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The Most Important Conversation You'll Ever Have Happens Inside Your Head
From the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep, there is one voice that never leaves you. Your own. It follows you through every success.
By mike2 months ago in Psyche
Trauma hurts…
Trauma — is an emotional or psychological response to very stressful, frightening, or distressing events. Trauma comes in different forms. Physical trauma refers to a person suffering a sudden injury caused by an accident like a car crash. Physical trauma heals over time. Bones can be re-set in theater and will heal again. Bruises and cuts can be nasty, but most heal in time with medical attention.
By Elizabeth Woods2 months ago in Psyche
The Emotional Cost of Always Being the Strong One
The Emotional Cost of Being the Person Who Never Falls Apart Always being the person who holds everything together can lead to emotional exhaustion, resentment, isolation and self-abandonment.
By Jose Mejia2 months ago in Psyche
Insight: Why Am I Afraid of Any 'Drama'?
My friend's 18 year old son once asked me why he was afraid of conflict or confrontation, yet he also liked to hang out with friends who always got into fights and sometimes dragged him into them. He wondered how he could avoid the constant 'drama'.
By Elaine Sihera 2 months ago in Psyche
I Tried to Distract Myself From a Panic Attack. It Made Everything Worse.
I was sitting on a plane at Eugene Airport when it happened. We hadn't even left the ground. The plane was much smaller than I expected. The kind of small that changes the feeling of the air around you before your mind has time to process it.
By Inbar Shahar2 months ago in Psyche
Nothing There
I wasn’t particularly religious as a child. God existed somewhere in the general background, alongside various other things adults seemed confident about and I had no immediate reason to investigate. I didn’t dislike religion; I just didn’t understand what people were getting from it. It seemed like an enormous amount of ceremony devoted to someone who had never made himself especially obvious.
By Suzanne B.2 months ago in Psyche
ADHD: Why Am I Like This? Part 18: Why Am I Like This?
I began this investigation with a question I had been asking for most of my life. Why am I like this? For years, it wasn't really a question.
By Jesse Lee2 months ago in Psyche
The Six-Month Wall: Rebuilding Confidence in the Middle of the Job Hunt. AI-Generated.
You sit down to prepare for an interview, and the words just don't come. Not because you don't know what you're good at, but because you've stopped believing the answers. Nine months of rejections will do that to you. It quietly convinces you that you were never actually good at anything, that you got lucky, and that the market has since corrected the mistake.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in Psyche
How To Cope With Long-Term Unemployment & Underemployment Without Losing Yourself. Top Story - July 2026.
Needless to say, the current economy does not really give two f*cks as to whether or not you have secure employment right now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with your skills, knowledge, experience, work ethic, references, attitude, and qualifications. Your CV can be polished many times over, and it does not keep you immune from being told that you are overqualified one minute, underqualified the next. And you can easily spend one hour on one tailored cover letter not knowing if its going to be read by a human being on the other side. Not a complaint, rather an observation.
By Justine Crowley2 months ago in Psyche
ADHD: Why Am I Like This? Part 17: What ADHD Gave Me
For most of this investigation, I focused on what ADHD had made more difficult. Remembering. Planning. Regulating emotions.
By Jesse Lee2 months ago in Psyche
How Habits Shape Our Lives - And Sabotage Our Progress
Our daily habits (the way we do things) often become so rigid and unchanging that we tend to forget the huge impact they have on our quality of life, the limits they place on our potential and opportunities, and our general progress.
By Elaine Sihera 2 months ago in Psyche
I Thought I Needed More Discipline. I Needed to Feel Safe
For a long time, I treated every unfinished task as evidence that something was wrong with me. If I procrastinated, I assumed I was lazy. If I abandoned a routine, I told myself I lacked discipline. If I spent an evening searching for comfort instead of working toward my goals, I saw it as proof that I could not be trusted.
By Jose Mejia2 months ago in Psyche