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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

Relationship

How Stonewalling Harms Relationships—and How to Overcome It

Communication, in general, is an extremely important element in any relationship. It allows individuals to share their needs, feelings, and thoughts, developing understanding and connection in a relationship. Resenting and avoiding communication may lead to stonewalling, which in turn causes

Awareness Education

How Brain Rot Impacts Your Mental Health

Have you felt a hazy feeling in your mind, usually followed by a sense of forgetfulness? It becomes tough to focus and your productivity takes a hit. This cognitive decline is a result of something called brain rot. This phenomenon

Awareness

Projection as a Defense Mechanism in Psychology

Can you think of a moment when a person accused you of doing something you never actually did, yet it feels as if he or she is indeed the real culprit for the said act? Or would you relate to

Awareness

Vlogging-To Be or Not To Be….Part of One!

Hey viewers, welcome to my Vlog! a very exciting, welcoming introduction that we hear before we start seeing some videos or content from vloggers. Viewers are always excited about the new videos that are uploaded by their favourite channels. In