WHO Rethinks Psychiatric Hospitals, Loneliness Costs 5.8 Years, Motivista App Cleared, Depression Splits Five Ways: 13 Must-Know Mental Wellness Stories (October 11, 2026)

This week’s mental wellness news centered on World Mental Health Day on October 10, and there was plenty to report. The WHO pushed countries to move care out of psychiatric hospitals, the FDA cleared an app for symptoms that medication rarely helps, and new studies found that loneliness, exercise and brain wiring all shape mood … Read more

Junk Food Cut Lifts Depression, MIND Diet Slows Brain Aging, Teen Sleep Swings, Hopeful Videos Help: 14 Must-Know Mental Wellness Stories (October 4, 2026)

Mental wellness news this week kept coming back to the everyday stuff: what’s on your plate, how regularly you sleep, and how connected you felt as a kid. In this week’s mental wellness news roundup we cover a small JAMA Psychiatry pilot that cut ultra-processed food, a 12-year MRI study of the MIND diet, Fitbit … Read more

Johns Hopkins Cracks Habit Speed, THC Erases PTSD Nightmares, Loneliness Redefines Isolation, Suicide Prevention Day Returns: 14 Essential Mental Wellness Stories (September 6, 2026)

This week in mental wellness, researchers rewrote the timeline for how fast habits actually form, a landmark drug trial wiped out nightmares for PTSD patients, and a new study drew a sharper line between loneliness and simple isolation. Add in a shifting meditation-practice landscape, a wave of habit-tracker innovation, and the return of World Suicide … Read more

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