"I'm just one person. There's nothing I can do." Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. "I want to give up." As a happiness researcher who's spent a decade studying the science of ...

Feeling helpless actually makes chronic pain worse, a study has found. Researchers have found that people who are mentally defeated – a medical term to describe a feeling of lost social identity – ...

In the days immediately after Hurricane Katrina, friends and family asked over and over again how they could help. They wanted to do something, but all my wife and I could tell them was that we didn’t ...

A few months ago, I was having an animated conversation with a very pregnant woman in the hospital. She had checked herself into obstetrics triage because she was having contractions and thought her ...

"I'm just one person. There's nothing I can do." "I want to give up." As a happiness researcher who's spent a decade studying the science of well-being, I've received hundreds of messages like these.