Mental health experts reveal how birth order affects well-being and how you can prioritize your joy.

05/18/2025 07:00AM EDT

Are you too responsible for your own good? Are you highly critical of any mistake you make? Are you a perfectionist? You must be an oldest daughter.

All jokes aside, while there are certainly youngest children, middle…Read More

Among the persistent mysteries of the 2024 election is the roots of the modern political gender gap, particularly among young people. Though their final vote choices were a bit more nuanced than some pre-election polls suggested, young men and women, aged 18 to 29, had the largest divergence in their vote among the age groups. Gen Z men supported…Read More

Rage and autoimmune disease: is there a link between suppressed anger and the women’s health crisis?

In the midst of a women’s health crisis, could bottled rage be the source of what ails us?
According to a 2020 study, autoimmune diseases disproportionately affect women – accounting for nearly 80 per cent of cases. A separate study from 2021…Read More

Experts in post-traumatic growth say devastating events can make you stronger.
At 16, my nephew Kent—a funny, hard-working Indiana farm kid—was taken by a wildfire-fast leukemia. The cancer spread with such ferocity, he died within 24 hours of being diagnosed, and probably, the doctors speculated, mere months from the time it took hold. In tho…Read More

Nat Geo: You really can recover from a painful experience—and be better than before

It’s called post-traumatic growth. Scientists explain the keys to achieving it.
Erica Solove remembers December 30, 2021, like it was yesterday. She was at home in Superior, Colorado, a Boulder suburb at the foot of the Rockies. “It was an extremely windy day…Read More