by Shantanu Tilak | Feb 28, 2018 | Social Psychology
When stressful situations arise, we often attribute them to the way the universe has a path for everyone. This notion is what we call ‘fate’. We tend to believe that each event or phenomenon that we face is independent of those that precede and come after...
by Shantanu Tilak | Feb 17, 2018 | Counselling, Existentialism, Mental Health, Psychology, Social Psychology
We feel a host of emotions as human beings. Emotions like fear are said to be wired into us in order to cope with negative situations, and activate our fight and flight responses. These are experienced during stressful situations and often lead us to narrow down the...
by Shantanu Tilak | Feb 15, 2018 | Culture, Mental Health, Psychology
We often harp on the focal, key importance of romantic love, saying that it is the beacon that guides our relationships. However, is romantic love the only facet that the emotion of love can result in? Romantic love, contrary to the way we frame it as ‘eternal...
by Shantanu Tilak | Feb 13, 2018 | Adjustment, Existentialism, Relationships
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, some of us may be asking some intense questions to ourselves about the love that we may have, or the possibility of finding new love. Does Valentine’s Day only encompass the love that a romantic relationship...
by Shantanu Tilak | Feb 5, 2018 | Anxiety, memory, Positive Psychology, Psychology, Social Psychology, Stress
We just talked to you about memory, and how sometimes, it may not be the most accurate gauge of our experiences. Let’s now venture a step further, and look at what happens when we ruminate over past situations way too much. When we are unable to recall...
by Shantanu Tilak | Feb 2, 2018 | memory, Mental Health
It is believed that memory is the best index of our past experiences. Is this true when considering a distressing situation? We often rely on memory to be the most reliable source of past information. When we are often baffled while trying to remember a past event, we...
by Shantanu Tilak | Jan 26, 2018 | Adjustment, Psychology, Social Psychology
Whether someone’s words are factual or based on a mere assumption, we need to give ourselves room to gauge them. As we discussed earlier, we have managed to understand how people sometimes make value judgments about us, by taking from fleeting thoughts that they...
by Shantanu Tilak | Jan 22, 2018 | Adjustment, Mental Health, Psychology, Social Psychology
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people make a judgment.” There are always individuals who are going to expound their opinions about our character. They might have pleasant or unpleasant things to say to us, which tend to affect us in several different ways....
by Shantanu Tilak | Jan 19, 2018 | Counselling, Mental Health, Misconceptions, Stress
The brain has varied ways of coping with different intense emotions. It is often considered or theorized to be well-wired enough to deal with these intense feelings and emerge a balanced individual. However, when we repress our desires to deal with intense emotions...
by Shantanu Tilak | Jan 14, 2018 | Adjustment, Social Psychology
Some say conformity is ubiquitous. But how can we define whether the effect it has is nuanced, or full-blown? The notion of ideology is something that pervades within all of us as human beings. We all subscribe to some form of thought process of chain of beliefs. When...
