Many years ago, when I asked 11-year-old Michael, a boy I was working with in therapy, what a good day looked like for him, his answer stopped me: “A good day is when bad things don’t happen ...

A new study examines different ways of coping with stress to see what makes us feel better when we're struggling.

Bad things happening to good people isn’t a flaw in the system—it’s the system. It’s the raw, untamed nature of existence that’s beyond the moralistic rules we’ve set up.

But as suggested by a theory published by Professor Thomas Lynch in 2018, high self-control may not always be a good thing—and for some, it could be linked to certain mental health problems.

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. For thousands of years, people have waited on karma to catch up with their good behavior—or promised ...