Nearly two years ago, I found myself standing in a humid, grimy motel room in Pennsylvania, talking to opioid addicts about what drove them to their addictions. At the time I was struck by the many ...

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Deaths of Despair, a new book by Princeton economics professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton, begins with some sunny facts. For a little more than a hundred years in the United States, beginning in 1900 ...

Integrity vs. despair is the eighth and final stage of Erik Erikson’s stage theory of psychosocial development. This stage begins at approximately age 65 and ends at death. Psychologists, counselors, ...

COVID-19 has directly claimed tens of thousands of U.S. lives, but conditions stemming from the novel coronavirus — rampant unemployment, isolation and an uncertain future — could lead to 75,000 ...

Despair is defined as a complete loss of hope. Many of us experience despair over the course of a lifetime—after a loss, a traumatic event, or a prolonged period of difficulty. But for some, the root ...

Steve Austin wasn’t supposed to be depressed. He was about to celebrate his son’s first birthday. He had a fulfilling job as a youth pastor in a Southern Baptist church in rural Alabama. He was ...