Have you ever left a social gathering feeling oddly exhausted? Even though you are with people you genuinely love, your friends, course-mates, family and so on. You laughed, you talked, you smiled, yet the moment you got home, all you wanted was silence. You feel tired in a strange way, not “I need sleep” kind of  tired but heavy, quiet and emotionally empty. You scroll through your phone without interest, you don't feel like replying to messages, you just want to be alone, e

There's this weird thing the brain does at night. Have you ever noticed that when you lie down to sleep, your brain suddenly becomes a DJ and starts playing a “what-ifs” remix? All day you are fine: laughing with friends, rushing between lectures, pretending to understand what the seminar tutor is saying, and you spend an entire day around people. But the moment the world finally calms down, and you finally get into bed: lights off, room quiet, phone on the other side of the

Growing up, I never had a happy-go-lucky attitude towards life, was a quite-agitated child, not a very good combination in my opinion. Too defensive. Loved to isolate in face of confrontations. TOO OBSERVANT. Whatever happened around me, I used to quietly absorb it. Learn from it. Learnt patience too early, though not very much as a virtue but as a survival mechanism. So, when someone would say anything to me, I used to listen and not react and simply thought i didn’t pay att

For as long as I can remember and trust me, that goes way back, Unit Tests meant sleepless nights. I’d skip playtime, ditch friends, even miss my favorite cartoons. I figured it’d get easier as I grew up, like everyone said. You’d stop taking exams so seriously, right? But for me, it only got worse. All-nighters blurred into one-hour naps, then back to grinding until the exams ended. Years later, those nightmares still hit. The dread feels as raw as ever. Sound familiar? It h

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