Elizabeth Laura Nelson

We anxiety sufferers are good at covering up how we’re really feeling. You are not alone.

Yes, a lot of parents are assholes. But you know what? A lot of people are assholes; some of them happen to have kids, some don’t. I can’t speak for all parents, and I wouldn’t want to try. But speaking as one particular person with kids, here’s what I wish my childfree friends would understand…

If you have these four types of friends in your life, they could literally be making you sick. Consider yourself warned and remove these toxic friends!

As a person who writes about relationships for a living, I might be one of the people least in need of all this well-meaning advice, which usually amounts to clichés and can even veer into the territory of outright insults. What I need – what most of us need – is for people to hear me, and to trust me.

Researchers say that the average relationship hits the ‘comfort zone’ phase after 11 months and 24 days.

Does chronic anxiety ever make you feel like a flake?

The elephant in the room is my mental illness. Do my anxiety and depression make me unworthy of love?

Pretending you don’t have feelings doesn’t pay off.

No energy at 3PM? The mid-afternoon slump is a well-known phenomenon.

Is it better to be alone than to be in a miserable relationship?