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Health Insurance and Mental Peace: How Financial Security Shapes a Healthier Lifestyle

Health is often equated with wealth, but a good state of health requires good habits and financial security. With prices rising for medical care all over India, an unexpected illness or accident may wipe out many years of savings. In

Awareness

Beyond Memory: How Culture and Patriarchy Persist Despite Cognitive Decline

Memories fade with time. From birth to death, the entire human life cycle encompasses multiple events that progress through various stages of memory, including sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory, before they are ultimately forgotten. While the academicians still

Self Help

Stress Cleaning: How Tidying Up Can Improve Emotional Health or Signal Avoidance

Cleaning makes lots of people feel better because, in their minds, they are taking chaos and turning it into calm. Cleaning might ease clutter, give you a sense of control over your environment, and perhaps even demonstrate emotional resilience for

Parenting

The Psychology Behind Son Preference in Patriarchal Societies

Patriarchy is the social system in which men hold primary power, controlling family authority and inheritance, while women are expected to submit. Sociologists note that in such systems, men’s freedom and control over women have historically been seen as  “superior,”

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International Conference on Interdisciplinary Pathways to Mental Health & Well-being

Department of Psychology, Keshav Mahavidhyalaya, in collaboration with Society for Addiction Psychology, is organising an International Conference on Interdisciplinary Pathways to Mental Health & Wellbeing (ICIPMHW 2025). The conference is scheduled for 30th and 31st October 2025 (Thursday & Friday)

Health

Dissociative Disorders: Trapped in Your Mind’s Emergency Shelter  

Life doesn’t pitch curveballs. It uses sledgehammers. And what happens when the weight of everything, fear, anguish, and noise, crushes down? Your mind does what trapped things do: It flees. It’s as if you’re in your body but not truly present. It’s

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Oversharing in the Digital Age: Emotional Dumping vs. Authentic Connection 

When sharing, the distinction between a true connection and oversharing is not in how much you reveal, but in how you reveal it. We live at a time when our darkest troubles flow into comment sections, and our nocturnal musings become morning

Self Help Therapy

Alternative interventions to Journaling

Therapeutic journaling refers to the process of writing down thoughts and feelings with the aim of provoking self-examination and personal development. It is a strong intervening tool for an emotional working-through, progressive emotional functioning, and achieving heightened levels of awareness

Awareness

Are We Losing Our Humanity Toward Animals? | A Psychological Insight into Empathy and India’s Animal Rights

The recent judicial and legal developments in India indicate a complex imbalance between the continued exploitation of animals for human needs and growing empathy for animals. The nation’s judicial system has long upheld the idea that treating animals cruelly betrays

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Breaking Language Barriers in Mental Health: Why Psychology Needs More Regional Diversity in India

A 45-year-old female, Nisha, from rural Maharashtra, speaks Marathi as her mother tongue. After experiencing a traumatic event, which got her into PTSD, depression and anxiety. She began to get help, but it was hard to come by because there