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Cognitive Dissonance — When You're Living a Life That Isn't Actually Yours

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  — Dr. Akash Parihar | MD Psychiatry | Asha Wellness Sanctuary Hospital, Kota 📰 The Psychiatric Blueprint | Psychology Series Okay. Let's Start With Something Uncomfortable. You say family comes first. But you haven't called your parents in three weeks. You say you care about your health. But it's 1am and you're on your fourth scroll of someone else's fitness transformation. You say you want to be honest. But you've been lying — to yourself, mostly — about how okay you actually are. You say you believe in hard work. But you've been procrastinating the same task for eleven days. You say you don't care what people think. But you refreshed your Instagram post fourteen times in the first hour. Does any of this hit different? Because if it does — welcome to cognitive dissonance. The psychological experience of living in the gap between who you say you are and who you actually are. And here's the uncomfortable part — Almost everyone is living he...

Beyond Hand-Washing: The Rare and Lesser-Known Faces of OCD Nobody Talks About

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  You Think You Know What OCD Looks Like. You Don't.  Tags: rare OCD types India, lesser known OCD presentations, OCD symptoms beyond cleaning, intrusive thoughts OCD, Pure O OCD India, relationship OCD, existential OCD, harm OCD, religious OCD scrupulosity, OCD misdiagnosis India, sexual intrusive thoughts OCD, false memory OCD, OCD psychiatrist India, OCD treatment India, unusual OCD presentations "I knew OCD involved checking locks and washing hands. I didn't know it could make you spend six hours questioning whether you actually love your partner. I didn't know it could make you terrified of your own thoughts. Nobody told me these were the same condition." — 26-year-old, diagnosed after seven years of misdiagnosis Here is the problem with the cultural image of OCD. It is a person checking the stove. Repeatedly. Symmetrically arranging objects. Washing their hands until they bleed. This image — reinforced by every Bollywood film, every social media jok...