complicated

It's no secret that messages around disordered eating, diet culture, and fatphobia tend to manifest on social media. Cultural beliefs around beauty, desirability, health, and value have historically found a home in expressions of…

Sunday mornings were like a weekly holiday when I was a little girl. My dad would stop by the gas station and buy me a donut before heading to mass, but the celebration really began after the closing cathedral bells sounded. After church,…

The sense of loss experienced after finishing a book. The loneliness of having to keep a secret . The anxious excitement of introducing a friend to something you enjoy. There’s a word for each of these, in American author John Koenig’s…

A new drug combination has been found to be more effective, especially against persistent, drug-resistant infections, according to an international study conducted by a Rutgers expert comparing new and older therapies for complex urinary…

On the busy, buzzing lanes of Interstate 10 in the westernmost reaches of Texas, sure enough there come cars headed east bearing plates with the red word across the top: California. But there are plenty of cars bearing black and white Texas…

I was 11 years old when I thought about killing myself for the first time.Since then, I've struggled for more than a decade to overcome  suicidal ideations on a regular basis.These thoughts and feelings can be triggered by some of the…

Darlene's journey with depression began during Season 4 of "Roseanne." In "Darlene Fades to Black," we learn that the teen has slipped into a depressive episode after her time on the basketball court has been ended by an…

The apartments that Penny, Leonard, and Sheldon call home are situated on the fourth floor of their building, with stairways on either side of the landing. There's an elevator as well, but it hasn't worked since Leonard's…

The premiere of NCIS: LA’s 14th season is almost here, and wedding bells will be ringing. In the Season 13 finale of the CBS procedural, Callen proposed to Anna on the beach in front of their friends, and it was definitely one of the…

Jada Pinkett Smith will release a memoir next fall about her rise to fame and “complicated marriage to Will Smith,” publisher Dey Street Books announced on Thursday.The forthcoming book is billed as a “no holds barred” retelling of the…