Over the last several years, being busy has become the standard for what it means to be a successful teenager.  Free time used to be a normal part of daily life. Boredom existed in the spaces between ...

Boredom isn’t just that restless feeling of disinterest; it’s a psychological signal that motivates us to seek new experiences, a Texas A&M University study finds. The study, published in Emotion, was ...

Remember those endless childhood summers when you’d dramatically flop onto the couch and announce to anyone within earshot that you were “sooooo bored”? Turns out those excruciating moments of nothing ...

When examining the inner experiences of individuals high in narcissism, two feelings are frequently discussed yet often confused: narcissistic boredom and narcissistic emptiness. Both can be explained ...

At any hour of the day or night, we can be entertained. Simply pick up your phone and there is endless content to consume, videos to watch, articles to read, apps to download, wormholes to discover.

When I first started working in private practice well over a decade ago, I would often start my sessions with teens with a simple exercise. I’d offer them a deck of feeling cards and have them pull ...