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Creating Your Personal Happiness Recipe: Ingredients for a Fulfilled Life

People often treat happiness like a reward that shows up after enough hard work. But that idea leads to burnout, not fulfilment. Happiness takes daily effort. And it’s not always about doing more or reaching new goals. Sometimes, happiness is

Awareness Self Help

When You Love Psychology But Burnout Hits: Understanding Academic Fatigue and How to Reignite Your Passion

A lot of students dive into psychology because, let’s be honest, the human mind is fascinating. Who doesn’t want to understand why people do what they do? At first, it feels exciting. You’re learning about personality, behaviour, even the quirky

Motivation

The Psychology of Self-worth

Sarah, a 25-year-old, works as a marketing executive in the Nicolas company. She works from 9 am to 6 pm and doesn’t get enough leave. Even though she worked hard, she still feels low self-esteem and criticises herself, due to

Awareness

“Am I Helping or Just Listening?” When Peer Support Starts to Drain You

There have been a number of times when individuals find themselves becoming damsels in distress. And during those moments, they have leaned on a “therapist friend“, their knight in shining armour. The one who always picks up their calls, offers

Education

Perfectionism in Academia: When ‘Doing Your Best’ Never Feels Enough

Academia has long had its roots in being explorative, hardcore, where perfectionism cuts. A doctorate, like a PhD, can be a lot to take on, to study and get a grip of in itself (Patricio, 2020). However, the competitive nature

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The Psychology of Rest: Why You Feel Guilty Doing Nothing

Aisha, a 26-year-old working as a marketing executive in the Himalaya company for 2 years. She works from Monday to Saturday continuously and doesn’t take a break. On a Sunday morning, she wakes up with a severe headache, and her

Research

How the Brain’s Anti-Reward System Fuels Cocaine Relapse

Let’s not sugarcoat it: cocaine addiction breaks people. You’d think after months clean, the worst is over. It’s not. Six out of ten people still relapse. Six. That number haunts every addiction researcher. For years, we obsessed over dopamine—the brain’s

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The Rise of Tele-MANAS in Telangana: 1.38‑Lakh Calls Make It a Lifeline for Mental Health

By early 2025, a 38-year-old man in Hyderabad was struggling to escape what felt like a vortex of anxiety, sleepless nights and tormenting thoughts of self-harm. Recently diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, which can make him look like Popeye at times,

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The Role of Psychosocial Processes in the Development and Maintenance of Chronic Pain

Chronic pain is composed of many things, and while you might be inclined to think that it’s just an all-encompassing, infinite span of hurt, there is much more involved. There are a variety of psychosocial factors that tend to emerge

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5 Psychological Coping Strategies After a Personal Injury

Being injured is not only about the pain. In a minute, your life is filled with the tensions, hard feelings, and new habits that do not match this life. One may find it difficult not to ask questions about whether life