Pandemic !! Stay Indoors !! Maintain Social Distancing !! Disruption In Daily Routine !! Life came to a full stop. Suddenly no schools, no offices, no going out, no meeting friends and family- overnight everything stopped. Now stay indoors, maintain social distancing, wear a mask, online schooling, work from home. Since the lockdown, the world has come to a standstill, …
What Makes You Feel Ugly?
I am a Psychologist; I am a Therapist but more than anything I am a woman who’s fed up with linear beauty standards. I grew up in India, where the ideal image for a good-looking girl is light skinned with long hair. Well, I am brown-skinned. I was always curvier and I still do have dark circles. For the last …
Work from Home Nah! Office at Home
If you have been hit by the reality that working from home is not as fascinating as you thought of it, then you are not alone. Almost everyone is facing the same wave of emotions, mental and physical sluggishness is common. Thus, normalizing this phenomenon is the only way through. So, let’s just fetch out the positive perspective of work …
Pandemic (COVID-19) Effect on Emotional Well-Being of Children
This Pandemic situation, last few months have been really tough for everyone and so it is for parents as well as for kids too. It’s a time for parents to learn how to deal with their kids 24/7 and for kids how to make the most use of their time and energy. In the earlier phase of covid-19 ( lockdown1) …
Psoriasis and Psychodermatology: The Mind-Skin Connection
Studies estimate that in one out of three dermatological patients report of psychological factors that underlie and exacerbate their dermatologic symptoms; thus efficacious care and management must consider psychosocial characteristics of the individual and other psychological factors in disease onset, prognosis, severity, and treatment. These factors are of particular crucial significance in individuals with chronic conditions like eczema, psoriasis, urticarial, …
Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Enhancing Workplace Dynamics
Most employees understand that their primary duty is to do the work that is assigned to them, stay away from behaviors that could be deemed troublesome, and deliver work that is acceptable and beneficial to the organization. Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is an evolving concept concerning how and why people contribute positively to their organizations beyond defined work roles.The study …
Aspects of Normality: Redefining What is ‘Normal’
Recently, a person has committed suicide and his caregivers were claiming his behaviour quite normal. before the unfortunate incident. In another time, an occurrence of pandemic intensively affects our life and rapidly compels to live with a ‘new normal’ life style. Besides these situations, there are many reports which portray the lack of awareness about the pandemic among people even …
Be Positive! Really??
Positivity can create wonders but how many wonders do we see happening in the world around us? Very few. This could mean that either positivity is not easy (very few could have it) or it is not working for the majority to do wonders. Or both (not easy and not working). What is positivity, then? Probably, thinking ‘All is well’ …
Combatting the stigma of mental health and vulnerability
We live in a time where many of us are just beginning to unlearn the stigma that was associated with mental health. We explore the idea around feelings in the workplace and how repressing them causing more daage in the long term than good. The idea that vulnerability can be viewed as a trend in the social sphere, is one …
Can we measure leadership?
In this video, Mr. Barrett explores the idea of measurement when it comes to choosing or developing a leader. He goes through the pros and cons of statistical measures and also provides us insight into how his time as an operational researcher helped his build the stance he has today on the idea. Watch the short clip to hear all …