling sad, it's important to offer them support and show that you care. Even before the pandemic, anxiety and depression were becoming more common among children ...

Anderson is a journalist, author and speaker. She spent 20 years covering finance including 10 at the New York Times before shifting her focus to learning. She is currently working on a book about the ...

Novelist Erin Entrada Kelly remembers throwing herself “pity parties” as a child. As the name suggests, her pity parties allowed her to wallow in her feelings of sadness and frustration in peace with ...

In the midst of writing this column, I learned a friend’s teen daughter had died. I am steeped in sadness. There is disbelief, a deep ache in my heart, and the knowledge the lives of her parents, ...

You may not particularly enjoy feeling sad. You may prefer experiencing other emotions. But if you try to avoid the emotion all together, mental health professionals want you to know not to. People ...

Leading reproductive and mental health experts have said the sex of a baby could sometimes trigger emotional stress for new mothers, particularly when the child’s gender does not align with family ...

Sadness is the emotion we experience when we encounter some kind of loss. It can be a difficult emotion to feel. “But the goal should not be to live a life free of sadness,” says Ethan Kross, PhD, a ...