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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...
anxiety at work
What Nobody Tells You About Imposter Syndrome (It Doesn't Care How Qualified You Are)
Imposter syndrome does not care how qualified you are. In a supervision room, fear tightens the chest, shrinks the voice, and turns attention inward...
Anxiety and anger
The One Thing Therapists Know About Change That You Don't
Change in therapy rarely feels like a glow-up. Through Mira’s story, this piece shows why old coping patterns feel fused with identity, why confrontation...
ADHD
Does Journaling Change The Way You Live?
There is a certain kind of mental clutter that accumulates without announcement. You are not in crisis. You are not falling apart. But something...
Boundaries
What Counts as Cheating When Nobody Agreed on the Rules?
Before anything happened, Riya and Nikhil had one fight about a 1am emoji and never finished it. On micro cheating, loyalty tests, and the...
Ageing & Loneliness
How to Talk to Your Ageing Parent About Mental Health
The first time most of us try to talk to an ageing parent about their mental health, we get it wrong. Not because we...
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...
Affair Recovery
How Do Couples Actually Rebuild Trust After Cheating?
Four years in, one phone, one Sunday afternoon. What the Gottman method actually asks of a couple trying to rebuild trust after cheating, in...
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...
Ageing & Loneliness
Sorry, But Not Sorry: Why Parents Struggle to Apologize
This piece explores why parents struggle to apologize, how silent hurt and throwaway comments shape our self-worth, and what an honest sorry could change....
Climate Grief Is Real: Why You're Allowed to Mourn a Changing World
Climate grief is real, and it’s more than worry about the future—it’s mourning a world that’s slowly disappearing. This piece explores climate anxiety, emotional...