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Psychological Recovery After Sexual Assault: Understanding Trauma and Healing

Consider a woman who wakes up months after a sexual assault and cannot explain why the smell of a particular cologne sends her into a panic. She has not spoken about what happened. Also, she blames herself. She wonders why

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The Bystander Effect in the Digital Age: Why We Scroll Instead of Help

Have you ever seen people merely recording an incident that happened on the road, like a fire breaking out or an accident? Surely everyone has done that at least once in their lives. What is this phenomenon where people feel

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Inside the Rooms of Kota: A 21-Year-Old NEET Aspirant Died by Suicide

A recent incident from Kota highlights concerns about student mental health. 21-year-old Alveen Kumar, a NEET aspirant from Jharkhand, was found dead in his hostel room in Kota. Kota, a city in Rajasthan, is the premier hub for engineering and

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Sarcasm as a Defence Mechanism: Psychology Behind Humour, Avoidance, and Emotional Protection

A friend mutters, “Nice job” after spilling the coffee on someone’s shirt. The remark sounds like a compliment, but the tonality of the statement makes it clear that it is sarcasm at its best. Sarcasm, as learned in figure of

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Community-Level Mental Healthcare Key to India’s Future, Says NIMHANS Director

Dr Prabha S. Chandra, the new Director at NIMHANS in India, believes there should be a re-examination of the delivery of mental health services throughout India. In her opinion, individuals must have access not only to psychiatric and tertiary care

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Understanding Emotional Enmeshment: When Family Closeness Becomes Overwhelming

Take the case of a twenty-eight-year-old software engineer in Bengaluru, who gets more than twenty phone calls a day from his mother. His mother asks what he ate for lunch and makes desperate pleas for assistance with little household chores. If the

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Mother-in-Law vs Daughter-in-Law Conflict: A Family Systems Theory Perspective

Think of a Saturday morning in the kitchen of a newly married couple. The wife is cooking a meal, meticulously following a recipe she has mastered. Her mother-in-law walks into the room, takes a breath, raises her hand, picks up a spice

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Former IPL Team Doctor Highlights Injuries, Prevention, and Mental Health in Cricket

Though all fanatics focus on the runs scored and the wickets taken during each IPL match, what most fans do not see is that, for example, Team Physicians focus on keeping players healthy. Dr Ameya Kagali, who was the Rajasthan

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Hormones and Heat: Understanding the Chemical Basis of Aggression

One of the most complex human behaviours that often comes to the surface in situations of competition, conflicts, or stress is aggression. Expression of aggression is deeply shaped by social and cultural factors, but human biology plays a crucial role

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HHRC Launches Inquiry into NIT Kurukshetra Suicide Cases

The Haryana Human Rights Commission (HHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a series of distressing incidents at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra. Following reports of at least four student suicides and an attempted suicide over the past