Mood & mind
How to tell a bad week from something that needs help
Clinicians use three specific criteria: duration, function and change from baseline. You can apply them yourself.
The Naked Journal
Women’s health, explained clearly.
Hormones, cycles, sleep, mood, fertility, perimenopause — and the patterns that connect them. Written to be read, not to be scrolled past.
Mood & mind
What actually helps anxiety, ranked honestly
The interventions with the strongest evidence are not the ones with the biggest marketing budgets. Here is what the research supports, and what it does not.
Mood & mind
Why one drink wrecks the next day more than it used to
The next-morning dread has a mechanism: a rebound in the brain's excitatory system as alcohol clears, layered on top of sleep it has quietly destroyed.
Mood & mind
Does hormonal birth control affect your mood?
The population evidence is genuinely mixed. Your individual experience is not, and it is the only one that should decide what you take.
Mood & mind
Brain fog is a symptom, not a condition
The word covers at least six different problems with different fixes. Working out which one you have is most of the work.
Mood & mind
Why so many women are diagnosed with ADHD in their thirties
The diagnostic criteria were built on studies of hyperactive boys. What ADHD looks like in a woman who learned to compensate is a different picture entirely.
Mood & mind
Low ferritin, and feeling flat when your blood test was "normal"
You can be seriously iron-depleted with a completely normal full blood count. Ferritin is the test that finds it, and it is often not run.
Mood & mind
Why anxiety spikes in the week before your period
The mechanism runs through a progesterone metabolite that acts on the same brain receptors as alcohol and benzodiazepines. In some people it calms. In others it does the opposite.