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Ageing & Loneliness
How to Talk to Your Ageing Parent About Mental Health
The first time most of us try to talk to an ageing parent about their mental health, we get it wrong. Not because we...
Ageing & Loneliness
Sorry, But Not Sorry: Why Parents Struggle to Apologize
This piece explores why parents struggle to apologize, how silent hurt and throwaway comments shape our self-worth, and what an honest sorry could change....
Ageing & Loneliness
Is My Parent Depressed or Just Ageing? How to Tell
Less energy, less interest, more time in the chair by the window, and always the same three words: I'm fine. A psychologist on how...
Ageing & Loneliness
Loneliness After Losing a Spouse: The Unnamed Grief
Nandita came to me seven months after her husband died and did not want to talk about the death. She wanted to talk about...
Ageing & Loneliness
Why Older Indians Don't Talk About Emotional Pain?
The generation that raised us does not talk about emotional pain. Not because they did not feel it, but because they were taught that...
Ageing & Loneliness
The House Got Too Quiet: Making Sense of Empty Nest Loneliness
Most people imagine the empty nest as a problem of time. The parents I sit with in that first year describe a sound problem....