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Anyone who has experienced childhood trauma knows you don’t magically “get over it” when you grow up. Problems from the past can impact your well-being in adulthood and even spill over into your relationships.   However, there are effective ways to deal with old traumas — and a big one is therapy. Despite some of the stigmas attached, getting help from a therapist is a winning move, not a failure.   Therapy for children and adults Responses to trauma vary from person to person. Whether you feel like you’ve thoroughly responded to a traumatic event as it happens or not until long after it ends, it will most likely be a process to fully work through your experience.   Children who have experienced trauma can benefit from therapy as well. However, therapy will look different for kids, adolescents, and adults.   Adults are treated primarily with talk therapy.   Signs you may need help dealing with childhood trauma feeling anxiety, sadness, fear, worry, anger, resent...

How many times have you been told that something great will happen as long as you believe it is possible? From pop psychology books to self-improvement seminars and blogs, there’s a lot of hype surrounding the advantages of positive thinking. And there’s certainly some evidence behind it –   a large body of work   suggests that being optimistic reaps a number of positive rewards, including better health and wellbeing. But what about the people who tend to see the glass as half empty rather than half full? Is being pessimistic always such a bad thing? Actually, the latest research suggests that some forms of pessimism may have benefits. Pessimism isn’t just about negative thinking. Personality science has revealed it also includes a focus on outcomes – that is what you expect will happen in the future. While optimists expect positive outcomes will happen more often than not, pessimists expect negative outcomes are more likely. There is a particular type of pessimist, the “ defensive pes...

In India, weddings are not just a union of two souls. They are a full-blown event where money flows faster than the speed at which everyone rushes to the dance floor when Sukhbir’s Ishq Tera Tadpave plays. At least that seemed to be the case with these truly expensive Indian weddings, none of which cost less than ₹100 crores: 1. Isha Ambani and Anand Piramal: ₹700 crore In 2018, when the daughter of India’s richest business tycoon married a business scion, the world sat up and took notice. Hard not to, when the wedding was spread across 3 places (Udaipur, Lake Como in Italy, and Mumbai), the guest list included former First Lady of the US, Hillary Clinton, and over half of Bollywood, and the festivities included a performance by none other than Beyonce! 2. Sushanto Roy and Seemanto Roy’s double wedding: ₹554 crore The notorious chairman of Sahara India Pariwar, Subrata Roy, hosted one hell of a double wedding in 2004, for his sons, Sushanto and Seemanto. From flying hi...

Judging people is a speciality in Indian society. It’s a talent that most aunties and uncles love to utilize. Even Captain John Price from Call of Duty couldn’t match the ferocity and savagery the aunties and uncles show every time some kid does something unconventional or unprecedented. Making everything a taboo is like making video games illegal in India. They make sex education illegal but they have no problem with overpopulation in the country, they call live-in relationships illegal but they turn a blind eye on toxic relationship marriage. They mock people from the LGBTQIA+ community but they masturbate to gay or lesbian porn. They also mock people with disabilities but they will preach human rights in school. They judge people on the basis of their skin colour and yet they say that discrimination on the basis of race is illegal. These taboos are nothing more than an excuse to hide their own hypocrisy and double standards, which reminds me of   Blizzard banning Blitzchung   for hi...

Today is a good litmus test for our TV channels. There are two Indias parading in the Capital just a few kilometres away from each other – one is a spectacle for the people and the other is a demonstration by the people; one is about gentrifying the ugly under tidy uniforms and flower showers, the other about tilling soil and sleeping on the road to take on the ugly; one is about teleprompter speeches and screaming commands, the other about roars of folk songs,   shayaris , ghazals and dedications; one is a parade where the police secures the spectacle, and the other is where the police becomes the threat and creates a spectacle. To watch the tidy spectacle, you must buy tickets and invitation cards, to participate in the other, you must carry a helmet and gas mask. Which India will our TV channels show today? The one that wants you to switch on your TVs from your couches and watch the entertaining parade, or will it show the parade that wants you to join your fellows and win back the ...

India is a country with the second largest road network in the world. Out of the total stretch of 5.4 million km of road network, almost 97,991 km is   covered   by national highways. It is already a huge challenge for the Indian government to provide world-class roads, due to the sheer magnitude. To add to it, India has to spend almost around ₹20,000 to ₹30,000 crore on the maintenance of roads every year. The reason behind this is the increase in the private vehicle ownership and the overburdening of roads in all major cities of the country. For an average Indian youth owning a two-wheeler, driving on any of the major Indian cities, is equivalent to waging a daily war. The everyday struggle and effort of dodging traffic, pollution and rash drivers is the biggest cause of chronic stress and many physiological problems. On an average, a person spends anywhere between 30 minutes to two hours of their day   driving . Which means, in a year, it is almost 360 hours. Imagine the kind of str...

Guru Randhawa’s latest song titled Mehendi Wale Haath, featuring newbie Sanjana Sanghi, received good reviews and currently, the song is on the top of everyone’s playlist. In the song, the actress portrayed a bride-to-be and absolutely nailed the look. Not just in the song, but Sanjana has also been putting a lot of efforts to impress the audience with her promotional looks.                                                                After mesmerising us with her ethnic as well as western looks, recently Sanjana turned fashion inspiration for all working ladies. She was spotted on the sets of Indian Idol, making stunning statement in her lime-green semi-formal pantsuit. So, let us take a close look at her attire and decode it for office fashion goals.

Instagram has gained new users among older generations even while retaining young users, the latest round of the Yougov-Mint-CPR Millennial Survey shows. The survey also shows that users across age groups are spending more time on video streaming platforms than before. More than 50% of the  Instagram  users shop on the platform, according to a recent report released by Dentsu Aegis Network-owned social media agency  WATConsult , titled ‘Instagram in India: User Perspective’. The report further claims that close to 75% of these users hail from small metros and towns. More than 75% of the shoppers have had a satisfactory experience while shopping from Instagram and majority are likely to shop in the future as well. Furthermore, as per the report, nearly 84% of the users are influenced by the platform to shop in the future. However, users look for authenticity of the product to be willing to purchase something from Instagram. Interestingly, ads on Instagram that are perceived to be a...

Recently, the Bombay HC ruled that groping a minor without ‘skin to skin’ contact does not fall under the purview of sexual assault, as defined under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.  The girl in question was only 12.   While the judgement was heavily criticized by the public, the reality is that this is certainly not the first time that an Indian court has let down the women of the country. 1. Madhya Pradesh HC granted bail to a sexual harassment offender, ‘requesting’ the victim to tie a   rakhi   to the accused and directing the accused to pay a sum of ₹11,000 as part of the Rakhi tradition.  Source:   The Wire The court order read: The applicant, along with his wife, shall visit the house of the complainant with rakhi thread/band on August 3 at 11 am with a box of sweets and request the complainant to tie the rakhi band to him with the promise to protect her to the best of his ability for all times to come. Source:   The Live ...

Shehnaaz Gill celebrates her 27th birthday today and the Punjabi Ki Katrina Kaif was seen celebrating her special day with her family and her rumoured boyfriend and handsome hunk, Sidharth Shukla. Check out the videos from her late-night birthday celebrations here: Bigg Boss 13’s most popular contestants   Shehnaaz Gill   turns 27 today. The Punjabi actress had entered the house of Bigg Boss on the first day. And during the premiere night itself, Shehnaaz Gill managed to win over a large chunk of the audience. Even Salman Khan was pretty smitten by this chirpy Punjab ki Katrina Kaif. She was one of the strongest contestants inside the house and went on to become the second runner up for the season. Coming back to Shehnaaz Gill’s birthday, her rumoured boyfriend   Sidharth Shukla   was also seen participating in the birthday celebrations alongside Shehnaaz Gill’s family members.   Also Read –   Sidharth Shukla raises the HOTNESS quotient as he flaunts his biceps —...

Not just crime and violence, in recent years, there also seems to have been a surge of erotic Hindi-language shows on OTT platforms. Not always tasteful, or in some cases, even accurate, in depicting sexual relationships or sexual fetishes, these shows definitely put the lust in lust stories: 1. Gandii Baat: Zee5 and ALTBalaji Gandii Baat , currently streaming its fifth season, presents erotic-themes stories from rural India and talks about bisexuality, sexual fetishes, threesome relations, etc. Source:   NewsX 2. Wanna Have A Good Time: ULLU In the absence of his wife, a man invites a prostitute over. However, the prostitute ends up looking exactly like his wife. The show stars Flora Saini, Manish Raisinghan, and Dhiraj Rai. Source:   IMDb 3. X.X.X: Uncensored: ALTBalaji Directed by Ken Ghosh,   X.X.X   was originally slated to release as an anthology but was released as web series, reportedly due to censorship issues. The series explores various sexual aspects of a relationship, and ...