mental health

“I used to need a debilitating amount of benzodiazepines to go into a grocery store,” says a TikTok creator who refuses to fully embrace healthy living. “And now I'm supposed to wash my produce with baking soda for 15 minutes?”

A wave of content creators has made abstinence a core part of their online identity—and some of them are continuing to share when things go off the rails.

Read this if you're feeling a little on edge.

Bummed out about the climate crisis? Back hurts like hell? Haven’t slept a full night in weeks? We don’t have all the answers—but do have few manageable suggestions for ways to take control and keep things on the rails.

How a self-help concept dreamed up by New Age therapists and poets turned into a caricature—and sparked a right-wing backlash.

I went for a handful of sessions. Eight years later, I'm still there

Best-selling author Ryan Holiday told GQ how he wrote 16 books with a relatively low-key schedule: “You can be a very successful, creative, artistic person and keep banker’s hours—or better.”

Five ways to get the mental health benefits of travel without going anywhere.

Here’s what to do when friendly competition is no longer so friendly.

Corey Keyes, the author of a recent book on this exhausting sensation of endless blah, says the feeling is like ignoring an internal alarm that's going off.

Our minds are wired to habituate to any situation.

GQ spoke with people who have given up drugs and alcohol about the clarity, awkwardness, and pleasure of sex after getting clean.

If you desperately need to relax, a structured breathing routine may be the answer.

Anger management therapists say there’s a better way to talk about something that's gotten under your skin.

Romantic partnerships between one person who is in recovery and another who is not require some special considerations.

These days, you have to actively fight your phone to have a healthy relationship with it. Here’s how GQ wellness columnist Joe Holder does it.