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Advice and tips on managing mental health, maintaining a positive outlook and becoming your happiest self.
Why You Feel Tired All the Time in 2026 (And How to Fix It)
You woke up this morning after a solid seven and a half hours. Maybe eight. And still—that familiar heaviness. Like your limbs are filled with wet sand. Coffee helps for about an hour, then the fog rolls back in. By 2 PM, you’re staring at your screen, reading the same sentence four times. By 9 PM, you’re too exhausted to watch a movie but somehow too wired to fall asleep.
By Kamel Saidani5 months ago in Psyche
Why Men Are Quietly Rethinking Modern Masculinity — And What Happens Next
Something quieter than a movement is happening among men in 2026. No manifesto, no viral hashtag, no celebrity spokesmen — just a slow, genuine shift in how a growing number of men think about what strength actually means. And it's happening largely outside the noise of public debate.
By Mxolisi Makhubela5 months ago in Psyche
The AMA Is Right — AI Therapy Chatbots Are Crossing a Dangerous Line
The American Medical Association's recent warning about AI therapy chatbots hit different than most regulatory statements. It wasn't buried in jargon or hedged with qualifications. It was a clear signal: these tools are causing real harm, and someone needs to take responsibility.
By Mxolisi Makhubela5 months ago in Psyche
How Social Media Is Rewiring Your Brain Right Now
A few nights ago, I caught myself doing something that felt uncomfortably automatic. I was watching a show I’d eagerly waited all week to see—something with dense dialogue and slow-burn suspense—and less than three minutes in, my hand reached for my phone. Not because the show bored me. Not because I heard a notification. I just… reached. My brain wanted a hit of something faster, something that resolved in seconds rather than minutes. The show was too slow for a mind that had been trained on fast cuts, instant comments, and endless scrolls.
By Kamel Saidani5 months ago in Psyche
The Shape of a Better Life: How Doughnut Economics Reimagines Wellbeing
It is normal to be curious as to what Doughnut Economics is, and what it has to do with the mental health of people, both individually and collectively. Absolutely everything. Interest in this topic came about picking up an old, shrivelled up copy of Wellbeing Magazine at a random cafe. That article would have certainly been written prior to the pandemic, where a prolonged period of inflation and the rising cost of living followed suit.
By Justine Crowley5 months ago in Psyche
The Anger Room
THE GOOD GIRL WHO WAS DYING INSIDE 😤 I was very good at being good for a very long time. I was the calm one in every crisis and the reasonable one in every conflict and the one who said it is fine when it was not fine and who absorbed other people's difficulties with the specific generosity of someone who has confused self-erasure with virtue and who has been praised for that confusion long enough that the praise became a need. I was good at minimizing my own pain because pain seemed like an imposition I did not have the right to make. I was good at explaining other people's harmful behavior to myself in the most charitable light available because charity felt spiritual and anger felt ugly. I was good at keeping everyone comfortable, including the people who had hurt me, because keeping people comfortable was the primary skill I had developed and it had been so thoroughly rewarded that I had never seriously examined the cost 🙏
By The Curious Writer5 months ago in Psyche
The Mirror Test
THE REFLECTION YOU AVOID 🪞 There is a specific way people look at themselves in mirrors that has nothing to do with vanity and everything to do with self-knowledge, and it is the look they never take. They will check their teeth before a meeting and examine their outfit before a date and monitor a pimple for a week and watch their hairline for years but they will almost never look directly at their own eyes in a mirror with the specific intention of seeing rather than evaluating. Not seeing whether they look good or presentable or rested or professional, but actually looking at the person who is standing there, the one behind the appearance, the one who has been making decisions and forming relationships and constructing a life and who may or may not be someone they recognize or like or respect or would choose if choosing were possible 🔍
By The Curious Writer5 months ago in Psyche
The Power Of The Breath
Did you know that you breath is the fastest way to calm down when you are feeling dysregulated? Nobody is immune from stress, regardless of age and we all have one thing in common - we react. How we react to stress is different for everyone, but there is a simple way we can all calm:
By Elizabeth Woods5 months ago in Psyche
