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Self Help

Why “Others Have It Worse” Is One of the Most Harmful Mental Health Myths

“Wars are going on and people dying- one shouldn’t feel that way.” “Others have it so much worse than we do.” They are said more often than people realise, by other people or by the afflicted person, and they are

Life Style Positive

Better Sleep or Better Sales? The Psychology Behind Melatonin Gummies

You can now find melatonin gummies at nearly every pharmacy, as consumer-grade sleep medication packaging almost emulates prescription packaging using phrases like “clinically tested,” “deep sleep formula,” and “fall asleep faster, wake up refreshed.” The global melatonin supplements market was

Parenting

Tantrum or Meltdown? Understanding the Key Differences in Child Behaviour

We all have come across a child crying and screaming, absolutely refusing to listen to their parents or carers. We often assume the child is “throwing a tantrum”. However, not every emotional outburst is a tantrum. Just like adults, children do

Industrial

Why Night Owls Don’t Respond to Antidepressants: The Social Jetlag–Brain Connection

It’s now six thirty in the morning on a Tuesday when the alarm rings loud and clear. The woman who is about to wake up is Maria, an accountant aged thirty-four. She has slept for six hours, but her body

Industrial

5 Stages of Grief Every Entrepreneur Faces After Business Failure

Tiny Speck was founded by Stewart Butterfield to develop a great multiplayer game (Glitch) that ultimately did not have enough users to justify continued development, so the company was closed in 2012. This was a very challenging experience for Stewart

Awareness Education

Sonam Wangchuk’s Educational Philosophy Through the Lens of Educational Psychology

Think of an educational system that fosters a culture of asking “why” rather than expecting the students to memorise “what”. The time is spent making machines, solving local problems, understanding nature, and learning through experience, rather than in preparing themselves solely

Research Technology

The Dopaminergic Loop of Predictive AI Feeds: How Algorithms Hijack the Brain’s Reward System

How Logic Algorithms Hijack the Brain’s Reward Structure, and Why Isolation Makes It Worse. Just about every user of TikTok and Instagram Videos, or YouTube Shorts, can probably relate to a certain story. At some point in the evening, a

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Transactional Analysis: Why you keep having the same argument with the same person

A friend of mine got some awkward feedback a few years back. A colleague told her that whenever her boss criticised her work, her voice changed. It went small and wobbly, apparently, like a kid apologising for breaking something, and

Education

Freud vs. MRI: Which Psychoanalytic Theories Still Hold Up Today?

Sigmund Freud never had any exposure to MRI scanners. Relying solely on his clinical couch, notepad, and decades of clinical observations accumulated from listening to his patients’  dreams, fears, and forgotten memories, he constructed a complete theory of the human mind. In

Awareness Life Style

Is Marriage a Gateway to Lasting Happiness?

Most Bollywood movies end with a happily ever after of the main protagonists getting married, but what after that? Very few movies like Mrs S, starring Sania Malhotra as a Female character who marries with the dream of having a