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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

Entertain

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

Social

Bigg Boss Show: A Psychological Perspective

Bigg Boss is not simply a reality television performance; rather, it is a high-stress psychological experiment. By placing contestants in a small, monitored space without clocks or any connection to the outside world, each contestant becomes a victim of extreme

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

Self Help

The Brains’ Negative Bias: Why We Anticipate the Worst 

It is almost at times human nature to think of the worst possible outcome. Whether it’s about health, marks, relationships, friendships, career or just life at large. The negative bias explains this tendency of us humans, which is why we

Self Help

When Planning Becomes Pressure: Why Overthinking Stops Progress

To some, planning gives dopamine and thrill, and to others, it’s a chore. However, in both cases, what is missing is action, which means progress awaits and has not started, in parallel with the planning. This can make planning feel

Education

Ego Integrity vs. Despair: Understanding the Final Psychosocial Conflict (8th & 9th Stage – Joan Erikson)

Ego integrity captures the ability of a person, particularly in old age, to evaluate his or her life with satisfaction and accomplishment. This concept is at the heart of Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory of development, stage eight, “Ego Integrity vs.

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

Awareness Social

Religious Gaslighting: How Spiritual Abuse Manipulates Faith and How Survivors Heal

The email arrived at 2:47 AM. “Your rebellion against church leadership grieves the Holy  Spirit,” it read. “We’re praying God softens your hardened heart.” All because Jessica had asked why the youth pastor, recently fired from his previous position for “boundary