by Shantanu Tilak | Jul 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
The weather can often trigger our mood to make us feel certain things about whether we want to head out, and how safe we feel. In cities like Mumbai, where precipitation can cause a lot of damage, the reactionary mechanisms built within our minds are pretty...
by Shantanu Tilak | May 24, 2018 | Mental Health, Psychology
“There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that. “- John Nash Schizophrenia is a disorder that is often pointed out in the realm of psychology as one that is extremely complex. Today, we’d like to discuss the...
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 Ashvita Anand | May 19, 2018 | Workplace Counselling
Loneliness has become a common complaint across different age groups. Technology has a key role to play in this. Interactions on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat are slowly replacing face to face interactions. Most situations which used to...
by Shantanu Tilak | May 5, 2018 | Counselling, Health, Mental Health, Stress, Time Management, Workplace Counselling
As we’ve already discussed, sleep and exercise are our pillars of support through our times of stress. Setting a daily routine contributes to strengthening these pillars. A structured daily routine really enables these notions to have effect within our lives....
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 Ashvita Anand | Apr 28, 2018 | Industrial psychology, Relationships, Workplace Counselling
Colleague or friend? Well, your co-workers can be both, depending on the situation. In our final post in the series of workplace related issues, we would like to discuss the importance of clearly defining the boundaries of your workplace relationships. It is quite...
by Ashvita Anand | Apr 25, 2018 | Industrial psychology, Workplace Counselling
Remember when you were a kid and summer vacations meant the world to you? There was a point in the not so distant past when summer was actually a time to relax and unwind, after the long year of hard work. But, is that true for you even today? In a fast-paced world...
by Shantanu Tilak | Apr 21, 2018 | blog, Counselling, Culture, Existentialism, Social Psychology
We’re sure you agree that crime has no religion. The recent gruesome happenings in Kathua go to show how some sections of society rally and protest over religion as a basis for proving the guilty as innocent. The reactionary wave of social media outrage is but...
by Shantanu Tilak | Apr 18, 2018 | Career Counseling, Industrial psychology, Workplace Counselling
Workplace harassment is a pertinent issue that we all need to tackle from within. Employee awareness is one of the many things that prevents such occurrences. We all assume that the workplace is a space within which we share our ideas, and work towards achieving...