A Rising Plague of Melancholy

New research reveals that depression is now the most common serious medical or mental health disorder in the United States. According to the World Health ...

Belgian Hotel Rents Fish to Lonely Guests

Traveling by yourself isn't always the most fun: You might start to miss home, your family, your friends. A hotel in Belgium has come up with an idea ...

'Talk To Me' Says NY City Couple, and People Do

For months, Liz Berry and Bill Wetzel have been going out in the streets, seven days a week, 12 or 13 hours a day, in any kind of weather, with a handmade ...

Does Facebook Make Us Unhappy?

Does spending too much time on social media make us unhappy? A rigorous study published in the American Journal of Epidemiologysuggests that it does. ...

We Long for 'The Village' Connection We Never Had

Author Bunmi Laditan wrote a powerful essay a few years back called "I Miss the Village." In it she says that she goes throughout her everyday tasks in ...

Middle-Aged Men Biggest Threat: Loneliness

Dr. Richard S. Schwartz, a Cambridge psychiatrist who has studied the problem of loneliness in America, notes that over four decades of studies have shown ...

We Are Spending More Time on Facebook than Ever but Are Less Happy

From the New York Times:

The average time that users spend on Facebook is nearing an hour. That's more than any other leisure activity surveyed by the ...

Video Gamers Looking For Meaning, Order and Certainty

The numbers for the $100 billion video game industry are astonishing:

• 155 million Americans play video games.
• 40% play a minimum of 3 hours per week.
• At least 34 million play about 22 hours per week.

Company Develops a 'Mood Radio' to Reflect Your Moods

Imagine this: You come home after a long, tiring day. You walk up to a machine on your wall that looks something like a clock, with a display of a cartoon-like ...

God Makes Our Next Door Neighbor

G. K. Chesterton once quipped, "We make our friends; we make our enemies, but God makes our next door neighbor. … We have to love our neighbor ...