by Shantanu Tilak | May 23, 2018 | Adjustment, Anxiety, Depression, Industrial psychology, Stress
We often start our day exhausted and simply unwilling to trudge on through the next few hours to come. A dose of caffeine is what we often need to jumpstart the fuses, and this often leads us to feel a little bit wired for the first few hours. This is a feeling that...
by Shantanu Tilak | May 2, 2018 | Anxiety, Depression, Industrial psychology, Stress, Time Management, Workplace Counselling
When you come home from a long day of work, it’s natural that you’d feel the need to lay in bed and hit the munchies. Feeling burnt out is common, and we’ve talked about how this might be a feeling you have when you think that work doesn’t...
by Shantanu Tilak | Mar 30, 2018 | Adjustment, Anxiety, Depression, Existentialism, Mental Health, Psychology, Social Psychology
When you’re in the peak of adversity, have you ever considered trying to find the humor in a situation to dispel the high stress levels? Humor and the light side of life often enable us to look at something differently. Adversity is something that we come across...
by Shantanu Tilak | Mar 23, 2018 | Counselling, Depression, Existentialism, Health, Mental Health
“He held up a real brain in a jar with a blue liquid, which he called “joy juice:’ trickling into it from a small plastic pouch held above. He asked the audi- ence to pretend that their brains could be treated with a hormone (i.e., joy juice) that...
by Shantanu Tilak | Oct 24, 2017 | Adjustment, Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Misconceptions, Psychology, Social Psychology, Stress
We all feel a certain level of enthusiasm and mirth during the festive season. In countries such as India, where collectivist ideologies run supreme, it is but natural for a communal environment to perpetuate during the auspicious times of the year. Families unite to...
by Shantanu Tilak | Oct 10, 2017 | Counselling, Culture, Depression, Industrial psychology, Mental Health
Studies in Singapore and the city of New York reveal how the frequency of mental health conditions is on the rise today. The statistics show that every one in 10 people suffer from some form of impediment with their emotional satisfaction. Â Applying the link between...
