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Long-form essays, personal perspectives and writing on psychology, mental health, the self and modern life.Page 11 of 18
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Why do we rehearse arguments that never happen?
Why do we rehearse arguments that never happen? Because the brain cannot tell the difference between a problem that has been resolved and a problem that has…
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Why Nothing Feels Real Anymore: the strange experience nobody talks about
Why nothing feels real anymore is not a question most people ask out loud. They sit with it. They notice it at odd moments. On a Tuesday…
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Deep questions to ask someone to know them better (that actually work)
Deep questions to ask someone to know them better are rarer than they should be. Most conversations stay on the surface because both people let them. You…
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How the body ages: 7 million cells just gave us the clearest answer yet
How the body ages is one of the oldest questions in medicine. Yesterday, for the first time, we got something close to an answer. A study published…
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Solitude psychology: what being alone actually does to the brain
Solitude psychology is one of the most misunderstood fields in modern mental health research. We have spent decades studying loneliness, its harms, its causes, its epidemic spread…
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The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty: the last line that changes everything
The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty is not a long story. You can read it in eight minutes. Maybe ten if you pause at the ending, which you…
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Five good things that happened in march 2026 that nobody told you about
There is good news March 2026. There is actually a lot of it. The problem is where you have been looking. It is not a rhythm designed…
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What we inherit from our parents (it is more than you think)
What we inherit from our parents is not just their eyes or their temper. It is their unfinished business. The anxiety that arrives before anything has gone…
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Tagore’s The Postmaster: a story about being left behind
The Postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore is twelve pages long. Twelve pages. Written in 1891. And yet here you are, years after Class 9, still thinking about Ratan…
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Dire Wolf: the resurrection that is not quite what it seems
Dire wolf is no longer extinct. That sentence is both true and, depending on who you ask, deeply misleading. On April 7, 2025, Colossal Biosciences announced that…
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Why the 90s Feel More Real Than Yesterday
What were you like in the 90s? The question is everywhere right now. On social media. In comment sections. In the particular glow that comes over someone's…
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Who are you when everything changes?
The psychology of identity tells us that the self is not fixed. But nobody warns you what it actually feels like when it starts to shift. It…
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