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April 16, 2026
The New Anxiety: Why Your Brain Feels Loud Even When Life Looks Quiet
We live in an era of unprecedented physical safety, yet we are haunted by a pervasive sense of peril. As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst for over forty years, I have listened to thousands of patients describe a peculiar modern ache:...
April 2, 2026
Sunday Scaries, But Every Day: When Stress Stops Being Situational
Most people are familiar with the Sunday scaries: that creeping sense of dread that arrives late Sunday afternoon as the weekend fades and the workweek looms. A little anticipatory anxiety before a demanding week is common—and usually situational. But what...
March 19, 2026
The “Soft Crash” Era: Why People Are Quietly Breaking Down Instead of Burning Out Loud
By a Psychiatrist For years, we talked about burnout as if it were a fire—dramatic, visible, impossible to ignore. People hit a wall, collapsed, quit jobs, had public meltdowns, or were forced into time off. Burnout was loud. Employers noticed....
March 5, 2026
Social Battery Drain: When City Life Feels Lonely Even When You’re Never Alone
If you live in a city, you’re rarely by yourself. There are people on the sidewalk, on the train, in the elevator, in the café line. Notifications buzz, emails pile up, group chats never sleep. And yet many people I...
February 19, 2026
High-Functioning Burnout: When You’re “Doing Fine” But Still Falling Apart Inside
If you were to describe your life on paper, it might look… fine.You show up to work. You meet deadlines. People rely on you. You may even be successful by most external standards. And yet, internally, something feels off. You’re...
