In 2020, besides the Pandemic the other news that has captured the attention of both the media houses and the hearts of people is that of suicide. Many believe that low self-esteem is the root cause of all such self-harmful acts and that high self-esteem is the solution to a
Category: Psychology
SEXUAL HEALTH — HOW ABUSE IMPACTS SEXUAL HEALTH
Before we can begin to understand this relationship between sexual health and abuse, we must define sexual health. According to the World Health Organization, “ Sexual health is a state of physical, mental and social well-being concerning sexuality. It requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships,
ENSLAVED BY GADGETS? ARE YOU NOMOPHOBIC?
Human beings were believed to be born with two kinds of phobias; ‘Basophobia’ or the fear of falling and ‘Phonophobia’ or the fear of big sounds. As a person grows up, the list gets longer and new phobias keep on getting added. With technology taking a firm grip of human
FRAGMENTED SELF: DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER
Mental health has been extensively explored by popular media and oftentimes they have their own take on mental illnesses. Conforming to the codes of psychological thriller and “detective story” narratives, films portraying Dissociative Identity Disorder has become a popular and enduring genre. While some movies may successfully highlight mental health
UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence has always been understood by the masses as a very narrow concept- as only relating to the cognitive aspects of an individual. However, this is not the case at all- intelligence is not only to do with so-called ‘intellectual’ processes but it also related to the ‘non-intellectual’ processes in
Colour Psychology
As commonly and instinctively as we use Colour Psychology in our daily lives, it has managed to stay a very less researched topic. A quick search on the internet will most definitely give you a Wikipedia page but most of it is focussed on what we already know. It is
PERILS OF PUBLIC APATHY: THE BYSTANDER EFFECT
On 13 March 1964, 2:30 a.m. in New York City, a girl named Kitty Genovese came back from her work at a bar when she was chased by a man wielding a knife. Genovese ran towards her apartment, but the man grabbed her and started stabbing her. Hearing Kitty’s cries
REGRESSION DURING THE PANDEMIC
The COVID-19 pandemic has inspired multiple research papers, reviews and analyses. They all focus on the different psychological, social, economic and political implications of the pandemic. Though all the papers offer insight into the pandemic through a new lens- they all agree that the pandemic has had far-reaching impacts on
UNLATCHING THE CAGE OF EMOTIONS: BREAKING GENDER-SPECIFIC STEREOTYPES
Human life is saturated with intricate and complex emotions. Each day, we spend a tremendous amount of time experiencing a range of emotions and witnessing the emotions of others, interpreting what their cues mean and determining how to respond to and deal with their and our own emotional experiences. Our
RESILIENCE: THE KEY INGREDIENT OF THE COVID-19 LEMONADE
The world is grappling and struggling with an invisible, deadly, life-threatening enemy and is trying to understand how to live with the threats posed by the novel Coronavirus. With the declaration of COVID-19 as a “pandemic” by the World Health Organisation, the entire world came to a screeching halt. Several