In the second part of this series, I shall continue to address certain myths or misconceptions about counselling/therapy. 1. The first session is different for all Sometimes, the first session with your therapist can sound like a first date – you two are getting to know each other gradually. And other times, the session can […]
Category Archives: Focus
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As a counselling psychologist-in-training, I work each day towards reducing the stigma around seeking help for one’s mental health. In the process, I come across many misconceptions that people have about therapy. So here is a list I wrote of some things I feel no one ever tells you about therapy. I hope this clears […]
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A decade ago, some psychologists came up with a solution to set up Rage Rooms in the parliaments of all the countries and they said that parliaments, corporate offices, schools, and universities need such rooms as they need toilets.
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Sleep deprivation currently threatens the lives of upto 45% people worldwide, indicating a global sleep crisis. But here’s why our changing nocturnal habits won’t do us any good. As per a study published by Harvard, the following six domains of our lives will get affected for the worse when we decide to walk out on our ZZZs –
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I touch you, I give you a loving touch, a hand clasp. The hand is not touching you, I am touching you through the hand. The hand is just instrumental, so there can be two types of touch – when I really touch you and when I just avoid touch.
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Imagine that you decide to volunteer for an experiment. You reach the laboratory and are asked to perform the boring task of filling the beakers with water and placing them onto the trays for a good 15 minutes.
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If your modus operandi is more subtle ( Or you really would like part of that stage yourself), A person like that may really eat at you. When you go into a meeting with great ideas and a readiness to just sit down and get straight to the point, a drama queen who is creating a stage in the board room is bound to flip your switches for frustration and rage.
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Envy ? There scenarios – which would irk you the most? (A) Your friend’s salaries increase. Yours stays the same. (B) Their salaries stay the same. yours too (C) Their average salaries are cut. Yours is, too. If you answered (A) don’t worry, that is perfectly normal: you are just the another victim of the […]
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Love may be in the air, for most happy couples, all during the day but just a single whiff of money related discussions can take it all away. From who pays for the electricity bills to who forgot to pay these bills and now has to pay the fine, money, in the capitalistic world that […]
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One of the wisest enlightened mystics of the last century, J. Krishnamurti, whose birthday is on 11th May, was often asked: What role has emotion in life? And one of the open sessions, compiled in “The Book of Life” answers: How do emotions come into being? Very simple. They come into being through stimuli, through […]