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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AI and therapy
Is It Bad to Vent to AI? What It Gives You and What It Takes
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...
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...