selfcare
The importance of self-care is paramount; enhance your health and wellbeing, manage your stress, and maintain control under pressure.
From Chaos to Clarity: Understanding Life With ADHD From the Inside.
Growing Up With ADHD: My Unfiltered Experience Growing up, I always felt like I was living life at a different speed than everyone else. Not faster in a productive way—but faster in a chaotic, overwhelming, and often confusing way. My thoughts didn’t come one at a time; they came all at once, overlapping, competing, and pulling my attention in every direction. I didn’t have the words for it back then, but later I would come to understand it as ADHD.
By Robert Redford6 months ago in Psyche
The Witness Staff
The Witness Staff A real soul passed through this The Fantasy That Protects Your Back “If I had the strength today, I’d be rummaging through my closet and drawers, hunting for scraps of ribbon, old beads, forgotten feathers anything to dress my walking stick the way the old stories describe. But my back has already carried too much, and the film still waits unprocessed. So instead, I imagine the decorated staffs of the ancestors: ember wood, wind caller, moon thread sticks glowing in the dark. Mine will come later. For now, the fantasy is enough.” I will decorate my regular walking sticks soon.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 6 months ago in Psyche
The House of Two Worlds
The Cinematic Doorway Intro I finished shaping this piece in a quiet room today, letting the story settle into its own rhythm. This is the next chapter in the House of Two Worlds a moment caught between shadow and clarity, where the rooms speak in their own language. I included the long story and the summary of the words placed with music and spoken word. This is a debut to houses divided. There are many different lifestyles. An artist needs a creative environment. However, with rents so damn high everyone cannot live alone to create. Living in a paint bucket of music, art, and film is a struggle with a more conformist individual. Life is short. Life can be real.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 6 months ago in Psyche
I’m a Neuroscientist & These Are 10 Things I Do to Protect My Focus
We like to believe focus is something we either have… or don’t. But after years of studying the brain, I can tell you something surprising: focus is not a personality trait. It’s a biological process—one that can be trained, protected, and easily destroyed. Every notification, every distraction, every “quick scroll” chips away at your brain’s ability to concentrate. And in today’s world, your attention is constantly under attack. So instead of relying on motivation, I follow a set of rules—simple habits rooted in how the brain actually works. Here are 10 things I do to protect my focus every single day.
By Shahid Zaman6 months ago in Psyche
Psychology
EXPERIMENT 1: THE INVISIBLE GORILLA 🦍 In 1999 psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris conducted an experiment that would become one of the most famous demonstrations of human cognitive limitation ever produced: they asked participants to watch a video of six people passing basketballs and to count the number of passes made by the team wearing white shirts, and approximately halfway through the video a person in a gorilla suit walked into the frame, faced the camera, beat their chest, and walked off, and when asked afterward whether they noticed anything unusual approximately fifty percent of participants reported seeing nothing out of the ordinary, completely failing to detect a gorilla that was visible on screen for a full nine seconds while they were focused on counting basketball passes 🏀
By The Curious Writer6 months ago in Psyche
Your Brain Deletes Memories While You Sleep 💤
THE NIGHTLY PURGE YOU DON'T REMEMBER 🌙 Every night while you sleep your brain conducts a systematic review of the day's experiences and makes ruthless editorial decisions about which memories to preserve and which to delete, and this process which neuroscientists call synaptic homeostasis or memory consolidation involves the active weakening and elimination of neural connections that formed during the day but that your brain's triage system has determined are not worth the metabolic cost of maintaining, and the scale of this nightly purge is staggering with research suggesting that your brain eliminates approximately fifty to eighty percent of the neural connections formed during waking hours, meaning that the majority of what you experienced today will be gone by tomorrow morning, not faded or weakened but actively destroyed by a brain that has decided these experiences are not important enough to keep and that the biological resources required to maintain them are better allocated to the memories that survived the triage process 🧹
By The Curious Writer6 months ago in Psyche
You’re Not “Born Smart” — 5 Habits That Rewire Your Brain. AI-Generated.
Most people believe intelligence is something you’re born with — fixed, limited, and mostly out of your control. It’s a comforting idea in some ways. If intelligence is fixed, then there’s no pressure to change it. You simply accept where you are and move on.
By Anh Dong Nguyen6 months ago in Psyche
The Hidden Link Between Your Personality and Career Fit. AI-Generated.
Most people choose a career based on opportunity, salary, or external expectations. On paper, it makes sense. You follow what seems logical, stable, or socially approved. But over time, something starts to feel off — not dramatically, but subtly. A constant sense of friction, low energy, or a quiet dissatisfaction that’s hard to explain.
By Anh Dong Nguyen6 months ago in Psyche
