Category: Mental Health
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Maladaptive daydreaming: Are You Fantasizing and Acting Out a Story?
Every time you put on your noise-cancelling headphones and play your favorite tracks, the daydream begins. The immersive reality feels so relaxed, so safe, so familiar, so under control, so complete and real. While this may sound like everyday life for creatives (artists, filmmakers, writers, and more), uncontrollable, excessive daydreaming can actually be a mental…
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Why Sometimes Understanding Is More Helpful Than Actions
This is for someone who truly cares about survivors: When someone is in pain, fear, or extreme emotional stress, it’s valid that you want to offer concrete help. But the instinct to edit the uncomfortable reality around you when seeing someone suffer is not always helpful. Offer a solution, reframe the situation, point toward what’s…
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Why Focus on the “Why” Doesn’t Really Help Healing?
This is from a survivor for fellow survivors. It is not wrong to intellectualize trauma, but the real cost is our endless rumination. Instinctively, when something catastrophic happens, our immediate instinct is to ask why. We dissect the past, looking for a logical explanation that can make the pain make sense. However, fixation on the “why”…
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Ayurveda: How Does It Work, Really?
The insomnia had been getting worse to the point where you couldn’t stay asleep. Waking up at 3 AM with my mind already running, cataloging failures and spinning scenarios for problems that haven’t happened yet. My doctor suggested the usual: sleep hygiene, maybe a low-dose medication. My therapist called it anxiety. Both were probably right,…
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Why Are Memories under Trauma Often Fragmented?
Trauma can shape not only what we remember, but also how we remember it. Unlike ordinary memories, which are usually stored as coherent narratives, traumatic memories often surface as fragmented, brief flashes of images, sounds, smells, or bodily sensations. Trauma Can Alter Brain Structure Sometimes, sudden flashes of fragmented memories can disrupt our ability to…
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