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Surprise!!

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 Heyy everyone! Welcome back to month 9 of #faltufriday where I talk about something totally random. Today's post is not like any regular faltu friday because today is a special one! A lot of you might have come across me hyping up about a surprise post on my socials-well wait no longer :) Today's post is a collaborative one with a likeminded friend of mine, Aanya Lodha :) Aanya, is a 14 year old attending Oberoi International School. She previously ran a mental health account on Instagram, @teen.trauma , but is currently taking a break from that. She loves doing what any teenager does; listening to music, watching movies and hanging out with her friends and family. She's not a professional and has never struggled with her mental health, but she knows many people that did, which is part of what made her so interested in starting her account, which promotes and educates people on mental health, in the first place. Her zeal towards educating had also played a role in inspired

The Lack Of Motivation

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 Heylo everyone! Welcome back! The Lack Of Motivation. We've all had that. Some of us even phrase it as " procrastination "; but for the rest of us, its not that. Some of us at times feel as if kyu karna hai yeh? What am I getting out of it. Telling you from personal experience, I often feel this lag too. Heck, I felt like this a couple of weeks ago too-which is what caused me to write on this topic in the first place. I have always been the world's most lazy person. Often been called a sloth by my sister :P (Fun fact: If not damselz-in-sanity , the alternate name to my blog would have been "A Sloth's Blog") Up till a couple of weeks, I used to experience extreme fatigue in even opening up blogger to write something. You could say I hit kind of a "slump" because whatever I posted wasn't that interactive or wasn't "up to the mark". I never even told anyone about this because I felt like I could get through this by myself-truth

Panic Attacks: Myths vs Facts

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  Hey! Welcome back! If you guys have been following me since August, you might have seen that a majority of my posts are targeted towards Anxiety and it's repercussions; the main reason is that I see this on a daily basis and its easier to relate. Yet, there's still a lot of misconceptions on various topics that are still prevalent which is why I thought, why not write on this? So, in today's post I'll be debunking top 5 myths on "Panic Attacks" and replacing them with actual facts :) NUMBER ONE: This is one of the most common fallacy that is seen. Panic attacks aren't triggered by certain stressors or situations-they don't always happen before an exam or important event. They can occur when you're having food or watching television or doing literally anything.   NUMBER TWO: When panic strikes, it is common to experience a lack of control and be frightened of losing your mind. You may briefly feel disconnected from yourself and the world around yo

Negative Self Talk

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  Negative Self Talk is probably something that a lot of us do on a regular basis and I am guilty as charged. Whenever some overwhelming situation hits me, what I usually used to do was feed myself so much garbage that I ended up not taking the baton and losing out on a great opportunity. I would often undermine or underestimate my potential and constantly talk in a pessimistic way to myself. Until recently, I didn't even realise I did it but when my best friend started noticing how my mental health was deteriorating because of this and he gave me a few tips on how I should combat it and honestly, its worked wonders.  At first I stayed in a bubble of denial for a while until one day it popped and made me realise about the toxic negativity  I was filling my brain with. I came to a conclusion that I had to do something about it. A couple of months in, I have learned how to overpower those cynical thoughts of mine which is why I wanted to share a few tips that helped me with y'all

The Same Boat

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  Are we all sinking in the same boat? Or are we all just really really stupid? This thought often strikes my mind in the middle of the night. The reason- I don't know. More often than not we don't see the conditions people are living through. Some people are struggling physically while the others are struggling mentally. Every person we see around us has been through something or the other in their life. Yet, majority of us aren't able to express this in the form of words to anybody. Why do we choose to struggle in silence? Why do we choose to silently weep at night and not let our fears out? Why can't we seem to conquer that feeling and manifest it? The feeling to not accept it and deal with it, move on, and learn from it-why can't we ever do it? I have always been the type of person who has failed to express my thoughts, my views and feelings on a topic in the form of simple words-not in the form of poetry, not in the form of songs and not in the form of any expr