Mental Health
Here you can read the latest news and research studies covering mental health. This is also the place to find out about different strategies on how you can reduce stress and boost happiness, and many other ways to look after your mental wellbeing.
7 simple rituals that help you feel like yourself again
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There’s a specific kind of "off" that’s difficult to capture or express in words. No, you're not feeling sick or sad. You're not stressed exactly. Just... off. A little irritable, a little flat, carrying something you can’t quite put your finger on. Read More...
Digital decluttering tips that work without clearing your whole schedule
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM You know that thing where you sit down to find one photo from last summer, and somehow it’s thirty minutes later, and you’re in 2019? Digital clutter does that. A chaotic phone or a laptop full of half-forgotten downloads creates the same low-level stress Read More...
Job instability is pushing people to rethink their lives, not just their resumes
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For years, the go-to response to career difficulty was optimization. If work felt stagnant, or a job wasn’t coming through, the prescription was the same: update your resume, sharpen your skills, find a better angle. The assumption was that the system was Read More...
How to reset your gut in 30 days, according to a gastroenterologist
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM You’ve probably spent more time than you’d like to admit wondering if something is off with your gut. Not dramatically wrong, just persistently uncomfortable. Bloated after meals for no clear reason. Sluggish in the morning. The kind of thing you chalk up Read More...
What is an admin date? Why experts say it helps with productivity and loneliness at once
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM You probably have something on your to-do list that has been there long enough to feel embarrassing. An email you owe someone. A subscription that sneakily renewed again. A form you have been meaning to file since winter. Every week, it just sits there, and Read More...
5 small habits that make every day feel more meaningful
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The feeling of not mattering, of going through a whole day without anyone really seeing you, sits closer to the surface than most people let on. Jennifer Breheny Wallace has spent years studying this. In her new book Mattering, she frames it as a gap: the Read More...
The parenting habit that builds lifelong closeness with adult children
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Picture two parents, both devoted. Both called every Sunday. Both showed up for birthdays, sent money when things got hard, and made every visible effort. One of them has an adult child who calls with the hard stuff: the job that fell apart, the relationship Read More...
How parents' phone habits shape their children's, according to new research
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For years, the conversation about children and screens has been aimed squarely at children. How much time, what content, and at what age? Sweden's public health agency has now turned the question around. This past Monday, the agency issued new guidelines Read More...
The 10-minute habit that helped David Attenborough reach 100 years old
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Sir David Attenborough turned 100 on May 8, and people want to know how he did it. Fair enough. A century is rare. A century of active fieldwork, narration, and travel across every ecosystem on earth is something even rarer. When someone who has spent his Read More...
The case for making prison phone calls free: new data, real results
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For decades, a phone call home from prison could cost a family several dollars a minute. That wasn’t an oversight. It was the business model. A growing number of state prison systems and county jails have moved to make calls free, arguing that regular Read More...