In this psychological short story about anxiety, fear isn’t loud, it hums quietly through the house. I want us to imagine for a moment that anxiety was never a feeling,but a frequency a low vibration threading through the house,settling in the pipes, the walls,the pauses between her mother’s ...
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The Colours You Didn’t Know Were There Until Now
What if memory didn’t vanish,but bled its colors out, one by one? She sees it every day in her patients.They don’t lose time.They lose the shades that once held it. A man remembers every birthday cake,but only in ash-grey.A woman recalls her wedding,but the red of the roses has slipped ...
The Narrative In The Lens Of Others
Lately I’ve been thinking about how easy it is to get caught up in the story we tell about ourselves. The version that sounds good when explained to others. The one that feels coherent, structured, believable. And the more we repeat it, the more we start to believe it. Almost like the story becomes ...
What Moneyball Really Teaches About Bias and Smarter Decision-Making
Moneyball is supposed to be a movie about baseball. But if you watch closely, it’s a movie about human psychology - and how terrible we are at making decisions. Here’s the plot in one line: the Oakland A’s didn’t have enough money to buy star players, so their general manager Billy Beane stopped ...
Key Insights From Netflix’s High School Catfish: A Psychologist’s Perspective
⚠️Spoiler alert I spent last night watching Unknown Numbers: High School Catfish, and I’ll be honest - I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. It’s the kind of documentary that makes you pause, because it’s not just about what happened in that specific high school. It’s about something ...