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Emotional FAQs: What Your Nervous System Is Really Saying

“I’m spiraling.” “I’m emotionally unavailable.” “I can’t focus.” These aren’t flaws—they’re stress responses. Here’s what your nervous system is trying to tell you.

Translation missing: en.by Hello From The Thought Co. ·May 7, 2025 ·2 min read
The Mammoth (AKA Stress)
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The Mammoth (AKA Stress)

Have you ever been stuck in traffic? Or been late for an appointment and are travelling by a really slow train? Or had a...

Aug 23, 2021 ·5 min
Pandemic Guilt
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Pandemic Guilt

Remember the lockdown? The two week vacation which turned into a year long ordeal? What we now call our ever changing “new normal”. Well...

Aug 23, 2021 ·5 min
Journalling
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Journalling

We’ve come a long way from the typical “daily journal” – now, there’s a journal for everything – gratitude, anger, fear, productivity, habits –...

Aug 23, 2021 ·4 min
Locked Out: Extroverts in Lockdown
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Locked Out: Extroverts in Lockdown

For someone who is an extrovert and loves interacting with people, this lockdown has been hard. Even if it is something as trivial as...

Aug 23, 2021 ·5 min
Wandavision & Grief
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Wandavision & Grief

WandaVision and the Many Faces of Grief | The Thought Co. WandaVision and the Many Faces of Grief Heads up: This post contains spoilers...

Aug 23, 2021 ·4 min
The Complication of Grief
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The Complication of Grief

The Pandemic has left us in a situation where death was experienced as frequent and out there for a lot of us. It now...

Aug 23, 2021 ·6 min
Dreams: Unfulfilled
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Dreams: Unfulfilled

In the past 2 years of the pandemic, varying degrees of lockdown, and never ending stagnancy, we have all been angry, restless and unhappy...

Aug 23, 2021 ·7 min
The Privilege of Hustle
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The Privilege of Hustle

If you have seen motivational speakers talking about hustling and thought to yourself “Wow, their life is so great!”, you are not alone. We...

Aug 23, 2021 ·4 min
Hustle vs. Hardwork
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Hustle vs. Hardwork

Hustling Is Not The Same As Hard Work Recently, Naomi Osaka, a Japanese Tennis player, decided to quit the French Open citing mental health...

Aug 23, 2021 ·6 min
Mental Health: Advocacy or Trend?
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Mental Health: Advocacy or Trend?

Why Mental Health Deserves More Than Instagram Activism This blog mentions suicide. For as long as we can remember, psychology, mental health, psychiatrists and...

Aug 23, 2021 ·3 min
Leaving The Closet?
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Leaving The Closet?

  Things to think about before making up your mind. Coming out and living openly aren’t something you do once, or even for a...

Aug 23, 2021 ·6 min
Voices of Pride: Soham’s Journey
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Voices of Pride: Soham’s Journey

Being queer is beautiful. Being queer is liberating. But it wasn’t always this way for me. When I first started to realise that I...

Aug 23, 2021 ·3 min