Mental health

Kindness should open doors. It should attract people like a magnet and fill calendars with dinner invitations. Yet some of the warmest, most generous people you’ll ever meet spend most Friday nights alone. Their phones stay quiet. Their social circles remain small. And they often wonder if something is wrong with them. Nothing is wrong …

When a mother in Bowling Green, Ohio, went to check on her daughter and a friend after what should have been an ordinary sleepover, she expected to find two groggy teenagers sleeping in. Instead, she walked into a scene that would become one of the most terrifying experiences of her life. Something was wrong with …