There’s a particular kind of pain that defies easy description. Not the sharp sting of a cut or the dull ache of a bruise, but the hollow, gnawing distress that floods your chest when you’re separated from someone you love.
Whether it’s your child’s first day of school, a partner traveling for work, or the end of a relationship—this pain is real, visceral, and rooted deep in your mammalian brain.
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There is a fantasy that haunts us—the fantasy of the unified self.
We imagine that somewhere beneath all our contradictions, all our competing desires and impulses, there exists a coherent “I” pulling the strings.
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We are our own worst masters.
This is the uncomfortable truth that haunts our age of endless optimization, relentless self-improvement, and the incessant pursuit of productivity. Continue reading
To walk through life as an atheist is to carry the burden of both freedom and fragility. There is no script, no grand design to follow—only the choice to create purpose and hold onto what is beautiful, even as the inevitability of loss whispers in the background.
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“I look outside the window – the curve does not look flatter to me”
A few days ago, I heard a hilarious new version of Bohemian Rhapsody, after 3 weeks of lockdown we all hope to see changes, and statistically we do, not enough but some.
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To be entirely honest, it took me a while to start this blog post. First of all, I had plenty of time to prepare, but I didn’t.
My biologists friends were extremely concerned before February for the possible pandemic… Continue reading
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Many (maybe most) of us will experience mild depression throughout our lifetime.
Depression is one of the most common mental health issues and requires serious treatment.
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Let me start with some theory first:
In psychology, sublimation is a mature type of expression of desire, in which socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior. Continue reading
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My formal education to become a shrink lasted 14 years. There is a cliché that says “People study psychology so they can understand what is wrong with them.” While I have always seen myself as a moderately crazy and generally well-adjusted person, I always hated this claim.
Nevertheless, just recently I realized why I have been seeking more and more knowledge about the human mind in philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis.
