Psychological Health

IN A 1948 COVER STORY EXPLAINING THE
"new" and controversial medical field of psychiatry TIME observed, perhaps half jokingly, "There are more untreated neurotics walking the streets than anyone but a policeman or a psychiatrist suspects." While neurotics still abound today, fewer of them would be labeled "untreated" since we now know much more about the problems in our head, as TIME's coverage demonstrates.

Short-term stresses like speaking in public, it turns out, boost your immune system in ways that tend to keep you out of the coffin, not put you
in it.
From The Price of Pressure
By Sora Song
July 19, 2004

The new discoveries about teenage brain development have prompted all sorts of questions and theories about the timing of childhood mental illness and cognitive disorders.
From What Makes Teens Tick?
By Claudia Wallis
May 10, 2004

The chronic stress that millions of people feel from simply trying to deal with the pressures of modern life can unleash a flood of hormones that are useful in the short term but subtly toxic if they persist.
From A Frazzled Mind, A Weakened Body
By Michael D. Lemonick
Jan. 20, 2003

Children are receiving diagnoses and medication for obsessive-compulsive disorder, social-anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), pathological impulsiveness, sleeplessness, phobias and more.
From Medicating Young Minds
By Jeffrey Kluger
Nov. 3, 2003

Diagnosing the condition at very young ages is new and controversial, but experts estimate that an additional 1 million preteens and children in the U.S. may suffer from the early stages of bipolar disorder.
From Young and Bipolar
By Jeffrey Kluger with Sora Song
Aug. 19, 2002

Anxiety disorder — which is what health experts call any anxiety that persists to the point that it interferes with one's life — is the most common mental illness in the U.S.
From The Science Of Anxiety
By Christine Gorman
June 10, 2002

In an era in which more and more emotional disorders are falling before the scythe of science, phobias are among the disorders falling fastest.
From Fear Not!
By Jeffrey Kluger
Apr. 2, 2001

So far, the tools used to manipulate serotonin in the human brain are more like pharmacological machetes than they are like scalpels—crudely effective but capable of doing plenty of collateral damage.
From The Mood Molecule
By Michael D. Lemonick
Sep. 29, 1997

Critics of recovered-memory therapy insist that there is no scientific evidence for the reality of repression and that many, if not most, of the recovered-memory claims
are false.
From Lies of the Mind
By Leon Jaroff
Nov. 29, 1993

It is the treatment of ordinary depression—the crushing despondency that strikes more than 12 million Americans each year and accounts for at least half the nation's suicides—that represents mental health's greatest success story.
From Depression: the Growing Role of Drug Therapies
By Philip Elmer-Dewitt
Jul. 6, 1992

The mid-20th century, with its jet-speed travel, its population explosion, and its threat of nuclear annihilation, has been widely touted as 'the age of stress.'
From How to Handle Stress: Learn to Enjoy It
Nov. 29, 1963