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Unequal Emotional Labour in Partnerships: Causes, Gender Dynamics & Solutions

Imbalances in emotional and mental labour frequently lead to unbalanced partnership dynamics. Emotional labour, a concept first explicitly defined by Arlie Russell Hochschild, is the management of one’s own emotions and the often-invisible workload of replying to others’ emotional needs.

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Hormone Therapy and Mental Health: How HRT Transforms Emotional Well-Being in Trans Men and Women

Hormone therapy is one of the most crucial tools in transgender healthcare. Apart from being a key contributor to changing physical characteristics, it also brings emotional and psychological relief. Hormone treatments have been linked to findings that show reduced anxiety,

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The Psychology of Overstimulation: How Cognitive Overload Leads to Emotional Under fulfilment

Imagine walking into a room where five televisions are blaring at full volume, your phone is pinging with constant notifications, your friend is calling you through the telephone and strobe lights are flashing above your head. You try to pay

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Influence of Environmental Sensitivity on Mental Health

The trait of environmental sensitivity is characterised by an increased sensitivity to different physical, emotional, and social stimuli, such as bright lights and other people’s moods. People with this trait thus also have a deeper cognitive processing of these sensory stimulations. One of

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How Stress Affects the Brain and Behaviour?

Stress is the body’s natural response to any unwanted stimulus or pressure. It is something that we all face from time to time, though not all stress looks the same. Studies have established that it can increase the likelihood of

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Understanding Intergenerational Trauma and Its Effects on Family Mental Health

History suggests that once the atrocity is over, it ceases to exist. Colonisation, slavery, cultural erasure and other acts aimed toward marginalised groups across the world only seem to impact the groups when they are being acted upon. History does

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Why You Can’t Stop Doomscrolling—and What to Do Instead

Picture this: You just returned home from a long day of work or school, and you finally have some time to yourself. What do you do? You take out your phone, open Instagram, and before you know it, it’s past

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Is Stress Counselling Right for You? Signs It is Time to Reach Out

Life just isn’t a bed of roses, you know. With the constant deadlines at work, accounting for family obligations, and the surprising twists that life throws, one may easily feel that he/she is losing breath. A certain degree of tension

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Emotional Labour in Empathic Students: Hidden Struggles, Mental Health Impact & Coping Strategies

Everyone has met that one student in class. The one who is always there, strong, listens patiently, knows what to say, understands with just one look and is always organised. The ones most likely to be dubbed as the social

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How Therapy Impacts the Way We See Ourselves and Others 

To begin with, we can say that therapy or psychotherapy, talk therapy, is a part of mental health, a very crucial part even. In today’s world, where there is constant change, a pool of different opinions and increasing social media