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The Peace Within Accountability
There is peace in accountability. If you’d met me several years ago, you couldn’t have paid me to admit that. The truth is, several years ago, I myself was oblivious to this notion. I’d been in conflict after conflict and not one time had I come out on the bottom of it, even if I truly had. If I said it was so, you couldn’t convince me otherwise. And oh, honey I would die on that hill. There was something powerful about lacking any control for much of my life, eventually learning that I can build my own narrative beautifully crafted in any way that I want. What did I want? Control. How did I get it? By being right. Ultimately, I spent over twenty seven of the twenty-eight years on this Earth failing at what I now know as gaslighting. Crafting weak fairytales in a vain attempt to keep what little control I had over my life.
By The Darkest Sunrise7 months ago in Psyche
How to stop DEREALISATION and start feeling more present?
Considering reasons for this situation we can vary consumptionism that is widely present these days. We chase success and money. And finally, there is no finish line. You can always achieve more and more and the pressure for that is greater than common sense of some people. That results in constant rush and not focusing on the moment.
By Zosia Dudek7 months ago in Psyche
The Day I Deleted All Social Media – What Happened Next Changed Me
I didn’t plan it. There was no “digital detox” challenge, no Instagram announcement about taking a break. One quiet evening, I simply snapped. After hours of scrolling through photos of people I barely knew living lives I didn’t really care about—and yet somehow envied—I put my phone down and whispered to myself, “This isn’t living.”
By Talha Maroof7 months ago in Psyche
What My School Never Taught Me About Myself
What My School Never Taught Me About Myself by (inam khan) I still remember the humming fluorescent lights, the rigid rows of desks, the smell of pencil shavings and disinfectant. I was a quiet student—too quiet, they’d whisper in parent-teacher meetings. I never raised my hand, not because I didn’t know the answer, but because I was afraid my mouth would open wrong, that my words wouldn’t sound like everyone else’s.
By Inam Ullah7 months ago in Psyche
Personalizing Ketamine Doses: Why Body Composition Matters
In recent years, ketamine has emerged as a powerful tool in the treatment of depression, PTSD, anxiety, and chronic pain. Yet one of the most overlooked elements in its administration is how body composition can dramatically influence the effectiveness of each dose.
By Richard Bailey7 months ago in Psyche
A Voice I Only Hear in Dreams
I first heard her voice in a dream. It wasn’t a whisper or a shout, but something in between—soft and clear, like a melody drifting across a quiet room. I woke up with the sound still humming in my ears, but when I reached for it in the waking world, it slipped away like smoke through my fingers. The memory of that voice clung to me, fragile and elusive, like a secret waiting just beyond reach.
By Abuzar khan7 months ago in Psyche
The Age of Digital Solitude. AI-Generated.
There’s a peculiar irony in the fact that we’ve never been more connected—and never felt more alone. At any given moment, you can message a friend, join a group chat, scroll through countless lives on your feed, or video call someone halfway across the globe. Technology has dissolved distances, collapsed borders, and placed entire communities in our palms. But something’s missing. Something very human. Something we forgot to feel.
By Ahmet Kıvanç Demirkıran7 months ago in Psyche
Homo Mythologus
What is the destiny of our great race - to reach for the stars, or to speed towards the finish line? Ever since the dawn of man, he has stood apart from and above the animal kingdom, and yet he is not the god of this world, but must behold the heavens above and know the scale of his insignificance in the grand scheme of the cosmos. This dual tension has characterized the nature of his self-consciousness from the very first moment that he began to create conjecture about what kind of creature he might turn out to be. Before this moment, even his dreams were sleeping, abed in the instinctive world of predator and prey. When man began not just to call and to answer, but to answer his questions, and to question his answers - then only did he truly awaken for the very first time. He woke up and asked, "Who am I?"
By Insinq Datum7 months ago in Psyche
