Gambling and Online Gaming Addiction — The New Behavioural Crisis | Bharosa Two years ago, he downloaded a fantasy cricket app to try it once during an IPL match. The first month was harmless fun. The second month, he started losing more than he was winning. The third month, he started chasing his losses with […]
Burnout Is Not Just Tiredness — The Corporate Epidemic in Indian Cities | Bharosa He is thirty-four years old. He works in an IT company in Hyderabad’s Gachibowli area. For the last two years, he has been working sixty-hour weeks on a project that keeps extending deadlines. He wakes up exhausted even after eight hours
Exam Pressure and Indian Students — The Mental Health Cost of NEET and JEE | Bharosa She is seventeen years old and preparing for NEET for the second time. Her first attempt last year did not give her the score she needed. Her parents told her she had one more chance. They have moved her
Social Media, Smartphones, and the Anxiety Generation | Bharosa She is nineteen. Her phone holds accounts on Instagram, Snapchat, and two different short video apps. She posts carefully curated images. She checks how many likes each post gets within the first hour after posting, because if it does not cross a certain number quickly, she
The Sunday Night Dread — What High-Functioning Workplace Anxiety Actually Is | Bharosa Every Sunday at around 5 PM, something changes inside her. The easy, warm feeling of the weekend begins to drain away. By 7 PM, her chest feels slightly tight. By 9 PM, her mind is already in Monday — thinking about emails
