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Awareness Self Help

Feeling Empty? Here’s What Science Says About Apathy

You wake up one morning, and everything that once meant something now feels meaningless. It’s not laziness or procrastination – it’s deeper than that. You might find yourself wondering why you can’t seem to muster the energy to care about

Awareness

The Gen Z Trend of Fake-Flexing: Self Affirmation or A Cry For Validation

The Gen Z are increasingly getting into the arena of ‘fake-flexing’, which is described as the presentation of one’s lifestyle that does not correlate to actual monetary worth. For those who do not have the means to afford such expensive

Health Self Help

When the Caregiver Burns Out

In the recent years a major part of the population of the world have had someone fallen prey to an illness, some to the very apparent covid pandemic, while the remaining to related mental and physical illnesses. This led to

Social

Transformational listening: Did the pandemic help us return to a forgotten skills?

The advent of pandemic was registered emotionally by individuals as loneliness, fear, nostalgia and a feeling of forgetting one’s self as a relational being. Perhaps as a consequence of the same, the world witnessed an increase in listening spaces devoted

Awareness Self Help

Understanding Intrusive Thought and Ways to Combat them 

Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, involuntary and often distressing ideas, images, or urges that spur of the moment come into a person’s mind. This is very distressing, not so easy to live with, more so, if they have persisted for a long

News

Billie Eilish Battles Paranoia Amid Ongoing Harassment

Recent news highlights the signs of paranoia of the Grammy and Oscar Awards winner Billie Eilish. Her continuous struggle with stalking and harassment now started taking a toll on her mental health.  This doesn’t happen all of a sudden. There’s

Awareness

Hypercriticality and Verbal Abuse  

Hypercriticism and verbal abuse are two contrary behaviours that go hand in hand and greatly affect the mental health, relationships, and well-being of human beings. Hypercriticality is an over-the-top inclination toward fault finding or severe, often excessive, and unwarranted criticism.

Awareness Education

What is the Pink Elephant Test?

What happens immediately if you’re instructed not to think about a pink elephant? Are you surprised that a pink elephant pops up in your thoughts? That was a test to demonstrate the incessant struggle of subduing your thoughts. This thought

Awareness Positive

The Connection Between Mindfulness and Flow

The richness of present-moment experience is the richness of life itself. Too often we let our thinking and our beliefs about what we ‘know’ prevent us from seeing things as they really are. Kabat-Zinn  How often can you completely focus

Awareness Education

What Decolonising Psychology Teaches About Cultural Sensitivity

We are well aware of the state of mental health and its level of awareness in India, but we rarely pause to understand why this might be the case. Sure, we observe the reluctance of the general population to accept