When Mental Illness Gets Mistaken for Sorcery
Why psychological pain still gets read as sorcery or the evil eye across many Arab households, and the real cost of delaying psychiatric care.
Mental Health
The Hidden Cost of Overthinking Every Decision
Overthinking isn't careful thinking. Here's what cognitive psychology says it does to the brain, and practical ways to break the decision-paralysis cycle.
A Beautiful Mind: Living Inside a Code You Can’t Escape
Revisiting A Beautiful Mind's portrait of John Nash's schizophrenia, and how his wife Alicia became the one fixed point in an unraveling…
What Split Gets Right (and Wrong) About Dissociative Identity
Split turns Dissociative Identity Disorder into an origin story. Here's the psychology behind Kevin's 23 personalities, and where the film takes liberties.
The Difference Between Being Tired and Being Used Up
Ordinary tiredness passes with rest. Depletion is different — it comes from the people and routines that drain you, and it needs…
Kirsten Dunst and the Art of Surviving Child Stardom
From an 11-year-old opposite Tom Cruise to Cannes Best Actress for Melancholia, Kirsten Dunst turned personal pain into real craft, on her…
Hyper-Awareness: When Perception Becomes a Prison
A look at hyper-awareness — the psychological state where the mind's usual protective filters are missing — through Camus's absurd and The…