Today’s post is the first of a three-part series looking at some of the stranger addictions that have been written about in the academic literature (or by academics who have tried to argue that these ...

If you or someone you know is in crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline via call, text or chat. A new study finds that addiction to social media, mobile phones and video games is linked to ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Health Psychology suggests that repeated engagement in cosmetic procedures can ...

Researchers found children with highly addictive use of phones, video games or social media were two to three times as likely to have thoughts of suicide or to harm themselves. By Ellen Barry See more ...

People with addiction are addicted to changing the way that they feel. Both drugs of abuse and addictive behaviors reliably and predictably change the way a person feels by stimulating the reward ...