Browsing: Mental Health

Opinion: Could long-term AI use lead to isolation? We need to find out — but researchers need better access to data

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OpenAI recently announced that it is tracking signs of user distress across sessions, rather than only within them, and using that information to inform model responses. The announcement follows a wave of new safeguards for mental health and well-being conversations with artificial intelligence at OpenAI and elsewhere, such as parental controls for teens, usage limits…

But I Don’t Remember It That Way

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There is one sentence that can stop attempts to repair a tumultuous or estranged parent/child relationship in its tracks. For many, this experience may sound achingly familiar: An adult child is naming a painful experience from their youth, often something a parent said or did that hurt them. They are typically hoping to share the…

Why Can’t We Rest Anymore? 

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When I was a student at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2016, I thought it would be a good idea to write about the appropriation of mindfulness by corporate America for my Master’s project. What I discovered during the course of my reporting was a paradox. 

My Journey to Mindfulness

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My journey to mindfulness started long before I knew what the word meant. I was born to two wonderful parents, Lenny and Linda, and from the very beginning I was a kid full of vigor, energy, spontaneity, and deep curiosity. Eclectic, you could say.

Meditation for People Whose Minds Are Never Quiet

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The first time I meditated, I did it for the extra credit. My professor at my undergraduate university offered bonus points to anyone who took a meditation class at the campus health center, so I added my name to the sign-up sheet. Before the class started, we each rated our stress on a scale of…