Category: Mental Health Diaries
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What I learnt from my Imposter Syndrome.
Yesterday, a professor from my department retired. He is an eminent scholar in the field of cultural studies. There was a zoom meeting to celebrate his career over the years. Several experienced professors, intellectuals, ex-PhD students and academicians attended the meeting. I wasn’t prepared for the sense of doom that rushed through my body at […]
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Intellectualizing vs. Experiencing.
“How much true it is today, when almost everybody sees, hears, feels, and tastes with his thoughts rather than the power within himself which can see, hear, feel and taste.” – Erich Fromm ( Pschoanalysis and Zen Buddhism) Except for the evident exclusionary gender terms in the above lines, a profound truth can be understood. […]
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Real self acceptance can help anyone by contributing to problem solving, where as the fake self acceptance is a comfort zone.
Nowadays, the concepts – non-judgmentality and empathy became very popular. We see them often while scrolling social media pages. Everyone talks about being empathetic towards self or towards others. Positive attitude, affirmations and self compassion concepts also became popular. But what does that exactly mean? Imagine, someone is sexually abusing me or I am sexually […]
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Attacking the connections that exist between emotions, thoughts and body is a self destructive behavior!
My client Hema (imaginary) had been suffering from insomnia from few months. She cannot sleep in the nights. She kept on describing how difficult it is to manage. She feels tired and exhausted in the day time. But I figured out that there is something fishy in her description. She told me so many times […]
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6 patterns of clients that hinder the process of counseling
Why some clients get benefited from counseling where as others dont ? Why some people can get healed, where as others can’t ? What stops a person from healing himself or herself ? What are the patterns of clients that hinder the process of counseling? I worked as a Counselling Psychologist for more than 2 […]