The teen's mother began to suspect something was wrong a few weeks before her son told a school principal that former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky had molested him.
Are your finances keeping you up at night? Here are a few tips and tricks to break free and relax.
A blog featuring the childhood photos of gay and lesbian men and women seeks to inspire and encourage struggling youth.
One of the first things Thomas Lobel told his parents was that they were wrong.
The American Psychological Association is calling on state and federal officials to stop anti-gay legal measures and to legalize same-sex marriage.
The screen legend, 90, says, "When a man feels helpless, it's terrible"
Some kids continue to be their parents' pride and joy for years after they've flown the nest. But the pleasure parents can experience from a grown child's success cuts both ways, new research suggests.
I recently had a terrible experience in the hospital. After surgery, while I was still mostly under and groggy, someone came and pulled the tube out of my mouth rather roughly then inserted another tube without ever speaking one word. This trauma has left me with a rather large problem: I do not eat solid food anymore. I know that this is all in my head, but I cannot overcome this. I am on antidepressant med and have seen a throat specialist. Can anyone help?
We are bad at predicting what will make us happy. In a 2006 special Dr. Sanjay Gupta looked at what actually works.
Richard Rose used to challenge his wife, Joyce, if he thought she was misstating something, but these days he lets it go.
Your dog may not actually be smarter than somebody's honor student -- popular bumper stickers aside. But your canine companion might well be smarter than their toddler, according to a growing body of research on how dogs think.
The American Psychological Association concluded Wednesday that there is little evidence that efforts to change a person's sexual orientation from gay or lesbian to heterosexual are effective.
Torture injuries
updated: Mon Jun 22 2009 09:59:00
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports how torture injuries can be physical and psychological.
Amir was a salesman before being arrested and taken to the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003. During his time there, he says, he was forced to lay down in urine and feces, stay naked in his cell for days, and "howl like dogs do" while being pulled by a dog leash. According to his accounts, he was also sodomized with a broomstick and had his genitals stepped on.
Feel as if you're about to snap? Learn what causes stress, along with proven strategies for controlling it.
If you're lying awake at night, feeling angry or fatigued, because of stress, you're in the majority, according to a nationwide report released Tuesday.
Yes, Americans are stressed over the economy.
As recession-rattled Americans look to stretch their dollars, it looks like yoga is a little luxury they're holding on to -- or adding to -- their schedules in the hopes of shedding some stress.
Amber Easton has gone from $80,000 a year in salary to scrambling for work. At a time in her life when she should be scaling the corporate ladder, she has instead spiraled into a deep depression. She recently lost her car and now faces eviction from her apartment.
A February 2008 laboratory study from the American Psychological Association says the widespread use of no-calorie sweeteners may actually make it harder for people to control their intake and body weight. Here are tips on the healthiest ways to get that sugar fix without packing on the pounds.
Managing anger
updated: Mon Nov 03 2008 16:08:00
Controlling a hot temper is good for your health, as CNN's Judy Fortin reports.
Experts are predicting a record voter turnout for tomorrow's presidential election.
Marquitia Fell isn't sure how she got to the Web site -- she linked from one site to another to another -- but finally, in black and white, she found the promise she'd been looking for: a promise to make her mortgage problems go away.
CNN medical correspondent has more on dealing with stress during these tough financial times.
Another index to keep an eye on in these economically turbulent times is the "anxiety index": It goes up when markets go down and people get upset and worried about their future.
Rate your fear
updated: Thu Oct 02 2008 10:45:00
How $cared are you? CNN's Jeanne Moos asks folks to rate their financial fear.
Let's not fight!updated: Tue May 27 2008 09:28:00
For the sake of argument, imagine a world without conflict. That's the full-time job for members of a relatively new field called peace psychology who focus on problems like the genocide in Darfur, hatred in the Middle East, gang warfare in our cities, and rape everywhere.
The American Psychological Association is embarking on the first review of its 10-year-old policy on counseling gays and lesbians, a step that gay-rights activists hope will end with a denunciation of any attempt by therapists to change sexual orientation
I have close, meaningful relationships with espresso brownies, cold beer, and reruns of "The West Wing." Until recently, it hadn't occurred to me that these paramours are, in fact, three of the major players in my stress-management strategy. Hey, I wasn't even aware I had a stress-management strategy.
If finding the right amount of time for work, family and fun in your life turns into more of a juggling act than a balancing act, you're not alone.
Dear Annie: Please settle an argument. My daughter is bright, articulate, and ambitious. She is 26 and has worked her way up from an administrative-assistant job to loan officer at a large bank in Miami, and I really believe (okay, maybe I'm biased) that her talents and excellent people skills could take her all the way to the top. Just one problem: She dresses like a streetwalker. I have told her that wearing spike heels, ultra-short skirts, and low-cut blouses to the office will hurt her chances for advancement, but she says this is her style and she is sticking with it. Do you agree that she's making a mistake? If so, will you say so in your column? Maybe she'll listen to you. -Dade County Dad
Instead of paying up, some late filers are taking their psychiatrists along with their lawyers to explain a new malady to the IRS: the ''failure-to-file syndrome.'' The purported syndrome has emerg...
Back when your correspondent was a callow collegian, the campuses were not crawling with professional sex researchers. In 1942, nobody was so rude as to inquire of Rutgers freshmen whether they spe...
Your correspondent recently had a choice between a weekend in which he could (a) defy the dermatologist and loll on the white beaches of North Carolina's Outer Banks or (b) defy common sense and vi...
We keep an eye out for such locutions, yet had not previously tripped over the word ''speciesism.'' But there it was a few weeks ago in the New Republic, whose correspondent was reporting on effort...
Not all people are equally intelligent, and not all groups of people have the same average intelligence. Those statements are at once truisms and a center of raging controversy. They strike sparks ...
The American Psychological Association (APA) was conventioneering in the Big Apple recently, so naturally we Gothamites had to sit there and absorb still more lectures on the transcendent importanc...
The days go by, and the self-esteem man never writes. Oh, sure, he was fast enough at producing an aggrieved letter to the editor of FORTUNE (published in the last issue), complaining about our gen...
The American Psychological Association recently held its annual meeting -- it was in Washington, D.C., this year -- and as usual we sent away for the program and a sampling of the papers submitted....