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From Stress to Satisfaction: The Role of Mental Health in Women’s Intimacy

Stress is evident in everything around us.  For the constant deadlines, the endless errands and the weight of the responsibilities. With the constant stress, it is normal to feel tense, distracted or even distant from your own body — even

Awareness Education Parenting

Special Educator vs Counsellor: Know the Difference

Sometimes schools post jobs like “Counsellor-cum-Special Educator needed” with the expectation that the same person will handle both academic learning and emotional guidance. If you look back to our childhood, we remember a lot of difficulties we faced in making friends,

Research

Research found Abnormal O-glycan Triggers Depression 

A new pathway has been discovered by scientists in which they have found an association between depression and abnormal sugar modification on proteins in the brain. Depressive symptoms are triggered by chronic stress, impacting neural circuit stability. Chronic stress disrupts

Relationship

Love Isn’t Blind-It’s Aware: Does Knowing Your Partner’s Past Matter?

Often, when we are getting to know someone, especially if it is a potential partner, we want to know everything we can about them. Their likes, dislikes, values, their present life, as well as their past. While one’s present values

Awareness Social

Double Vulnerability: The Intersection of Gender and Disability in India 

India as a country has progressed in its infrastructure as well as programmes and more for the disabled people; a major part of it needs to be evaluated and understood in terms of vulnerability, which is the intersection of gender

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Depiction of Psychological Disorders in Bollywood

Bollywood, being one of the world’s biggest movie industries, has tremendous clout in influencing the public’s attitude towards the most sensitive subjects, including mental illness. Its depiction of psychological illnesses, over the years, has been a chancy mix of ridiculous

Health

When the Body Trembles: Understanding the Somatic Roots of Chronic Anxiety

Anxiety is often referred to as a tempest of thoughts: ceaseless apprehension, disastrous what-ifs, or simply an inability to quiet a restless mind. But anyone who has lived with anxiety becomes accustomed to the fact that it doesn’t stay just

Research

Psilocybin as a Neuromodulator: A Study on Its Role in Pain related Depression and Chronic Pain 

Psilocybin, an active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, has been found to reduce chronic and pain-related depression in recent research studies. More than 1.5 million people are impacted by chronic pain worldwide, affecting their quality of life. This pain is significantly

Self Help

The Psychology of Self-Actualisation: Meaning, Growth, and Fulfilment

The quest for the fullest expression of the human being has been the concern of philosophy, religion, and psychology for a long time. Amongst modern philosophers, Abraham Maslow gave the quest its most psychological guidance by discovering the process of

Awareness Parenting

The Psychology behind Violent Pretend Play: Monsters, Heroes and Guns

From backyard sword fights’ screams to sober “rescue missions” arranged with action figures, make-believe play is the most universal childhood activity. Make-believe play allows children to access fantasy worlds where they build, rehearse, and experiment with social roles, emotions, moral