MENTAL HEALTH GUIDES, WRITTEN BY PSYCHOLOGISTS
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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
Six Months Into a New City, Why Am I This Lonely?
Yesterday I ate dinner standing up at 9pm because sitting at the dining table felt like more loneliness than I could handle. The kitchen...
anxiety support tools
Tap Here: The Five-Minute Anxiety Technique That Neuroscience Can't Fully Explain (But Can't Dismiss)
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT tapping) is a five-minute anxiety tool used worldwide and studied across hundreds of trials. But does it actually work or...
anticipatory grief
How To Find Your Pause (When Life Refuses To Take Turns)
When life moves too fast to process what you feel, learning how to find your pause becomes essential. This psychologist-written reflection explores grief beside...
blinkit
Your 10-Minute Delivery Has a Price. Someone Else Is Paying It. What India's Gig Economy Is Doing to Its Workers' Minds.
India’s gig economy workers are carrying the psychological cost of ultra-fast delivery culture. This article explores burnout, depersonalisation, and algorithmic pressure shaping gig workers’...
AI and therapy
Why Venting to AI Feels So Good (And What It's Taking From You)
Venting to AI feels soothing because it offers structure, validation, and instant response. This piece explores what that relief gives you, what it may...
Asian parenting
Why Screen Time Questions Miss the Point Entirely
Netflix and Kidsstoppress put together a closed panel discussion on raising screen-smart families. I was in the audience. I looked around at who else...
child psychology
What Parents Get Wrong During Divorce (It's Not What You Think)
What parents get wrong during divorce is rarely obvious. This piece explores how children absorb conflict, why emotional loyalty binds deepen, and what actually...
psychology of change
A Spotify Playlist for Every Stage of Change (Yes, Even Relapse)
A Spotify playlist for every stage of change, this blog uses the Transtheoretical Model to explore denial, contemplation, action, maintenance, and relapse with humour,...
criminal tribes act
What the 2026 Transgender Bill Is Really Saying (And Who It's Saying It To)
Parliament passed the 2026 Transgender Amendment Bill in twelve days. The community it was named after stood outside and protested. Clinical psychologist Priyanka Varma...
Ageing & Loneliness
Loneliness After Retirement: The Grief Nobody Names
Sudha woke at six on the first Monday of her retirement, the way she had for thirty one years, and for the first time...
betrayal trauma
Why Your Body Shuts Down When Nothing "Bad" Is Happening
I noticed my hands before I noticed anything else. I had been sitting with a client for forty minutes, asking the right questions, nodding...
baby blues
Baby blues vs postpartum depression
Two weeks. That is the line between the baby blues that lift on their own and postpartum depression that does not. A clinical psychologist...