Category: Mental Health
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The Three Seasons of My Creativity
I’ve always struggled with consistency, but maybe the problem was never my creativity. I’ve realised that I simply create better in certain seasons. Summer slows my writing down, while monsoon and winter bring back my focus, imagination, and love for creating. Maybe creativity has seasons too—and I’m finally learning to embrace mine.
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The Importance of Slowing Down in This Hustling World
Hustle culture taught us to rush, optimize, and exhaust ourselves in the name of success. This reflective piece explores the quiet importance of slowing down and choosing a gentler rhythm of living.
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The Value of Quiet Moments, Solitude, and Taking Breaks
Quiet moments, it has become a distant memory, isn’t it? The world is so loud nowadays. Constant hustle and bustle, traffic noises, pubs, clubs, loud music, that, after a while, it all just becomes a noise. Everyone wants to keep moving, keep going, and in that race, the value of stillness has been lost. Isn’t…
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Review Of My Life – 2023 So Far
Half of 2023 is over and in these six months, my life has taken so many turns. From desperation to calmness, I’ve come a far way. At the start of 2023, when I was struggling and had dependency on writing and sometimes doing nothing at all, one of my friends told me that years from…
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Why I haven’t posted in months?
This space has been abandoned for months now. I was trying to be consistent but then vanished. No new blog post, nothing. Reason? I actually took a break from everything. You ask why months-long break? Honestly, I was struggling through a lot of mental health issues. I have a category dedicated to mental health –…
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Is talking about mental health becoming a source of entertainment?
Mental health is a topic that we cannot ignore. What people believed to be weird diseases or spiritual possessions back in the day has a scientific term now. Most of them are related to our mental health like depression, anxiety, OCD, and so many more. In this age of social media, people are coming forth…
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How social anxiety affected my entire childhood. Do I still have it?
Being anxious is something everyone goes through. Be it before a special event, presentation, starting something new, or sometimes in bad situations. Anxiety is a common term to describe how we feel in certain situations, but it is also a type of mental health disorder, or simply put, an anxiety disorder where a person feels…
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A letter to my past self. Goodbye 2022, Welcome 2023.
It’s 1st January, 2023 in India. The new year has begun. I have already reflected on my previous years, seen myself break and rise, faced a lot and saw myself changing by the end of 2022. I have a long way to go, to work on myself, to be a better version of me, to…
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5 things 2022 taught me. What I’m taking into 2023 with me.
2022 is almost over. It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. With the onset of 2023, everyone must be preparing to make their resolution list, they must be planning their next moves, how next year will be for them, and honestly, I am too. But along with planning for what’s ahead, what lies in the…
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What is ASMR and how it helps me fall asleep?
ASMR is a widely popular form of content creation among the YouTube community and has been misunderstood with Mukbang several times, especially with food ASMR. Many creators just hop on the trend without knowing what ASMR truly is and how it’s different from mukbang, thus, many people feel disgusted or cringed when watching food ASMR…