First, you believe you will be happy after your tenth exams. Then after getting into college. Then after surviving college. Then after finding an internship, a job, a better job, financial stability, a decent apartment, and perhaps a personality that doesn’t collapse when someone asks, “So, what’s next?” Somewhere along the way, waiting for life […]
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You ask AI to write an email. Then summarise a 30-page reading. Then explain the summary because the summary somehow needs a summary. Finally, you ask it what you should think about the whole thing. Congratulations. You have successfully delegated your way out of having an opinion. Technology has made everyday life ridiculously convenient. We
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Your former classmate just got promoted. Someone from college is engaged. Another person has moved abroad for postgraduate studies, and a fourth has somehow bought a house before learning how to cook anything beyond Maggi. Meanwhile, you are trying to decide whether your current career plan is a plan or simply a series of increasingly
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At 1:43 a.m., you have applied for seventeen jobs, rewritten your CV for the fourth time, and refreshed your inbox so often Gmail should be paying you rent. One listing asks for three years of experience, six software skills, and the emotional resilience of a Himalayan monk. You apply anyway. You feel anxious, so you
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Have you ever opened Instagram to check one notification and emerged 47 minutes later knowing the relationship status of a stranger’s cousin? Or said something unnecessarily rude during an argument and immediately wondered, “Why did I do that?” Congratulations. You have encountered one of psychology’s most uncomfortable questions: how much control do we actually have
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You watched one video about how everyone your age is secretly falling behind in life. By dinner, your feed has presented 19 struggling twenty-somethings, three productivity gurus who wake up at 4 a.m., and a man explaining why your morning routine is the reason you are unsuccessful. Excellent. You wanted entertainment. You have acquired an
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The Internet Promised Us the World. We Got a Very Opinionated Neighbourhood. Your social media algorithm has watched you like one video about toxic relationships, three videos about narcissists, and a woman explaining why your attachment style is apparently ruining your life. It has now decided you are a relationship expert in crisis. Your next
Did you get your 10,000 steps today? Excellent! Your smartwatch is proud of you. But your brain might have a reason to celebrate too, because surprisingly its beneficial for your mind. You might be wondering how does walking improve mental health? Let me tell you. Oh, wait. I just assumed you got your 10K steps.
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Imagine investigating fear by activating a carefully selected group of brain cells with a flash of light. Not by asking someone how afraid they feel or observing their behaviour, but by directly changing the activity of particular neurons and watching what happens. It sounds like science fiction, but researchers have been doing versions of this
“You don’t look depressed.” “But you have nothing to worry about.” “Everyone feels anxious sometimes.” Perhaps you’ve heard these words. Perhaps you’ve said them to someone else, hoping to make them feel better. Either way, they reveal something important: we often try to understand another person’s mental health through what we think it should look
