Anxiety in Malayalam Families — Why We Don’t Talk About It ??There is a word in Malayalam — veruppu — that roughly translates as disgust or aversion, but carries a social weight that the English word does not. When a family’s reputation is threatened, or when someone does something that causes collective shame, it is […]
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What is anxiety? You know the feeling. It is 11 pm and you are lying in bed, replaying a conversation from earlier that day — what you should have said, what they might have meant, whether you made a mistake at work. Your chest feels tight. You cannot quite settle. Sleep should come, but your
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Generalised Anxiety Disorder? GAD? There is a particular kind of person who is always prepared. They have thought through every possible outcome before a meeting. They have mentally rehearsed the difficult conversation three days in advance. They lie awake at night cataloguing everything that could go wrong — with their health, their parents back home,
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Work stress and burnout Gulf NRIs? He has been in Dubai for eleven years. He sends money home every month without fail — school fees, his parents’ medical bills, the instalment on the house in Thrissur that everyone is proud of. At work he is reliable, careful, always available. His manager has never had cause
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Exam Anxiety in Kerala Students increasing day by day.! The SSLC results are three weeks away. A seventeen-year-old in Thrissur has not slept properly in ten days. She knows the material — she has studied it, revised it, written practice answers until her hand ached. But when she sits at her desk now, her mind
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Heath anxeity..? What it is? you notice a headache that has lasted three days. You google it. Within fifteen minutes you have read about brain tumours, meningitis, and a rare neurological condition you had never heard of before. You close the tab, feel briefly reassured, and then open another. By the end of the evening
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panic attacks vs anxiety attacks? panic attack? It happens without warning. Your heart begins hammering so hard you can feel it in your throat. Your chest tightens. Your hands go cold and start to tingle. You cannot get enough air, though nothing is physically blocking your breathing. A wave of absolute certainty washes over you:
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Generalised Anxiety Disorder? GAD? There is a particular kind of person who is always prepared. They have thought through every possible outcome before a meeting. They have mentally rehearsed the difficult conversation three days in advance. They lie awake at night cataloguing everything that could go wrong — with their health, their parents back home,
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What is anxiety? You know the feeling. It is 11 pm and you are lying in bed, replaying a conversation from earlier that day — what you should have said, what they might have meant, whether you made a mistake at work. Your chest feels tight. You cannot quite settle. Sleep should come, but your
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The gap between how we appear to the world and how we truly feel inside is one of the most quietly devastating places a person can live. Smiling outside. Struggling inside. You go to work. You joke with friends. You take care of your family. From the outside, life looks okay — maybe even good.
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