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Essays, stories and reflections on mental health and everyday life in India, written by psychologists.
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Adult Loneliness
This Is What Friendship Anxiety Actually Looks Like
Friendship anxiety rarely looks dramatic. It looks like delayed replies, spiralling stories, and pulling away before you are left. This personal vignette follows a...
attachment and loneliness
Why the Most Capable People Often Feel the Most Alone
Loneliness can hide inside competence. In this essay, a psychologist traces how the most capable people often feel the most alone, shaped by early...
Adult Loneliness
Why Being Around Happy Friends Makes You Feel More Alone
Why being around happy friends makes you feel more alone is not about envy or bitterness, but about how the brain is wired for...
connected generation loneliness
What Nobody Tells You About Holiday Loneliness
Holiday loneliness often feels heavier than everyday solitude. Festivals amplify our longing for belonging, identity, and emotional safety—especially when we come from small families...
Adult Loneliness
We're the Most Connected Generation Ever— So Why Do We Feel So Alone?
We’re the most connected generation ever, yet so many of us feel alone. Emotional overload, shame, and fear of vulnerability push us toward numbness...
adult friendship India
You Are Not Bad at Friendship. The Infrastructure Is Gone.
Your friend hasn't pulled away. You haven't either. The bridge between you was being held up by infrastructure that doesn't exist anymore. Both of...
ACT Therapy
What Loneliness Actually Feels Like in the Body
Most people experience the somatic signs of loneliness for years and call them other things. Anxiety, low blood sugar, "I'm just tired." This is...
depression in men
He Didn't Say He Was Lonely. He Said He Was Tired.
None of them said the word lonely. All of them were. Indian masculinity has a generous script for "I am stressed". It has no...
Adult Loneliness
Every Friday I Take the Bus Home. I Don't Think I've Ever Lived Here.
It is so easy to keep doing this. Every weekend, the bus, the relief, the unclenching, the dinner. The new city becomes the place...
Adult Loneliness
The Truth About Why The Festive Season Makes You Feel All Those Feelings-collective loneliness
Festivities: joy for some, but for many, "collective loneliness." City life weakens traditional connections, leaving people feeling adrift. This isolation harms mental health. Religion...
acceptance
#ThoughtQuo: Why Adult Friendships Require So Much Work
Childhood BFFs? College buddies? #AdultFriendships face a different reality. Responsibilities pull us apart, schedules clash, and distance grows. My "adulting" phase made me neglect...