Sometimes we are in that state of life where nothing offends us or affects us, and nothing excites us. Even if we feel the urge to cry, we cannot cry or express our emotions openly. We neither feel anyone’s pain nor can we understand our own feelings. I remember the day when I was counted…
Sometimes we feel so tired without any physical exertion. However, we don’t do much physical work, nor is our productive routine such that we feel tired, so why? Your focus starts to blur in everything, and you don’t feel like doing anything. This guide walks through why that happens, how to tell mental fatigue apart…
You’ve probably done this before: taken a photo you genuinely liked, started to post it, then deleted it seconds later, not because you disliked the photo, but because you were more worried about how someone else might judge it than about your own enjoyment of it. If fear of what people will say has quietly…
Many people ask themselves, Why do I get attached so easily?” after meeting someone only a few times. You meet some people only once or twice. Sometimes you don’t get to meet them for a month, but even in those one or two meetings, you develop a very good bond with them. You keep waiting…
You said something completely ordinary in a meeting. No conflict, nothing inappropriate just a small, slightly too brief pause afterward, no smile. And that tiny moment doesn’t leave your mind for the rest of the day. Then it’s 11 PM, the room is dark, and your mind fixates on that one half-second of silence. Did I…
Ever wonder how you see yourself, or why some thoughts about yourself come so easily? This mental map is known to psychologists as a self-schema. Imagine it’s like a filing cabinet in your brain. There are folders there with words such as “capable,” “unlikable,” “athletic,” and “careless with money. These folders are created almost immediately…
It’s 11 p.m. You have to be up early tomorrow. You’re in bed. Then your phone lights up with a notification; you pick it up “just to check,” and somehow it’s 3 a.m. You knew this would happen. You did it anyway. If you sound like you do, you’re not alone, and it’s not a…
Some people in our lives say yes to everything and never say no. They worry more about how others feel than how they feel. They’re always available, always fixing things. But watch closely, and among their own friends, they often go quiet as if their own needs don’t register at all. This is the people-pleasing…
Many people struggle to express what’s actually going on inside them: their pain, their fear, the things sitting quietly in their chest. Often it’s because they expect judgment the moment they say it out loud. But if you’ve ever actually told someone how you felt, really told them, you probably noticed something afterward: a kind…
Something went wrong in the middle of the meeting, and my heart immediately urged me to “stop”, yet I lashed out at a colleague over a trivial matter. This sudden realization of an anger issues at work left me shaken. Once it was all over, I couldn’t even recognize myself, angry, irritable, and out of…