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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anger
What To Say When You're Angry: A Free Sentence Builder for Hard Conversations
A free two minute sentence builder for saying one angry thing to your mother, father, or sibling at the right size. Runs in your...
Emotional Healing
The K-Pop Demon Who Understood Shame Better Than I Did
The K-Pop Demon offers an unexpectedly powerful lesson about shame, guilt and self-compassion. Through Jinu and Rumi's journeys, this article explores how shame grows in...
breakup recovery
Why Women Cut Their Hair After a Breakup or Big Change (And What We Refuse to See When They Do)
Cutting your hair after a breakup or a big change is rarely just impulsive. When life feels out of your control, your hair is...
boundaries with parents
Working in a Family Business in India: When the Boss Is Also Your Parent
Your title says Director. Your father says beta. Working in a family business in India folds boss and parent into one relationship. A psychologist...
employee silence
Why Does Feedback Die in Indian Workplaces?
The most honest feedback most Indian companies ever receive arrives in the exit interview. That timing is not an accident, and it is not...
Anxiety
On the Four Words I Hear Most in the Therapy Room
Many people quietly carry the belief "I am not enough" without ever saying those words aloud. This article explores where that belief comes from,...
burnout
Managing Gen Z as a Millennial Manager (The Leadership You Inherited Is Already Obsolete)
The tactics millennials were trained on don't land on Gen Z, and most managers read that gap as personal failure. A clinical psychologist on...
best psychologist in india
Best Psychologist in India? How to Find the Right Fit
Everyone types "best psychologist in India" at 2am. The list can't measure the one thing that decides whether therapy works: whether you can be...
affairs
How to Stop Being the Other Woman (When You Never Meant to Become Her)
You did not set out to become the other woman. You drifted in, and now leaving a married man feels impossible. Here is the...
behavioural change
The Most Annoying Man on Suits Understood Growth Better Than Anyone
Louis Litt's journey in Suits offers one of television's most honest portrayals of emotional growth. Through therapy, setbacks, shame, repair, and self-awareness, his story...
affairs and mental health
Too Ashamed to Tell Your Therapist the Whole Truth
She has a good therapist she trusts. She has never once mentioned the affair. Why the truest thing about your life is the one...
anxious attachment
What Are the Signs of Anxious Attachment? (And Why You Keep Choosing Men Who Can't Choose Back)
He texts at 1am, vanishes for four days, and you spend those four days deciding what you did wrong. The steady one bores you....