coping

Life presents variables; learning how to cope in order to master, minimize, or tolerate what has come to pass.

When Winter Teaches Us How to Feel Again. AI-Generated.
December doesn’t arrive loudly. It seeps in. Earlier sunsets after a day of rain. Streets that look familiar but feel emptied of color. The air sharp enough to make you aware of your breath. Winter, more than any other season, doesn’t ask for productivity or performance. It asks for honesty.
By Ahmet Kıvanç Demirkıran2 months ago in Psyche
Watch Out Wednesdays (12/17/25)
During the holiday season, here are some things that we all need to watch out for on this Watch Out Wednesday! Wow! 1. Beware of the flu season. This is the time that we are normally around family more than usual, but this flu season is more than aggressive this season. The new flu strain this year is called subclade K that affects adults over twice as much more than children. This strain is shown to be more resistant than the ones from last winter. Social distance comes to mind, especially with who is currently the US Health and Human Services Secretary.
By Adrian Holman2 months ago in Psyche
The Weight of Quiet
John tossed again, the sheets tangled around his legs like a net. Two-thirty. The digital glow of the alarm clock burned a hole in the stale air of the bedroom. Sarah was a still lump beside him, her breathing shallow, even. He knew she was probably faking sleep, just like he was faking a future where everything was fine. He knew because a week ago, he’d been the lump, pretending the world outside his eyelids didn’t exist, didn’t contain the cold, hard lump of wrongness that had settled in his gut.
By HAADI2 months ago in Psyche
Two poetic essay excerpts. Top Story - December 2025.
Unrecognition I'm tired of being unrecognized, value wise. I'm tired of losing friends, of being alone. 'Cause what's the difference of being alone and being lonely?
By Maya Or Tzur2 months ago in Psyche
The Empty Chair:. AI-Generated.
The waiting room looked ordinary at first glance rows of plastic chairs, a merchandising system buzzing in the corner, fluorescent lighting fixtures buzzing overhead. people came and went, shuffling papers, checking phones, whispering to each other in hushed tones. but one chair always stood out.
By The Writer...A_Awan2 months ago in Psyche
The Unknown Passenger:. AI-Generated.
It became close to midnight after I boarded the closing bus home. The metropolis outdoor become drenched in rain, the streets shimmering beneath the faint glow of flickering lamps. inside the bus, the air smelled faintly of damp fabric and tiredness. A handful of passengers sat scattered throughout the seats—students with headphones, office people staring blankly at their telephones, and some strangers whose faces I didn’t trouble to observe.
By The Writer...A_Awan2 months ago in Psyche
Malicious Liars Or Something Else?
Have you ever been listening to someone... Especially someone in some position of power... A C-Suite Executive... A Politician...
By Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)2 months ago in Psyche
Not Everyone is Counting Down
Every year, starting December 1st, the countdown begins. Advent calendars are opened. Holiday movies play on repeat. Conversations fill with excitement about traditions, plans, and everything people can’t wait for. And every year, I watch that countdown from the outside.
By Annie Edwards 2 months ago in Psyche
The Emotional Echo: How Micro-Rejections Shape Our Inner World. AI-Generated.
Most people understand the sting of major rejection. A breakup, a job denial, a falling-out with a friend—these events leave marks that are easy to recognize. But psychology has begun paying increasing attention to something far quieter: micro-rejections. These are small, often fleeting moments of social dismissal that many of us overlook or brush aside. A text left unanswered, a slightly cold tone from someone we care about, a subtle exclusion from a group conversation, a joke that doesn’t land the way we hoped—it’s easy to dismiss these experiences as trivial. Yet they leave emotional echoes that can meaningfully influence our behavior, self-perception, and overall psychological health.
By Kyle Butler2 months ago in Psyche
The Wearying Of Life. Top Story - December 2025.
Have you felt it? The change in the feeling of life? The constant feeling of being physically and mentally tired? The fatigue that crept insidiously into our lives?
By Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)2 months ago in Psyche
A Blanket of Ash
Elias stood at the kitchen window, hip pressed against the cold aluminum frame, a cigarette burning down to the filter between his fingers. It was well past midnight. The snow, a slow, steady fall for hours, had finally smothered the city. Not a sound. Not a goddamn whisper. Just the heavy, plush quiet of winter, the kind that makes your ears ring, makes you feel like you’re underwater. From the fourteenth floor, the streetlights below were dull, haloed orbs, struggling to pierce the thick, white air. Every car, every dumpster, every ragged bush was softened, rounded, like the world had been carved from some enormous bar of soap. He flicked ash into the sink, the grey powder landing with an almost audible puff against the porcelain.
By HAADI2 months ago in Psyche
Watch Out Wednesdays 12/10/25 (Opinion)
The things to watch out for on this Watch Out Wednesday will make you say "WOW" while you are reading this post. Here are a few tidbits that will keep your mind sharp today.
By Adrian Holman2 months ago in Psyche