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Spoon Theory: A Metaphor for Understanding Life with Chronic Illness

Living with a chronic illness is incredibly tough. Explaining what it feels like to someone who hasn’t experienced it is even harder. We might not fully understand the ups and downs a chronically ill person go through every day. If

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The Significance of Third Spaces in Fostering Well-being

In the world of interconnectivity, people still feel extremely isolated and alone. In 2022, a systematic review conducted by Hossain et al. (2020) found that about 20-25% of urban Indians reported that they frequently felt lonely in their daily lives.

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PANDAS Syndrome

PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal infections) affects children with scarlet fever or strep throat and tends to develop the symptoms of this disorder. Furthermore, genetic predisposition or recurrent infections might contribute to its pathology. Studies have displayed

Education

Maladaptive Daydreaming

Have you ever caught yourself imagining scenarios in your head? There are characters, interacting with you, or with each other. Then suddenly you realize you’re making loud faces (like frowning or smiling) in response to whatever the characters are doing

Crime Self Help

The Role of Psychological Assessments in Court

Have you ever thought about what drives a serial killer? Why would they carry out such brutal attacks? Wouldn’t they have empathy? What does their court trial look like? Will there be a psychological exploration of these cases? Here is

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The Psychological impact of Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome

Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome is an important and multi-faceted disease entity affecting all age groups. While researchers have well chronicled the physical features of the disease, they have often relegated its psychological counterpart to the background. This article attempts to explore

Self Help

Strategies for Coping with and Recovering from Online Abuse

Any form of abuse that takes place online is referred to as online abuse. Any web-connected device, including PCs, tablets, and smartphones, is susceptible to it. It can also occur anyplace on the internet, such as texts and messaging apps

Awareness Health

How Childhood Experiences Affect Mental Health

The human brain is the most impressionable during its developmental stages. While we are in the early years of our life we are developing biologically, psychologically and socially through internal and external processes and experiences. What makes up these experiences

Education

Dopamine Addiction 

Have you ever reached for your phone without thinking about it, like a compulsion, or scrolling mindlessly through social media for hours? You’re not alone. According to Dr Anna Lembke, “We are seeing a huge explosion, in the numbers of

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Into the Fever Dream World

Have you ever fallen sick and had an unusually odd dream? Was it so weird and frightening that you remember it even after years? Did you wake up in a completely confused state only to find your body still burning with