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Nato Lagidze

Nato is a writer and a researcher with an academic background in psychology. She investigates self-compassion, emotional intelligence, and the ways people make decisions. Alongside her research, she writes about digital culture, emerging social trends, and the intersection of technology and human behavior. She dreams of creating an uplifting documentary one day, inspired by her experiences with strangers.

Thought by Carl Jung: “The persona is a complicated system of relations between individual consciousness and society, fittingly enough a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and, on the other, to conceal the true nature of the individual.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi spent decades studying peak human experience — and his research on flow suggests creativity isn’t a gift so much as a condition you can learn to enter

A new study published in JAMA Network Open suggests one dose of psilocybin may lift depression within days — and the effects could last for months

Columbia University psychiatrist Dr. Mark Olfson warns that restricting access to antidepressants could have serious public health consequences — here is what the debate is really about

Australian researchers say travel could be one of the more overlooked contributors to healthy ageing — not because it is relaxing, but because of what it does to four key biological systems

Elon Musk said SSRIs zombify people. I took them for 18 months and I know what he means