Children calling elders by their first names
Some people are shocked when they hear children in some households call elders by their first names. In most homes, the parents are often...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- 6 days ago
- 3 min
The many ways we Indians say, “I love you” without actually saying it
Most psychology books are written by Western authors and these authors only look at the Western culture and assume the rest of the world...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Aug 11
- 2 min
Ability to reduce interaction, walk way, cut off a toxic relationship is also relationship success.
Recently during a workshop when talking of how we can be successful at relationship this question came up. Are we successful only when we...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jul 30
- 2 min
Learning to stay with an emotion
If you don’t like particular weather (cold, hot, rainy, humid etc.,) you have two choices: move to a place where the weather is different...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jul 8
- 2 min
Acceptance Vs Resignation
In counselling and psychology when the term acceptance is used many people think, acceptance means giving up the idea of change. They...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jun 15
- 1 min
Calming the storm in the head
You want to stop the loop thinking. You want to end the tape that is running in your head. You want to switch off the film running inside...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jun 14
- 1 min
Stopping the conversations in the head - Give a running commentary on life around you
Most times we are talking to someone in our minds. Either to someone or to ourselves. As long as the conversations are pleasant, they are...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 25
- 2 min
Refraining from being solution-oriented ALL the time.
First scenario: The child comes back home from school and says, “You know what happened today? My friend Rahul stopped talking to me.”...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 22
- 3 min
Beta testing relationships
Society alters its shape every decade or so and it seems to be happening faster than before. The way we commute (Uber, Ola, Metro), the...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 18
- 4 min
Daily arguments over fans/lights switched on in empty rooms
Disproportionate responses to people’s behaviour around us cause a lot of unpleasantness. When we are on the other side don’t we feel for...
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Sarita Talwai
- Feb 20
- 2 min
Psychology Lessons from playing Scrabble, anyone?
Scrabble Babble. We play Scrabble like we play life. Some of us are hoarders. We hold on to our Qs and Zs hoping to use them at the right...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Feb 11
- 2 min
PARALYSIS FROM ANALYSIS
We live in two worlds We live in two worlds, don't we? One is the real world out there where we can physically touch things, people,...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Feb 10
- 1 min
Emotions and Problems - the relationship
We are so good at solving other people's problems. Why is that our issues seem so difficult to solve? With our issues, our emotions are...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jan 29
- 2 min
Compassion Fatigue is real and it is here.
It is almost more than one and a half years of the pandemic. We heard it initially in January last year, we experienced the severity in...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jan 22
- 2 min
Giving 'silent company' to people
"Give me some silent company" Recently someone came home and asked, “Are you busy?”. I replied, “Just answering some emails”. “Can I just...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jan 11
- 3 min
As an adult child, how to handle your parents' arguments and fights?
In our culture, adult children keep in constant touch with their ageing parents, many living in the same house or at least on two...
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Sarita Talwai
- Jan 7
- 2 min
To survive, you must tell stories...
Carrying Tales. Life is really just stories strung together. If we stop and think for a moment, the most mundane of situations have the...
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Sarita Talwai
- Jan 4
- 2 min
Finding Joy
What is the difference between Happiness and Joy? Is it just semantics? Understand the subtle difference in this piece
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