Mental Health Essentials

Clear, evidence-based answers to the mental-health questions people actually search — without the jargon or the hype. This section covers what stress is really doing to you, when anxiety crosses from normal to a problem, whether therapy works and how to choose the right approach for you, what burnout is and isn't, and how to know when it's time to get professional help. It's meant to be the calm, accurate first read before the internet's noise gets to you.

Start here

  • How do I improve my mental health? (evidence-based guide) — the broad anchor page

  • Burnout: what it is, what it isn't, and the way back — for high performers and leaders

  • When should I get professional help? — a decision guide (with a downloadable one-pager)

Every question in this section

  • How do I improve my mental health? (evidence-based guide)

  • What is stress actually doing to you — and what helps?

  • Anxiety: when is it a problem and what actually works?

  • Does therapy work? Choosing what's right for you

  • Burnout: what it is, what it isn't, and the way back

  • Sleep and mental health: the bidirectional highway

  • Loneliness: the health risk nobody treats

  • Rumination: why your brain won't let it go

  • When should I get professional help?

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Curated by Dr. Adi Jaffe, PhD (UCLA), author of The Abstinence Myth and Unhooked.