My sister was struggling with her studies after her breakup.
My sister and I have always shared a great bond. We share everything with each other. Interestingly, we are both academically smart but emotionally weak. I have been noticing her f
I would avoid staring at stray dogs whenever I walked down the path.
The fear started at the age of 10. It was a chilly Sunday morning. I woke up while everyone else in the neighborhood slept. My sister and I decided to go play outside, with my pare
I had a hard time trusting my partner.
In any relationship, one of the foundational core values is trust. Trust is when you have faith in your partner because you feel secure around them. When you don’t have that fait
I have never felt confident.
I remember always feeling uncomfortable in my own skin. All those years growing up, I used to feel doubtful and insecure, having thoughts like “Do I look good enough?”,
I was body shamed at family gatherings.
Growing up, I hadn’t really been ‘fat’ or ‘chubby’. But as soon as I hit puberty, my lifestyle and eating habits changed drastically. And these bad ea
My parents’ regular conflicts at home affected me in ways I couldn’t imagine.
I still remember when I was in 7th grade, I came home running joyfully to my parents with a silver medal swinging in my hand, to tell them how fast I ran in the race and came secon
I would avoid talking to my father about my career choices.
It was a regular Sunday afternoon for us; my father was at home on Sundays like most working parents, and I wanted to have a serious talk with my father about my career choices. Bu
I had heard many a times that people who went to therapy were crazy. Was I crazy?
At the age of 18, I experienced anxiety for the first time. It was my first year of college, I was entrusted with the task of introducing the chief guest of an event. As someone wh
I couldn’t speak in front of an audience, no matter how prepared I was.
I still remember being a scared 10-year-old girl in front of an audience. I was told to perform a small poem for annual day, and I was petrified. I had practised the whole week for
I used to think that my co-worker hated me.
I had started working for an IT firm 2 years ago. It was my first job and I was overjoyed about getting the opportunity to work in the area of my interest. We were a team of seven