coping
Life presents variables; learning how to cope in order to master, minimize, or tolerate what has come to pass.
Boundaries Changed My Friendships - Here’s Why. Content Warning.
2025 changed me. Not in the Instagram “I’m healing” type of way, but in a real, uncomfortable “I’m not tolerating certain things anymore” type of way. I’ve been learning how to set boundaries in my friendships and I’m not gonna lie… It’s been causing problems because people aren’t adjusting… and that’s when it hit me.
By Nathea Richardson5 months ago in Psyche
The Hidden Habits Destroying Your Productivity
It’s 3:14 p.m. on a Tuesday. You’ve answered seventeen emails, reorganized your desktop folders, tweaked your Notion dashboard, and finally, finally cleared that tiny red notification bubble from your project management app. You should feel accomplished. Instead, you feel vaguely hollow—like you’ve been running on a treadmill that someone oiled with anxiety. The real work, the one that requires creative neurons to actually fire, is still sitting there, untouched. And you can’t quite figure out where the hours went.
By Kamel Saidani5 months ago in Psyche
10 Signs You’re Mentally Stronger Than You Think
A client once sat across from me, shoulders hunched, voice barely above a whisper. She’d just described crying in the office bathroom after a meeting that went sideways. “I’m so weak,” she said. “I can’t even handle one critical comment.”
By Kamel Saidani5 months ago in Psyche
The Quiet Recession Nobody Is Measuring: Why Adults Are Losing the Ability to Make Friends
Nobody writes obituaries for friendships. When a relationship ends — a romantic partnership, a business partnership — there are cultural scripts for acknowledgment, grieving, and recovery. But when a friendship simply dissolves over months or years, fading from regular contact to occasional birthday texts to nothing at all, there is no funeral, no仪式, and remarkably little discussion of the loss.
By Mxolisi Makhubela5 months ago in Psyche
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
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
Ruled by Shame
I am not sure if you noticed when former AG Pam Bondi was being questioned by the House Judiciary Committee in February, and during other interviews, she would reply with huge negative emotional reactions and point her finger at the camera in defensive disgust at those questioning her cover up of the Epstein files. Forget the words that came out of her mouth for the moment and look at her nonverbal language (intense finger pointing and sneering). Most likely, she was mirroring how her parents, caretakers, and teachers scolded her when she was wrong in their eyes. In addition, characters like Stephen Miller and Todd Blanche also do quite a bit of finger pointing during interviews. Have you wondered why so many leaders in the Trump administration scold the camera and sneer at the interviewers with shame?
By Tony Martello5 months ago in Psyche
