Psychology Today Blog

July 1, 2025
Do You Underestimate Risk?

June 03, 2025
Depressive Decision-Making

April 28, 2025
Investment Anxiety in a Market Downturn

March 26, 2025
12 Ways to Cope With Unemployment

March 25, 2025
The Human Costs of Unemployment

February 11, 2025
Working Together on Jealousy

January 15, 2025
How to Handle Our Political Differences

November 2, 2022
Existential Perfectionism and Regret

June 9, 2022
How to Handle Regret and Disappointment

June 7, 2022
Is Regret Ever Useful?

April 19, 2021
Building Motivation to Overcome Depression

April 14, 2021
How to Overcome Your Perfectionism 

April 12, 2021
How to Overcome Hopelessness

March 24, 2021
How to Defeat Your Self-Criticism: Overcoming Depression

March 16th, 2020
How Low Self-Esteem Can Make Depression Worse

April 16th, 2020
Why People Do Not Comply with Pandemic Guidelines

March 27th, 2020
7 Tips for Handling Isolation During the Pandemic

March 21st 2020
The Zen Warrior Meets the Pandemic

March 20th, 2020
Depressive Thinking During the Coronavirus Pandemic

March 18th, 2020
Staying Home During the Pandemic

March 10th, 2020
Are You Worried About the Coronavirus?

March 3rd, 2020
Coronavirus Anxiety

February 10, 2020
What It’s Like to Feel Jealous

September 15th, 2019:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Romantic Jealousy

September 10th, 2019:
How to Defeat Your Self-Criticism

September 3rd, 2019:
Will You Get That Paper Done on Time?

August 12th, 2019:
>How Your Thinking Is Biased Toward the Negative

March 11th, 2019:
Seven Steps to Reduce Your Stress at Work

February 8th, 2019:
Overcoming Retrospective Jealousy

December 12th, 2018:
Talking Politics During the Holidays

August 1st, 2018:
Are You Blowing Things Up in Your Head? Four Techniques to Gain Better Perspective

July 30th, 2018:
Have We Lost Perspective: Is the world really that bad off?

April 30th, 2018:
Getting Past the Past Jealousy

April 23rd, 2018:
How Your Jealousy Drives Your Partner Away

April 12th, 2018:
Envy: Why It Doesn’t Feel Good When Someone Else Succeeds

April 3rd, 2018:
What If Your Partner Is Jealous?

February 28th, 2018:
Are Your Rule-Books Making You More Jealous?

February 13th, 2018:
Is Jealousy a Sign that You are Neurotic?

February 12th, 2018:
Is Jealousy Hijacking Your Relationship?

February 6th, 2018:
Ten Steps to Freeing Yourself from Worry

October 30th, 2017:
Are You Your Own Worst Enemy? Part II

October 3rd, 2017:
Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?

September 25th, 2017:
Complaining: Are You Sounding Like A Downer?

June 12th, 2017:
Ten Steps to Overcoming the Need for Approval

May 22nd, 2017:
Management Styles: Are You Stuck in a Losing Style of Managing People?

April 11, 2017 :
Listening to Patients

March 17, 2017 :
Living with Uncertainty: “Yeah, But I Could Be The One!!!”

March 15, 2017 :
Successful Imperfection

March 08, 2017 :
Constructive Discomfort; How to do what you don’t want to do.

February 27th, 2017:
Putting Things in Perspective; Five Easy Steps to Reducing Daily Stress

February 9th, 2017:
Living With Loneliness

May 4th, 2016:
The Decline of Trust

May 4th, 2016:
The Anxiety Rule Book: How to Guarantee That You Will Be Anxious and Stay Anxious

May 2nd, 2016:
The Gift of Fear; How Evolution Protected Us By Making Us Afraid

November 7th, 2015:
Coping with Your Envy: Turning Envy on Its Head

November 6th, 2015:
How to Get a Handle on Your Worries: Simple Tips for Coping with Worry

October 28th, 2015:
Envy: Why We Can’t Stand it When Other People Succeed

August 12th, 2015:
Why Trump Appeals to People

January 10th, 2015:
 How to Think About Terrorism

October 21st, 2014:
How Panic Spreads with Fears of Ebola

October 15th, 2014:
Social Anxiety:  What Will People Think

September 24th, 2014
Letting Go of Sunk Costs:How to Escape the Past

September 10, 2014
How to Put Down that Self-Critic

April 7, 2014
Are You Afraid of Your Thoughts?

December 16, 2013
Realistic New Year’s Resolutions

November 27, 2013
Every Day Is Thanksgiving

October 9, 2013
Feeling Ashamed of Being Unemployed

October 7, 2013
The Forgotten American: The Sad Story of the Unemployed

February 4, 2013
You Are Not Your Job

December 19, 2012
Massacre for the Media