MENTAL HEALTH GUIDES, WRITTEN BY PSYCHOLOGISTS
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Essays, stories and reflections
Essays, stories and reflections on mental health and everyday life in India, written by psychologists.
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employee silence
Can You Have Psychological Safety in a Hierarchical Workplace?
She had the reason. She had watched it fail before. She said nothing, and told a colleague in the corridor exactly what she should...
after hours contact
Does India Have a Right to Disconnect?
Someone has read that France banned work emails after 6pm and asked whether India is next. That is false, and the truth is more...
HR
What Counts as a Psychosocial Hazard at Work?
Your induction covered the fire exits. It did not cover the review process, the two managers giving contradictory instructions, or the promotion nobody explained.
manager mental health
What Do You Say to a Team Member Who Is Struggling?
Someone on your team is not okay and you have been meaning to say something for two weeks. Here is the sentence, and here...
Emotional Labour
Who Looks After HR?
You ran the layoffs and the wellbeing week. You know which manager is the problem and cannot say so. Nobody has asked how you...
evidence
What Happens After a Low Psychological Safety Score?
The heat map is up and two teams are in red. Everyone understands something has to happen and nobody knows what. This is where...
Edmondson
What Do Psychological Safety Survey Questions Measure?
Seven statements circulate on dozens of sites with no source and no instructions. Before you paste them into a form and send them to...
corporate wellness
Is ISO 45003 Certifiable? What Indian Employers Must Do
If someone has quoted you a price to get certified to ISO 45003, read this first. The standard's own publisher says it contains no...
EAP India
How to Have the Conversation When Someone on Your Team Is Struggling
Managers in India notice a struggling team member weeks before they say anything. The scripts, the boundary, and what to do when the conversation...
EAP India
What's a Good EAP Utilisation Rate? (And How to Get the Real Number From Your Provider)
The published utilisation benchmarks, why most quoted numbers cannot be compared, and the three-line email that gets the real figure out of your EAP...
burnout symptoms
Founder Burnout in India: What It Looks Like Before It Looks Like Burnout
The early signs clinicians see before anyone says burnout, why Indian founders present a year late, and what treating it means when a sabbatical...
early stage India
The Culture You Set at 30 People Is the One You Scale
Culture is what gets rewarded, tolerated, and repeated under pressure, and it hardens before employee 50. The three decisions that set it, made on...