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Digital Emotional Contagion: Is Stress Transmissible Through Screens and Social Media?

Stress is defined as an outcome of internal or external stressors that can affect an individual physiologically and psychologically (APA, 2025). But the Digital Age has provided another one, when the stressor is not directly affecting us. We can experience

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Digital Phenotyping: How Technology Tracks Mental Health

According to the World Health Organisation, more than a billion people worldwide live with a mental health condition, roughly one in eight of us, yet most of the information that clinicians know about a person’s mood still comes from a

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Can Emotional Intelligence Protect You from Digital Burnout?

The average person today wakes up in the morning and all that they do is spend hours switching between screens, responding to messages across various digital platforms and often end the day scrolling through social media. Although digital technologies have

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The Emergence of Student-Led Digital Protests in India

More than 24 lakh Indian students, who appeared for the NEET-UG medical entrance exam in June 2024, have woken up to the possibility that their future is in jeopardy due to a massive paper leak across the country. Protest videos

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Digital Identity vs Real Identity: How Social Media Shapes Who We Are

Imagine you are meeting someone new with whom you have been frequently communicating online. This is the very first time you are meeting in person, and you are feeling like you already know them, their hobbies, favourite colour, achievements and

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Is Digital Burnout the New Workplace Crisis? Causes, Effects, and Prevention

It begins with a notification.   A quick email after dinner. Managing the work till midnight. Setting reminders on the calendar for the presentation submission on Monday. Initially, all of these little actions seem adjustable and harmless. However, with time, the

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Is Content Creation Optional for Mental Health Professionals? Why Digital Presence Matters in 2026

A decade ago, most mental health professionals built their careers through referrals, clinic affiliations and word-of-mouth recommendations. However, today the reality has changed for psychologists, counsellors, therapists and other professionals, especially in the domain of mental health. In 2026, social

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The Digital Amnesia Epidemic: Why Saving Everything Means Remembering Nothing

There are many issues in our modern virtual worlds, and the field of neuroscience is only now starting to make sense of them. Today’s generation has more knowledge available than earlier generations, but studies suggest they are retaining less and

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Digital Insomnia: Why the Brain Refuses to Shut Down at Night

In 2019, researchers discovered that 72% of individuals use their cellphones in their rooms. Furthermore, 56% of those surveyed admitted to checking their phones within half an hour of their intended sleep time (American Psychological Association, 2020). The consequence is

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Raising Kids in a Digital World: How Screen Time Affects Children’s Health and Development

Children today spend, on average, nearly five hours a day in front of screens (apart from school work) according to the statistics. This figure is even higher for teens (Rideout &  Robb, 2019). Whether they’re using tablets, smartphones, gaming systems, or