Psychology for Everyone

183 stories from real life

Psychology for Everyone – A Mental Well Being Series. A free book in simple language on mental health: chapters, real-life stories, shloks, tests, videos and audio. Take care of mind and mood.

183 stories from real life

  1. The Quiet Room at Number Twelve
  2. What Will People Say?
  3. Missing Her, Slowly Healing
  4. The Headaches That Had No Field
  5. Who Should We See First?
  6. A Door Closes, a Room Opens
  7. The Man with the Guaranteed Cure
  8. Second Opinions and Small Pills of Fear
  9. The Alarm That Would Not Switch Off
  10. After the Bike Fall
  11. Learning to Paint at Seventy
  12. Midnight Scrolling and the Growing Brain
  13. Night Shifts and Biscuits
  14. Tired All the Time, and Not Just Sad
  15. Heat, Hormones and Hurtful Words
  16. It Is Not Only a Chemical
  17. Not Angry, Just Tired
  18. I Always Fail
  19. The Pressure Cooker at Home
  20. Three O’Clock Worries
  21. The Window Seat Experiment
  22. The Smell of Her Mother’s Kitchen
  23. Sugar Highs and Sunday Lunches
  24. Too Loud, Too Quiet
  25. The Exam Season Knot
  26. Running on Empty
  27. A New Country, A Heavy Heart
  28. The Night My Heart Raced
  29. What If Tonight Goes Wrong?
  30. The Back Row
  31. The Lizard on the Wall
  32. Aarav Who Would Not Speak
  33. Grey Weeks
  34. The Quiet Farmer
  35. After the Baby
  36. Grandfather Stops Reading
  37. The Message at Midnight
  38. The Road That Kept Coming Back
  39. Six Months Since Ashok
  40. The House Where She Always Listened
  41. When the Water Came
  42. Standing Beside Ana
  43. Eight Days Without Sleep
  44. The Voices in Shanta’s Son
  45. Zoe at Two in the Morning
  46. Coming Home, Slowly
  47. Mr Hassan Prefers the Edge of the Room
  48. The Boy Who Could Not Sit Still
  49. Sofia and the Glow of the Screen
  50. Neha Stops Saying Yes
  51. Mr Iyer Forgets the Way Home
  52. Little Zara Learns to Wait
  53. The Three O’Clock Waker
  54. Maggi at Midnight
  55. Counting Every Step
  56. The Waiting Room
  57. Two Kitchens, One Quarrel
  58. When Words Alone Were Not Enough
  59. Day Ten of the Little White Tablet
  60. Neha Asks About the Baby
  61. The Boy Who Could Finally Finish His Homework
  62. Mr Fernandes and the Sleeping Strip
  63. When the House Cannot Hold the Storm
  64. The Timetable on the Fridge
  65. Night Shift, New Baby
  66. The Pension Day Routine
  67. The Door That Stayed Closed
  68. Appa in the Village
  69. Brother, Bottle and Blame
  70. The Daughter Who Held Everything Together
  71. Five Steps for Anil
  72. The Message to the Team
  73. The Night the Neighbour Stopped Sleeping
  74. Too Much, Too Fast
  75. Four Lines on a Card
  76. The Sixteen-Year-Old’s Notebook
  77. The Grandfather Who Stopped Coming to the Table
  78. The Dark Months in Helsinki
  79. Mihir and the Scratchy Shirt
  80. The Restless Night Shift
  81. The Manager Who Burned Hot
  82. Heavy as a Monsoon Cloud
  83. Tired, Low and Forgetful at Forty
  84. Kabir’s Skipped Meals
  85. Neha’s Tingling Fingers
  86. The Glass Wall
  87. Checking the Gas Again
  88. The Empty Plate
  89. Mira and the Storm of Feelings
  90. One Drink to Sleep
  91. The Headaches That Had No Cause
  92. Savitri’s Morning Practice
  93. The Teacher Who Said to Stop the Tablets
  94. Arjuna in the Exam Hall
  95. Dasharatha’s Grief, Rama’s Steadiness
  96. Sita’s Courage and the Gentle Choice
  97. The Restless Mind of Mohan
  98. Parvathi, the Healer and the Doctor
  99. The Glass After Dinner
  100. The Cigarette Behind the Hostel
  101. Night Games, Empty Mornings
  102. Pills for Sleep, Pills for Nerves
  103. The Brother Nobody Mentions
  104. The Quiet Plate
  105. The Hidden Cycle
  106. The Man at the Fridge Door
  107. Eight Foods and a Packed Lunch
  108. Not Quite Anything
  109. The Boy Who Could Not Stay in the Chair
  110. Always Late, Always Sorry
  111. The Girl Who Copied Everyone
  112. Bright Boy, Cannot Read
  113. The Blink and the Sniff
  114. The Lamp in the Dark
  115. The Screenshot
  116. Perfect on the Screen
  117. Seventeen Tabs, One Diagnosis
  118. What He Searched for at Night
  119. The Night Before the Board Exam
  120. The Inbox That Never Ends
  121. The Boss Who Humiliated
  122. The Day the Letter Came
  123. The Daughter Who Carried Everyone
  124. The Tablet She Wanted to Throw Away
  125. Not Just Tired Tears
  126. The Birth That Went Well on Paper
  127. A Quiet Room After the Scan
  128. The Night Rosa Stopped Making Sense
  129. Just Getting Old, Said the Family
  130. Where Did I Put the Keys, Again?
  131. The Carer Who Forgot Herself
  132. The Empty Flat on Raja Street
  133. When Dad Became Another Person
  134. The Meeting He Did Not Join
  135. What Farah Said at the Bus Stop
  136. The Room With the Latch
  137. Sam Told Nobody at Home
  138. The Words We Use After Ravi
  139. Eleven Questions, One Long Breath
  140. Seventy-Four Per Cent on the Internet
  141. Thyroid, Not Just Nerves
  142. A Diagnosis That Changed
  143. Maya Will Not Sit Still, Or Is It More?
  144. Three Hundred Contacts and Nobody to Call
  145. Three Words He Always Said
  146. I Am Happy to Talk, But Not Like This
  147. She Stopped Seeing Her Friends
  148. Left on Read
  149. Riya, Age 22
  150. The Uncle Who Only Said “Tension”
  151. Lamp And Clinic In The Same Week
  152. A Child Who Would Not Go To School
  153. The Wrong Door
  154. Licence Before Sofa
  155. The Stroke That Taught A Family Anatomy
  156. The Helmet Argument
  157. The Thyroid That Looked Like Sadness
  158. The Exam-Week Jaw
  159. Sunday-Night Money
  160. The Child Who Was “Angry”
  161. Ankit, Age 24
  162. Meera, Age 38
  163. Rohan, Age 26
  164. Sunita, Age 45
  165. Arun, Age 32
  166. Vikram, Age 23
  167. Ramesh, Age 68
  168. Kavita, Age 34
  169. Neha, Age 29
  170. Kabir Age 28
  171. Anita, Age 42
  172. Raj, Age 31
  173. Suresh And Meena
  174. Amit, Age 25
  175. Leela, Age 41
  176. Anita, Age 36
  177. Rafi, The Third Excuse
  178. Meera’S Plate
  179. Arun’S Two Reports
  180. Ankit’S Evening, Rewritten
  181. The Third Sunday
  182. After The Discharge
  183. Ramesh