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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Online Therapy in India: What It Costs, How It Works, and How to Choose Well
7 min read · Therapy · Online Therapy · Mental Health India Quick answer: Online therapy in India connects you to a psychologist over...
anxiety in relationships
Stop Interrogating Your Relationship. Here's What's Actually Happening.
Relationship OCD (ROCD) can make love feel like an endless investigation, where reassurance, checking, and overthinking never bring lasting relief. This article explains how...
Why Your Mind Keeps Replaying That One Pause
If your mind keeps replaying conversations, especially awkward pauses or uncertain moments, this article explains why. It explores rumination, social anxiety, and post-event processing,...
anxiety india
Am I an Overthinker? The Signs, the Symptoms, and What the Loop Is Covering For
The loop is not a thinking problem. Here is how to tell an overthinker from a careful person, what the symptoms are, and what...
burnout
Why High Performers Burn Out First in Indian Tech?
She called her breakdown a stomach bug and her exhaustion "being type A." In Indian tech, the people who look most fine are often...
burnout
I Watched The Odyssey and It Made Me Angrier Than I Expected
Watching The Odyssey and Penelope's confrontation with Telemachus opened a deeper question about women's rage, invisible labour, and the exhaustion of being essential yet...
adult children
You Can Be Angry at Your Parents and Still Love Them
Meera calls her mother every day and sits in the car park some evenings, too angry to go up. Both are true. On why...
anticipatory anxiety
Why Do the Sunday Scaries Feel Worse in India?
That heaviness that lands around 4pm on a Sunday, before anything has actually happened. Why the dread comes, why it feels heavier in India,...
emotional awareness
I Watched Voicemails for Isabelle And had Questions for Myself
Why do we overanalyse our emotions instead of simply feeling them? Through a personal reflection sparked by Voicemails for Isabelle, this article explores intellectualisation,...
feeling like a fraud
Imposter Syndrome at Work: Why Do I Feel Like a Fraud?
She got the promotion on a Tuesday and opened a note titled "all the things I still don't know how to do." Why the...
Ageing & Loneliness
Caring for Ageing Parents Is Breaking Me. That's Allowed
You love your parent. Some days you also cannot stand being the one who takes care of them. Psychologist Vidhi Naik on why that...
burnout
Why Do I Feel Guilty For Still Having My Job?
Your team got cut and you did not, and the relief lasted about four minutes before the guilt moved in. There is a name...