Psychologist Sai S. Joshi

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Feedback like this truly drives me to continuously improve and deliver the best service possible.

It's a privilege to serve the community!

Its been a while since I stepped into this professions and it leaves me only with one feeling.

Therapy is a process.

Journaling is my personal therapeutic activity.
Whenever I have anxiety and automatic negative thoughts bursting in my mind.
I grab a pen and paper and start writing them down.
Journaling in the healthiest form of venting emotions.

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Teenagers today have no friends.
Are we building up to the society of loners who lack social life?
Building bonds that are meaningful and deep rooted is the secret of long and happy life.
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Be weird.
Stay weird.
Love weird.

You are not the only one!!!
We are all sailing in the same boats.
Is the moral of the story of a group therapy.

Kitty parties is a socially accepted way of support groups where you came to share your feeling and experiences with the people who are sailing in the same boat.
Its a beautiful version of social gatherings where women love to gather and discuss everything that they cannot discuss otherwise in their home.
Have you heard of singles kitty party?
No. Its always married and settled women or house makers who join kitty parties.
Its women's favorite way of venting and expression of feelings.

Quiet quitting: Indian Scenario!!
Coming from collectivist culture , we are taught to work more and more. Rather in Japanese culture is it expected to work more than the working hours and assume that there is no life outside work.
While individualist culture encourages the life outside work and knows the importance of personal and social life.
That is the reason why holidays, vacations and strict working hours is the highlighting feature of work culture in western world.
Work is a part of life and not the whole life!!

When ever we come across new trending terms, they are always fascinating.
We all want to try it, practically and verbally.
But what is at the root of these ideas? Is it culturally and socially appropriate ?
Sometimes it is. And we might as well have some prejudices about the newness about these terms.
Lets break the prejudices and discover what lies behind the "Quiet quitting".
Are you quiet quitting???

One question that brings clients to me, "Why me?"
I ask them back, "Why not you?"
Sometimes life is unfair. But so it is for everyone.

Start ups are trending today!
Millionaires are investing and promoting the new entrepreneurs.
But binge watching shark tanks will only make you go away from reality.

7 out of 10 students regret their Career decisions later in life.
"Career decision making" is my topic of PhD and we found that career anxiety comes from inability to make the best career choice.
What stops us from making right choice is lack of information on various career options and understanding of our own personality traits.
If you make it a point to explore yourself and the resources available, you will be confident enough to choose arts over medicine!

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While we are all aware of the gravity of the recent pandemic, are we addressing the internal turmoil of chronic loneliness?

Your shrink is trained to get into your shoes, understand your view of the situation and help you find your solutions.

Two most common reason to start feeling lonely
Sometimes you start feeling lonely around people. Sometimes our own friends and family can make us feel lonely. Sometimes no one understands what you are going through. And that is enough to make us feel lonely.

Another reason is when you lose one of your close bonds. Break up with your partner, BFF or someone who occupies a considerable space in your life creates a vacuum, which is a reason for loneliness.
And if you have both the experiences together, it agrevates the situation.
And if you have both the experiences together, it aggravates the situation.

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Feeling lost means you are aware of things falling apart.
You are aware that something needs to be changed.
Feeling lost is a sign that you want to change and you are ready to go for it.
Feeling lost is the time to move. Time to make the shift.

It is completely normal to feel confused and lost at times.
We all go through such phases multiple times in our life and the nest way to face them is to seek help.
Seeking help is sometimes associated with shame or cowardice in our society. But its time we normalize seeking help.
Ask for help. Ask for answers. Talk to people who are experienced. Talk to your friends, family, mentors.
Its ok to stop, reflect and changing your decisions.
But its not ok to be in the lost phase for long.

Accepting who you are is your strength.
If you really want to open yourself to new possibilities, solutions or opportunities, your first step is acceptance.
When you know your flaws, no one will point them out to you.

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In one of our support groups while discussing the grief cycle all of us in unison agreed to the fact that " acceptance is the key".
There are always some situations, people, things, places and some of our own habits which are unacceptable to us.
All they do is create more and more distress in our life.
We tend to have certain irrational expectations from ourselves, others and the world around us. And in order to stop the anxiety and pattern of overthinking all we need to do is to accept it.

Love makes you compromise on yourself.
You won't even realize since when did you start putting yourself in the back seat and started prioritizing someone else.
Settling down for whatever you find is like giving up on your needs and wants.
When you start ignoring your need, the world will do the same.
Start respecting your needs. Start choosing yourself.!

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Why not you??

Weekends are important and if you are the one who schedules your weekends, here is a plan quick plan for it.
I plan my weekends.
Sounds boring but some of us are obsessed with planning and if you are one of them, this one is for you.
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We often find ourselves catering to what others want. And we rarely sit down to think about what do I really want from a situation.
If we make it a habit to put ourselves before others, we might get a chance to know our own behavior patterns deeply.
Give yourself an opportunity to know how wonderful you are as a person and stop neglecting yourself.
Value yourself as much as you value others.
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One you let in will rule your mind.

One you let in will rule your mind.

Note to me.
From me.

Think about it and make a decision to not to suffer anymore!