Conflicts During Lockdown?
It has been over a year and counting since India went into lockdown. For all, this has been an unexpected change, some like it but most struggle with being confined to their homes. Working from home, sharing space with family/friends…
Locked Out: Extroverts in Lockdown
For someone who is an extrovert and loves interacting with people, this lockdown has been hard. Even if it is something as trivial as missing physical interactions, hugs, the sound of a room buzzing with conversations and laughter. If lockdowns…
Just A Wave
Most of us have been able to sense the anxiety around us. Sneezing, coughing, no masks or no sanitizers are making us uneasy all over again. March and April seem to be the months of doom. If you’re saying “Stop!…
Pandemic Guilt
Remember the lockdown? The two week vacation which turned into a year long ordeal? What we now call our ever changing “new normal”. Well right at the start of the lockdown, something catastrophic happened, something that would change the way…
Things We (Didn’t Realise We) Learnt In 2020
Let’s say it out loud already, 2020 was hard! Our phones kept pinging with anxiety inducing news, it would not end and it just seemed to go downhill from there on. We were always on high alert, our bodies always…
Use Your Imagination
Tackle the trauma of 2020 with childlike glee The last year has been nothing short of a roller coaster ride where the fall just never seemed to end. We were all forced to battle isolation and loneliness due to…
2020 ends, But The Anxiety Continues
A new year always brings about a promise of new beginnings and escaping the past. Most of us are hoping and praying that while we leave 2020 behind, we also leave COVID19 and the stress of it behind with it.…
Reconnecting with Parents
On a usual day, without the virus, you’d get home and go straight to your room. Interaction with your family is almost minimal. Even when you do, at most it is small talk about how a certain cricketer is doing…
Have you been stressing out too much?
“I really think I need to take a break, but let me just finish this one last thing” When was the last time you said this to yourself? How many times have you said it the last few months? Stress…
Money, Anxiety & COVID-19
Since the beginning of March, we have all been worried about different aspects of our life. With schools, offices, and almost all institutions shut and new laws being introduced every now and then about jobs and education – we are…
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